La Superette is an annual event, an art sale held around the holiday season in December. We organize a temporary store where artists sell functional art in multiples at affordable prices. In addition to the sale, musical performances and video screenings run throughout the day, adding to the festive atmosphere.
La Superette was founded in 1998 in Paris, France by Tali Hinkis, Marie Daubert and Tracy Rolling while in school at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 2001, Hinkis, a multidisciplinary artist, moved to New York City and began producing La Superette in America. In New York La Superette continues to successfully distribute the work of over many artists from Europe and North America to a wide range of audience.
Merchandise has been a part of the music world for years as evidenced particularly by micro labels and zine culture. Today, when interdisciplinary artists and art groups have become more prominent in the art world, visual artists are producing merchandise too. Many of these artists act as cultural hackers, reappropriating history, media, science, and other elements of contemporary life into their work. They have a growing need to reconnect and to distribute, so they make t-shirts that look like their paintings or web sites, join a knitting circle in Brooklyn and rediscover craft, which helps them modulate the physical world of digital society and gives an alternative to main stream home improvement standards.
Ignivomous is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that presents, nurtures, and develops new genres, art forms, mediums and extremes of expression. Ignivomous focuses on five main areas for promotion and distribution:
(1) production of live events and exhibitions
(2) production and distribution of media objects
(3) creation and fostering of web-based projects
(4) establishment of an electronic tools resource base for use by artists
(5) aesthetic and technical education programs.
For 35 years, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) has been the leading arts presenter, advocate, and service provider to artists and arts groups throughout Lower Manhattan. LMCC was founded by David Rockefeller and other business and civic leaders in 1973 and was housed in the World Trader Center until 9/11. The Council, which was created shortly after the Twin Towers were built, was established to humanize the architecture of the World Trade Center Plaza.
LMCC grew as downtown grew and today is Manhattan's largest and farthest-reaching arts council, bringing diverse cultural experiences to new audiences in unexpected ways and serving as a gateway to culture, information, and resources across the entire borough.
La Superette is conceived and organized as a place for artists to meet and collaborate on a specific project. Since it's inception, La Superette has exhibited the work of hundreds of artists and attracted thousands of visitors and shoppers. This year we are producing a full color book which visually chronicles the event's ten year history.
When & Where
La Superette will take place in early December at a brand new location near the South Street Seaport, in Manhattan. Exact dates and times are still being finalized.
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Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were trying to hail taxi cabs in NYC. Enjoy!
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THE NANO_CORPORATION IS AN INTENDT TO CRITIQUE, MIMIC OR OTHERWISE EXPLORE THE LOGIC OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES AND OTHER WEB 2.0 PHENOMENA THROUGH ART.
