artillery: Homework 7

Follow the link at the bottom of this post and check out the website for a Philadelphia collective of artists Space 1026. Space 1026 defines themselves as follows:

What is Space 1026?
It‘s a tough question, but here are three answers:

Space 1026 has been a 7 year experiment. It has developed from a handful of founders to dozens of co-conspirators. Together we are becoming Space 1026.

Space 1026 is a common excitement for making, producing and creating, not for some outside world of aficionados, but for each other, for our own kind.

Space 1026 is two floors of a building at 11th and Arch. That‘s in Philadelphia. It is a network of dozens of artists who‘ve had studios at the Space, past and present. It is dozens of artists who‘ve had shows at the Space over the last 7 years. It is dozens of artists who come to our events, and participate in our community.

Space 1026 is a community - a creative community - not an institution.

Or you could try and pull some postmodern stuff and say Space 1026 does not exist; but then you‘d have to do some explaining to the mice that eat our leftovers every night.

The Art of Space 1026

Space 1026 is not a collaboration! Yes it is! No its not! Yes it is! Exactly.

Walter Benjamin wrote about the angel of history but he probably had us in mind:

“Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward.”

That pile of debris; that‘s our Space. But it works. Sometimes.
A unity to our disunity?
A consistency to our inconsistency?
Or is it just the appearance of a plan when really there is only the faith, in ourselves and in each other.

col·lec·tive [kuh-lek-tiv] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. formed by collection.
2. forming a whole; combined: the collective assets of a corporation and its subsidiaries.
3. of or characteristic of a group of individuals taken together: the collective wishes of the membership.
4. organized according to the principles of collectivism: a collective farm.
–noun
5. collective noun.
6. a collective body; aggregate.
7. a business, farm, etc., jointly owned and operated by the members of a group.
8.a unit of organization or the organization in a collectivist system.
[Origin: 1400–50; late ME collectif (< MF) < L colléctīvus, equiv. to colléct(us) (ptp. of colligere; see collect1) + -īvus -ive]

*Look through the artist profiles and pick one to write a review of their artwork. Include what you see and your opinion, make sure you explain WHY you liked or disliked the artwork.

-SPACE 1026-