Platform2: Art and Social Engagement
Platform2 is a collective that produces public events in Boston, MA, designed to facilitate dialogue about art & social engagement. A combination of art happenings, performance, site-specific intervention and critical dialogue, these events provide a forum for imaginative dialogue about creative practice and its intersection with social, political, economic and cultural issues. Founded in 2007, Platform2 is collaboratively produced by Andi Sutton, Jane Marsching, and iKatun...
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The National Bitter Melon Council (NBMC) is a social experiment that uses the form and concept of performance art as a research method and model for community development. Our dialogue-based artistic collaborations involve participation and co-authorship of the public. A project and collective developed by Hiroko Kikuchi, Jeremy Liu, and Andi Sutton, with the additional collaboration of Misa Saburi from 2008 – 2011, the NBMC is devoted to the cultivation of a vibrant, diverse...
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Public Art Incubator Program A co-curated residency program with Susan Sakash (2005 – 2007) From 2005 – 2007, I, along with co-curator Susan Sakash, developed and ran a residency program devoted to the development and cultivation of public art and public artists. This initiative, the Public Art Incubator (PAI), was a program of the Boston-based artist-run organization, The Berwick Research Institute. Creating public art can be a long and complicated process, often...
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Project Advisory and Mentorship The Boston Tree Party – a project of Lisa Gross and Hybrid Vigor Productions, Boston, MA The Boston Tree Party is an urban agriculture project, a performative re-imagining of American political expression, and a participatory public art project. Meet Me At The Table, a project of Susan Sakash and the Berwick Research Institute, Boston, MA During 2007 and through the spring of 2008, the Berwick’s Public Art Incubator Program...
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