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About Projects | Current and Upcoming | Past | bowerbird@LANDMARKS LANDMARKS CONTEMPORARYPROJECTS
Dan Murphy and Anthony Smyrski
Exhibition installation view, Philagrafika presents: Megawords
at Landmarks Contemporary Projects, 2006
For seventy-five years, the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of
Landmarks has played a significant role in the historic preservation movement
in Philadelphia by restoring, furnishing and presenting to the public its four
house museums: Grumblethorpe, Physick House, Powel House and
Waynesborough. While remaining committed to preserving and interpreting the
past, Landmarks is moving into the future with a renewed mission to expand
beyond business-as-usual, explore new conceptual territories, create new
collaborations and make its houses relevant to today's audiences. To that end,
we are proud to present Landmarks Contemporary Projects.
Through
exhibitions, screenings, lectures, performances educational programs and other
strategies, Landmarks Contemporary Projects provides a thoughtful alternative
for audiences, creative opportunities for artists and new partnerships with
other organizations. The core of the program is an exhibition/residency program
in which we invite artists to explore and react to Landmarks' properties and
collections and create site-specific installations. By providing
an experimental atmosphere in which artists are free to create new work and
question basic assumptions of historical preservation, we hope to stimulate
discourse and challenge accepted approaches to both house-museums and
contemporary culture.
David Gatten
Still image from the film series
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE DIVIDING LINE:
A TRUE ACCOUNT IN
NINE PARTS
Philadelphia premiere at Landmarks Contemporary Projects, 2006
For more information, or for press inquiries, please contact:
lcp [at] philalandmarks.org
News
- 10.17.07: Artist Michelle Wilson's exhibition Aftermath, raising troubling questions about the responsibility of the privileged class to address social issues, is the subject of a full-length feature in Rocinante Press. Click here to read the article.
- 08.23.07: Artist Virginia Masymowicz is featured in artdaily.org for her presentation at the Powel House, Rules of Civility, on view at the Powel House from Sept 14 - Oct 21. The show is a mixed-media installation that draws its inspiration from Elizabeth Willing Powel and Eliza Leslie, two 18th-century women who were very much "women of their time". Click here to read the article.
- 07.15.07: Renowned artist Karen Kilimnik's installation at the Powel house receives an extensive and positive spotlight in the New York Times review, "Salons History Never Knew". Kilimnik's exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary art in Philadelphia several months before her work at Powel also received significant and lengthy praise. Click here to read this article.
- 01.10.07: Musician Dave Smolen featured in the Philadelphia CityPaper prior to bowerbird@LANDMARKS performance. Click here to read a PDF of the article.
- 01.05.07: Landmarks Contemporary Projects and bowerbird are the subject of a feature article in the Philadelphia Metro. Click here to read a PDF of the article.
- 11.10.06: Landmarks announces a new partnership with bowerbird that will bring experimental performances to our houses as part of Landmarks Contemporary Projects. To read the announcement, click here.
- 10.17.06: A stellar review of Philagrafika presents: Megawords and Candy Depew: Between Worlds. By Andrea Kirsh writing for artblog. Click here to read the article.
- 10.04.06: Read a Philadelphia Weekly article about Megawords here. The article features their installation for Landmarks Contemporary Projects.
- 09.08.06: Read the Artforum review of the Megawords opening here.
Information for Artists
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