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BIN, an art installation happening at the AVA Center in Chattanooga Tennessee, will present the work of art collectives from around the United States. SEED, an art collective based in Chattanooga, is producing this art installation in cooperation with Basekamp (Philadelphia), BLW, Common Places Project (Tampa), DeadTech (Chicago), Fugitive Projects (Nashville), Graffiti Research Lab (New York), Guerrilla Girls (LA/New York), InCUBATE-Chicago (Chicago), Mess Hall (Chicago), Paintallica (Washington), RTmark, TEAM LUMP (Raleigh), 6+, and The Yes Men.

BIN will manifest at the AVA Center in Chattanooga, TN January 9 - February 20, 2009. There will be several programs including talks on Wednesday January 28, 2009 with Jessica Westbrook, SEED collaborator, artist, and UTC Art Faculty, about "shifting motivations: art practice as relation, network, system" and Adam Trowbridge on "Negotiating with Terror: Review of Fronts, Collectives, Movements and Guerrilla Tactics." A reception is scheduled for February 6, 2009. Other programs will be announced as more information becomes available. AVA Center is located at 30 Frazier Ave. Chattanooga TN, 37405 and can be found at www.avartists.org.

The motivation for BIN comes through a need to address the historical marginalization of artists and methods for overcoming this scenario. Each collective involved in this project is a vital model for alternative pathways, invention, action, and interdisciplinary approaches to making. This project is not predetermined. Instead of formulas, conventions, expectations, and objects - SEED is working with online relationships, and local negotiations. BIN will turn a gallery installation into a distance-collapsing intersection of diversity + social practice + collective action + time/site sensitive negotiations.

Launched in 2005, SEED began as a loosely organized artist run collective with a studio, research projects, experiments, programs and initiatives in Chattanooga, TN. Our mission remains to push the boundaries of creative practice and expectations in the South, invent opportunities, develop connections for our projects, and be an educational resource for our community. Our motivation is art.

SEED STUDIO
Info@seed-2005.com
658 Gurley Street
Chattanooga, TN 37405
www.seed-2005.com
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Contact: Jessica Westbrook
cell 708.724.4860
aim / skype : teleSEED
www.JessicaWestbrook.com