What happens when artists work together?

BIN, a collective experiment runs 1/9/09 - 2/20/09 at AVA Center at 30 Frazier Avenue in Chattanooga, TN.

Everything is free and open.

SEED, an art collective in Chattanooga, TN is producing BIN. 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.

SEED is pleased to announce the participation, contribution, and/or telematic conversation by some fantastic collectives including Basekamp (Philadelphia), BLW, Common Places Project (Tampa), DeadTech (Chicago), Fugitive Projects (Nashville), Graffiti Research Lab (New York), Guerrilla Girls, InCUBATE-Chicago (Chicago), Mess Hall (Chicago), Paintallica (Washington), RTmark, TEAM LUMP (Raleigh), 6+, and The Yes Men.

SEED hopes you will join us for an artist/curator talk at AVA Center on Wednesday January 28, beginning at 5:30 pm with Jessica Westbrook, SEED collaborator, about “shifting motivations: art practice as relation, network, system” and Adam Trowbridge on “Negotiating with Terror: Review of Fronts, Collectives, Movements and Guerrilla Tactics.”

SEED and AVA hope you will join us for an installation reception on Friday February 6, 5:30-8pm.

Additional programs include a collaborative event with InCubate-Chicago and scheduled Skype calls with participating collectives. Details will be available soon.

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.

AVA Center is located at 30 Frazier Ave. Chattanooga TN, 37405 and can be found at www.avartists.org.

For more information see: http://seedbin.wordpress.com, skype: teleSEED or write info@seed-2005.com