Emergency Room (art)
Emergency Room is an art format by Thierry Geoffroy for artists with desire to engage in the current debate. It is an exhibition space where artists are invited to contribute with art works that are produced in the very present and respond to ongoing social issues. In order to exhibit, an artist has to wait months or years in order to negotiate with art institutions, find funding and collaborators. Through Emergency Room, artists can react every day. By being a constantly changing exhibition space commenting on current events Emergency Room creates a hotline to the public and to the mass media:
“Artists, audience and media have been fighting for weeks in order to get to see and participate in the new and innovating exhibition that with its "art of the news" puts the art institution itself to debate. Reuters, The New Yorker and the TV-channel ABC News are some of the leading media that have brought the story about the original exhibition, and at P.S.1 more than a thousand visitors per day have been seeing it…" (Nikolaj M. Lassen, Weekendavisen, March 30th, 2007)
Read more about Emergency Room (art): Artists, The Emergency Room Art Format, Spirit, Emergency Room Contributing Artists 2006 - Present
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