The Art/Space Negotiations is a project initiated by Goethe-Institut Nigeria to open a new line of interrogations and discussions on space availability and utilization for critical art in Lagos.
Because of its metropolis ambitions, Lagos is decidedly commercial, with economic gain being a significant factor in the development of the city’s real estate.
Where does this leave art?
The negotiations series, kicking off with the Lagos session, examines how artists, art and culture entrepreneurs have and are negotiating for space in three domains:
- Physically: In a metropolitan city intent on converting every piece of earth into a piece of profit.
- Mentally: The series also considers how artists with little or no capital cope with existential anxieties in negotiating a mindset for creating art as they live in a city with heavily capitalist aspirations.
- Digitally: How art entrepreneurs and artists are carving out space (and building audiences) online, especially in a social media semi-regulated by government and experiencing significant cash-injection from big business.
The discussions probes the physical, digital, and metaphysical depths of these negotiations and seeks a lively interrogation of this question: In a vast land occupied by oil and gas, banking and finance, and manufacturing and real estate concerns, how have art entrepreneurs and artists negotiated for space?
OBJECTIVES
- To open a new line of discussion for knowledge acquisition in an ongoing process of art creation in a frantically commercial metropole.
- To equip artists and art entrepreneurs with negotiation skills and ideas as they encounter challenges in cultivating spaces.
The 2nd forum of the Art/Space Negotiations: Lagos introduces OtherNetwork, a project by Intitut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) in collaboration with Cookies, the design studio based in Rotterdam and Paris.
OtherNetwork is a collaborative platform that connects self-initiated art projects and spaces globally. By building on existing artistic communities and working with digital tools to assist with data visualisation, OtherNetwork stems from a continually updated database that documents the extended network around projects and spaces thriving outside of institutional frameworks.
Date: 22nd July 2022
Time: 10 am- 4pm
Venue: No7b Anifowoshe Street, Victoria Island, Lagos
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