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Open Studio & Creative Time Summit Live Streaming Oct 14-15, 4pm - 12:30 am

Friday Oct 14- Saturday Oct 15 from 4 pm to midnight the Siena Art Institute welcomes the public for an Open Studio event featuring work-in-progress by our students, and live video streaming from the Creative Time Summit.

We are pleased to be one of the international screening sites for the Creative Time Summit: Occupy the Future, which is taking place this year in Washington, DC, Occupy the Future, an international event devoted to exploring the intersection of art & social justice. 

The event will be free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.  We hope you can join us!  Please see below for further information, or click here for the list of speakers and the schedule (note times listed are in DC so add 6 hours for times in Siena.) 

WHAT IS THE CREATIVE TIME SUMMIT? 

Artists have always raised their voices to speak truth to power, and have never been more important than at this moment in history, when social movements are erupting around the world. At Creative Time, we believe that artists are truly change agents, with the ability to affect society for the better. Each year, the Creative Time Summit explores the many ways in which artists are tackling the world’s most challenging social and political issues. Innovative artists, activists, writers, and curators take the Summit stage to present bold new strategies for social change to a global audience. 

Presentations will be in English. 

CREATIVE TIME SUMMIT: OCCUPY THE FUTURE

Presenters  include:


SCHEDULE: FRIDAY OCT 14  (times below to time zone in Siena, Italy)

4:00 PM
INTRODUCTIONS

4:35 PM
SECTION 1: OCCUPY POWER

5:55 PM
REPORT FROM: SYRIA

6:05 PM
IN CONVERSATION: DEAR AMERICA

6:30 PM
KEYNOTE

8:30 PM
PERFORMANCE

8:40 PM
SECTION 2: DO IT YOURSELF

10:00 PM 
REPORT FROM: WASHINGTON, DC

10:30 PM
THE CASE FOR NONSENSE

10:40 PM
SECTION 3: UNDER SIEGE

Midnight
CLOSING REMARKS

SATURDAY OCT 15:

4 PM
INTRODUCTION

4:10 PM
PERFORMANCE

4:40 PM
SECTION 4: QUEER AND NOW

6:00 PM
REPORT FROM: UKRAINE

6:10 PM
THE CASE FOR NONSENSE

8:00 PM
THE CASE FOR NONSENSE

2:10 PM
SECTION 5: ENTER THE ANTHROPOCENE

9:35 PM
STATEMENT: FLINT, MICHIGAN

10:00 PM
VIDEO AND DEMO

10:10 PM
PERFORMANCE

10:30 PM
SECTION 6: TROUBLED DEMOCRACY

11:50 PM
CLOSING STATEMENTS

For more information: http://creativetime.org/summit/schedule/

CURATORIAL STATEMENT – CREATIVE TIME SUMMIT: OCCUPY THE FUTURE

Coinciding with the final month of the 2016 Presidential election, the Creative Time Summit takes this historic moment to collectively reflect on what it would mean to wrest control of the democratic process. We do so in the home of American politics, Washington DC. Forces of government call this city home - politicians, lobbyists, NGOs, world embassies, military headquarters - as do, importantly, the local residents who enliven it. Yet sometimes these worlds barely touch in any meaningful way. As a conference that takes its cues from the grassroots, the city of DC offers a space to consider power by being, literally, in power’s proximity. During this emotionally heightened election, we turn to the future of democracy from the perspective of artists and activists from around the world and in the neighborhoods here in DC. What would it mean, we ask, to occupy power? After the collapse of the world financial markets in 2008, a steady growth of popular movements challenging the ruling order have arisen, and in doing so, have shaped the terms of the debates to come. The aftermath of which was called Arab Spring, the European Summer and Occupy Wall Street have become an integral part of the global landscape. A renewed challenge by the 99% is no longer at the fringe, but at the center of political discussions. At the same time, on U.S. soil, the Black Lives Matter Movement continues to shape a growing conversation around race, social justice and police violence. From football stadiums to the streets of Charlotte and Tulsa, #BLM continues at a brisk pac e as viral videos of unarmed African Americans being shot by police seem to continue without pause from city to city. The period can certainly feel bleak. The very thing that gives rise to the #BLM movement is a struggle with constant violence. Thus, for every protest there is a tragedy. A family loses a child. A community sees another act of violence go unpunished. Compound with a candidate in the running for office so comfortable with bombast that he has introduced a rhetoric of xenophobia reminiscent of fascist approaches to politics many thought a thing of the past. Yet, this same candidate has also challenged the neoliberal order critiquing NAFTA and the off-shoring of manufacturing, peculiarly connecting populist racism with working class disaffection. 4 Political writer and 2016 summit speaker Thomas Frank has speculated that the vilifying of Trump (with all good reason) has allowed his running mate, Hillary Clinton to sideline any economic progressive positions and instead run on a much simpler platform of dissatisfaction with Trump’s antics, He writes, “This is the real potential disaster of 2016, that legitimate economic discontent is going to be dismissed as bigotry and xenophobia for years to come.” That said, popular grassroots movements are challenging the order of politics and thus, the balance of power itself. The Sanders primary campaign, which gathered tremendous millennial support, introduced the term socialism (that had for decades been considered political suicide in America) and ran on a platform harkening an FDR New Deal style of economic redistribution. In North Dakota, the Red Rock Sioux Tribe pushed back on the development of an oil pipe through their lands garnering massive national and international support. The former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, speaking to the condition of Greece in particular and the global neoliberal order in general, has placed the situation in this light, “The moment social democrats stopped playing the role of mediators between capital and labor, the moment they turned their back on the class struggle (which social democracy always accepted but tried to regulate) it was the end for social democracy. Because all it took was the 2008 implosion and suddenly, the same people that they were in bed with had all gone bankrupt.” For the next three days we will touch upon gender, labor, state violence, climate, and revolution from an intersectional and international vantage point, taking a cue from the grassroots. In equal proportions we will focus on art, where upon the 100th anniversary of Dada we make room for the irrational, bizarre, and non-utilitarian. We appreciate Dada’s rejection of sensibility (one shaped a century ago out of disgust of the atrocities of WWI) and embrace creative responses to the conditions of the world ever present on our mind.

- Nato Thompson, Artistic Director, Creative Time.

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