BGSQDBureau of General Services—Queer Division
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In Care Of is intimate conversation between the curators of Art in Odd Places 2024 CARE, and a select group of its international and US artists about their 2024 CARE projects, artistic processes and the role of CARE in their life and work.
AiOP 2024 CARE is curated by Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek and is scheduled for October 18-20, 2024. AiOP 2024 CARE is the nineteenth edition of the iconic public visual and performance art festival that takes place along 14th Street in Manhattan every fall. The 70+ artists participating in AiOP 2024 CARE will enact actions, notions, considerations and representations of care along 14th Street and invite the public to stop, to rest, to consider, and, above all, care. AiOP CARE 2024 asks how art can create spaces and actions of compassionate fearless care. Can we offer and enter them with joy and love?
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, room 210 of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) is an annual festival that presents visual and performance art in public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Active in New York City since 2005, AiOP aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations.
Curators Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek are NYC-based artists, curators, and educators. Miranda is the founder of the artist-run organizations The Crit Lab and MAPSpace, and works with donated, repurposed, lace and linens in site-responsive sculpture and installation. Kaczmarek’s work spans both experimental and traditional practices, including sculpture, site-specific installations, performance, video, built circuits, and solar-powered objects.
Founder and Director Ed Woodham, is a queer elder conceptual artist, curator, and educator based in Manhattan originally from Atlanta, Georgia where Art in Odd Places began.