The international edition of San Francisco-based Pickpocket Almanack launches today in Turin, Italy, at the Artissima art fair, where co-curators Joseph delPesco and Dominic Willsdon are on hand to present their project as part of House of Contamination (a structure designed by project architects raumlabor whose program was organized by Francesco Manacorda).
The Pickpocket Almanack is an “experimental school without walls” wherein artists, curators, writers, and those of us who do a little bit of all of those things are invited to organize courses around “found” or pre-existing events in their respective cities. Though the premise allows for some variation, participants generally attend the events, engage in discussion online throughout the course, and meet in person, too.
For Artissima, I’ve developed a course called Visualizing the Archive, based on my ongoing interest in the visual representation of social, political, or artistic organization in the digital age. What will organization look like, retrospectively, in a time where we rely so heavily on digital means (Google Groups, Twitter, Tumblr) to bring people together? Participants will be asked to visit an exhibition at the New Museum, Free, as well as attend a group visit to the Group Material archive at NYU’s Fales Library and Special Collections Archive; I will likely add on another event to the mix, too. And yes, of course there will be a blog. Hi.
Visualizing the Archive is free, as are all Pickpocket Almanack courses. Sign up here.
