Art in Odd Places 2024 – CARE

Curated by Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 18-20, 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River, Manhattan.

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AiOP CARE artists, performers, agitators, and caretakers will enact and offer notions and stations of care along 14th Street NYC for the duration of the festival, where all are invited to stop, to rest, to CARE.

Care is a ripple. From intimate to global, from self-care, care of family and lover, friend and neighbor, town and city, state and country, the global world, care undulates out to our whole island planet and every species upon it. To care is to look after, provide for, to watch over, to grieve, to lament, to cry, to feel concern, to attach importance. In a year of political turmoil, war, and environmental devastation, how wide can our caring arms be embraced?  Who can we give care to? What can we care about? What can we watch over? What and who can we be careful about? Who is deemed worthy of care? What is appropriate care? When is care invasive? Should we care? Can we not care? Do we have that luxury? How can we give protective attention, caution, concern, and prudence?  Can we extend care beyond our bodily, familial, national, species, and earthly borders? AiOP 2024 asks how art can create spaces and actions of compassionate fearless care. Can we offer and enter them with joy and love?

Art opens a space of empathy – an invitation to see through the eyes and heart and mind of another.  An act of hope and imagination – art can help us dream new ways and new worlds into being. We invite you to imagine together how we can bring care to one another and our fraught and fragile world.

Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek are NYC-based artists, curators, and educators. Miranda is founder of the artist-run orgs 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.

AiOP 2024 Curator: Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek
AiOP Founder and Director: Ed Woodham
Producer : Robin Schatell/Mov!ng Culture Projects
Curatorial Manager: Valentina Zamora
Social Media Manager: Michelle Leidecker
Designer/Developer: Laurie Waxman and Ross Mabbett
Communications Consultant: Aga Sablinska

Art in Odd Places is a program of GOH Productions, a nonprofit organization, and is supported, in part, by public funds from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.