Founded 1998. Based in Philadelphia, PA.
Basekamp is a non-commercial art community and exhibition space that facilitates interdisciplinary, collaborative projects and critical discussions. Basekamp serves as a hub for the collective development of new models of art systems and the practical and theoretical evolution of collaboration. Basekamp’s 2010 program Plausible Artworlds is a weekly series designed to present and discuss the multitude of nuanced art worlds that are emerging every day. The weekly potluck conversations have featured a wide range of social practitioners including The Public School, Continental Drift, n.e.w.s., F.E.A.S.T., Art Work, Loveland, and Miss Rockaway Armada.
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Born 1963 in Vancouver, Canada.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Stephen Wright is a theorist, writer, curator, and independent researcher invested in theoretical alternatives to the current capitalist framework of the contemporary art world. Wright’s work revolves around the use-value of art in society, focusing on collective work that exists beyond objects, authorship, and spectatorship. Wright has curated The Future of the Reciprocal Readymade (2004) at Apexart, New York; In Absentia (2005) at Centre d’art Passerelle, Brest, France; Rumour as Media (2006) at Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey; and Dataesthetics (2006) at What, How & for Whom, Zagreb, Croatia. Wright is the former Programme Director at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, a former corresponding editor of Parachute magazine, and is currently on the Editorial Advisory Committee of the journal Third Text.
