SEED presents BIN: a collective experiment :: until February 20, 2009 :: Artist/Curator Talk: Jessica Westbrook (shifting motivations: art practice as relation, network, system”) + Adam Trowbridge (Negotiating with Terror: Review of Fronts, Collectives, Movements and Guerrilla Tactics) — January 28; 5:30 pm :: Installation Reception — February 6; 5:30-8 pm :: AVA Center, 30 Frazier Ave. Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The motivation for BIN comes through a need to address the historical marginalization of artists and methods for overcoming this scenario. Each collective involved in this project is a vital model for alternative pathways, invention, action, and interdisciplinary approaches to making. This project is not predetermined. Instead of formulas, conventions, expectations, and objects - SEED is working with online relationships, and local negotiations.

SEED is pleased to announce the participation, contribution, and/or telematic conversation by some fantastic collectives including 6+, Basekamp, BLW, Common Places Project, DeadTech, Fugitive Projects, Graffiti Research Lab, Guerrilla Girls, InCUBATE-Chicago, Mess Hall, Paintallica, RTmark, SEED, Team Lump, The Yes Men.

Additional programs include a collaborative event with InCubate-Chicago and scheduled Skype calls with participating collectives. Details will be available soon.

Launched in 2005, SEED began as a loosely organized artist run collective with a studio, research projects, experiments, programs and initiatives in Chattanooga, TN. Our mission remains to push the boundaries of creative practice and expectations in the South, invent opportunities, develop connections for our projects, and be an educational resource for our community. Our motivation is art.