What you should do this weekend if you can get to New York
this weekend -- come out and play!
FIGMENT is an annual participatory arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor. The mission of FIGMENT is to provide a forum for community-based participatory art and experience. FIGMENT strives to build community among artists and participants, to foster the participatory arts in New York City, and to demonstrate a vision for the future of Governors Island as an international arts destination.
FIGMENT was launched on July 8, 2007 as a one-day cultural event serving 2,500 participants. In 2008, it will be a three-day event from June 27-29 that will accommodate approximately 10,000 participants.
About Participatory Art:
We believe that participatory art, because of its interactive and immersive nature, can be a vehicle for personal and social transformation. Participatory arts include any works of art that require the interaction or engagement of participants, which bring together artists and community members in ways that build relationships and unlock individual creativity. Participatory art can be seen as a bridge that fills the gap between the artist or artwork and the viewer, which further enables art to function more as dialogue rather than monologue.
Art projects for FIGMENT will go through a curatorial process, based on artistic merit, ambitiousness, and interactivity.
About Commodification & Gifting: Our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. FIGMENT is devoted to acts of gift giving and volunteering-in fact, FIGMENT is entirely run by volunteers, with no one on staff receiving any monetary compensation. The value of a gift is unconditional and does not expect a return or an exchange for something of equal value. This is why FIGMENT does not allow vending, busking, passing the hat, or tip jars. We encourage our participants to find other, non-monetary ways of showing their appreciation.
For more about FIGMENT go to
http://www.figmentnyc.org
FIGMENT is an annual participatory arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor. The mission of FIGMENT is to provide a forum for community-based participatory art and experience. FIGMENT strives to build community among artists and participants, to foster the participatory arts in New York City, and to demonstrate a vision for the future of Governors Island as an international arts destination.
FIGMENT was launched on July 8, 2007 as a one-day cultural event serving 2,500 participants. In 2008, it will be a three-day event from June 27-29 that will accommodate approximately 10,000 participants.
About Participatory Art:
We believe that participatory art, because of its interactive and immersive nature, can be a vehicle for personal and social transformation. Participatory arts include any works of art that require the interaction or engagement of participants, which bring together artists and community members in ways that build relationships and unlock individual creativity. Participatory art can be seen as a bridge that fills the gap between the artist or artwork and the viewer, which further enables art to function more as dialogue rather than monologue.
Art projects for FIGMENT will go through a curatorial process, based on artistic merit, ambitiousness, and interactivity.
About Commodification & Gifting: Our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. FIGMENT is devoted to acts of gift giving and volunteering-in fact, FIGMENT is entirely run by volunteers, with no one on staff receiving any monetary compensation. The value of a gift is unconditional and does not expect a return or an exchange for something of equal value. This is why FIGMENT does not allow vending, busking, passing the hat, or tip jars. We encourage our participants to find other, non-monetary ways of showing their appreciation.
For more about FIGMENT go to
http://www.figmentnyc.org