Welcome to The Future is on the Table! Please feel free to spend some time exploring the many dialogues, images and information on the site. This online community is free to join for anyone who feels curious, inspired or engaged by it - just use the box to the right to create a login and you can start joining our dialogues. Start a discussion, share your photos, ask questions. For help navigating the site (uploading photos, adding documents, etc.) take a look at the blog "Intro to Ning" Happy to see you here! We look forward to meeting you...
As an introduction look at the last posts by Omari Fox, Rajni Shah, Delphine Ziegler, Ruby Thorkelston and Marcia Kure. See also new pictures added by Janice Stuckey, Latonnya Wallace and the students of CAC.C. What a large adventure!

Recent News
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2009/03/exchanging_gift.php
The Community Arts website has published an article by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington on Charleston using two case studies: "Longitude 35 / Navigating Home" by Suzanne Lacy and Rick Lowe during Spoleto 2003 and "The Future is on the Table". A lot to think about.

Earlier in the new year issue the Community Arts website had presented "The Future is on the Table" as part of "Community Arts 2008: The Year of the Great Leap"
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2008/12/community_arts_4.php
"The Local Leap: The Future Is on the Table, Charleston, S.C. by Linda Burnham
The most intimate and delightful convening I attended all year was The Future Is on the Table,... The remarkable thing about these two artists, is their concept of inclusion. They throw ideas into the air and then collaborate closely with whomever is willing to catch them. This strategy results in arts productions so diverse that the two artists have to take on the role of ringmaster to the circus... The opening drew one of the most diverse audiences I have ever seen in an art gallery anywhere...
Conversations circled around the surprising combinations of elements that drew the show together... there was much testimony about personal change..."

Jenera Rivers, Shana Green and Jordan Perry, students at Wilmot J.Fraser Elementary School reflect on their clay work at the Gibbes Museum Clay Studio.FUT Sense and Sensibilities.pdf

Notes, comments, pictures, and much more, from the Closing Weekend of The Future is on the Table: Happenings #3 & 4
Fut3HAp3&4comp.pdf
FUT3whatifcomp.pdf


AN INSIDER VIEW TO THE PAST.pdf
AN INSIDER VIEW TO THE PAST/PRESENT OF AN ART PROJECT "The Future is on the Table" has been written for ....

How Does it Look Today?
Check out the latest catalogue, "HOW DOES IT LOOK TODAY?: The Future is on the Table #3, September-October 2008"! Available in print with the latest photographs from the shows and opening events at The City Gallery at Waterfront Park and The Gibbes Museum of Art. During the month of November you can get your copy at the City Gallery in North Charleston where the carts are being exhibited. Or ask jemagwga@knology.net.
How does it look today?.pdf

Opening Weekend- Presentation and Discussion at The Gibbes
On Sunday September 14th a group of artists, participants, and observers gathered in the courtyard of the Gibbes Museum of Art for an afternoon of performance, presentation, and discussion facilitated by Alice Lovelace and Linda Frye Burnham. Please read the notes and transcriptions from the day's events, and enjoy the photographs...And add your thoughts and questions!
Opening Weekend at the Gibbes.pdf
Click Here to see photos from the day's events
See also Art Object and Memorabilia: Le Musée des Souvenirs, a part of The Future is on the Table at the Gibbes Museum of Art
object_memorabiliaGibbes.pdf
And look here for a description of the Gibbes Museum exhibition.
FUT3 Gibbes Handoutp .pdf

Artists' Presentations at The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
Four artists participating in The Future is on the Table, Delphine Ziegler, Aurore Gruel, Rajni Shah, and Wok Marcia Kure, presented their work as part of a series of gallery talks at The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston. Read notes from these presentations here:
Gallery Talks, Halsey Institute.pdf

Online discussion: 'How can critical writing be a dialogue? A continuation...'
Click on the link above to download the texts from this discussion which took place at Devereaux St on September 1st. Please do add your own comments, thoughts, images or notes. We'd love to hear from you!

Where Do They Come From?
Take a look at the work of the artists participating in The Future is on the Table and see how they got to Charleston. From the Catalogue:
Where do they come from?.pdf

How Did it Start?
For a history of The Future Is On The Table, please read the text below by Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet:
How did it start?.pdf

Click here to see photos by Laura Moses from the opening event (opens in a new window).

For the month of August, Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet were in residence on the Art of Engagement website. Click here to see their page and read the discussions inspired by The Future is on the Table.

“THE FUTURE IS ON THE TABLE” by Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet is a stream, an art stream, a river of art projects, whose tributaries will converge in Charleston SC in SEPTEMBER 2008, with sources in India, England, South Africa, Nigeria, France; the United States also, South Carolina and Charleston. Global in spirit and momentum. Not the Global of greed, financial madness, war, repression, self-censorship, individual and mass depression. Everything to do though with the new century, moved by diversity, social justice, small as beautiful, and – why not? – peace, as necessities for the well being of the world. ”THE FUTURE IS ON THE TABLE” has chosen WATER and SHELTER as focal points to assert its relevance. Each participant has been exercising the freedom, offered by the practice of art, to create original works based on various collaborations with communities or other artists. Most events will take place at two major venues in Charleston SC. At the City Gallery at Waterfront Park artists will present art installations, performances and evolutive works, invite learning exchanges with schools, businesses or citizens groups. At the Gibbes Museum of Art, one of the Tables of the Future will be made of carts on wheels, presenting and representing the participants and the journey through the project, its multi-dimensionality, its multi-disciplinarity, its participatory nature. The City Gallery at Waterfront Park, The Gibbs Museum of Art and Redux Contemporary Art Center will be anchors for two weekends of public presentations and dialogues on community-based arts, collaborations in the field of visual arts, the tradition of gift exchange and the cultural impact of the visual arts in a global culture. Artists will be in residency at the site of the exhibitions prior to the openings and will give presentations at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Arts of the College of Charleston and at Columbia College. There will also be a chance to meet some of the artists at the North Charleston City Gallery.

THE ARPAN COOPERATIVE / MARKET PLACE INDIA
Arpan / Market / Festivals

DELPHINE ZIEGLER, AURORE GRUEL
Tropical Ice

RAJNI SHAH
Across the waters: a gift exchange

ARIANNE KING COMER
An oak tree as a shelter?

OMARI FOX
Stool P.I.J.I.N.

PHINIAS CHIRUBVU
The Big Five / Museum as shelter

MARCIA KURE
Burqua as shelter

CAPTURING THE MOVING MIND
Moscow to Beijing