The Future Is On The Table's Page

"THE FUTURE IS ON THE TABLE" 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 in particular. 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 partnership with schools, businesses or citizens groups. At he Gibbes Museum, one of the Tables of the Future will be punctuated with "stations" presenting and representing the time line for the show, its multi-dimensionality, its multi-disciplinarity, its participatory nature. Both places 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.