An interdisciplinary ensemble

The significance of fragments—whether of objects, people, places, or ideas—lies in their ability to persist beyond their original time or context. When processes are applied to these fragments, their reemergence enables them to relinquish previous relevance, assume new meanings, and inspire novel ideas. Through a reactionary method, our project embraces the status of the fragment and expands upon it. It encourages debate among artists and audiences beyond the specificities of traditional art history, allowing our exhibition and performance spaces to function more as mirrors of particular moments rather than as museums that merely portray another time. In this way, we generate movement and excitement through a dialogue that may best be described as innately and intentionally curatorial. City of Art seeks to explore thematic universality not in the object but in the subject—or rather, in the plurality of perspectives surrounding the subject.

This radical displacement and inversion of the relationship between art object and viewer forms the foundation of contemporary artistic practices. Throughout the history of art and literature, the transformation of sources and the plurality of subjectivities have continually generated new fragments that perpetuate the cyclical process of artistic production.