Allies

ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism. They are known internationally as a venue for oppositional culture. ABC No Rio was founded in 1980 by artists committed to political and social engagement and it retains these values to the present. They seek to facilitate cross-pollination between artists and activists. ABC No Rio is a place where people share resources and ideas to impact society, culture, and community. They believe that art and activism should be for everyone, not just the professionals, experts, and cognoscenti. Their dream is a cadre of actively aware artists and artfully aware activists.

The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance is a Bronx-based arts organization that creates, produces, presents and supports the development of contemporary dance and all creative disciplines with a unique focus on women, People Of Color and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual & Queer communities.

The Film-Makers’ Cooperative/New American Cinema Group, Inc. is the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. Created by artists in 1961 as the distribution branch of the New American Cinema Group, the Film Co-Op has more than 5,000 films, videotapes and DVDs in its collection.

The Künstlerhaus Hamburg – FRISE e.V. emerged from the associations Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V., formerly located in Weidenallee (founded in 1977) and Abbildungszentrum (founded in 1994) and has been operating under the umbrella and name “FRISE” at Arnoldstraße 26–30 in Hamburg-Ottensen since 2003. Besides providing studios and workshops for artists of all genders, the association is dedicated to the presentation and mediation of artistic positions of their time, serves as a platform for constructive debate with and about the visual arts, and promotes artists working in the field of visual arts. Currently, about 40 artists from various artistic fields work in individual and group studios in the immediate neighborhood.

GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side) is a neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1977. It is dedicated to tenants’ rights, homelessness prevention, economic development, and community revitalization.

GRRRR (Ingo Giezendanner) (born 1975) is a painter and installation artist and member of the Kroesos Foundation. He lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. Since 1998, Ingo Giezendanner, alias GRRRR, has been documenting the urban spaces in which he has travelled and lived. Apart from his native city of Zurich, his travels have taken him to diverse cities from New York and New Orleans to Cairo, Nairobi, Karachi and Colombo. Everywhere he travels, he captures his surroundings on location with pen on paper. His drawings have been presented in numerous magazines, books and animated films as well as in spacious installations and wallpaintings.

Founded as a not-for-profit organization by artists in 1977, Harvestworks has helped a generation of artists create new works using technology. Their mission is to support the creation and presentation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies. Their goals are to create an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media; to create a responsive public context for the appreciation of new work by presenting and disseminating the finished works; to advance the art community’s and the public’s “agenda” for the use of technology in art; and to bring together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts collaborating in the use of electronic media. They assist with commissions and residencies, production services, education and information programs, and the presentation and distribution of their work.