Low Lives is an annual “international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues.” Viewers only need to be near a computer to see the performances through itinerant cameras in Berlin, New York, Texas, Japan, and many other places.
Possibly the most well-known and exciting at-home gallery space is located inconspicuously in a dense Chicago suburb and is aptly called The Suburban.
During one of many mundane days at his San Francisco office, Alex Clausen was surfing the net, dreaming of escape and reconnecting with the land, and purchased a small parcel of land in Texas for under $500 bucks.
Currently, the National Park Service offers 29 different Artist-in-Residence programs in 25 states. For this final off-grid residency profile, Joshua Tree National Park AIR program was chosen to represent these somewhat obscure, and possibly underutilized, federal resources.
THE LAND/an art site is the fourth in a series of Site/Project Profiles that present off-grid, hyper-isolated residencies. Founded in 1998, this residency maintains an outdoor work/exhibition site in the Manzano Mountains of central New Mexico devoted exclusively to site-specific, environmentally low-impact, land-based art.
PLAND (Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation) is the third in a series of Site/Project Profiles that present off-grid, hyper-isolated residencies. In 2011, PLAND will launch “The Summer of Alternative Power,” which include programs that propose alternative models to the mainstream systems of power; electricity, water, currency and production.
Andes Sprouts Society is the second in a series of Site/Project Profiles that present off-grid, hyper-isolated residencies. Andes Sprouts Society offers 2 day to one month residencies to individuals integrating media, art, technology and farming. Applications for summer 2011 are due April, 15th.