Sydney Creative Time Summit

Overview

Every year, pioneering artists, activists and thinkers come together to collaborate on how to better our world at The Creative Time Summit in New York City. This occasion is viewed by over 4000 live audience members and watched online by more than 30,000. If you’re one of the thousands that has tuned in, this year is your chance to be there without having to jump the pond. This year, the curatorial collective Original Affluent Society is bringing the Summit to the Newtown Library in Sydney to explore the same issues on a local level.

The theme of this year’s summit is ‘Art, Place, and Dislocation in the 21st Century City’, which focuses on the role of art in creating sustainable cities, gentrification and modes of resistance to urban development.
The Sydney Program will feature highlights from New York, including a discussion panel made up of speakers such as performance artist Vito Acconci, renowned art theorist Lucy Lippard, Creative Time chief curator Nato Thompson, artist and Occupy activist Michael Premo, My Brooklyn director Kelly Anderson, artist Lucy Orta, Project Row Houses founder Rick Lowe, and more. Local responders include Yellow House co-founder and artist Jonny Lewis, Grow It Local’s Jess Miller, artist Lucas Ihlein and Ian Milliss on Green Bans, and artists Diego Bonetto and Adrian O’Doherty.

Following the summit is the Summit Social, a closing party and exhibition held at the local artist-run gallery Archive_Space from 5-8pm on Sunday. Works from artists Keg de Souza, Diego Bonetto & Adrian O’Doherty, and Belem Lett will be on display, as well as live performances from Beth Dillon and James Gatt, and Alex Guthrie.

The Sydney Creative Time Summit is a platform for people of all sorts to come together to explore the changing role of art in the world and Sydney in an informal way. So if you want to become a better-informed citizen of the world, then this could be an event worthy of your time.