New Yorkers can vote for social change this Saturday, 2 December when the Queens Museum stages a public ballot to decide the winner of the Visible Award, a €25,000 prize for a socially engaged art project, run by the Italian organisations Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna. This year’s shortlist includes Renzo Martens’s art-making platform and white-cube gallery run by plantation workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Pedro Neves Marques and Mariana Silva’s online video channel Inhabitants. The day-long event is free and open to the public, but voter registration is required. The agenda includes presentations of the shortlisted proposals, discussions and debate, and finally, an open vote.
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You be the jury: New Yorkers ready to vote for art that promotes social change
30 November 2017