2011 Grant Cycle

In 2010 Harpo Foundation initiated a thematic focus to explore the relationship between art and site in a dematerializing world. (2010 funding focus) The 12 projects that received Harpo Foundation´s support are addressing this theme in various ways. Several evoke the tension between global dynamics and hyper-locality. Others seek to stimulate local activation by investing in a community´s sense of place. A few quietly translate the existential experience of place while others draw on a locale´s unique history as a springboard for the work. For more detailed descriptions about these funded projects, visit the Past Grant Recipients section of our website.

Harpo Foundation will continue this thematic focus in 2011 but with a renewed emphasis on projects that directly address the interchange and dialogue between the existential and the virtual. Wanting to expand our understanding of the role each play in contemporary life, artistic projects that grapple with the dialectic between the non-locality of the digital world and the existential physicality of our everyday environment will be considered first. Projects that put these two worlds into dialogue with each other, so as to comment upon each other and allow the qualities of each experience to be illuminated, are of specific interest to the Foundation.

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