Claudia Friedel- Aggregated sources Reflecting Contemporary Awareness
Role:
2: Information Professional in a large encyclopedic museum
Task:
2. Identify, describe and provide links to 10 essential current awareness websites for a new curator who is researching for an exhibition on outsider art
Hi Maggie,
Welcome, I am so happy to collaborate with you on your vision of an exhibition featuring outsider artists at the MFA. I have aggregated some materials (see below) to help support this project as you prepare the development stages of your research. I kept in mind that outsider art is not an easily defined and difficult to navigate in a contemporary sense. Moreover, I broke down the sources into the following categories:
- Traditional Outsider Art
- Artists who are usually discovered after death.
- Artists who have no formal training or connections to institutions.
- Contemporary/Emerging Outsider Artists
- Marginal emerging artists who break the molds of normative institutional/academic standards; who either have content or are influenced by narratives beyond the normative spectrum.
I am excited to see the process of inception of outsider art into an encyclopedic museum, it is refreshing to see a step back from the “barriers” between the established and the emerging. I would love to continue to support this project and am willing to work with the appropriate parties to discuss innovative and dynamic archival solutions, to ensure this exhibition receives the proper documentation you envision and that it deserves. Let me know what you would like to see more coverage on, or what other types of materials I can prepare for you.
Additionally, we have been toying with the idea of expanding the libraries sources by building an artist recommended section. I see this exhibition as a unique opportunity to get some outside voices to diversify our collection. Thoughts?
I look forward to continuing our dialogue.
Best,
Claudia M. Friedel
Head Strategist
Information Retrieval and Digital Strategy
pronouns -she/her/hers
Traditional Outsider Art
An offset to the omnipresent normativity in the arts, Raw Vision is an international magazine that fosters the dialogue between outsider artists and the public. It is subscription based but you can navigate past issues and abstracts, as well as search, and browse capabilities.
Outsiderart.co is the interface of the Henry Boxer Gallery. The site is an investigative overview of europe’s outsider artists. You can search or browse by outsider, visionary, modern-british, naive and self taught.
Oddity Central is a site that collects oddities via the webmaster’s hand and crowd sourced submissions. OC’s arts section really speaks to the subjective; seeking out artists who produce artwork via a broad spectrum considered as art materials and subjects. the OC has search and browse functions.
From NYC to Chelsea to Paris, the Outsider Art Fair is an expo highlighting some of the most prominent emerging and established outsider artists. The fair takes place on an annual basis, however they showcase articles, reviews and exhibitions from around the globe. This site has browsing and searching capabilities.
With a mission to promote public awareness for outsider artists Intuit is the only nonprofit outsider art foundation in the US. This site does require a little legwork, it has no search capabilities and limited visual resources, despite this they do have a robust survey of artists.
Contemporary/Emerging Outsider Art
Topical Cream is a curation of women who are working in the FAT (Fashion Art and Technology) disciplines in non traditional ways. In addition to their comprehensive content this site makes discoverability of artists more interesting than browsing via featured artists and weekly shout outs to the month’s Birthday Girls.
Funded by AW Mellon Foundation, Bomb Magazine’s living archive is part of a publishing house conglomerate established in 1981 that “creates, disseminates artist- generated content” via artist’s dialogue, in an effort to cut out the critic and institutional voice. Daily artist dialogues are searchable and browsable by architecture, art, dance, film, literature, music, and theatre.
Animal NYC is a mashup of institutionally acknowledged contemporary art, as well as Traditional and Contemporary OA. ANYC is an aggregate of data that does not discriminate-from “the gut of the city and the fringes of the internet.” That said it provides an in-depth contextual account of outsider artists and the communities they come from.
HolyURL is a blog hosted by Alexis Anais Avedisian an artist, self archivist, writer, and arts administrator. HolyURL is a blog project explored through interviews, research, and essays on themes of technology, curation, art, social media, data platforms and art, and in a broader sense their “cultural memory creation” and emotional data representation. The site is not searchable but the content is properly curated in a browsable fashion.
Boston Hassle is an underground newspaper that functions as a guide to the ins and outs of Boston’s alternative cultural scene. A great asset to have up your sleeve as you begin to navigate the arts in the greater Boston area. This resource is chock full of DIY gallery spaces, studio exhibitions, featuring outside artists of every discipline.
https://bostonhassle.com/
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