Joshua King, AURORA (Dallas) - on a decade old, future-focused art festival

Join SPACE LAB for a discussion with Joshua King, co-founder of Aurora!

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ABOUT AURORA
https://dallasaurora.com/
https://www.area3.site/

AURORA is a Dallas-based public arts organization working at the intersection of art, technology, and community that presents works by the most visionary artists of our time. Through the AURORA Biennial exhibition, AURORA Expanded program, and AURORA Artist Relief Fund, the organization engages with both regional and international audiences alike.

In 2020, in light of the significant impact of Covid-19, AURORA announced the development of new initiatives to create more opportunities and resources for Dallas’s artistic community and public. Such initiatives include a transition from the presentation of a single large-scale biennial event to a year-round series of site-specific installations, special events, social gatherings, and educational programming.

AURORA BIENNIAL
Since its foundation, the AURORA Biennial has transformed Dallas neighborhoods into curated, large-scale exhibitions, free and open to the public. The Biennial is also an important platform for exchange between regional and international artists and curators.

In an effort to keep their audience and North Texas communities safe during a high-risk COVID-19 period, in October AURORA launched its 10th edition titled "Afterwards was already before" as a decentralized program that will continue to unfold with live and online activations created by artists through 2021.

The first AURORA Expanded program, AREA 3, opened on October 1st, 2020, and is on view through January 1st, 2021!

AREA 3 transforms a 100,000 SF parking garage in downtown Dallas, featuring works by sixteen regional artists. The exhibition includes large-scale light, video, and sound installations as well as performances which will be viewable from the safety of attendees’ own cars.

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OUR DISCUSSION
Join us as we dive into:
• the history of Aurora, its evolution from a one-day event in 2010 to a year-long programming
• Aurora has a strong commitment to thematic, future-oriented programming probing, and guiding the very foundations of the future of art and art exhibition. How organizers select and work with artists?
• how Aurora responded to the pandemic?
• and Aurora's plans for the future?

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