Incubate

Located in Chicago, Incubate considers itself a research institution that is challenging current art infrastructures in how they affect artistic production. They do not have a 501c3 and are attempting to work outside of that structure. Though exploration they are developing alternative financial models for contemporary art institutions and collective or individual artist projects working outside of institutions. They are exploring financial models outside of external market looking for new methods that are more relevant to both art and the everyday. The goal is to continue to conceptualize new possibilities, document and share findings. Connect to Incubate

Incubate facilitates conversations, exhibitions, and symposiums regarding creative urban and community planning with an emphasis self-sustaining situations for art production. Including the investigating of current practices in public/private sponsorships for arts organizations. Incubate also hosts a collaborative residency program where the guest artist executes a creative project in conjunction with Incubate members.

Presently though the use of open source software MediaWiki. InCUBATE plans to create a wiki that will function to collect information for projects, collect historical and contemporary data about discursive art making, as well as information directed by the wiki users.