Nsumi
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Nsumi or Nsumi Collective, is a contemporary art collective based in New York City
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Members of Nsumi claim that the group spawns art collectives and experimental groups through a gift economy
consulting project, workshops, art exhibitions and performances, zines, academic research, and public interventions. The group's members include educators, artists, scientists, architects, landscape designers, curators, collectors, un-trained artists and non-artists.
Nsumi operates fluidly, frequently collaborating with artists and other art collectives such as Trevor Paglen
, Rainer Ganahl
, AUNTS Collective and Peter Fend, in addition to artists who participate anonymously.
Sometimes Nsumi fully or partially joins other art groups, adopting an individual or quasi-individual identity. Occasionally the group will exchange or swap members with different collectives, bring on temporary members, or work with artists who join the group for one-off events and exhibitions. Nsumi blurs its own boundaries since it is unclear which identity the group is operating through at a given moment or who exactly is involved. Nsumi operates under different monikers, such as Lightning Chasers, Black Magic Guild and Nsumi Group, and has been known to appear in the same group exhibition under multiple individual and group names.
Nsumi also appears in more conventional art exhibitions at galleries, universities and museums including the Queens Museum, Deitch Projects and the Center for Architecture in New York City. Their work has appeared in Satya magazine, ARTE Television and TRACKS TV in Europe, Total Theatre Magazine, The New York Times, Archinect, The Economist, the New York Sun, and Art News.
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
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Members of Nsumi claim that the group spawns art collectives and experimental groups through a gift economy
Gift economy
In the social sciences, a gift economy is a society where valuable goods and services are regularly given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards . Ideally, simultaneous or recurring giving serves to circulate and redistribute valuables within the community...
consulting project, workshops, art exhibitions and performances, zines, academic research, and public interventions. The group's members include educators, artists, scientists, architects, landscape designers, curators, collectors, un-trained artists and non-artists.
Nsumi operates fluidly, frequently collaborating with artists and other art collectives such as Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer, and author.He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently works as a researcher.Paglen is the author of three books...
, Rainer Ganahl
Rainer Ganahl
Rainer Ganahl is an Austrian born artist. His work consists of photographs, videos and performances.-Life:From 1986 until 1991, he studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf...
, AUNTS Collective and Peter Fend, in addition to artists who participate anonymously.
Sometimes Nsumi fully or partially joins other art groups, adopting an individual or quasi-individual identity. Occasionally the group will exchange or swap members with different collectives, bring on temporary members, or work with artists who join the group for one-off events and exhibitions. Nsumi blurs its own boundaries since it is unclear which identity the group is operating through at a given moment or who exactly is involved. Nsumi operates under different monikers, such as Lightning Chasers, Black Magic Guild and Nsumi Group, and has been known to appear in the same group exhibition under multiple individual and group names.
Nsumi also appears in more conventional art exhibitions at galleries, universities and museums including the Queens Museum, Deitch Projects and the Center for Architecture in New York City. Their work has appeared in Satya magazine, ARTE Television and TRACKS TV in Europe, Total Theatre Magazine, The New York Times, Archinect, The Economist, the New York Sun, and Art News.