The Mission of the Arts in the Future

Speakers: Robbie Fitzpatrick, Kour Pour and Jasmine Wahi

What can art do when it comes to many contemporary social issues like gender inequality, economic disparity, and international issues? Globally active artist Kour Pour, curator and activist Jasmine Wahi, and innovative gallerist and initiator of the Basel Social Club Robbie Fitzpatrick, will consider the increasingly diverse mission of “art.”

Speakers:
Robbie Fitzpatrick (Owner and Director, Fitzpatrick Gallery/Co-Founder, Basel Social Club)
Kour Pour (Artist)
Jasmine Wahi (Founder and Co-Director, Project for Empty Space) *Participating Remotely

Speaker’s Profiles
　

Robbie Fitzpatrick

Robert (“Robbie”) Okuda Fitzpatrick is the owner and director of Fitzpatrick Gallery, inaugurated in Paris in 2021, which builds on the legacy of Freedman Fitzpatrick, founded in 2013 in Los Angeles.
He has initiated alternative art fair projects, most notably as co-founder of Basel Social Club (est. 2022), Salon d’été (est. 2023) and Paramount Ranch (2014-2016). He previously worked in Berlin as the director of Tanya Leighton, after completing his studies at the Gallatin School of Individualised Study at New York University. He is half-Japanese and half-American and grew up between Tokyo, Vienna and Washington DC.

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Robbie Fitzpatrick
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Basel Social Club

Kour Pour

Kour Pour(b. 1987, UK) is a British-Iranian-American artist whose visual language is informed by　longstanding, global traditions of intercultural exchange. By intersecting a wide range of material and aesthetic conventions that are connected to various geographic, cultural, and national heritages, Pour allows for a remapping of the standard understanding of “Eastern/Western” cultural exchange.

Jasmine Wahi

Jasmine Wahi is the Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Her multifaceted curatorial practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism.She is currently on the Faculty of Brooklyn College in New York City.

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Talk’s archive
https://youtu.be/H_kD46iWQFg