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STATEMENT OF VALUES

Exponential is a month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based emerging artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. This statement of values is a means of making visible the principles that guide our work and sets expectations for how we, the organization, and our partners - artists and venues - will conduct ourselves in relationship to one another. 

 

We commit to:

 

  • Making a radical intervention in the way new work gets made and helping NYC artists take root by expanding access to production resources.

  • Presenting and staffing a festival that represents Brooklyn in its great diversity, and by creating rehearsal and performance conditions free from harassment or discrimination.

  • Making the NYC performance community more vibrant by presenting risky and rigorous local performance work to new audiences.

  • Fostering a spirit of a shared community between artists, venues, and audience members.

  • Creating liberating environments where the act of creation and community far outweighs the selling of a product.

  • Facilitating nourishing introductions between artists, venues, and audience members that can build enduring, reciprocal communities.

  • Being transparent, responsible, and dependable.

  • Asking for artist feedback on how to improve our operations and make them align with our values, or to discover new shared values that resonate with our community.

  • Doing what we say we’re going to do.

  • Giving away what power we have by providing mentorship and education opportunities.

* Photo of Damali Abrams' Live Collaging The Futuristic Black Utopian Space Mermaid Mood Board by Walter Wlodarczyk.

The Exponential Festival is a 501c3 organization. Our activities are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Exponential is also supported, in part, by the Mental Insight Foundation and A.R.T./New York’s NYC Small Theatres Fund made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation.

© 2016 - 2025 by The Exponential Festival.

Art by Mark Toneff.

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