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:
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Making a radical intervention in the way new work gets made and helping NYC artists take root by expanding access to production resources.
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Presenting and staffing a festival that represents Brooklyn in its great diversity, and by creating rehearsal and performance conditions free from harassment or discrimination.
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Making the NYC performance community more vibrant by presenting risky and rigorous local performance work to new audiences.
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Fostering a spirit of a shared community between artists, venues, and audience members.
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Creating liberating environments where the act of creation and community far outweighs the selling of a product.
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Facilitating nourishing introductions between artists, venues, and audience members that can build enduring, reciprocal communities.
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Being transparent, responsible, and dependable.
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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.
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Doing what we say we’re going to do.
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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.