galapagos art space

tel : 718.384.4586

homepage : http://www.galapagosartspace.com/
e-mail : info@galapagosartspace.com

category : a performance space and bar, offering multidisciplinary bills of theater, performance, live music, dance, film, and visual art.
address : 70 North 6 Street
Brooklyn New York
11211

FROM SITE

manifesto


Galapagos Art and Performance Space is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in an old mayonnaise factory.

Blessed by a culturally literate audience of over 4000 resident area artists, Galapagos serves as a social focal point and gathering spot for the neighborhood of artists that reside here.

Galapagos does not accept grants or public funding of any kind. We believe that if the work we present is strong, communicative, and effective, we will survive.

If we don't produce strong, communicative and effective work then we won't survive. We think that's appropriate. And we further think it appropriate that we don't need the government's money to survive if we can't satisfy you. This is New York after all, and we're not afraid.

In effect, we're saying that we don't believe it's ethical to take the government's money to be a step behind you as an audience. We're not doing children's programming, we're not feeding the hungry, we make art. If we can't be grown-up enough about that and stand up on our own, then we don't think we'd have anything interesting to tell you anyway.

If we're going to lead by example and in doing so participate in the evolution of the arts, then we will have a chance at participating, however humbly, in evolving culture and therefore our little piece of the world. We think the stakes should be that high. We're not sitting around smoking rope dreaming of the grant we applied for. We're busy, we're active, and we're working hard to ensure that you take notice.

We have our whole lives to live and that is terribly important.

Culture should reflect that clearly.

Robert Elmes
Director, Galapagos Art Space