JR and Guerrilla Girls to Feature at FORMAT Festival 2023
JR's Inside Out Project, Tuscon (2021), Courtesy of IOP Team, FORMAT Festival.
Hybrid visual arts and music festival FORMAT returns to Bentoville, Arkansas, from 22 to 24 September.
It will take place at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s new satellite venue the Momentary.
The Guerrilla Girls I’m not a feminist but if I was (2010 - ongoing) interactive wall installation will feature, along with black-and-white portraits of the Arkansas community plastered on the festival grounds as part of JR‘s global Inside Out Project.
Turkish art platform ISTANBUL’74 will present the sustainable art project Flags for Future (including works by David Adjaye, Krista Kim, Robert Montgomery, and José Parlá), while Sydney design studio Atelier Sisu will contribute their massive iridescent bubble artwork Evanescent (2021).
Video works by Canada’s Jon Rafman, Britain’s Jeremy Deller, and Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson (created with Brooklyn band The National), will play at The Hangar.
FORMAT 2023 will present live music by over 60 acts including headliners Alanis Morissette, LCD Soundsystem, and Leon Bridges.
Last year’s FORMAT took place at Sugar Creek Airstrip. It saw French pop-rock band Phoenix accompanied on stage by performers in Soundsuits created by Nick Cave, while the mirrored hot air balloon from Doug Aitken‘s New Horizon (2022) floated above the venue.
Several artist-designed venues from 2022 will make a return, including the disco-barn designed by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari‘s Toiletpaper magazine; Uman‘s multistory structure, The Cube; and Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman’s speakeasy planetarium, Next Door | Nova Heat, which festival goers enter via a Porta Potti.
Ticket prices range from $100, to over $1,600. —[O]
Main image: JR's Inside Out Project, Tuscon (2021), Courtesy of IOP Team, FORMAT Festival.
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