Display Fever is an art platform and an online gallery presenting multidisciplinary contemporary art practices.
It perceives itself as a movement and a supporter of artistic experimentation through collaborative methods and is characterized by or displaying a frenetic excitement or energy towards embracing collectivism, intimacy and support.
In other words on DISPLAY FEVER.
Based in London, the platform operates through an international multi-functional model, presenting a programme of events in different galleries and alternative spaces. Acting as an online gallery and a curatorial practice, Display Fever values the outsider and the unconventional, it proposes to create a counter capital to the traditional and systemic institutional likes and landscapes.
WHY
Currently, the pitch of the art world stimulates individualism, competition and discrimination. Producers of art often find themselves in a precarious, imbalanced and confused state, therefore, Display Fever encourages them to embrace their ‘feverish state’ and open up intimate and difficult conversations about their human experience. The platform aims to hold a safer space against the imbalanced systems of the art world and motivate practitioners to feel ‘hot and feverish’ no matter their identity and experience; proposing a community that is on DISPLAY FEVER.
WHAT WE DO
Committed to sustaining an inclusive and long-standing digital community, the platform offers artists an opportunity to sell and promote their work through our Online gallery - with a fair commission, providing an equal space to all artistic methods and media. We curate in different galleries and alternative spaces which allows for exploration of the unconventional while presenting a programme of unique happenings. In order to display artists’ true emotions, aspirations and working life, the platform presents studio visits and interviews, exposing the reality behind the scenes.
VALUES ON DISPLAY
AID: Supporting visionary artists who are bold and daring by engaging with the current social, biopolitical and economic structures of control. Aiding artists across all media, especially practices that are harder to make a living out of. Striving for a balanced ecosystem of all artistic practices.
COLLABORATION: Allowing multidisciplinary action to happen between different cultural producers; writers, makers, artists and curators.
ALTERNATIVE LANDSCAPES: Working with cultural producers who are interested in alternative and non-institutionalised landscapes.
FAIRNESS: A just mediator reaching out to funding bodies, collectors, patrons and donors who are inclusive, with a credible attitude. And supporting artists to make a profit with a fair commission fee.
ACCEPTANCE: Bring to existence spaces where everyone feels hot and feverish about their identity and experience. Having a safer space with zero tolerance to xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism and violence in the workplace, online or exhibition spaces.
FEEL GOOD: Disrupting systemic beauty, aesthetic and success standards by showcasing a spectrum of artists and risk-taking practices.
FAIL ALERT: Being ready to take risks, make mistakes and fail; acknowledging to learn throughout the journey by being open to both constructive external and internal criticism.
ZERO TOXIC TOLERANCE: No tolerance for bullying and harassment. Offering to resolve problems in a peaceful and calm way with open communication.
SAFEGUARDING: Being clear about our values in all online and offline activities, for artists and the team to feel comfortable within the physical and digital spaces.
NO CENSORSHIP: Creating a space where the artists could expose their work and express their voices without any censorship.
TEAM VALUES
POSITIVE INFRASTRUCTURE: Keeping a friendly and collaborative attitude as the core maintenance of the platform.
FAIR PAY: Always pay the team workers and all collaborators fairly.
MINDFUL CARE: Taking care of the team, being flexible for sick notices and paying attention to their physical and mental well-being.
MULTIFORM KNOWLEDGE: Considering that each team member has a diverse skill set and/or practices and staying open to their perspectives in different scenarios.