Renzo Martens’s Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise
Courtesy Renzo Martens
New Yorkers can vote for social change this Saturday, 2 December when the Queens Museum stages a public ballot to decide the winner of the Visible Award, a €25,000 prize for a socially engaged art project, run by the Italian organisations Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna. This year’s shortlist includes Renzo Martens’s art-making platform and white-cube gallery run by plantation workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Pedro Neves Marques and Mariana Silva’s online video channel Inhabitants. The day-long event is free and open to the public, but voter registration is required. The agenda includes presentations of the shortlisted proposals, discussions and debate, and finally, an open vote.