Plausible Artworlds' premise is that those networks known as artworlds are not just places where art gets seen and talked about, but are no less integral to art production than artists themselves – for art cannot be sustained outside some form of artworld.
Plausible Artworlds provides a platform for examining and accompanying the emergence of plural artistic environments in the context of ever growing numbers of art and art-related practices both requiring artworld settings different from those currently on offer. The project gives visibility to artists’ collectives’ experiments with alternative artworlds through a community web platform, email discussion list, and archive of selected projects exemplifying 'Plausible Artworlds'.
Plausible Artworlds was initiated in 2006 by the Philadelphia-based collaborative group Basekamp.
It has involved many groups and people from around the world in the planning and organisational phase of the project.