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All of these photos were taken on Friday, August 24th, 2011 in the Plaza Botero, outside of the Museo de Antioquia, during Telécentro Platohedro, an event organized and carried out for A Public School by Delta 9, Pasolini, and Platohedro.
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I had forgotten that we (Sean Dockray, Jason Smith and Matteo Pasquinelli) published an edited version of the text we presented at UCIRA’s “Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University” conference held in San Diego, California on November 18, 2010 in the first issue of …ment.
I was reminded because …ment is doing an event this Wednesday, the 29th of June, in Neuköln that looks great.
Here is a link to their first issue.
Here is info about our contribution:
There is Nothing Less Passive than the Act of Fleeing
What follows is a condensed and edited version of a text for a panel that was presented at UCIRA’s “Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University” conference held in San Diego, California on November 18, 2010. The panel shared the same name as a 13-day itinerant seminar in Berlin organized by Dockray, Waldorf, and Fiona Whitton earlier that year, in July. The seminar began with an excerpt from Tiqqun’s Introduction to Civil War, which was co-translated into English by Smith; and later read a chapter from Pasquinelli’s Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons. Both authors have also participated in meetings at The Public School in Los Angeles and Berlin.Both the panel and the seminar developed out of longer conversations at The Public School in Los Angeles, which began in late 2007 under Telic Arts Exchange. The Public School is a school with no curriculum, where classes are proposed and organized by the public.
Heading to Berlin in a week. Looking forward to all of this:
Computational Design Strategies taught by Chandler McWilliams and Naoko Miyano
Soviet Cinema facilitated by Dennis
Independence Day facilitated by me?
Situationist Jogging ran by Fabagit
Hegel, by way of Marx facilitated by Aaron
Flusser Lesegruppe facilitated by Claudia Becker, Rodrigo Maltez-Novaes (both of the Flusser Archive) and Paul Feigelfeld
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Just returned from Medellín, where The Public School will be participating in MDE11 in the Fall. Here are some pics…more soon about our project…
More photos can be found here.
Read MoreWe have setup a mailing list for “There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing.” Click here to signup.
This is a discussion list for The Public School project, “There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing.”
** What this list is for **
1. We will post any last minute details for or changes to meeting places here.
2. It will be the place for any follow-up discussion and some kind of daily summary.
3. A place where anyone else anywhere (including people at various Public Schools who are reading along or running parallel sessions) to participate as much as you want to – send responses, questions, provocations, photos, demands, etc.
Although it is entirely possible that this list will be a wasteland, with one message every day explaining exactly where to go and at what time, it is equally likely that the list will be hyper-active, bombarding your email inbox for the next several weeks. That will be part of the fun. When the project is over this list will be closed.
To send a message to everyone on the list, you can reply directly to this message or just send an email to fleeing@thepublicschool.org. If someone wants to be added to this discussion list, then just send us their address.
** What’s next **
-We are meeting this Sunday, 4 July at INSEL DER JUGEND IN TREPTOWER PARK. We will meet at 17:00 at the bridge and cross it together over to the island. Here is a link on the google map for the events: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111162172991000092690.0004882558b261f0fd61d&ll=52.503266,13.40435&spn=0.134796,0.301437&z=12&iwloc=000489d578c05f9d5c020
-The readers are in Germany, but have not yet arrived, and may not before Sunday. Our first text is INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL WAR (sections 3 and four) by TIQQUN. It can be found here: http://aaaaarg.org/node/14607/download
or here: http://www.mediafire.com/?gnzwvgmu2ig
We will let you know when the readers arrive and where they can be picked up.
-Finally, in case you haven’t gone to the project web page recently, we’ve updated the locations and the google map: http://thepublicschool.org/thereisnothinglesspassive/thantheactoffleeing.html
Look forward to seeing and/or hearing from you!
Sean, Caleb, Fiona
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Specters of LA History sites selected at first meeting with more to come…
Read MoreDeadlock: perpetual war, failing economies, the crumbling of education, capitalist realism, our environment in ruin, hostility everywhere.
Resistance? Confrontation? Insurrection?
Exodus: silence, autonomy, occupation, withdrawl, invisibility, friendship.
The Public School is organizing a 13-day seminar, meeting each day at a different location in Berlin. This seminar takes the form of an open reading group, where the texts discussed each day resonate with the site selected. On 18 July The Public School and The Office will host an event to be held at Salon Populaire. The day will unfold as a series of participatory conversations and workshops.
Please join us in Berlin or at The Public School to sketch, scheme and build new imaginaries. (Los Angeles,Philadelphia, New York, Brussels, Paris, San Juan, Helsinki)
Organized by Sean Dockray, Caleb Waldorf and Fiona Whitton
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