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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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Print & Demand #2 at the The NY Art Book Fair
November 7, 2010: The NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, NY
The second in an ongoing series of conversations exploring how print culture is being changed by the manifold forms of online publication, and how public spaces are being constituted around those forms. Caleb Waldorf, Triple Canopy’s creative director will moderate a discussion about the role played by design in shaping digital forms of publication: How are certain tropes of print publication—and the reading and viewing experiences they have engendered—being translated for new media (while others are being jettisoned entirely)? How has the shift from graphic design to user design, with its focus on interaction and interface, changed the way publications function? Participants include James Goggin, design director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and principle of Practise; Jiminie Ha, an independent designer and founder of W/—— project space in Chinatown; and Rob Giampietro, a designer, writer, and principal at Project Projects. The conversation will be open to the audience.
2010 UCIRA STATE OF THE ARTS CONFERENCE AT UCSD
Sean Dockray, Matteo Pasquinelli, Jason E. Smith and I will kick of the conference with a panel called There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing…
Conference Description:
The last two years have witnessed an unprecedented crisis on college campuses around the world, as the social compact that governed higher education in the United States and Europe for the past half century has begun to collapse. Universities from London to Sussex, from Athens to Vienna, and from Berkeley to Santa Cruz, have experienced protests, occupations, walkouts and other actions directed against the encroaching privatization of public education. This crisis has been particularly acute at the University of California, the flagship public university system in the United States. Dramatic funding cutbacks, layoffs, furloughs, and fee hikes have been combined with an upsurge in the sort of racist and sexist attacks that often accompany periods of economic turmoil, as the perception of dwindling resources leads to the predictable search for scapegoats.
This complex mix of economic, cultural and social forces places particular pressure on the status of the arts within research universities, and the very notion of the university itself as a haven for liberal arts education. New tensions have opened up, between the arts and humanities and engineering and science, and between public and private funding sources and priorities, even as new solidarities have emerged, among and between staff and faculty, graduates and undergraduates, disciplines and departments. This conference seeks to address the following questions:
- How can the arts respond to this crisis?
- What new alliances can we form both within the university campus and the communities beyond its walls?
- What alternative economies exist for the support of artistic research?
- What new pedagogical models and new forms of knowledge production can the arts offer as our educational mission is both threatened and, potentially, transformed?
- And what forms of creative practice have been mobilized by the protests, walkouts and occupations?
- As the campus itself becomes a field of symbolic resistance and contestation, from swastikas at UC Davis to Klan hoods at UC San Diego, what are the limits and the political implications of freedom of expression?
Embarrassment 1: Vulnerability
Liz Glynn and I are collaborating on a book (with contributions from many others) for an exhibition on the concept/theme of embarrassment at Gallery KM in Los Angeles that opens on December 4th (Part II opens on January 11th).
The Public School
On 4 December I’ll be facilitating the next Specters of Los Angeles on Echo Park Communism. The following week, on 11 December, I’ll be facilitating the final meeting of the semiotext(e) class in which will be reading the The Agony of Power by Jean Baudrillard.
Last but not least, Triple Canopy 2.0 will be relaunching this weekend with new articles from Issue 10 to be published next week!
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Arrangements, 2004
From the Press Release:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 16th 14:00 [class will start at 15:00]
Location: Tschaikowskistraße 51, 13156 Berlin, Germany
As part of an ongoing project that seeks to reengage the abandoned Iraqi Embassy the group Collasus has asked artists both international and local to produce a site specific work for the abandoned building. There were no guidelines, and no limit to participation. The ultimate group of participants will be that of varied backgrounds, ages, and practices within the umbrella of ‘art’.
This opportunity is seen less as a lament to buildings past, a claiming of its future, or the complex history between Iraq and the rest of the world, rather it seeks to find an alternative use through collectivity, art and criticism.
It was asked that each participant consider the space carefully, considering both the social weight, and the fact that installations will be left in the former embassy free to be interacted with (and possibly altered or stolen) by the public. The work will remain anonymous in the former embassy. Each work will be published with its author on the website iraq-embassy.com in the following weeks.
Participants Include:
Collasus, Alex Auriema, Ben Wolf Noam, Beny Wagner, Billy Rennekamp, Caleb Waldorf, David Knowles, Eddie Peake, Elizabeth Skadden, Emily Kocken, Hayley Silverman and James Whipple, Heath Valentine, Legwork, Leila Peacock, Luca Antonucci, Mariette Auvray, Matt Austin, Mirak Jamal, Nishita Mehta, Saulius Leonavicius, Sean Fabi
In conjunction with the installed work at the embassy, Collasus will be organizing a four day seminar with the Public School Berlin around the topic of Territorial Regimes. The first class will take place on opening day (October 16th at 14:00) at the Embassy rain or shine. If you have not already signed up, please do so via The Public School Berlin.
Note the suggested readings for the first day.
Disclaimer: Entering the abandoned embassy is trespassing. Visitors to the Embassy will need to traverse a small fence (we will provide assistance to those who need it) and understand that the once inside they are breaking the law – and this is potentially punishable under German/Iraqi law. Please wear warm clothing and proper footwear.
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