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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.
Los Angeles, CA – January 11, 2011 – Collective Show is pleased to present “Collective Show Los Angeles 2011,” an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art groups recently established in Los Angeles. This collaboratively curated “group show of group shows” features artist-run spaces and projects formed in the past five years.
Previously realized in New York in 2009 and 2010, Collective Show exhibits local art groups that work in a growing space between established non-profit organizations and commercial galleries. These groups explore a wide range of collaborative approaches and missions, often in flexible and adaptive conditions with an emphasis on communities and conversations.
Over 30 groups will exhibit artwork, publications and posters during the show at a newly renovated space in Chinatown. In addition, screenings, performances and talks will take place during the exhibition. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition and will be available atwww.collectiveshow.org/LA
Participating groups include: 323 Projects, Actual Size Los Angeles, Adrian Piper Gallery, Art 2102 of Los Angeles, ACP (Artist Curated Projects), CANAL, Commonwealth and Council, CUBO, Dan Graham, Darin Klein & Friends, Eighteen Thirty Collaborations (ETC), Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 *particle group* b.a.n.g. lab, Elephant, The Elysian Park Museum of Art, Eternal Telethon, Human Resources, J Moca (Justin’s Museum of Contemporary Art), LA Pedestrians, Los Angeles Road Concerts, MATERIAL, Monte Vista, [Name], NIGHT GALLERY, Open Arms, Public Address, Public Fiction, The Public School, Silvershed, Statler Waldorf Gallery, Summercamp’s ProjectProject, Workspace, WPA, and upcoming Collective Show hosts: Ditch Projects (Oregon) GIBSMIR-Family (Zurich) and Secondhome Projects (Berlin).
Collective Show Los Angeles 2011 is organized by artist groups ACP (Artist Curated Projects), Human Resources, [Name], Night Gallery, Public Fiction, The Public School, Silvershed, Statler Waldorf Gallery and Workspace. Collective Show was founded by collaborators from New York and Los Angeles, and aims to further creative relationships by providing an open-source format for locally organized shows. Collective Show is not-for-profit, volunteer organized, and is free and open to the public. To learn more about Collective Show, please visit us online atwww.collectiveshow.org
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6-9pm
Exhibition Hours: Friday, January 21 to Sunday, January 23, 2011, 12-6 pm and Thursday, January 27 through Sunday, January 30, 2011, 12-6 pm
Location: 995, 997 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Read MorePrint & 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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We are excited to announce the opening of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN. On 18 September at 19:00 we will hold an event at Program called The Future of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN.
Earlier this summer THE PUBLIC SCHOOL organized a 13-day seminar in Berlin, There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing… The seminar, meeting each day at a different location in Berlin, took the form of an open reading group, where the texts discussed each day resonated with the site selected. Please visit the project web site for more information on our activities and discussion topics: http://thepublicschool.org/thereisnothinglesspassive/thantheactoffleeing.html
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a facilitator and offers the class to those who signed up.
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL was started in 2007 in Los Angeles by Telic Arts Exchange.
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There will be several things that take place at The Future of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN:
1. A committee member of the THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LOS ANGELES will briefly discuss its history and how it operates.
2. We will have a discussion about how the school could work here and what shape(s) it could take.
3. We will create class proposals.
4. We will talk some more!
Please join us to find out more about the school and find ways that you can participate, including joining the committee (D.A.N.) to help run the school here.
If you have questions please get in touch. Also, please sign up for an account here and afterwards try proposing some classes. To see the activities happening at the other schools, please visit here.
Look forward to seeing you all this weekend!
WHAT: The Future of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN
WHERE: PROGRAM, Invalidenstrasse 115
WHEN: 18 SEPTEMBER 19:00 HR