tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4149403322544636402024-03-13T23:23:02.098-07:00Errant BodiesSite-based and contextual practices in art, architecture and performance.
Experiments, culture and politicsken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-50392686848345477642011-06-11T23:17:00.000-07:002011-06-11T23:21:05.748-07:00Site of Sound #2<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaJ8sm2CTYfTj2zF9ohG9SLECem8Q8br1xMUh4vwyQaNOBF74TyQ7oFEFtsM1gbLthAhzvXaqZoF3KxvQpLdcaN37RJgCk9h1M9RRPKF9yzN1KZQW-YIOrUpJUZUfSRYM8Za4vh7IinLWw/s1600/Site2_press.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaJ8sm2CTYfTj2zF9ohG9SLECem8Q8br1xMUh4vwyQaNOBF74TyQ7oFEFtsM1gbLthAhzvXaqZoF3KxvQpLdcaN37RJgCk9h1M9RRPKF9yzN1KZQW-YIOrUpJUZUfSRYM8Za4vh7IinLWw/s320/Site2_press.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617214261680194130" /></a><br /><br />Since the publication of the first volume of Site of Sound in 1999 the issues and activities pertaining to sound and architecture have expanded to circulate more dynamically within the fields of sound art, sound design, and spatial practices. From acoustical technologies and urban planning to public art, concerns for auditory structures and the experiences of listening are finding deeper footing within both artistic and environmental contexts. Recent noise mappings across Europe, along with new possibilities for acoustical implementation, as well as the ongoing emergence of sound art and design educational programs, point toward sound as a crucial subject for thinking through contemporary culture and politics. <br /><br />Site of Sound Vol. 2 aims to address contemporary work being done in the cross-over between sound and architecture. The anthology brings together new research and writing that charts out the theoretical implications and consequences for artistic and spatial discourses, while documenting contemporary projects that come to occupy and define a sonic-spatial territory.<br /><br />With contributions by Justin Bennett, Usman Haque, David Schafer, James Webb, Edwin van der Heide, Raviv Ganchrow, Jodi Rose, Nigel Helyer, Michael Gendreau, Jean-Paul Thibaud, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Oliver Laric, David Stalling & Anthony Kelly, Romano, Natasha Barrett & Birger Sevaldson, Scott Arford & Randy Yau, Riccardo Benassi, Carrie Bodle, Jenny Picket & Julien Ottavi, Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid, Pascal Broccolichi, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, & Björn QuiringUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-60148040002422518612011-06-10T16:02:00.000-07:002011-06-10T16:02:22.227-07:00For an art against the cartography of everyday life by Ryan GriffisThe title of this essay is a remix of the title of an essay by artist Martha Rosler originally published in 1979, “For an Art Against the Mythology of Everyday Life”. Rosler’s text is an engagement with what was then the emerging context now often referred to as “post-industrial globalization.” More specifically, it is an engagement from the perspective of someone attempting to make things – art works – that can “address these banally profound issues of everyday life, thereby revealing the public and political in the personal”. She was particularly interested in both the oppressive and potentially liberating aspects of “mass media.” Here, I want to take up where Rosler left off, discussing the potential of art, and technology, to “step toward reasonably and humanely changing the world” using the example of what is commonly referred to as “locative media.”<br />
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For the full essay, follow the <a href="http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=176" target="_blank">link.</a>ken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-21705061148882443352011-06-01T16:54:00.000-07:002011-06-01T16:54:23.686-07:00Designing Geo-politics conference to stream liveThis weekend the <a href="http://designgeopolitics.org/dg2011/">Designing Geo-politics</a> conference at UCSD will be available as an HD stream. Also, this weekend is the <a href="http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/851">Art and Politics conference</a> at The Hammer Museum.ken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-22575681958414932612011-03-27T02:46:00.000-07:002011-03-27T02:48:17.844-07:00Digital Rubbish - new book, Jennifer Gabrys<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnUHpKBk6iuv_7xSOw14IHjpEUh8EEg-9UV7UD_y6AB9jAoNS1IXK6-PSnjv84WkOZ35XV5Z1DKw3RbjfKa6a2gK78gUON6zTQLFabs1d2z2-YhR14MCFe0hILbpZuoIhJIKvK4A47TeW5/s1600/0472117610.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 126px; height: 188px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnUHpKBk6iuv_7xSOw14IHjpEUh8EEg-9UV7UD_y6AB9jAoNS1IXK6-PSnjv84WkOZ35XV5Z1DKw3RbjfKa6a2gK78gUON6zTQLFabs1d2z2-YhR14MCFe0hILbpZuoIhJIKvK4A47TeW5/s320/0472117610.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588694235663950722" /></a><br /><br /><br />This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Electronic waste occurs not just in the form of discarded computers but also as a scatter of information devices, software, and systems that are rendered obsolete and fail. Where other studies have addressed "digital" technology through a focus on its immateriality or virtual qualities, Gabrys traces the material, spatial, cultural, and political infrastructures that enable the emergence and dissolution of these technologies. In the course of her book, she explores five interrelated "spaces" where electronics fall apart: from Silicon Valley to Nasdaq, from containers bound for China to museums and archives that preserve obsolete electronics as cultural artifacts, to the landfill as material repository. All together, these sites stack up into a sedimentary record that forms the "natural history" of this study.<br /><br />Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics describes the materiality of electronics from a unique perspective, examining the multiple forms of waste that electronics create as evidence of the resources, labor, and imaginaries that are bundled into these machines. By drawing on the material analysis developed by Walter Benjamin, this natural history method allows for an inquiry into electronics that focuses neither on technological progression nor on great inventors but rather considers the ways in which electronic technologies fail and decay. Ranging across studies of media and technology, as well as environments, geography, and design, Jennifer Gabrys pulls together the far-reaching material and cultural processes that enable the making and breaking of these technologies.<br /><br />Jennifer Gabrys is Senior Lecturer in Design and Convener of the Masters in Design and Environment in the Department of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-54066642228671559022010-09-20T11:26:00.000-07:002010-09-20T11:27:54.058-07:00e+l at the office<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggyLmZIQAi_Li4xYmBmkzOn4IELSTOmnBEpcCV7TUgtoTabY0nFMAvmXhsx1nfRixUyWHyT0UcAJEBDprDKD1o-bEvv9u5PdHwMlpndbxraCW-9_HrT9nWmpMCCvxZjWuPl2Hsshz8hnk/s1600/DSC05519.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggyLmZIQAi_Li4xYmBmkzOn4IELSTOmnBEpcCV7TUgtoTabY0nFMAvmXhsx1nfRixUyWHyT0UcAJEBDprDKD1o-bEvv9u5PdHwMlpndbxraCW-9_HrT9nWmpMCCvxZjWuPl2Hsshz8hnk/s400/DSC05519.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519063987606269522" /></a>ken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-19105445311718389912010-08-04T14:27:00.001-07:002010-08-04T14:30:35.477-07:00Perpetual PresentA series of new photographs related to the question of "habitation" is featured at the L.A. Forum <a href="http://www.laforum.org/content/online-projects/perpetual-present-ken-ehrlich"target="_blank">website</a>.ken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-29383215731324476382010-04-02T20:17:00.000-07:002010-04-02T20:22:11.592-07:00DRUGSTORE BEETLE (Sitodrepa Paniceum) at RAID projectsDRUGSTORE KIOSK<br />Organized by David Horvitz<br />April 3-8, 2010<br /><br />Opening Reception April 3, 7-10 pm<br /><br />DRUGSTORE BEETLE (Sitodrepa Paniceum) aims to infiltrate into a closed circulatory system: the library. Using the process of the library donation, 30 exhibitions-in-a-box were donated by artist David Horvitz to various art libraries around the world. From Los Angeles to New York to Tehran to Shanghai to Denver. Before these exhibitions were gifted, Horvitz purchased an ISBN and coordinated the meta-data for the exhibition to be uploaded into Worldcat, the database librarians use to input and receive a publication’s information. Since the information will exist in two digital databases, the hope is that this exhibition can slip with ease, like a sly fox, into collections around the world (the title refers to the most notorious of book-worms, burrowing into books and shelves).<br /><br /><a href="http://raidprojects.com/2010/03/30/drugstore-kiosk/">RAID Projects</a><br />602 Moulton Ave.<br />Los Angeles, CA 90031<br />raidprojects@yahoo.comken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-9938452688722984422010-04-01T12:56:00.000-07:002010-04-01T12:59:06.606-07:00Academic freedom in question at UCSDIn the past few weeks, a number of developments have occurred in relation to the art/research practices of b.a.n.g. lab at UCSD and Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT). Follow the <a href="http://bang.calit2.net/2010/03/bang-lab-edt-update-call-for-accountability-and-the-criminalization-of-research/">link</a> to learn more about the harassment of Ricardo Dominguez and the troubling situation that artists and researchers are facing in the UC system.ken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-63903236762085279272010-03-24T16:24:00.000-07:002010-03-24T16:33:12.861-07:00Strings in Tokyo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSeP_-baWsQg_ookGbVKTNsbmRn7yVh2jdDe3DWpIplRQVix7_uKvHyNs846JDhELC1PqUD_yIH7bqECWpu156LwggEG9IT6Y84NCFUYu9NH7PciWnQz0LG0dURn4wYRPooJkMq0ExbCoz/s1600/string4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSeP_-baWsQg_ookGbVKTNsbmRn7yVh2jdDe3DWpIplRQVix7_uKvHyNs846JDhELC1PqUD_yIH7bqECWpu156LwggEG9IT6Y84NCFUYu9NH7PciWnQz0LG0dURn4wYRPooJkMq0ExbCoz/s320/string4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452346928130585266" /></a><br />Each participant chooses a length of string.<br />Holding one end, the participant gives the other end to another participant next to them. <br />The participants form a chain, a circle, a collective.<br />Walking through the streets of the city, they stay attached, negotiating the built environment, strangers, trying to work together.<br />To be a social sculpture.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfr4ARP-QCF3lLOPyEZC8f252ttVtgGB8LQZBR86GL7a31y21UTxeciMgA-uMEu6Ih-7DGffmdfqiMFFDN6It_39hyphenhyphenKFkLFSymUMMfw9nCmmEpSrToiIuXKHN_bRbsHb173U-wtkK2ryj/s1600/string3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfr4ARP-QCF3lLOPyEZC8f252ttVtgGB8LQZBR86GL7a31y21UTxeciMgA-uMEu6Ih-7DGffmdfqiMFFDN6It_39hyphenhyphenKFkLFSymUMMfw9nCmmEpSrToiIuXKHN_bRbsHb173U-wtkK2ryj/s320/string3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452346864457816994" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1A0fYy21JJmLaB6udGnSnq59b0v3HVZxoPorW8s2S0Cj0WsYIHMdXSb0kWla78VEUiKzKPbfQvPeS688-rDFqvKikXQNnjhBTnY3lxSIM7P1c1auQVD1GgSiHAHRvyiKRRKXUbF2mY_GK/s1600/string2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1A0fYy21JJmLaB6udGnSnq59b0v3HVZxoPorW8s2S0Cj0WsYIHMdXSb0kWla78VEUiKzKPbfQvPeS688-rDFqvKikXQNnjhBTnY3lxSIM7P1c1auQVD1GgSiHAHRvyiKRRKXUbF2mY_GK/s320/string2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452346793564340834" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMvtF9WK1xXaMdnAnra6f57QkuVPZU9wfD5Nfki1HawkchSp3sYZRNv5Wdk_g5WpeVBebublHIjfmf8MOS1nHryB19e35pNglk2EbQWvM2C1SwhQ2YXVjrp3-zy9B90hoaiCS_BCiJNxTH/s1600/string1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMvtF9WK1xXaMdnAnra6f57QkuVPZU9wfD5Nfki1HawkchSp3sYZRNv5Wdk_g5WpeVBebublHIjfmf8MOS1nHryB19e35pNglk2EbQWvM2C1SwhQ2YXVjrp3-zy9B90hoaiCS_BCiJNxTH/s320/string1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452345558902981858" /></a><br />Working with students at the Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-47915495940944018532010-03-13T12:57:00.000-08:002010-03-13T13:04:51.902-08:00Textiles in Newcastle<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWQR2KeN5dKBYgmcngOI8Aa2Nxl59zHrPZsHevR_m0qOiwDLvV0HVk06_5OduITWx5Rn41iclqmS9B5EGGkfCpdfRCyATcj3N-vNwMgNh5V3duGoRHbWZeTIREiDlPq-96fZiwwv-TUdEJ/s1600-h/cloth.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWQR2KeN5dKBYgmcngOI8Aa2Nxl59zHrPZsHevR_m0qOiwDLvV0HVk06_5OduITWx5Rn41iclqmS9B5EGGkfCpdfRCyATcj3N-vNwMgNh5V3duGoRHbWZeTIREiDlPq-96fZiwwv-TUdEJ/s320/cloth.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448225653296283202" /></a><br />Walking through Newcastle, on a sunny spring day, my attention was grabbed by this textile addition: a hand-sewn cloth sleeve slipped over a signpost. The knitted intervention softly interrupted the hard-edged geometry of the urban, inviting my touch onto the surrounding surfaces: I couldn't help but fondle the cloth, following its weave and wondering as to its origin, its catalyst, its design. Such sensual tactilities bring to the fore a consideration of all the surfaces and materials lining the streets, the buildings, the steps and benches through which we come to know the city. A moment of domestic softness seemed to fall from the sky and wrap itself around the signpost, to texture my own meandering thoughts with warmth.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-70737165903718113742010-03-03T02:08:00.001-08:002010-03-03T02:12:44.695-08:00Resonator, AV Festival, Newcastle<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk7se1L0sZ0YRXJj5zLvO4x2BDBYDI9mwtd5yw5RNqYpDtsZDQP-Sn5ZD4e4G_YrhApLSsoMAN7p7HdH7lyroRg-8DndarTzKi4FupxwRLvt696clF6CSoB95zTnT3fIVKVdWZER0q7BCj/s1600-h/Resonator.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk7se1L0sZ0YRXJj5zLvO4x2BDBYDI9mwtd5yw5RNqYpDtsZDQP-Sn5ZD4e4G_YrhApLSsoMAN7p7HdH7lyroRg-8DndarTzKi4FupxwRLvt696clF6CSoB95zTnT3fIVKVdWZER0q7BCj/s320/Resonator.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444347826440077746" /></a><br />Resonator is a procedural performance-workshop and idea exchange which investigates diverse artistic, materialist and spiritualist practices that converge around the importance of vibration as a means of making sense of the universe. Vibration is a phenomenon that affects all matter yet is also understood as passing beyond matter, affecting the soul. Resonator aims to investigate the points of contact, convergence and dissonance surrounding the scope of vibrations in different thought and belief structures through working with sound and related practices.<br />Participants:<br /><br />Nurit Bar-Shai<br />James D'Angelo<br />Yolande Harris <br />Martin Howse<br />Brandon LaBelle <br />Kanta Horio <br />John Stuart Reid <br />Ann Rosén <br />Ryu Hankil<br />Will Schrimshaw<br />Jamie Allen<br /><br />http://largervibrationalcontinuum.org/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-49116592174633184952010-02-21T21:25:00.000-08:002010-02-21T21:26:18.435-08:00Continental Drift comes to L.A.Control Society/Metamorphosis with Brian Holmes<br />at the Public School in Los Angeles February 27 and 28th<br /><a href="http://occupyeverything.com/events/continental-drift/">http://occupyeverything.com/events/continental-drift/</a><br />Come down and participate in a two-day theory convergence, a “Continental Drift” seminar with the Paris and Chicago based theorist, Brian Holmes.<br />Though this Drift is situated on the West Coast in a time of University of California occupations and walkouts, it is connected to the budget cuts and "crisis" brought on by changing economies around the world and the emergence of a neoliberal control society over the past few decades. This drift aims to trace these situation and find ways for liberatory culture to supercede the moment.<br />++++<br />1. The Continental Drift; Control Society/Metamorphosis<br />2. On Brian Holmes and the Drift<br />3. UC Strikes and Beyond<br />++++<br />1. The Continental Drift; Control Society/Metamorphosis<br />Saturday, February 27 –Sunday, Feb. 28<br />@The Public School 951 Chung King Rd., Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA 90012<br />Join us for a mostly horizontal seminar conversation with Brian Holmes, UC strike Organizers and Academics and independent intellectuals.<br />day 1. 2/27- control society<br />12 pm: disassociation (psychological effects/desire)<br />facilitators: Liz Glynn and Marc Herbst<br />2 pm: financialization & the UC crisis<br />facilitators: Aaron Benanav and Zen Dochterman<br />4 pm occupation/ collective speech<br />facilitators: Cara Baldwin, Nathan Brown, Maya Gonzalez, Evan Calder Williams<br />7 pm: discussion day one<br />facilitators: Brian Holmes, Solomon Bothwell<br />day 2. 2/28- metamorphosis<br />12pm: Autonomous Space<br />facilitators: Hector Gallegos, Robby Herbst<br />2 pm:. Precarity<br />facilitators: Christina Ulke, Sean Dockray<br />4 pm: Brian Holmes Lecture<br />7pm: Sharable Territories/ Bifurcation<br />facilitators: Jason Smith, Ava Bromberg<br />occupyeverything.com/events/continental-drift<br />Note: This is a collaboratively organized event. Organizers include Zen Doctherman, Cara Baldwin, Jason Smith, Sean Dockray, Liz Glynn, Solomon Bothwell, Christina Ulke, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst.<br />++++<br />2. On Brian Holmes and the Drift<br />Brian Holmes is an art critic, cultural theorist and activist, particularly involved with the mapping of contemporary capitalism.<br />An article Brian wrote that he asked to read in preparation for the drift:<br />http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/guattaris-schizoanalytic-cartographies/#sdfootnote10sym<br />Holmes on the UC Strikes:<br />http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/the-u-c-strike/<br />Journal interview we did with him from issue 4:<br />http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/4/holmes.html<br />Some publications by or with Brian Holmes:<br />http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?S=R&wauth=Brian+Holmes&siteID=1JSk6CbYEf0-bBxS9UMaaFGtIjUV42joJA<br />The Drift has taken a variety of forms in its manifestations at 16 Beaver (2004-2006) in New York, through the Midwest’s Radical Culture Corridor (2008) and in Zagreb Croatia (2008)<br />Here is An interview with Brian Holmes from the first continental drift in NYC in 2004.<br />http://www.16beavergroup.org/journalisms/archives/001168.php<br />++++<br />3. UC Strikes and Beyond<br />The Drift was independently organized though occurs in coordination with the<br />Beyond the UC Strikes working group.<br />The working group occured when folks who were participating in the strikes and talking about them<br />decided to meet up the the Los Angeles Public School to see what could be done.<br />We are promoting these linked events.<br />http://joaap.org/other/drift/BeyondtheUCStrikes.html<br />http://occupyeverything.com/<br />These are not specifically Journal events. The working group includes Organizers include Cara Baldwin, Solomon Bothwell, Micha Cardenas/Adzel Slade, Zen Dochterman, Sean Dockray, Ben Ehrenreich, Ken Ehrlich, Liz Glynn, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Elle Mehrmand, Marko Peljhan, Kenneth Rogers, Jason Smith, Cybelle Tondu, Christina Ulke, Caleb Waldorf, Michael Wilson and Kim Yasuda.ken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-23455599960765175572010-02-14T08:37:00.001-08:002010-02-15T23:53:37.921-08:00What remains of a building... ST_LA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Wuj0eeUxov21P3YJLRUa-qZG9w-Kk6300f0SMNfsRcc29MTQ2OOiMYo57DIynzQXr7tsPV-Ozg5EfRXgJT3zNCF_KUp3ugo3aixZpa1NOEtR3mIvOpVRGq2S0INBujIPvrTvXRhOSBc/s1600-h/what_remains+copy.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Wuj0eeUxov21P3YJLRUa-qZG9w-Kk6300f0SMNfsRcc29MTQ2OOiMYo57DIynzQXr7tsPV-Ozg5EfRXgJT3zNCF_KUp3ugo3aixZpa1NOEtR3mIvOpVRGq2S0INBujIPvrTvXRhOSBc/s400/what_remains+copy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438746336550186578" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPLu5NxQrJaLs8LAcbD1DJWbe3HI_yduBbETl9iitzUphSPvNk7THKAPZqnxhWzGSHHBex4Wrvzc1lzXYbGOy8ltAZNmmkEBcmqrGZl_UlFl6Mzuuff3eTyYi2yhkDCg8YfHHNTjVlyfT/s1600-h/exhibition.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPLu5NxQrJaLs8LAcbD1DJWbe3HI_yduBbETl9iitzUphSPvNk7THKAPZqnxhWzGSHHBex4Wrvzc1lzXYbGOy8ltAZNmmkEBcmqrGZl_UlFl6Mzuuff3eTyYi2yhkDCg8YfHHNTjVlyfT/s320/exhibition.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438139675236951362" /></a><br /><br />What Remains of a Building...<br />Surface Tension_Los Angeles<br /><br />Carmen Argote<br />Cindy Santos Bravo<br />Ken Ehrlich<br />Brandon LaBelle<br /><br />Exhibition Duration: February 12 – March 28, 2009 <br /><br />Opening Reception: Friday, February 12th, 6:00 – 9:00 pm<br /><br />g727 is pleased to announce What Remains of a Building... an exhibition organized by Ken Ehrlich and Brandon LaBelle. The exhibition is an extension of the Surface Tension series which generates collaborative projects and publications addressing site-based art practices and questions around the built environment. This exhibition will be the third in the Surface Tension series following previous installments in Curitiba, Brazil (2006) and Copenhagen, Denmark (2007). <br /><br />For the exhibition, each artist focuses on a specific built space, including the recent new headquarters of the LAPD, a domestic space in downtown, Hollywood motels, and the legendary jazz club, the Cadillac Café. Each site provides a generative platform for examining particular histories, cultures, and politics intertwined within the city of LA. Spatial interventions and inquiry, memory tracing and re-enactments, performative gestures and stagings feature as strategies to query what a building is and what it may become.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-55684433640640260312010-01-25T00:21:00.000-08:002010-01-25T00:22:31.328-08:00Public Culture in the Visual SphereThe UC San Diego Visual Arts Department is hosting a series of lectures and panels investigating contemporary theories, practices and debates in the making and reception of public culture as they move through the visual sphere. <br /><br /><a href="http://visarts.ucsd.edu/html/splash.html">http://visarts.ucsd.edu/html/splash.html</a><br /><br />Curated by John C. Welchman <br />In collaboration with the Visiting Artist Lecture Series committee 2009-10 (Anya Gallaccio, Teddy Cruz, Kyong Park, Suzanne Wright); the Public Culture graduate committee (Edward Sterrett, Orianna Cacchione, Cara Baldwin, Katrin Pesch, Sara Mameni, Tara Zepel), and Jordan Crandall.<br /><br />Supported by the Visual Arts Department, UCSD; Dean of Arts and Humanities, UCSD; SoCCAS [Southern California Consortium of Art Schools]<br /><br />Collaborations with the Master of Public Art Studies Program, USC Roski School of Fine Arts; English and Comparative Literature, UCLA; the graduate MFA program at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; Calit2 [California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology]; and the Athenaeum, La Jolla.<br /><br />Schedule of Events: All events take place at the UC San Diego Visual Arts Facility, Performance Space Thursdays @ 6:30 pm unless otherwise noted<br /><br />Jan. 7 Take off: What is Public Culture? [panel]<br /><br />Anya Gallaccio "What is Public Culture?"<br /><br />Kyong Park "Anyang Public Art Project 2010: constructing a research-based, multi-disciplinary, community participation and process-oriented urban project in Korea"<br /><br />Cauleen Smith "When Documentary Seems Like a Lie"<br /><br />Teddy Cruz "Practices of Encroachment"<br /><br />Jordan Crandall "New Media and Public Culture"<br /><br />Moderated by John C. Welchman <br /><br />Jan 14 Pros and Cons: Graduate Research in Public Culture [panel]<br />pros* Issue Zero Launch<br /><br />Nicole Holland "Private as Public in the USSR"<br /><br />David Mather "Mass Forms, Mass Agency in the Early 20th Century"<br /><br />Sheryl Oring "I Wish to Say: Free Speech and Democracy"<br /><br />David White "'Network' as a Tool for Neighborhood Engagement"<br /><br />Rayanne Tabet "After the Flood: Reversing the Trans-Arabian Pipeline"<br /><br />Cara Baldwin "We are the ones we've been waiting for"<br /><br />Moderated by Edward Sterrett <br /><br />Jan. 21 Public Culture and Democracy [panel] <br /><br />Cynthia Truant [UCSD, History] <br />"Citizenship: constructions and contestation in France, 1700-1900"<br /><br />Grant Kester [UCSD, Visual Arts]<br />"Democracy, Virtuality and Public Culture"<br /><br />Marcel Henaff [UCSD, Literature and Political Science]<br />"Grace, the work of art, and public space"<br /><br />Jan. 28 Claire Bishop [City University, New York]<br />"How do you bring a work of art to life?: Contemporary Art and/as Pedagogy"<br /><br />Feb. 4 Steven Graham [University of Durham, UK; co-sponsored with Art Center, Pasadena]<br />"Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism"<br /><br />Feb. 18 Boris Groys [New York University; co-sponsored with USC]<br />"Visiting Time: Contemporary Time-based Art"<br /><br />WEDS Feb. 24 Vito Acconci <br />"From Words to Actions to Architecture"<br /><br />Feb. 25 Brian Holmes <br />"Intellectuals and Social Movements: Doctrine - Debate - Defense - Invention"<br /><br />March 4 Where is the Public Option? [panel]<br />[co-sponsored with and hosted by the Athenaeum, 1008 Wall Street La Jolla, CA 92037]<br /><br />Rebecca Solnit <br />[writer and essayist, San Francisco]<br /><br />Rick Lowe<br />[Project Row House, Houston]<br /><br />Matt Coolidge<br />[Founder and Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation]<br /><br />Suzanne Lacy<br />[Otis College of Art, Los Angeles]<br /><br />Moderated by Teddy Cruz<br /><br />March 11 Town Hall/Manifestos/Open Mic.<br />Moderated by Kyong Park and John C. Welchmanken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-27049495835166488842010-01-05T08:51:00.000-08:002010-01-05T09:07:36.409-08:00Modifying LA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0pa607DtCk3PqPIQGn5JN9zp-FgeWAInXPx_U21NUd3Kx_zfWl-EcZIc4F_rKxfV2P80w5y5oDCIjVRBHbW2vap9ogiq8bX9l17W6OvlAVOX5APB9ry9FG7G8WFzXB04l7IRxNMOfHhDL/s1600-h/bench.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0pa607DtCk3PqPIQGn5JN9zp-FgeWAInXPx_U21NUd3Kx_zfWl-EcZIc4F_rKxfV2P80w5y5oDCIjVRBHbW2vap9ogiq8bX9l17W6OvlAVOX5APB9ry9FG7G8WFzXB04l7IRxNMOfHhDL/s320/bench.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423299646121696322" /></a><br />Staying in Echo Park in Los Angeles recently, each day passing by this church fitted with some surprising elements, the forms start to supplement the conditions of the building. Nestled into the existing form and shape of the building, the elements function as additional seating, table structures, planting pots, and potential stairs, modifying the existing arrangement.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgicSfhzYi2CuX40aaPcipPS2I2cJDQsNVOeVuW_AkLPdIZ0c45rzGbd20wP0hvoqZVneynVx3EzRBprlm4cy59RUEO0NBEyGmS9R7Mttn6XWRskNxuiqPFsL69e8N-3k0nJmDTrGop3obY/s1600-h/bench3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgicSfhzYi2CuX40aaPcipPS2I2cJDQsNVOeVuW_AkLPdIZ0c45rzGbd20wP0hvoqZVneynVx3EzRBprlm4cy59RUEO0NBEyGmS9R7Mttn6XWRskNxuiqPFsL69e8N-3k0nJmDTrGop3obY/s320/bench3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423300670622202210" /></a><br />The insertion of these additional elements unfold a poignant suggestion for acts of modification that append additional forms, stage new configurations, and allow other movements into and around buildings. Urban furniture then may function as means for such elaborations, figuring possible itineraries for what it means to take a seat.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh0u31KOs1tPGTs1LiVmvXDbDUx6HDwIIE2rW-EDtY24Y3qKouFNg6tT1cWzavby5_knP6fPWU_pEDxNL-kUHlyB_DY777ng1UQrxq9AlsViLDvh_geEwlBkRwcp67PT5a4kbM0fsl-6Gt/s1600-h/bench2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh0u31KOs1tPGTs1LiVmvXDbDUx6HDwIIE2rW-EDtY24Y3qKouFNg6tT1cWzavby5_knP6fPWU_pEDxNL-kUHlyB_DY777ng1UQrxq9AlsViLDvh_geEwlBkRwcp67PT5a4kbM0fsl-6Gt/s320/bench2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423301579668757682" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-52255103294304147372009-11-05T09:50:00.000-08:002009-11-05T09:54:33.920-08:00o corpo na cidade, Brasil<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyNFFOgEo9FA4OGkmPmGYP3Rx2Q5AFk7N0hwNf6kkgSTamJnegSrUT171bLqWyRuaR7gXc3OAhKGPjRkl3dasuj6TKhGqU03jrfWrz0__C1NaYizqaoapeuXEJfVO8pX5Q_VTC-yKpYUNX/s1600-h/Untitled-1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyNFFOgEo9FA4OGkmPmGYP3Rx2Q5AFk7N0hwNf6kkgSTamJnegSrUT171bLqWyRuaR7gXc3OAhKGPjRkl3dasuj6TKhGqU03jrfWrz0__C1NaYizqaoapeuXEJfVO8pX5Q_VTC-yKpYUNX/s320/Untitled-1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400678542483088962" /></a><br />Exhibition on the theme of urban interventionist practices, taking place in multiple venues around the city of Curitiba, and curated by Paulo Reis.<br /><a href="http://www.ocorponacidade.com.br/">http://www.ocorponacidade.com.br/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-52706040777375232462009-10-28T10:06:00.000-07:002009-10-28T10:13:07.763-07:00Urban Landscapes, Lisbon<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUM7c8YfHHXtotDDiimh43xP7l3RYYD1fA58sPUeJNpbKS-3kQ50zZFhv9Zlj7wg06_pIr6g0eVtDT23MQQ__a9GYVE1Qw3Tnb0GaOB-b6uATl0GiBKgQAOE9CJ0SXuy1dUOQwCnLqzQv5/s1600-h/bench.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUM7c8YfHHXtotDDiimh43xP7l3RYYD1fA58sPUeJNpbKS-3kQ50zZFhv9Zlj7wg06_pIr6g0eVtDT23MQQ__a9GYVE1Qw3Tnb0GaOB-b6uATl0GiBKgQAOE9CJ0SXuy1dUOQwCnLqzQv5/s320/bench.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397698603747509202" /></a><br />Walking through Lisbon, I came upon these temporary bench-plant structures strewn along the waterfront. Their colorful and modular appearance stood out as a rather dynamic solution to urban furniture. Allowing flexibility, the structures give way to possibilities for immediate transformation, reconfiguration, and interaction - one might imagine these blobs being moved around now and again, creating a sort of mobile urban landscape (if only they were on wheels...).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-83862548998969354302009-10-26T08:02:00.000-07:002009-10-26T08:06:26.965-07:007th Bienal do Mercosul, Brasil<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-NaM43fk4VNmE3e4IrCbmlqg5J0LzLaqT7FZvV5sScVdBVxaruWVHopBIlm8_488UzvGE3gNlYpEtUrZ3nRIC-XDwx-INkOMMjSw4JhrgJ7irOqROiqfO8af2ZNlHodjCev5kTniBH_lX/s1600-h/thumb2_4acb5b555d62e.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-NaM43fk4VNmE3e4IrCbmlqg5J0LzLaqT7FZvV5sScVdBVxaruWVHopBIlm8_488UzvGE3gNlYpEtUrZ3nRIC-XDwx-INkOMMjSw4JhrgJ7irOqROiqfO8af2ZNlHodjCev5kTniBH_lX/s320/thumb2_4acb5b555d62e.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396925096144907426" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/">http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/</a><br />Public Text:<br /><br />The exhibition has gathered together artists that require an active dialogue with the city, reconfigured in a manner of a public text:<br />The curating approach here is a plan.<br />A plan of occupation and of forces and pulses existing in the urban space.<br />In this curating approach, the artists work the symbolic and material elements of the public space.<br />We are interested in artists working the city as material for their projects.<br />We are interested in artists producing poetic forms out of urban phenomena.<br />We are interested in visible and invisible works, which can occupy subtle physical ties like the air and the sound space, urban space and the media.<br />We are interested in giving back to the city, its spaces as they were, without adding materials, so that the waste will consist of memories and meanings.<br />The exhibition will mainly take place in the public spaces of Porto Alegre, basing itself on several lines of investigation:<br />i. Illumination: Works that render visible strategic points of the city.<br />ii. Wavelengths: Open radio transmissions to all the artists that are taking part in the Biennial (see below).<br />iii. Transitory and Ambulant: Works about the flux and dynamic of the time and of the urban space.<br />iv. Points on the Map: A net of projects at the Biennial and at the city, have together given expression to a new and amplified text. In addition, the exhibition will be held in one of the warehouses of the Quayside. Here, the Biennial looks at the creation of a radio installation - Radiovisual - the radio commissioned especially for the Biennial.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-12141270426102217122009-10-10T16:06:00.000-07:002009-10-12T15:42:03.239-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQwRxzMmaUVY-FG466MFnlCdfpVOl-LvubcNo8k9-EUL88qpCMK2GyL0AGMju9NjSHGaovXFzUkCKd8Z8QFJqAHloxvU3YXdEC4BAPBxasNBp2P7R0-m3dTklvDcSEk_1tu2YoleomhM/s1600-h/ref-8.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQwRxzMmaUVY-FG466MFnlCdfpVOl-LvubcNo8k9-EUL88qpCMK2GyL0AGMju9NjSHGaovXFzUkCKd8Z8QFJqAHloxvU3YXdEC4BAPBxasNBp2P7R0-m3dTklvDcSEk_1tu2YoleomhM/s400/ref-8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391846975042431922" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjRwkfdMLWQloZLnwaHgrk_WTQ_UKgvHfSAEt-86P-qRyHQUrlY06Sii9sS8ifBJQlwBfQo6ho6_RFvI43IFaGKpQnvnOns5XFauszNtGiPW7hXrGvC_WM_aTVfhus75ZX06V8LAaW_ws/s1600-h/ref-7.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjRwkfdMLWQloZLnwaHgrk_WTQ_UKgvHfSAEt-86P-qRyHQUrlY06Sii9sS8ifBJQlwBfQo6ho6_RFvI43IFaGKpQnvnOns5XFauszNtGiPW7hXrGvC_WM_aTVfhus75ZX06V8LAaW_ws/s400/ref-7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391846963758620690" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRwQo4mVbnXIrMqj9QAX1H96_CYSqkz4MNBwhpKUqvdk5e0f631WYsskBl_lYmjavPRES8Rt6qkQxoh-kehtN-ImTk4rV3csbDw-Vj4uNBV6mKhGYtaBbDY9jPHFod2XFak8zvF_UxGI/s1600-h/P1010001.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRwQo4mVbnXIrMqj9QAX1H96_CYSqkz4MNBwhpKUqvdk5e0f631WYsskBl_lYmjavPRES8Rt6qkQxoh-kehtN-ImTk4rV3csbDw-Vj4uNBV6mKhGYtaBbDY9jPHFod2XFak8zvF_UxGI/s400/P1010001.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391112306576345474" /></a><br />I participated in <span style="font-style:italic;">A Day in LA: Washington Boulevard Art Concert</span> on Sunday, October 11. This was a project organized by Stephen Van Dyck that involved 60 artists reinterpreting public unused outdoor space along all 27 miles of Wash Blvd.<br />The installation I constructed is titled <span style="font-style:italic;">Referential system designed to mimic the structures of symbolic capital</span> and was located Northwest corner of Perrino Place and Washington Blvd. <br />More information about the project can be found <a href="http://www.washblvd.tk/"target="_blank">here</a>.ken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-61123212144488000412009-10-02T12:52:00.000-07:002009-10-02T12:56:48.396-07:00The Space Hijackers prosecuted<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.spacehijackers.org/images/projects/aprilfools/spotthepoliceman.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1024px; height: 768px;" src="http://www.spacehijackers.org/images/projects/aprilfools/spotthepoliceman.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />The decision has been made to prosecute peaceful activist artists the Space Hijackers for impersonating police on 1st April 2009 at the G20 Summit demonstrations.<br /><br />It is alleged that the group entered the City of London wearing police uniforms in an armoured personnel carrier with the intent to deceive the public into believing that they were members of the Police force. The Space Hijackers vehemently deny any intent to deceive or that they had any sinister motives.<br /><br />The Space Hijackers describe themselves as ‘Anarchitects’ and that their aim is to challenge and provoke discussion through peaceful public performance. A spokesperson for Space Hijackers, said "We are shocked and appalled by the behaviour of the Police on the day both towards us and others. We don’t feel that we were arrested because the officers honestly believed that we were impersonating the Police but because we were becoming a thorn in their side.”<br /><br />Raj Chada of Hodge Jones Allen said "The Space Hijackers were protesting entirely peacefully. In light of the numerous allegations of violence and misconduct against the police that have marred the event, perhaps the biggest joke is the decision to prosecute those peaceful protestors playing loud music and wearing fancy dress."<br /><br />The Space Hijackers have every confidence in their case and welcome the opportunity to encourage further scrutiny of the policing of the event itself. The Space Hijackers will vigourously contest the charges laid against them and their legal team invites all assistance from any witnesses who saw the defendants on 1 April 2009.<br />For more information, please visit their <a href="http://www.spacehijackers.org/html/welcome.html"target="_blank">website.</a>ken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-3825551907827731652009-09-16T15:42:00.000-07:002009-09-16T15:44:31.696-07:00Manual, Oslo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzK4hFveEYl993jxYVy2jvp_lkQ2_GWmX-vgV-GQaU9K7DYhCLJ1sqY7tuyw1C_LDGZihbFafgvsVHC24xOAiiGxuaFJgM1dxRHLGlofAHRIU58dwb7SKVTEwUjAEywWtJVtAelIHt505/s1600-h/Manual_image.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQzK4hFveEYl993jxYVy2jvp_lkQ2_GWmX-vgV-GQaU9K7DYhCLJ1sqY7tuyw1C_LDGZihbFafgvsVHC24xOAiiGxuaFJgM1dxRHLGlofAHRIU58dwb7SKVTEwUjAEywWtJVtAelIHt505/s320/Manual_image.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382199785346152898" /></a><br />Manual for the construction of a sound as a device to elaborate social connection <br /><br />September 14 – 20, 2009<br />process, project, interaction<br />held at <br />Deichman library, Grunerløkka, Oslo<br />& <br />The Storefront, Thorvald Meyersgt 61, Oslo<br /><br />with <br />å+k (Åsa Ståhl & Kristina Lindström) (Sweden)<br />Siri Austeen (Norway)<br />Brandon LaBelle (USA)<br />Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec (Slovenia/Holland)<br />Jana Winderen (Norway)<br /><br />The Manual project explores sound and auditory experience as platforms for social cooperation and environmental investigation. Bringing together a working group of artists, the project uses sound as a tool for considering public space, and functions as a site-specific field study of Oslo, involving locational research, artistic presentation, performative actions and public discussion. <br /><br />The Manual project highlights sound and listening as important locational and social material, to question how sounds of everyday life generate forms of commonality and how the dynamics of listening inform unique types of artistic intervention. Exploring such themes, the Manual project is based on process-oriented actions and events using specific locations in Oslo. During the course of one-week the artists will bring forward amplifications of city life, giving expression to sound and listening as social energy. <br /><br />Including the Swedish collaborative duo Kristina Lindström and Åsa Ståhl (aka å+k), whose projects are based on forms of story-telling and sharing, the American artist Brandon LaBelle, working with urban networks and distributed sonic narratives, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec from Holland/Slovenia, investigating questions of architectural space and forms of transmission, and Norwegian artists Jana Winderen, uncovering hidden sources of sound through blind field recording, and Siri Austeen, exploring concrete sounds and the act of listening. <br /><br />Organized by Brandon LaBelle and Jana Winderen<br />Producer: Hjørdis Kurås, Norway<br /><br />Manual for the construction of a sound as a device to elaborate social connection <br />is a cooperation with Ultima 09, Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (www.ultima.no),<br />Atelier Nord and Deichman libary, Grünerlølkka<br /><br />The project is supported by Norsk Kulturråd<br />www.kulturrad.noUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-49574549933851369242009-07-29T01:10:00.000-07:002009-07-31T13:39:17.940-07:00Book Launch at Machine Project<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyOFmq3aB7YNLbIJEgoSiQR8-b_ekN-DkkRqruGpSx5K0IwZDLaRVgGdUsJ7xr9_vB1E1k_h0KPBDX3rYlJzD01cfZFwrDrLdSplbxMAZg3NmAUPIP06mMB5zvF3oN8AQIlqeFk-KkDMY/s1600-h/P1010017.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyOFmq3aB7YNLbIJEgoSiQR8-b_ekN-DkkRqruGpSx5K0IwZDLaRVgGdUsJ7xr9_vB1E1k_h0KPBDX3rYlJzD01cfZFwrDrLdSplbxMAZg3NmAUPIP06mMB5zvF3oN8AQIlqeFk-KkDMY/s400/P1010017.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364726562144710530" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK9IuTnqXmjcBjKmwukbrSkmLSgM-fvsBZ1XaJS-QSI9P1FQIHPLXXe78IclqO7x6ngNqsEuhs2qbfhf1y5idNwomGqFwa8te4BQRgp2jub7BqYL9OhJG9QOgkp3fvs5rFbJDpykOs_6A/s1600-h/P1010019.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK9IuTnqXmjcBjKmwukbrSkmLSgM-fvsBZ1XaJS-QSI9P1FQIHPLXXe78IclqO7x6ngNqsEuhs2qbfhf1y5idNwomGqFwa8te4BQRgp2jub7BqYL9OhJG9QOgkp3fvs5rFbJDpykOs_6A/s400/P1010019.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364726553377221426" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0TKfPPYPROnXZvL2VokaUOw0LQpfo_pbAnhUWTkhjTgwQH_s5piQiZe7EqA3YgeH2SpdA5ll9XazVe5QX7v3H8vb1wERSJEgw0ir5ThSt7KldqXrTgQ7rMMCDpa6bwc4cBtlbrlKaJfc/s1600-h/DSC00525.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0TKfPPYPROnXZvL2VokaUOw0LQpfo_pbAnhUWTkhjTgwQH_s5piQiZe7EqA3YgeH2SpdA5ll9XazVe5QX7v3H8vb1wERSJEgw0ir5ThSt7KldqXrTgQ7rMMCDpa6bwc4cBtlbrlKaJfc/s400/DSC00525.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364726549104932418" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1lt96kdyHROURRMmDqxBANtn-Z3yU-nbq8D8vFOFwFY9Gjxd0TWzYH8BlhZdOvd45nOLlRfxYGpxROWmb-JuJ_OQVWg42IgnMFa0JZblizvjQzk9lQhJKiqARg2XApgr1_udjHv6JfE/s1600-h/DSC00517.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1lt96kdyHROURRMmDqxBANtn-Z3yU-nbq8D8vFOFwFY9Gjxd0TWzYH8BlhZdOvd45nOLlRfxYGpxROWmb-JuJ_OQVWg42IgnMFa0JZblizvjQzk9lQhJKiqARg2XApgr1_udjHv6JfE/s400/DSC00517.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364726544466632850" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_TBBbD1BDnRXlGBX1z0qwOLhL5BgegIT_mFlUU4Gd3eOJJ31v4CUu9tg6KDRugjM31AadVpMulgGs-D3N1tDhGqu-TpkkuVK1Jg03hYfglIgcmt9q5oFnua1wvimP4tLfo_a3HaX_xg/s1600-h/DSC00514.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_TBBbD1BDnRXlGBX1z0qwOLhL5BgegIT_mFlUU4Gd3eOJJ31v4CUu9tg6KDRugjM31AadVpMulgGs-D3N1tDhGqu-TpkkuVK1Jg03hYfglIgcmt9q5oFnua1wvimP4tLfo_a3HaX_xg/s400/DSC00514.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364726541462071586" /></a><br />Thursday, July 30 at <a href="http://machineproject.com/events/2009/07/30/booklaunch-whatremains/">Machine Project</a> – <span style="font-style:italic;">What remains of a building divided into equal parts and distributed for reconfiguration</span> is the second volume in the Surface Tension Supplement series dedicated to publishing documentation and critical writing on site-based practices in art, architecture and performance. This volume investigates the social and political dimensions of buildings and urban spaces, including critical reflections on recent urban planning policies in China, histories of participatory architecture, and proposals for urban farming. What remains of a building divided into equal parts and distributed for reconfiguration offers multiple perspectives on the limits and creative possibilities of the built environment.<br />With contributions by Rachel Allen, Ava Bromberg, Ken Ehrlich, Jesko Fezer and Mathias Heyden, Nis Rømer, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and The Land Foundation.ken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-28536791432823843542009-07-27T09:23:00.000-07:002009-07-27T09:39:49.732-07:00Lowrider as cultural machine<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT4b0dKA_ikKIPNGCPm0gJpyFxKTJM7kptQ20-ahyphenhyphenSaQgLzDzFuDmcUQfTmFyor6HC-Fk7dIRGtBRWPPms8-kmHxdt-OpceshLwAF1IxKm_wBUXTdqNG2AGOMTsyBtyiLK6k9bgM39IqBo/s1600-h/pharoah.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT4b0dKA_ikKIPNGCPm0gJpyFxKTJM7kptQ20-ahyphenhyphenSaQgLzDzFuDmcUQfTmFyor6HC-Fk7dIRGtBRWPPms8-kmHxdt-OpceshLwAF1IxKm_wBUXTdqNG2AGOMTsyBtyiLK6k9bgM39IqBo/s320/pharoah.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363176536999029218" /></a><br />Attending the 17th Annual Pharaoh's Car Show in Wilmington yesterday, Ken and I marveled at the aesthetics and community of car customization. From Classic Chevrolet to stripped down Ford to souped-up trucks, the car functions as a dynamic space for cultural expression and agitation carrying across the LA streets the legacy of lowrider history, Chicano identity, and the politics of having wheels. The car literally becomes a signifying machine for the production of various meaningful codes, which galvanize specific communities around the pin-stripe, the hydraulic lift, the car stereo, each a syntax within an expansive language seeking to take it low (to duck the law). Heading back to our own car, a rather dull Ford, and turning the ignition I couldn't help but feel the textured mythology running through the car, as a site for the making of particular freedoms (imagined, fantastical, real). The car already promises the open road - modifying its body, customizing its shape, appropriating the built-in class politics running from the Chevy to the Lincoln, seems to supplement through a magnifying zeal all the potentiality found in being behind the wheel, as well as taking to the road.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-14563199547340925672009-07-18T16:39:00.000-07:002009-07-18T17:46:54.577-07:00Austrian Pavilion<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWi61Ljg2Tj2-MezQ9JeUCEIwNgNJa-RfZLztA5XNo0OAHfvaBNSFVf9NeoMLIkzABZ_PX6coNVm6C-HeRvHon0VtTnCQ55JU_xC0UfpTgkHvUKg0vDLKgivRdhyphenhyphen4P4JH_oEM-kkNEY8/s1600-h/dorit6_g.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWi61Ljg2Tj2-MezQ9JeUCEIwNgNJa-RfZLztA5XNo0OAHfvaBNSFVf9NeoMLIkzABZ_PX6coNVm6C-HeRvHon0VtTnCQ55JU_xC0UfpTgkHvUKg0vDLKgivRdhyphenhyphen4P4JH_oEM-kkNEY8/s400/dorit6_g.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359966292525675346" /></a><br />Dorit Margreiter's contribution to the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale was a poetic exploration of the pavilion itself in the form of a 35mm film. Lasting only eight minutes, the black and white film consists mostly of slow panning shots, exploring the architecture of the (mostly) empty building. Occasionally, the viewer glimpses a fleeting moment of what looks like women rehearsing for a mannered performance. It's a quiet piece with a forceful presence. Follow the <a href="http://www.biennale09.at/en.html#L" target="_blank">link</a> for more information.ken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414940332254463640.post-46955773588364269812009-07-06T05:20:00.000-07:002009-07-06T05:29:31.245-07:00Krakersmonument by Jeremiah Day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwZc2ch575vOuXAYeAO3uc2Lg2H7v4yYZAkSvdB8U2ngs8qHPLuSWJ3hwlZogBBEeaFDbPBpzhTs-xeW_cdfuIRPfm-8_xRZ-kmIz-CIMZqJCAZVPgBdSAozcCv5xkcCifY7Ex9Ymxo5U/s1600-h/P1010039.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwZc2ch575vOuXAYeAO3uc2Lg2H7v4yYZAkSvdB8U2ngs8qHPLuSWJ3hwlZogBBEeaFDbPBpzhTs-xeW_cdfuIRPfm-8_xRZ-kmIz-CIMZqJCAZVPgBdSAozcCv5xkcCifY7Ex9Ymxo5U/s400/P1010039.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355322291203845202" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHUDVz-2KP6b6M7en3VeLC8c_W8ZysqmUKnim8ZKuIZuHxC2cgrvTqxPDWhgFzxElBD_hGG0G0WWS_f3RtFuukuLVi-tu9j6s5btiW-S8jg9VL1hRcT8F61tYhMqjPBRrHqnsoiycn-hQ/s1600-h/P1010033.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHUDVz-2KP6b6M7en3VeLC8c_W8ZysqmUKnim8ZKuIZuHxC2cgrvTqxPDWhgFzxElBD_hGG0G0WWS_f3RtFuukuLVi-tu9j6s5btiW-S8jg9VL1hRcT8F61tYhMqjPBRrHqnsoiycn-hQ/s400/P1010033.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355322290402369682" /></a><br />A subtle monument to the squatter movement in Holland, this "talk box" in the harbor outside of Amsterdam narrates the story of a local politician who resigns over tensions regarding his past involvement with the squatter movement. <br /><br />The project is on view through September 6. For more info, click <a href="http://www.smba.nl/en/events/">here.</a>ken ehrlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175528567696829014noreply@blogger.com0