No Territory: AnarchoArtLab at The Living Theater

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Sunday January 17th, 8pm – Midnight @ THE LIVING THEATER
No Territory: The AnarchoArtLab will respond to the news that our home and a brave New York institution, The Living Theater, will shutter its doors in 2010. This multi-media, interdisciplinary event will plumb the varied meanings of territory, property, ownership, and the individuals right to movement, thought, and expression in an “Ownership Society.”

The golden age was the age when gold didn’t reign; the cause of all wars, riots and injustices is the existence of property, happiness is hanging your landlord!

The wind is turning. The economy is wounded — we hope it dies! Amnesty is an act in which the rulers pardon the injustices they have committed; the state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Abolish alienation! Obedience begins with consciousness; consciousness begins with disobedience! First, disobey; then write on the walls!
– graffiti, Paris, 1968

AnarchoArtLab is a collective of new-media, visual artists, performers, musicians, dancers and genre benders in residence at The Living Theatre. Each month we create a LIVE, collaborative, multi-media art experience that is both immersive and participatory. We welcome you to come for an hour or experience the entire evening.

Artists include but are not limited to: Glass Bead Collective, David Tully, Grady Gerbracht, John Loggia, Adriana Varella, Z-Collective, James ChrisBunny! Fields, Michele Cappello, Takashio Hisayasu, Miles Pflanz and Jackie Connolly, Parker Miller and English.

Eva Kot'átková: House Arrest

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exhibition: december 9, 2009 – 7.00 pm

CONDUITS
Viale Stelvio, 66
20159 Milan IT
+39 02 6883470

info [at] theconduits [dot] com
www.theconduits.com

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In House Arrest I wanted to create an atmosphere of punishment — of a compulsory, forced stay or detention in a certain place under specific conditions. It is initiated by a person in a higher position, usually as a result of the prisoner’s misconduct or insufficiently fulfilled tasks or duties. This often happens in relationships between parents and their children, or teachers and their pupils. The situation that interests me has a much broader meaning, even though it is squeezed between four walls, floor and ceiling, and is often isolated from the outer world (which is also one of the conditions of house arrest). In my work, I deal with aspects of my nearby surroundings; my intention is to uncover specific rules, schemes and behavioral patterns, and to try (often unsuccessfully) to find my own position within them.

thonbeuse present "vogelsang site walks II: "Blickpolitik" eine "Vogelsang Konversion" neu mit Nothammer"

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Dies ist eine Projektskizze, die sich grundsätzlich als temporäre Erinnerungseinrichtung eignet, im konkreten Fall bezieht sie sich beispielhaft auf das Informationszentrum vogelsang ip’s – eignet sich aber grundsätzlich für Orte an denen die “Blickpolitik” eine Rolle spielt. Im Rahmen der sogenannte “Vogelsang Konversion” spielt die Steuerung der Wahrnehmung, der Blicke und Eindrücke eine wichtige Rolle. Diese Projektskizze ist gegenwärtig eher als ein kleiner Essay zu verstehen, die tatsächliche Realisierung des Projektes steht nicht im Vordergrund. Die grundsätzliche Frage ist die nach der Schuld/Unschuld des Blickes, also nach der Inszenierung von Blicken und den dadurch ausgelösten Emotionen/Denkprozessen vor dem Hintergrund der Geschichte Vogelsangs als Bildungseinrichtung des NS-Faschismus.

http://www.thonbeuse.com/Blickpolitik-Vogelsang-Konversion.html

Coco Fusco at MC

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Coco Fusco’s recent exhibit at MC, Los Angeles (2006) included the photographic series Bare Life Study #1, a fictional military interrogation training manual for women, an enigmatic presentation of real manuals on a desk, and in an adjoining room, the 59-minute video Operation Atropos. The show explored the weaponization of female sexuality by the US military that was exposed by the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisoner abuse scandals.

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MIT wins $40,000 prize in nationwide balloon-hunt contest

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(CNN) — A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won $40,000 in a high-tech scavenger hunt on Saturday by discovering the location of 10 red weather balloons.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced that the MIT team was the first group in the contest to report the latitude and longitude coordinates of all 10 balloons, which were scattered across the United States.

DARPA is the U.S. military’s research arm. Saturday’s challenge is the latest in a series that the agency has hosted since 2004.

This contest was designed to test the way social networking and lesser-known Web-based techniques can help accomplish a large-scale, time-critical task.

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Art and Its Cultural Contradictions, Joshua Decter

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 http://www.afterall.org/journal/issue.22/art.and.the.cultural.contradictions.of.urban.regeneration.social.justice.and.sustainability

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What is at stake when artists, architects, curators, organisers and other cultural producers facilitate bricks-and-mortar change, on the ground in cities, with citizens, communities and institutions? How do we test the interrelationships between the practices of artists and urban policy makers? What is the metric that we might utilise to determine effectiveness? And what do we mean by effectiveness? Critical effect? (Or, for that matter, critical affect?) The putatively emancipatory outcome generated by some kind of new situational knowledge? Or, is it a question of generating ambiguity, per se, as a means of problematising hegemonic political, economic and cultural formations?

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