This week from Yes Lab in NYC

Dear New Yorker,

Two treats for you: an all-star revolutionary panel this evening (Thursday), and hilarious clown fun this Saturday.

1. This Saturday evening, come prepare fun, funny, and media-savvy actions for F29 with Occupy's newest venture, the +Brigades. BYOB. Beware of clowns. Spread the word!

• Date: Saturday, Feb. 25, 7pm
• Where: Judson Church (Thompson St. entrance), New York City

2. Tonight (Thursday), come seriously consider how change happens, the role of electoral politics, the nature of revolution, and other big questions. Moderated by Nation editor Richard Kim, the panel will include Richard Schechner, Yotam Marom, Chaia Heller, and Nelini Stamp. Bring ID!

• Date: Thursday, Feb. 23, 7pm
• Where: Hemispheric Institute (20 Cooper Square, 5th floor), New York City
• More info: www.yeslab.org/cat

See you soon!

Your friends at the Yes Lab

[Also, from the Yes Lab blog]:

Tonight [#f22] at Living Theatre!

Very Special Events happening tonight at The Living Theatre!

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"Political Origins of The Living Theatre"

Today, Wednesday February 22nd: come see Paul Goodman Changed My Life by Jonathan Lee, about the man who made anarchists out of Judith Malina and Julian Beck.  9:45pm start time after the play, and talkback featuring Judith and Paul McLean from Occupy With Art. Learn more at http://www.paulgoodmanfilm.com/

LIVING THEATRE: [LINK]

MORE THIS WEEK AT LIVING THEATRE: [LINK]

1st Mission Statement for Arts & Culture [#A30, 2011]

[NOTE: This text was referenced during the Space Team screening project at Hyperallergic, "Wall Street Stunts: OWS Arts & Culture Before September 17." We are meeting Tuesday evenings at 7PM, through the end of March. The link to the original is HERE. Thanks to Adrian for research.]

The Corporate Leviathan

[At Occupy Design]:

A leviathan is a mythical serpent beast that is feared by all. Historically the Leviathan has been used to describe the nature of the Government as powerful and dominating. Today we face a new leviathan: Corporations controlled by the 1%. Unlike our Government, we have no control over this power aside from the methods by which we are forced to support it. This image is call to action and resistance; to mobilize and fight back against these systems of oppression.

Protest Sign

Attribution: 

Join The Fight Propaganda

Social Media Contact: 

http://jointhefightpropaganda.tumblr.com/

The People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street - Creation of Neighborhood Heights

(PHOTO: Paul Talbot)

Check out the subway video of Neighborhood Heights.. Visit the ideal way the world should be.

Occupy CAA

[From Nancy Popp]

If any of you will be at College Art Association in Los Angeles this week, I'll be chairing a panel on Saturday, Feb 25th at 2:30p.

I am hoping this panel will provide an entry to 'Occupy" CAA, and open up the very restrictive structure of the conference to create a more equitable platform for discussion.

This panel will be multi-sited, participation-based, and open to students and the general public in conjunction with OTIS College of Art and Design's Re/Locating Learning: Public Practices as Art:

http://www.otis.edu/calendar/2081-Re-Locating-Learning-Public-Practices-as-Art.html

Please join us in the West Lobby of the Los Angeles Convention Center; we will be starting the panel in Conference Room 403A.

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Protest History: Underground Press Syndicate

[NOTE: Occupy with Art supports the OWS [People's] Library. "Protest History" is the second installment of a fantastic essay by Lisa Charnigo, "Occupy the OccuPAST: Echoes of Dissidence in the UPS Underground Newspaper Collection," serialized on the OWSL site. Part 1 (of 4) is HERE. Part 2 is HERE.]

“Modern civilization is a dangerous, insane process– destructive of man’s natural potential, murderous to other species of life, symbol addicted, anti-life. Drop out of the social game.”

[EXCERPT]

 

While the underground newspapers of the sixties and early seventies were united in their opposition to the Vietnam War, their content and purpose was by no means uniform. Some of the papers focused on hippie “drop out” culture, such as the short-lived but beautifully- illustrated San Francisco Oracle published from 1966 to 1968. The Oracle captured the pinnacle of the “Summer of Love” in Haight-Ashbury, covering such subjects as expanding consciousness, experimentation with Eastern spirituality, and human be-ins. Contributors to the Oracle included writers, poets, thinkers, and artists such as Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Ken Kesey, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Bowen, and Allen Cohen. Revolution, as espoused in the Oracle, is an expansion and change of consciousness which occurs within an individual. As Timothy Leary proclaimed in the first issue of the Oracle, “Drop out! Modern civilization is a dangerous, insane process– destructive of man’s natural potential, murderous to other species of life, symbol addicted, anti-life. Drop out of the social game.” Perhaps no other paper in the underground newspaper collection achieved the Oracle’s sophistication in artistic expression. The paper is just as interesting to look at, with its beautiful psychedelic imagery, as it is to read. Allen Cohen, the paper’s editor, wrote that the idea for the Oracle came to him in a “rainbow newspaper” dream. The Oracle, however, only represented one spectrum of the rainbow of underground papers. On the other end of the spectrum were papers which were opposed to flowers, peace, and mind expansion as a central means to obtain social and political justice.

Low Lives: Occupy! Anti-Art and the Readymade Revolution

by Ashley Sanders

On March 3^rd, thousands of people in over ten different countries will point their projectors to occupy building facades, movie screens and bare white walls with transmissions from a performance phenomenon known as Low Lives: Occupy! LL:O! is an artistic celebration of the Occupy movement that uses the medium as its message, pushing the grainy, live-stream, camera-phone-style footage that made Occupy famous to stage a series of simultaneous, real-time performances that interrogate, explore and push the limits of what Occupy means. The pieces will run the gamut from direct action to spectacle, and the audience will be equally diverse and democratic: anyone with an internet connection can gather with any number of people and watch as artists and activists from everywhere stage five minute pieces that blur the line between art, politics, and performance.

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InterOccupy Arts Call |#F22 |: 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific

InterOccupy Arts Call | Wed Feb 22 | 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific 

Artists as Bridges: How are artists connecting Occupy and other movements for economic and social justice?

As Occupy and 'The 99%' movement expands, it continues to deepen its connections with communities and issues of all kinds. On this call, we will hear from artists who are doing powerful, innovative work of 'bridging', using the unique power of art, music, performance and spectacle, to connect Occupy to new issues and communities, and vice versa.   

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ROUND 2: Wall Street Stunts! [#F21]

SPATIAL OCCUPATION @ hyperallergic
Round 2/Session 3 [Screenings+]
7PM Tuesday

181 N. 11th Street [Williamsburg/BK/NYC]
 
RSVP: ows-arts-and-culture-spaces@googlegroups.com



Occupy Resources for FREE

Many great sources of posters, flyers, grapics and so forth are currently out there on the internet. Here are some:

Occupy Design - "Look through this site for protest signs, logistical signs, infographics, and icons."

Occuprint - "Occuprint showcases posters from the worldwide Occupy movement, all of which are part of the creative commons, and available to be downloaded for noncommercial use, though we ask that artists are given attribution for their work."

Occupytogether "free for you to download, print, and hang up within your community, not only to promote local efforts, but the solidarity of all occupiers around the country."

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Art and Everything in the Commons

Over the weekend a group called The Future of Occupy held a three day event in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Dozens of speakers discussed issues that many in the Occupy Movement care about. Affordable health insurance, student loan debt, climate change, alternate economies, etc. It's worth a look at their site to see if they have a project that might match your interests. Last night I went and there were about 50 people there. This group is not to be confused with Occupy the Future.

posted by Chris Cobb

Press Release for LOW LIVES: OCCUPY! [#f18]

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For further information, contact:
Paul McLean
Co-organizer, Occupy with Art
artforhumans@gmail.com

OCCUPY WITH ART ANNOUNCES
LOW LIVES: OCCUPY!

February 17, 2012 (New York, NY)–Occupy with Art will partner with international presenter Low Lives and The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics to present “Low Lives: Occupy!,” a unique one-night-only program of live performance art, simulcast via an online streaming network to presenting host venues around the world. Low Lives: Occupy! will take place on March 3, 2012 from 6 – 10pm (EST). Mark Read, creator of the 99% Bat Signal / The Illuminator, will contribute a special projection and performance in conjunction with Low Lives: Occupy! in New York City.

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The Dusty Show [Schau] with Clay Pigeon

[From Paul T]

Click the radio to hear the latest from the beyond-awesome Dusty Show with Clay Pigeon, or visit their WFMU channel to listen to the previous OWS-centric DSw/CP programs, HERE.

Occupy the SEC

Check out Paul Talbot's photos from the SEC march in NYC in the OwA Photo Section.

OWSJ: No es lo Que Dicen

By Jason Flores-Williams for the Occupy Wall Street Journal

[LINK]

[EXCERPT]:

When you see prison movies or documentaries about prison, it’s all about the visits. Wives coming on Thursday, girlfriends coming Friday, kids coming on Saturday. But prison is really about distances and disconnection. It’s loneliness and estrangement. One person’s life is frozen while the other person’s life has movement. This creates fractures between people. The inmate is sitting in a cage thinking that everyone’s forgotten him, while the other is trying to survive in the ruins often left by the inmate.

Prison takes a terrible situation and makes it exponentially worse. Rather than healing or rehabilitating people, it deepens every wound, rips open every scab and spreads infection in every possible direction. Prison mutilates families. It takes whatever might have been once healthy, good or at least salvageable, and leaves it twisted and damaged beyond repair.

That the Christian family values people are the ones most in favor of the drug war, incarceration and severe punishment is one of the sickest and most grotesque cancers on our society. Nothing reveals the lie that is the Right in America more than the fact that these self-proclaimed lovers of liberty and personal freedoms are the ones most responsible for the draconian laws that have ripped families apart for generations. It is my fervent belief that the drug war—which has damaged millions of children and families for more than forty years across five continents—would have been addressed more pragmatically and sensibly if not for a pocket of right wing Christians in North America who have used it as a vehicle to express the blackness of their ugly and vindictive hearts.

Making Worlds: E-Flyer

Spatial Occupation Residency Reading Group Session 3 [#f19]

SPATIAL OCCUPATION AT HYPERALLERGIC
Reading Group: Session #3
Text: The Many-Headed Hydra, by Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh
Sections: Introduction/Chapters 1 & 7
Special Spatial Guest: Theodore Hamm, Editor, Brooklyn Rail

Sunday, Feb 19 7pm
@hyperallergic

181 N. 11th Street #302
Brooklyn/Williamsburg/NYC/NY/USA [11211]

RSVP: ows-arts-and-culture-spaces@googlegroups.com

"Who are you in bed with?

Click the image to view Paul Talbot's amazing photos of the Revolutionary Games' Valentine's Day intervention.

OWS Space Team Presents: Valentine's Day @Hyperallergic

Occupy Wall Street: Wall Street is ALL (!) Streets from SpontaneousAutonomousCreativity on Vimeo.

Tuesday, Feb 14 @ 7 pm, Hyperallergic in Brooklyn 

An Occupy Love Screening: OWS Arts & Culture's First Encounters with Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street Arts & Culture's first activities on Wall Street focused on rhetorical poetry were a confrontation -- not unlike the Situationist art of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, prominent artists of the May 1968 events in France.  These situations were aimed to provoke a memee with society about Wall Street on Wall Street, the now zombified public forum.  Jez Bold will offer a public memee session with members of the original team of Occupy Wall Street Arts & Culture, who helped plan and perform a campaign of direct aesthetic actions on Wall Street, performances that attempted to set the stage of Wall Street before September 17, 2011 and the beginning of the occupation.

Hyperallergic

181 N 11th St, Suite 302, Brooklyn, NY 11211