OAS Node #1 [July 16]

Dumitru Gorzo: "Untitled," 2009; 14 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches; Mixed media on paper [Courtesy SLAG Gallery]

Studio Visit

[Session 9]

Dumitru Gorzo is preparing for his multi-panel painting project "Heads" to be installed at NJ MoCA. I visited his Bushwick studio in the early evening. We met at SLAG, where Gorzo presented "Reality's Nostalgia." [Installation views are available on the SLAG website linked to the image above.]

A studio visit can be a serious, formal, intimate, memorable occasion for meaningful exchange between artists. I consider it a privilege to be invited to another artist's studio. I won't be sharing much about this one here. 

[STUB/Communique] The point of inducting the scenario here as part of our OAS program is simple. The transmission of ideas, thoughts, impressions, responses, whatever else you might call it, that happens in such a congress between artists is elemental in any healthy art ecology. It is one thing for a young and old artist to concourse, to engage in apprenticeship. As a traditional mode, the old-young transmission might mainly be centered on craft preservation, or the asking and answering of questions, or the conveyance of wisdom. But when two artists as peers engage, it is possible for something dangerous to happen, or diplomatic, if they happen to have unlike origins... [Stopping here.]

ENOUGH [BASTA][Field Scan, Illustrations & Notes][Draft/BETA]

Updated on Sunday, July 1, 2012 at 10:38AM by admin

Painting by Manning Williams (d. 2012)

ENOUGH [BASTA][Field Scan, Illustrations & Notes][Draft/BETA]
By Paul McLean

Homemade guillotine (see links below).<[PLATFORM]: TIME IS THE ONLY OBJECT. EVERYTHING ELSE IS THE (A) SUBJECT.

Ale at the G20 conference

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Way to go, Ale! I can't read everything but I do like the idea that the appearance of an analog object in digital time is what people need to awaken their poetic sensibilities.
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- Jez Bold [response to Ale's revGames/DA Flaneurs performance at the G20]

Installation View, 1995
Chema Alvagonzalez, SITE Santa Fe
Available

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SITE Santa Fe lies on the edge of town by the railroad tracks, at a welcome distance from the schlock art malls of Canyon Road and the tourist-friendly museums in the town center.  It’s a relief to enter a white box environment and discover some challenging art. As the title of the current exhibition suggests, Time-Lapse showcases pieces that either address the subjective experience of time or rely expressly on the passage of time to achieve full realization. Works accrue gradually, offering visitors a unique viewing experience every day, if not every minute. Despite the variety of media employed and the evolving nature of the work, many of these individual pieces gather in force to represent some of the paradoxical concerns of our collective human existence.   
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Time-Lapse achieves its goal of deconstructing the notion of artwork as static and immutable. Along the way, it highlights how some thoughtful artists search for an understanding of global forces while others elect to deal with the mundane physical and emotional needs that shape daily life. Still other artists investigate the elastic and subjective nature of time, asking the viewer to participate in the exploration. The work on view here is revealing, both in its methods and in its conclusions about humanity, individual, and universal.

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- "Time-Lapse" by Corina Larkin [review of SITE Santa Fe for Brooklyn Rail]

"Red Canvas" by Richard Tuttle

[INSTRUCTIONS]: Over the next few days I'll be correcting/modifying the following field scan, editing for content, grammar, typos, all the usual imperfection crap, and revisioning, continuing the linking process, etc. Initially, a small team of collaborators will be helping, reviewing, critiquing, etc. These include Chris Moylan, Jez Bold, Alex and a few others. The meta--text we're going to think of as a wireframe, an armature, a skeleton, a trunk (as in, of a tree)... that resolves with time. [Stopping here for tonight - PJM/6-27-2012]

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WS2MS: Communique from Co-organizer Fawn Potash

Bravo everybody!  My sincerest gratitude for making Wall Street to Main Street into this most amazing constellation of exhibits, workshops, seminars, performances, tours and cool stuff.  I intend to write each one of you a personal thank-you note with copies of our press clippings, but until then, I want you to know what a meaningful experience this has been for me in meeting and getting to know your work and passions.  It has been a personal and community-wide education.  Like many Occupy events, it has demonstrated many of the principles of the movement in action.  

There are many intangible results.  At the most basic level, WS2MS supports the idea that we, along with people all over the world can speak and act on our own behalf.   If we have not changed any minds, we have at least provoked conversation and offered opportunities for engagement and education at every level and sensibility.  We have worked well with all of Catskill's community stakeholders giving us a successful track record and deeper connection to our neighbors.  Plus Catskill has buzz.  Even if people didn't make it to Main Street in person, there's no way they missed the PR storm.   People know we are here now. 

The tangible results have great import for Catskill too.  This project played a major role in attracting several paying residential and storefront tenants.  The long dormant Civil War era factory building, Union Mills has found a buyer, who sees the historic value of this property and its potential as a cultural linchpin on Main Street.  There's much more, but we can go into more detail as we put together the project archive.  

Your gift to Catskill and the audiences we have engaged is unquantifiably valuable.  I hope we will be able to come up with some creative way to publicly acknowledge your contribution in a lasting way.

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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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DIY Sky-cam at UC Davis GA [11.21.2011] + News on the 1st InterOccupy National A&C Conference Call

Learn more at publiclaboratory.org
The plastic bottle that is visible in the video is the second camera, which is taking still images. The video was captured with a mobile phone camera.

The above video was posted on a great visionary cartographic/mapping site called Archive of Desire. AoD presented on last night on the first InterOccupy national conference call for Occupy arts and culture. It was a great exchange, with many remarkable projects and people sharing their visions of Occupy from points across the US (and beyond).

Occupy with Art also participated as a featured presenter on local Occupy art projects. Co-organizer Paul McLean spoke briefly about the Yoko Ono/OWS project, Wall Street to Main Street, and Low Lives: Occupy! In the subsequent breakout group, McLean discussed Occupational education and Occupy artist collaborations.

The minutes from the conference call are HERE.

Download the MP3 of the call here.

Art Is My Occupation Launches!

ABOUT [From the AMO website (click image to visit)]

WHAT WE DO
Artismyoccupation.org (AMO) offers direct support to artists and cultural workers dedicated to advancing the stories, struggles and ideas of the 99%. Directly engaged with occupy and other grassroots movements, AMO provides support to cultural workers who seek to impact the national conversation on the Economy, including production grants, distribution, and PR support. AMO aims to support artists across a diverse spectrum of artforms, from visual art to music to public interventions to videos to street theatre and more, while creating a national network of artists focused on exposing the real costs of the current crisis and envisioning a future that puts people before profits.

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ARTISTS & OCCUPY - NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE CALL

Calling all occupy artists, musicians, performers, cultural workers, printmakers and pranksters!

We invite you to join the first of a series of nationwide conference calls focusing specifically on the Arts & Culture of our movement. This will be a chance for us all to share who we are, find collaborators, announce projects, learn about resources, and push our movement forward in Spring, Summer and Fall.

Date: Wed, Jan 11 2012 7:00pm PT / 10:00 ET
To Register for the call, visit: http://interoccupy.org/national-arts-call-11112-10pm-est-7pm-pst/

From Day One arts and culture have been central to occupy, from the very first Adbusters ‘ballerina’ poster to the Anonymous videos, protest puppets, posters and ‘bat signals’ that followed. In a few short months, occupy has birthed an explosive new political arts movement that encompasses almost every artform, as well as a number of new promotional platforms like Occuprint, to Occupennial, and Occupy Design. Now, a new phase is beginning as support projects are emerging, like ArtIsMyOccupation, to provide funding and other support for occupy-related arts projects.

Now that we’re all here, it’s time we all got to know each other.

This first call will be about just getting to know WHO and WHAT is out there, so that we can brainstorm together and join forces on plans and projects for Spring, Summer and Fall. If you have an existing arts/culture project or arts resource you would like to present on the call, please send a description of that project/resource to Ken Srdjak at akeneka@gmail.com beforehand to be put on the list.

This is planned to be the first in a series of regular, bi-weekly nationwide calls on the arts & occupy. Planning calls happen between the national calls, and are open to everyone. Future call themes will be decided at these meetings. To join the planning committee, contact janellet@occupydc.org

Remember, to get on the call you must register here: http://interoccupy.org/national-arts-call-11112-10pm-est-7pm-pst/

Questions? Contact janellet@occupydc.org

In solidarity,
InterOccupy Arts Call Planning Committee