OAS Node n: Alessandro Ambrossini's ~SEEYOURSOULWITHATELESCOPE~

[From Ale/OAS Node n]:

Dear Playaz;

Please welcome to our Fibonacci Arena a Italian artist, Mr. Ambrossini! he has a beautiful project called ~SEEYOURSOULWITHATELESCOPE~ which seems incredibly similar to Kaleidoscope, right #jez3prez? :-) it is a project filled with poetry, inviting people to share their greatest dreams. not  consumerist, not necessarily dreams you dream at night but rather dreams that keep you awake and actually keep you going. #OWS is such a dream for many of us, this pluripotential space where we our dreams together trying to make them a reality.  ∞ to ooze #poiesis! ∞  always… :: here is a brief summary ::

~SEEYOURSOULWITHATELESCOPE~

a dream weaver, a dream catcher.   
with a few words (200-400 words) can you share your utmost dream? I believe that dreams can help people and maybe they can change the world a little bit, specially when dreamt together.  if you want you can add some image or video that illustrates your hypothetical, possible or impossible dream ~ even write a poem about your dream. or dreams. 
Would love to have dreams from #OWS. can you share it with me and the world? 

he is a little shy about his English, but there is no need to be shy here my friend. Rafa also speaks Italian pretty well, you guys should definitely Skype! 

He draws and does other media as well. i was thinking about the incredible combo #OAS node 1 + Direct Action Flaneurs + Occupied Stories? :-)  

anyway, let’s make it happen. #OWS could use some dreams to get a bit of #poiesis back on our movement.  

Ale! 

∞

Update on Monday, September 24, 2012 at 10:57PM by admin

Here's my dream…if it is of interest send it along, anywhere...

solidarity,

Chris

Up

Flocks of tamed pigeons

float from a tunnel painted

on the mountainside,

Boulders push their bellies

into the morning light, pear

trees ride the tall grass…

Out on the bay, icebergs drag

their skirts in the summer haze.

Houses slip inch by inch into

the sea as if afraid of the cold.

Occasional breezes stir

The ash and soot falling

In clouds from the east

Somewhere and when they do

The sunlight spotlights

A fellow stepped off the cliff’s

Edge, his legs churning mid-air—

no forward progress, no sudden drop…

Bullets stop at eye-level,

Red clouds pause overhead,

He walks on, not looking

Down, pushing his weight

Into the emptiness that suspends

Him. Pigeons watch with the blank

tranquility of sleep as another

and another steps off, as if

the air beneath their feet held

not space or force or grim

prospects but another kind of

obvious, something worth

the risk of losing , while

others rest…What does it take

to step off the cliff’s edge

when so much is falling:

houses dropping, towns

vanishing in a red sea...

A loud noise sends the flocks

Flying back into the painted dark,

A sudden storm shreds the paper

World, but those who occupy

The edge, the free air, and

The horizon beyond are as

light as baby's breath...

When will they come down?

Maybe soon, maybe never.

Maybe it doesn’t really matter

So long as they persist,

Keep at it, keep going,

Not look up, not look down,

But ahead, taking to air,

everywhere.

Occupy Town Square 3 [f26]

ABOUT OTS:

Occupy Wall Street is four months old. We don't live in a park anymore, but we're still here, and we're still fighting for economic justice. Now, OWS is coming to a neighborhood near you. Over the next few months, mobile, daytime occupations, called Occupy Town Squares, will be held in parks and other public spaces, indoor and outdoor, around New York City. For a few hours a week, these events will recreate the essence of the Zuccotti Park Occupation. There will be info tables, teach-ins, trainings, and political discussions.

Whether you consider yourself a supporter of the movement or not, we want to meet you: come share your ideas and stories, learn about the movement, argue with us, debate with us, collaborate with us. If you're already active in OWS, this is a chance to exchange information, to coordinate between working groups, and to get to know our brothers and sisters in the movement.

#J26: THE TAX DODGERS

[From Gan]

Hi guys, I wanted to invite you to join us in planning and executing a very cool creative action for Thursday, January 26.

BACKGROUND:
In conjunction with UnitedNY and other local unions (who were part of the N17 Day of Action) we will be targetting the most infamous, wealthiest corporations and CEO's that have succeeded in evading paying billions in taxes,  like GE and Verizon. At a time where America is going broke due to a lack of tax revenue, all these guys want to talk about is cuts to education, health care, social security to make up the difference. Their CEO's are compensated over $10-20 million a year and some pay less % in taxes than their secretaries.   These guys are the 1% of the 1%, and rather than throwing down with the rest of us, they have manipulated the laws to avoid paying their fair share.  What's more, these corporations also have horrible labor practices, and are guilty of outsourcing jobs to other countries or states where workers have fewer rights and lower wages. It's time to call them out, starting with Verizon on the 26th.

ACTION:
So, what does the .01% do with all that extra money? Buy a baseball team! We will be dressing up as a baseball team called THE TAX DODGERS and going right to the doorstep of Verizon. We are working on putting together a full team's worth of head-to-toe uniforms, as well as CEO Ivan Siedenberd and perhaps a referee or two. We want The People to show up with whistles and call 'foul' because these corporations are breaking the rules of fair play, and are showing they are not 'part of the team' we call a country.

PARTICIPATION:
We need people, costumers, choreographers, performers and creative brainstormers! You interested?

If so, we are starting a new list just for this. Just send me an email and I will add you. [ gangolan [at] gmail [dot] com ]

♫

Hope you can join us!

Report-back on Saturday's [#J14] Yoko Ono/OWS Wish Tree Gathering at Liberty Square

[PRESS COVERAGE Sample]:

Photo: Sam Levin

• Village Voice: "Yoko Ono (Not Present) Promotes Peace at Zuccotti, Occupiers Proceed to Drop 'Dead'" by Sam Levin
• Flavorwire: "Yoko Ono Brings Her ‘Wish Tree’ Project to Occupy Wall Street" by Caroline Stanley
• Big Think: "How Yoko Ono Is Still Giving Peace a Chance" by Bob Duggan

[Morgan's Report]:

I thought today was really rather wonderful and wanted to send appreciation to everyone who was there…it started to feel like a community again.

Occupy Yoga was terrific (and kept us warm), the Occuponics rocked (thanks all!), it was nice to get some [Yoko Ono] postcards to send to people and be part of the Wish Tree (great to be there in tandem with that group [Occupy with Art]!) there were some testimonials from occupiers, what I thought was a really interesting sketch for a “stepping stone to the future” choreographic/interactive/installation project, the die-in was kinda awesome, and I hope there were poets – I had to leave with a student and couldn’t stay the whole time so was sad to miss the poetry compost I hope did happen.   And I heard Kitchen had some yummy chicken.  Whom/what did I leave out?

Please let me know what else was going on – and would love to hear thoughts and suggestions for more events.

We are still hoping that performative things can happen from noon to two during the week for the lunch time crowd – maybe focused on supporting outreach?   And still longing for the return of the People Staged! Fateh is saying they might try to do Occupy Yoga on the weekends (weather permitting) so please let OccupyCurveball (Re-Occupy with Culture&Ideas) know any ideas you might have.

There is really room for many many things that can serve a lot of needs here.

Our focus is now switching to supporting the events for MLK/Occupy the Dream and J17 Occupy Congress…but let’s talk about what can happen next week!

MorganJen

The Days of the Commune

[Forwarded to OwA by Greg S.]:

Hello:

I an artist and filmmaker. I plan  to work with group of performers on scenes from  Bert Brecht's play "Days of the Commune". The play will not be performed all at once in its entirety.  Instead I see it unfolding as an ongoing series of "days" rehearsed and performed on weekends in Liberty Square. My idea behind the project is to create a structure that superimposes the past over the present; the Paris Commune of 1871 where working people occupied their own neighborhoods and todays occupation movement. Each "day" will be documented on video and distributed online - these episodes will build towards a larger work.

I am looking for performers both professional and non professional. The most important thing is enthusiasm and the willingness to see the project through to the end. You can find the casting call here
http://daysofthecommune.com/casting-commune.pdf

My budget is very small because I feel that it is a timely intervention and I don't want to wait …. however i do think it can reach a wide audience, both live and online. I am already interesting galleries in Europe about a show of the completed work.

I have also contacted the OWS performance Guild but in case anyone on this list is interested in participating, please let me know. Feel free to circulate this widely.

The website is just beginning to take shape -  thedaysofthecommune.com

Thanks
Zoe

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Tiny Tenting!

Hello Friends,

The Holiday season is now upon us, and it's most definitely time for tiny-tenting!

Tomorrow, Thursday, is the darkest day of the year - the Winter Solstice. For many cultures it's a festival of lights: Christmas Tree Lights, Hannukah Menorah's, Kwanzah Candles, and the like. For OWS, it's also... tiny tents! We can create little glowing structures that remind people about the spirit of justice and the warmth and solidarity of the 99%!

Tiny tents are popping up all over the country- what will NYC tiny tents look like? Bring materials such as newspapers, glue, little sticks, print-outs, make your own design, we will have some materials on hand too.

Can anyone bring OWS journals?

Thursday 2:00-4:40 in an art studio near Gowanus.

Then we'll so some tenting!

Please contact me for details.

♫

fischer.noah [at] gmail [dot] com



Update on Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 01:22PM by admin

[NOTE: OwA contributing photographer Paul Talbot first posted this follow-up on his excellent blog, The Wheel.]:

OWS groups push the boundaries of occupying with #tinytenting

"The most revolutionary acts are not those of violence, but of kindness; try a little tenderness, try a little tiny tenting! Make a tent, create a message, and GO TENTING! it can be done anywhere, everywhere, and costs almost nothing. Get twigs, old fabrics, glue, and hazah! You have a poetic tiny tent which spreads radical imagination everywhere" (Alex C.)

Building of a tiny tent with dowels and canvas

Building Materials

Luminaries in side the tent, this size seemed to be the best for fire inside the #tinytents

Used recycled materials and stuff from outside to build your tents

Art supplies for writing our messages on the canvas, wax, paper or any other material that would act as a lumiary

#tinytenting is fun and inspirational, the occupy movements have to find ways to allow people to have fun and be creative and this is one way that has come about in kind of a natural progression since most occupation are being evicted. Tiny Tenting allows you to occupy spaces that you would otherwise be immediately turned away from. Push the boundaries, take a picture. Leave a tent or two in an area to see what kind of response the tents have on others.

For more information about #tinytent building or to share your tenting adventures tag your photos with @nerephotography and #tinytenting #ows

To see all photos and ideas on how to build tiny tents click the link below

http://www.occupywithart.com/occupy-photos/tinytenting-nyc/



Philip Glass and Lou Reed speak at Occupy Lincoln Center - Dec 1, 2011

SUNDAY, 11/20: Yes Men lab drum circle at Bloomberg's personal townhouse: 17 East 79th Street.

Massive 24-hour DRUM CIRCLE and JAM SESSION party starting tomorrow, Sunday at 2pm, outside Mayor Bloomberg's personal townhouse: 17 East 79th Street.

Tie-dye, didgeridoo, hackeysack welcome! No shirt, no shoes, no problem! And if you don't have talent, don't worry: FREE DRUM LESSONS offered! Also on offer: collaborative drumming with the police!

Even though this is a 24-hour drum circle, don't be late! The mayor loves evictions. Who knows what'll happen? In any case, there'll be an afterparty in world-famous Central Park right afterwards.

Please spread this announcement (www.yeslab.org/drumcircle) as far and fast as you can!

WHAT DO WE DO NOW?

By Occupennial Co-organizer Paul McLean

Since late September, Occupennial has provided artists with the opportunity to share art inspired by the occupation of Zuccotti Park in the financial district of lower Manhattan, and satellite occupations that have sprung up around the country and the world. Occupennial has opened a virtual space in which documentation of #OWS and other occupations can be catalogued and revisited. We have created areas for memorializing the artist actions that have helped shape and empower #OWS, and we have built the architecture for occupant artist community and production, including listings, proposal throughputs, resource exchanges and a growing network of organizations and venues dedicated to supporting 99% expression in all its peaceful, artist forms. Occupennial has also initiated a program of actualization for occupation-generated artist projects, starting with our successful collaboration with Printed Matter in Chelsea, with other amazing ventures currently in process.

The police action and clearance of Liberty Square in the early morning hours of November 15 remind us of the tremendous importance of establishing and maintaining an archive of the Occupy art that is inspiring the 99% to stand up and displace the 1% choke-hold on our commonwealth, and democracy. The urgency of your contributing to our database, chronicling this historic moment couldn't be greater. It would be a tragic cultural loss to let the memory of #OccupyWallStreet, and the hundreds of occupations that have occurred in communities of every description, spanning the globe, to fade away. Therefore, we at Occupennial once more ask you to please send us your photos, videos, poems, songs, paintings, drawings, cartoons, ideas, texts and art-action documentation, so we can continue to grow a communal archive for the occupation.

Contact us:
Use the CONTACT button at the top of the page or send your content via email to occupennial@gmail.com

Send us your Occupy art, etc., and occupation documentation:
Use the CONTACT button at the top of the page or send your content via email to occupennial@gmail.com; or use the Drop Box in the sidebar.

Sweeping away the encampment at Liberty Square will not stop the Occupation. It's too late for that, now. ...But it's up to us, the 99%, to insist on our own survival as a movement, and as free people. To ensure our cause doesn't disappear we must commit to preserve the shared memory of what we've done individually and together, what we've expressed, to continue our actions in support of #OWS and all the occupations, and to create new expressions of 99% solidarity every day, wherever we are.

With love and appreciation,
Paul

SpaceBank

A Latin American virtual community investment bank trading online since the beginning of the Otra Campaña Zapatista in 2005.

Open your account with only $10 USD, and invest on the Brooklyn Stock Exchange <http://spacebank.org/bsex/>.

For exchange currency rate of the Digital Material Sunflower consult
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http://spacebank.org

This was started by Eyebeam resident Fran Ilich: http://eyebeam.org/people/fran-ilich

Read Amelia Marzec's article about SpaceBank and OWS in the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amelia-marzec/artist-brings-virtual-cur_b_1080436.html

This Wednesday Occupy Museums once again stands in solidarity with the art handlers at Local 814 who have been locked out of their jobs for three months. Despite pulling in record profits last year, Sotheby's is demanding wage and benefit cuts and has hired unskilled replacement art handlers at a lower wage. The union has stood vigilant on the picket lines against these injustices for twelve weeks, but are still without a fair contract. Join us Wednesday November 9th, on the picket line outside of Sotheby's contemporary art auction to show your support and solidarity for Teamsters Local 814!

Schedule of Events:

Wednesday November 9th, 2011

4PM Meet in Liberty Park

4:45 Occupy the Subway

5:30 Meet with Teamsters Local 814 and Hunter College Students and March to Sotheby's!

Occupy Union Square - SUNDAY, Nov 6, 1PM

Public Movement will be performing in Union Square at 1PM, followed by a GA initiated by several members of the Arts & Culture Working group at 1:30PM.

We will be meeting at Libery Plaza at 10AM to make signs and discuss agenda items for Occupy Union Square, and heading over to Union Square around noon. Performance starts at 1PM, the GA will begin at 1:30PM. Join in and bring your friends.

"Positions" by Public Movement and teach-in on non violence disobedience - Friday 11/4 1PM

Positions - An Action by Public Movement

Positions (NYC, Washington Square, 11/4/11) Friday, November 4, 1 p.m., Washington Square Park

**Following this performance the #OWS Direct Action group will hold a rally and a teach-in on non- violence disobedience at 1:30PM**

Positions (NYC, Union Square, 11/6/11)
Sunday, November 6, 1 p.m., Union Square South

This week, the action and research group Public Movement presents Positions, a choreographed demonstration that invites people to take a stand on any number of urgent issues. Presented in Warsaw, Holon, Bat-Yam, Eindhoven, Heidelberg, Stockholm, and now New York, the Movement invites the public to embody their preferences, aspirations, and beliefs—manifesting political and philosophical ideas as physical positions in Washington Square Park and Union Square South. This will be Public Movement’s first presentation in the United States.

In February 2011, Public Movement leader Dana Yahalomi began her research toward a project for New York, meeting with artists, historians, urban planners, memorial designers, politicians, government officials, and NYPD officers. The residency continues from January–April 2012, during which time Yahalomi will present bi-weekly salons as part of the 2012 New Museum Triennial, “The Generational.” The salons will culminate in a newly commissioned action for New York City in April 2012.

Public Movement is a performative research body that investigates and stages political actions in public spaces. The Movement explores the political and aesthetic possibilities that reside in a group of people acting together. It studies and creates public choreographies, forms of social order, and overt and covert rituals. Public Movement was founded in November 2006 and was led by Omer Krieger and Dana Yahalomi until August 2011, when Yahalomi became the sole group leader. Visit their website for more information.

Occupy Halloween-PLANNING UPDATE!

Occupy Wall St. has been invited to join the largest public halloween parade in the nation!
For more information about OWS's participation the Halloween parade, visit: http://occupyhalloween.typepad.com/occupyhalloween/

If you're interested in paraticipating, there are several meet-ups in the next few days:

For puppet building, please contact Joe or Alma with questions or days and times you're planning on coming by!  Our contact info can be foudn at the bottom of the post.  The studio is in Joe's name and he is the mind behind the puppets we are building. 

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 
Build puppets and paint banners 6pm to midight 
20 Jay Street, Brooklyn (A or F) 

Friday 
Build and paint all day! 
20 Jay Street, Brooklyn (A or F) 

Saturday 
1pm - Battery Park 
Participation and Info Meet Up! 
Come by the park to take a look at the puppets, meet some of the 
people involved and let us know if and how you'd like to participate 
the day of Halloween!  We will have a few choreographers, make up 
artists and others there if you need some assistance organizing and in 
general want to hear your plans for the parade. 

Sunday 
1pm - Battery Park 
Rehearsals and Report Backs! 
People who want to be in the Superheroes v Supervillains morning event 
or want to be in the parade, come to the park so we can settle any 
last minute logistic questions and check in on the various projects 
culminating on Halloween. 

Monday - Halloween! 
9am - Superheroes v. Economic Supervillains 
Contact Gan at gangolan@gmail.com, for more details.  We will have 
costumed crusaders, such as the Master of Degrees, there to fight the 
social and political inequities of our system.  Watch for an all out 
battle and contact Gan if you want to participate! 

7:30pm - Parade! 
We will begin meeting for the parade!  Please get in touch for more 
details on where to meet and how the blocs will be arranged. 

Conact info:

General email - powertothepuppets@gmail.com 
Joe - loucrimson@yahoo.com 
Gan - gangolan@gmail.com 
Alma - wafflesushi@gmail.com

OCCUPY MUSEUMS!

The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%. No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be tricked into accepting a corrupt hierarchical system based on false scarcity and propaganda concerning absurd elevation of one individual genius over another human being for the monetary gain of the elitest of elite. For the past decade and more, artists and art lovers have been the victims of the intense commercialization and co-optation or art. We recognize that art is for everyone, across all classes and cultures and communities. We believe that the Occupy Wall Street Movement will awaken a consciousness that art can bring people together rather than divide them apart as the art world does in our current time…

Let’s be clear. Recently, we have witnessed the absolute equation of art with capital. The members of museum boards mount shows by living or dead artists whom they collect like bundles of packaged debt. Shows mounted by museums are meant to inflate these markets. They are playing with the fire of the art historical cannon while seeing only dancing dollar signs. The wide acceptance of cultural authority of leading museums have made these beloved institutions into corrupt ratings agencies or investment banking houses- stamping their authority and approval on flimsy corporate art and fraudulent deals.

For the last few decades, voices of dissent have been silenced by a fearful survivalist atmosphere and the hush hush of BIG money. To really critique institutions, to raise one’s voice about the disgusting excessive parties and spectacularly out of touch auctions of the art world while the rest of the country suffers and tightens its belt was widely considered to be bitter, angry, uncool. Such a critic was a sore loser. It is time to end that silence not in bitterness, but in strength and love! Because the occupation has already begun and the creativity and power of the people has awoken! The Occupywallstreet Movement will bring forth an era of new art, true experimentation outside the narrow parameters set by the market. Museums, open your mind and your heart! Art is for everyone! The people are at your door!

Dear Occupiers,

Since I posted Occupy Museums yesterday on FB, it's going quite viral on the internet. There is lots of discussion about what it means, whether it's a good idea what museums are doing for the 99% and the 1%.

These discussions, I feel, are really good ones to be having in the context of Occupy Wall Street, because this movement is about changing how we do things in this country from finance to culture- moving away from a culture that mainly benefits the 1%

I'll need help in planning this action tomorrow. Since it was supported by the A & C, I'd like to make sure that this action comes from the heart of our movement. Who would like to be a part of the historic first Occupation of MoMA of 2011?

My idea is that artist and everyone occupies museums together, bringing your artworks as well as OWS signs in protest. I'll bring my coin mask for example. We meet at 3:00 at 60 wall street for a short teach-in, then head over to touch base with the park, maybe doing a people's mic to get more peopleto join us.  Once at the Museums, we'll have a short GA with an opening statement, then people can get on stack and speak out their mind using people's mic.

Here are things we'll need:

-a one page info sheet about how museums generally and the ones we are going to specifically are pyramid schemes of the 1%  Paul- you wrote an email that has lots of info..I have turned it into a shared google Doc called Occupy Museums-someone to handle the twitter feed-OWS press -everyone bring a piece of their art to proudly display

Day 1: Revised  Schedule:

3:00 Meet at Liberty Park

Teach-in about the museums we are going to occupy

4:30 Livestream- read document in front of 5000 viewers.

Occupy the 4 train

5:00 Occupy MoMA

hours: 10:30-5:30

11 W 53^rd street New York, NY

Occupy the M3 Bus

6:00 Occupy Frick Collection

hours: 10:00-6 PM       

1 East 70th Street, New York, NY

Occupy the 6 train

7:00 Occupy New Museum

Thursdays 6-8 free 

235 bowery



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{From DanieARTS [daniele.kohn@gmail.com]}

[posted Friday, October 7 at 12:08PM from Alejandre]

I need: 

Art Students/People with art install experience.

• 5 volunteers this afternoon, 5 tomorrow morning, and 5 tomorrow afternoon.
• Tomorrow from 6-9 we need another few volunteers  (any sort of experience is probably fine)
• and then we need volunteers for clean up, SUNDAY, beginning at NOON. (any types)

[Contact the DanieARTS directly at the email provided above]