OAS Node #1 [10/5]: Starr Street Slam (PROGRAM)

OAS Node #1 [10/3]: Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Occupational Art School Node 1 @Bat Haus is pleased to host an evening of conversation with New Media phenom Amelia Winger-Bearskin on Wednesday, October 3 from 7-9PM. She will performing in the OASN1@BH event STARR STREET SLAM. For our Wednesday night discussion with Amelia, we hope to discuss Open Source Performance Art, time-based media, and Winger-Bearskin's continent-hopping artist practice. 

"Flowers," performed in Manila City, Philippines [2010]

[ABOUT AMELIA WINGER-BEARSKIN]:

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an assistant professor of Art and Film at Vanderbilt University in the area of Time Based Media Arts and Performance. She works with 'models' (as defined by agent-based computer programming) as a conceptual prompt in her performance work. She has developed a concept of Open Source Performance Art (OSPA) and has spoken about OSPA at various academic conferences and performance festivals since 2010. She performed at the 10th Annual OPEN ART Performance Art festival in Beijing, China, The Performance Art Network PANAsia '09 in Seoul, South Korea, and the TAMA TUPADA 2010 Media and Performance festival in the Philippines. Winger-Bearskin recently spent a month in Sao Paulo, Brazil performing at the Verbo Performance Art Festival (the first American performance artist to be invited to do so), through an international scholar exchange sponsored by University of Sao Paulo and Vanderbilt University VIO and Art Department. She was an Artist in residence at the University of Tasmania (Australia) school of Visual and Performing arts. Other recent performance credits include the  Gwangju Biennial [three events: 1) main pavilion; 2) the Lotte Gallery Media and Performance Festival; and 3) the Women's Biennial in Seoul, Korea].

Currently, she is presenting a sound installation throughout the Nashville International Airport, and in Fall 2012 will be speaking about her work and OSPA as a visiting artist at universities in Portland, OR; Chicago, IL; and New York City, NY.

"Crying on Cue;" for the Performance Art Network PAN ASIA Performance Art Festival in Seoul, Korea [2009]

[ABOUT AMELIA'S UPCOMING PERFORMANCE AT STARR STREET SLAM]:

Vocal Performance

Amelia Winger-Bearskin was classically trained at the Eastman Conservatory of Music in Vocal Performance, she has worked in theatre and opera both as a performer and a composer since 1997.  Her pieces are a fusion between punk, electro, opera and dark wave, with a heavy dose of performance art and interactivity as well. This work, Vocal Performance, requires only two things, an audience and darkness (or the absence of any artificial light).

OAS Node #1 [10/5]: Starr Street Slam (TEASER + PRESS RELEASE)

PRESS RELEASE

FOR RELEASE IN ALL MEDIA

On Friday, October 5, 2012, from 7-9PM Brooklyn Rail Editor Theodore Hamm will host STARR STREET SLAM an historic series of readings in the heart of Bushwick/Brooklyn/NYC/USA/Earth at the Occupational Art School Node 1 @Bat Haus. The list of presenters includes Barbara Browning, Doug Cordell, Corey Eastwood, Paul McLean and Christopher Moylan. Come join us for a fine time, for merriment, for smart and inspirational words, for libations and finger foods, for communal pleasure of all sorts!

OCCUPATIONAL ART SCHOOL NODE 1 @BAT HAUS

279 Starr Street 
[BUSHWICK] Brooklyn, NY 11237

L Stop: Jefferson Street 
[Exit the train at the Wyckoff/Starr end of the platform, walk with the one-way on Starr towards St. Nicholas a half block, and Bat Haus is just past the famous taco stand on the left. Look for the yellow ochre door that says “Bat Haus.”]

MORE INFO: artforhumans at gmail dot com

URLs:
occupationalartschool.com 
occupationalartschool.tumblr.com
occupywithart.com
batha.us
brooklynrail.org
artforhumans.com

OAS Node 1 @Bat Haus is an Occupy with Art + Art for Humans Project. Founding members include Paul McLean, Chris Moylan, JenJoy Roybal, Alexandre Carvalho (OAS Node n) and Bold Jez (OAS Node 0). 

THE ALL-STARR STREET PLAYERS:

BARBARA BROWNING teaches performance studies at N.Y.U. and writes novels. 
DOUG CORDELL tells stories on NPR and writes them in the Brooklyn Rail. 
COREY EASTWOOD is a writer and co-owner of Book Thug Nation and Human Relations Books in Bushwick. 
PAUL McLEAN is a regular Rail contributor, dimensional artist and founding member of OASN1.
CHRISTOPHER MOYLAN is a professor, poet-artist, union organizer, occupier and founding member of OASN1. 

THEODORE HAMM is editor of the Brooklyn Rail.

ABOUT OAS NODE 1: 

“Our dream is to open a building in Bushwick, Brooklyn with vegetable and flower gardens on the roof, studios of all sorts on another floor (painting, holography, photography, theater, film and all these working together) on another, living spaces and a childcare facility on another and all of these centered on a cooperative economy: food co-op, art and educational co-op, art offered in an alternative economic model. The doors to and in this place will open all ways— out to the community so all are welcome and within the space open to all rooms so people share and work together and create together. There will be teaching in this school, naturally, but no classes. Instruction will be through inspiration and guidance in open apprenticeships. We will practice the spirit of Occupy in the most constructive, joyous, healing way we can. We will step outside of capitalism, not confront or battle it. We will ignore the hegemony of institutions and corporate interests not try to overthrow or fight them. We will work outside of corporate time and within liberated time that flows as it will.

We are doing this. The process is in place. Artists are coming to the school to give lectures, for free. We are attracting people from the community and already we are engaging in an alternative art economy, exchanging services of various sorts for lessons and art. This is happening very fast. We are in deep rem sleep, dreaming hard, and it is a wonderful experience.” - Chris Moylan (October 2012)

ABOUT BROOKLYN RAIL:

Founded in October 2000 and currently published monthly with a print circulation of 20,000 and an international online monthly readership of over 500,000, the Brooklyn Rail is committed to providing an independent forum for arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond.

Our journal features local reporting, art criticism, fiction, poetry, as well as coverage of music, dance, film and theater. In 2004, the Rail was honored with several awards from the Independent Press Association-NY, and in 2002 and 2003, we proudly received the Utne Independent Press Award for Best Local/Regional Coverage in North America. In addition, the Rail further fulfills its mission by curating art exhibitions, panel discussions, reading series and film screenings that reflect the complexity and inventiveness of the city’s artistic and cultural landscape. If you would like to receive occasional updates on our events and other special projects, please join our mailing list.

Our small press, The Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions, publishes books of poetry, experimental fiction, prose meditation, artists’ writings, and interview with artists in addition to art and literary criticism.

The Brooklyn Rail, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, distributes its journal free of charge, and our devoted staff, editors and contributors work on an entirely voluntary basis. We rely exclusively on the philanthropy of foundations and individual donors to meet our production, operation, and program expenses. If you are interested in supporting us, please consider making a fully tax-deductible donation.

ABOUT BAT HAUS: 

Bat Haus is the creation of Natalie Chan & Cody Sullivan, which began as a vague idea just after New Year’s 2012. Through many conversations with small business advisors, bankers, fellow coworking spaces, lawyers, and contractors, this idea has evolved into a complex and well-mannered life-form.

Videos from DisciplineAriel performance at OASN1 @Bat Haus [August 25]

Photo by Cody Sullivan

Video by Cody Sullivan of live performance at Occupational Art School Node 1 at Bat Haus on Saturday, August 25, 2012. Performing: Wilson Novitzki (synth, etc), Adam Caine (guitar), Michael Barron (overhead projector), Paul McLean (animations, overhead projector, image uploads).

[MORE VIDEOS]:

• CODY #1: http://youtu.be/5r-u2GFpBUY
• MIKE #2: http://youtu.be/Cii_HplrsMo
• MIKE #1: http://youtu.be/41lNbyjDXeI

http://www.disciplineariel.tumblr.com

[OAS Node #1 [July 13]

Technical

[Session 5]

Today we visited the St. James Theater and a tech rehearsal for the "Bring It On - The Musical," at the invitation of designer Jeff Sugg.

[CONSIDERATIONS, OBSERVATIONS + CONJECTURES]

• OWS has been characterized as an art medium, and analyzed relative to performance, performance art, relational art and other modalities of staged expression or exchange. Precursors to the Occupation like Zefrey Throwell's naked staged intervention on Wall Street ("Ocularpation: Wall Street") expand the set of considerations, as do the actions of the original Arts & Culture group/gamers and the Aaron Burr Society, suggesting that there is something to it. Many kinds and instances of performance, often involving professional performers, were and continue to be integrated into Occupational activities, such as "The Tax Dodgers," the Brecht performers and so on. One of the most compelling collective circle-discussions hosted by Hrag Vartanian during the Spatial Occupation @Hyperallergic centered on these phenomena. Where does performance (as situated in entertainment or artifice) stop and Occupation-as-performance begin and/or end? Does the conflation of performance and occupation diminish the latter and trivialize it, by compressing the redress of grievances into a modality of coded narrative for desire-satisfaction? Etc. Certainly this is fertile territory for analysis with tactical or strategic implications. [David Graeber has written on this subject relative to protest, police, puppets and media propaganda, which we also attempted to address in SO@H residency reading group. Graeber's text(s) indicated the anarchist's jaundiced and limited vision for art in conjunction with direct action, minimizing art into a protest utility functionary, and redefining it to the extent that art is a fungible creativity applicable to all activities human, an absurdist conjecture ultimately. Is falling down art (if an art does it)? And, if everyone is an artist, is all falling down artistic? 
• The observation of the "Bring It On" tech rehearsal was profound for this viewer, who has been away from professional theater for the most part for the past decade, with some notable exceptions (Circle X at Ford Theater in LA, and other theatrical entertainments covered elsewhere). The opportunity to assess the evolving role of electronics in the medium led to the formation of some important seams of conjecture, mainly pertaining to the reformation of hierarchies in production, and the staged spaces in which artifacts from old, even ancient, models of dramatic transmission are being fundamentally redesigned, reoriented or constituted as ana-spaces for performance, due to the intervention of computer-sited processes in play-making and/or 4d presentation. Jeff and I briefly discussed these "advances" and related effects, and committed enthusiastically to further explore their significance. The power of theater in revolutionary change cannot be underestimated. These developments potentially point toward new theatrical practice that obviates the insipid corporatized "creative" economic content that passes often for top-shelf theater, now. Like similar spectacle-ism in sports, music, art, political races, war coverage, etc., the need for dimensional veracity for collective sharing of imaginary-real experience as vision is vital in reclaiming a democratic commons for us all. This is a key in expelling propaganda in all its insidious iterations from the field of dimensional perception. 

[Session 6]

Art Gatherings, Community, Exchange

• SLAG Gallery, Bushwick
• Opening for Claudia Chaseling, "Infiltration"

This communique is a stub. The subject is the continuing progressive evolution of Bushwick, Brooklyn as a locus for an international art community and market, and much, much more. [Full disclosure: The author is represented by SLAG] OAS Node #1 will host Bushwick-focused study and celebration of the dimensional "art scene" materializing in the neighborhood, which is our neighborhood. Bushwick's emergence is THE art story of the moment, now. Chronicling its "happening" is vital, and must not be left to the 1% or corporate media. Each OAS Node will be encouraged to analyze and document the art topology(-ies) it inhabits. The accumulation of data drawn from this analysis and documentation we hope will eventually yield a database that in its totality will paint a very different picture than the one(s) that exists now about art, artists and especially art-/artists-in-community. 

WS2MS: Our Final Weekend's Programming

[revgames] Dandelions on Fire

[From Alex]:

This is what DHS and police do when they repress free speech and collective liberation:

Update on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 10:42PM by admin

Hundreds Arrested In Massive Crackdown on #Blockupy

May 19, 2012 By Jérôme E. Roos

Jérôme E. Roos's ZSpace Page / ZSpace

Frankfurt on lock-down as over 5.000 police are deployed in an unprecedented operation to keep protesters out of the city and away from the banks.

 

The atmosphere here in Frankfurt is tense. The police are omnipresent. The sound of sirens permeates the city streets.

As I write this, some thousands of protesters are huddled together at the university, pitching tents or simply squatting a place on the ground to try and catch some sleep before tomorrow’s big actions. But as the activists here prepare to physically block the headquarters of the European Central Bank, the police already seem to have done the job for them.

The entire city is on lock-down. Roadblocks sever the main traffic arteries going into the city center. Everywhere, small squads of riot police patrol the streets looking for anyone who looks “suspicious” (i.e., like a potential Leftist). Shops and banks downtown have barricaded their windows with wooden planks, and at almost any random corner you will find a line of police vans, sometimes as many as 50 or 60 parked in a row. It feels like Frankfurt is preparing for civil war.

A few times today, small groups of people tried to make their voices heard by protesting or camping in one of the city’s squares. At some point, over 1,000 gathered in the central square, while later a small tent camp was set up elsewhere. Yet on every single occasion, the protesters were met with thousands of police who quickly cordoned off the squares, forced those present to identify themselves, and then continued by dragging them away one by one.

While German media report at least 150 arrests so far, the actual numbers are likely to be much higher. We have seen dozens of people arrested for “offenses” as simple as being in the wrong place at the wrong time; or carrying around a sleeping bag into the city center. The Italian newspaper Repubblica reports that 100 Italians alone have been arrested; leaving aside the Germans, Greeks, French, and countless other nationalities who have descended upon the city.

 

The Blockupy actions, scheduled to culminate in a large demonstration on Saturday, have already been banned by authorities (a ban that was, bizarrely enough, upheld by the country’s highest constitutional court). In an attempt to enforce this absurd ban, over 5,000 police have been drawn in from across the country. So far, it seems that there are at least 2.5 policemen to every protester in the city. The overreaction of the authorities is truly staggering.

This morning, as we walked towards the central station with four friends, we were stopped by a group of eight riot police who took our IDs, searched our bags and bodies and, after not finding anything suspicious, threatened us with immediate arrest if they found us in the city center again. In other words, not only does the state rudely violate the constitutional right to assembly; it also denies average citizens and independent journalists access to public spaces.

A caravan of three buses coming from Berlin was stopped before even arriving in Frankfurt, and directed straight back to Berlin under police escort. A kettling operation at the train station this morning ensured that those arriving by train could not join others gathering in the city center. Anywhere we tried to go, we literally had to keep an eye out not to run into more riot police and risk being arrested simply for walking in the street. It truly looks like a police state here.

Indeed, in Frankfurt, the financial capital of continental Europe, it feels like democracy has temporarily been put on halt. In the process, the state once again reveals its true nature. In an attempt to protect the city’s powerful banks, millions of euros are expended and basic constitutional rights suspended just to maintain a degree of control over the situation. Yet the intensity of the repression is only likely to further stir frustration among the protesters here.

In the most bizarre twist of all, the German and international media do not appear to be reporting on this extreme situation at all. When hundreds of peaceful protesters are arrested in Russia, our leaders and newspapers are quick to denounce Putin for being a dictator. Yet when it happens in a civilized society and advanced economy like Germany, the peaceful protesters are suddenly denounced as violent criminals — or simply not spoken about at all.

 

Tomorrow we will not only take the struggle to the ECB; we will also fight for our right to protest peacefully, publicly and passionately. We will not be intimidated. We will not be crushed. And most certainly, we will not back down. And even if they crack down on us again — which they will — let it be known that our aims have already been achieved: the financial epicenter of eurocapitalism is completely blocked. And the authorities were kind enough to do it for us. 

Tax Dodgers Go to Bat for the 1% on Tax Day

Photo: Paul Talbot

Tax Day: The Tax Dodgers go to bat for the 1%

The best team corporate money can buy, knocks social services outta the park! 

WHO: The Tax Dodgers will be celebrating yet another record-breaking season at the headquarters of their sponsors, GE, Verizon, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.  The team will be joined by their hula-hooping cheerleading squad, The Loopholes, and together, they will be personally thanking everyday New Yorkers for paying their taxes for them. The team will even pay a special visit to Trump Tower with their official mascot, ‘Mitt’ in order to  help Donald Trump throw a birthday party for Anne Romney, where Mitt himself is expected to show. The team’s house band, the Occuponics, will help them sing  joyous renditions of ‘Take Me Out To The Tax Game.’

Team owner Alec Dickman, explains the team’s victorious mood: “On Tax Day, most Americans feel like they are making a making a difficult sacrifice for the greater good.  Not us. For the richest corporations in America, Tax Day is Pay Day.”

SCHEDULE:  Tuesday, April 17 beginning at 12 noon and appearing around the city throughout the day.
12:30 pm - Tax Dodgers, Loopholes, Occuponics and Mitt will be outside 725 5th Ave.
1:15 pm - Bain Capital (57th and Madison).
2:00 pm - General Electric (50th and 5th).
2:45 pm - Paulson Group (50th and 6th)
3:30 pm - Wells Fargo (43rd and 6th)
4:00 pm - March from Bryant Park to Wells Fargo, 39th & 7th; Chase at 37th &7th; US Post Office 33d & 8th.
8:00 pm - GE Headquarers, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, joined by the mobile projection vehicle, The Illuminator.

Media Contacts:  
Gan Golan  gangolan@gmail.com  (510 )290-3334  
Ben Master (917) 657-2610 bmaster@unitedny.org

http://www.taxdodgers.net      http://www.facebook.com/TheTaxDodgers   #taxdodgers 

Update on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 03:50PM by admin

On Tax Day, the best team that corporate money can buy went to bat for the 1%, helping Donald Trump celebrate Anne Romney's birthday at Trump Tower. The winning team also spent the day touring around New York congratulating the year's most valuable players, GE, Verizon, Bank of America, for another record breaking tax season. Here's what happened....

• Huffington Post [slideshow]: Tax Dodgers And Occupy Wall Street Protest Bank Tax Evaders Outside Trump Tower
• The Gaurdian: US protesters mark tax day with protest at Ann Romney's birthday party
• Gothamist [slideshow]: Tax Dodgers Visit Donald Trump's Trump Tower
• CNN : The Tax Dodgers Thank You For Paying Their Taxes
• Alternet: Romney Celebrates with Trump as Working New Yorkers Rally Against Rich Tax Dodgers
• Democratic Underground: Women leaving a lunch hosted by Ann Romney are confronted by protesters in Tax Dodgers uniforms
• WBAI: Tax Day (starts at 2:00)
• The Nation: Hundreds Protest America's Crooked Tax System
• The Epoch TImes: Low Tax Rates for Corporations, Wealthy Protested
• YouTube: "Take Me Out To The Tax Game"

The Civilians Occupy Your Mind/Low Lives 4: Occupy! [#m3]

Ana from LA performs Manissa from New York in The Civilians Occupy Your Mind/Low Lives 4: Occupy! Event on March 3rd.

OPEN CALL from The Civilians/Occupy Your Mind:

[via Morgan]

Dear Occupiers,

We at The Civilians create work based upon interviews taken from real people who find themselves in a particular political or social circumstance of controversy or interest.  Over the past several months we've been interviewing people involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement.  With these interviews we’ve held two cabaret-type performances in Joe's Pub at The Public Theater in NYC.

Now we are getting everyone involved! Watch what people have already done here.

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More from #m3 LL:O!

From Low Lives: Occupy! The People Staged [#m3]

The People Staged presents FATHER$ OF LIE as part of the international broadcast 'Low Lives: Occupy!' on March 3, 2012.

Pre-production coverage in The Village Voice HERE.

[PHOTOS]

LOW LIVES: OCCUPY! TONIGHT!

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.

Occupy Your Mind

About:

Welcome to OCCUPY YOUR MIND! This is where we are posting videos, photos, and transcripts that people across the country have created from interviews with OCCUPY protesters. To help record the living history of OCCUPY, click HERE!

A Project of The Civilians, The Center for Investigative Theater



A Non-Valentine Message

By Jim Costanzo

Aristotle understood that money is a form of social exchange. Joseph Beuys called this process social sculpture and proclaimed that all people are creative in the way that they live their lives. Art is an intensified form of social exchange, more specific and at times poetic. But intensity is not limited to artists and should not be separated from daily activities. Creativity is our Commons, Art is our Commons. Limiting creativity is limiting social exchange. It is a form of oppression; the slavery of the 99% imposed by the 1%.

This was a synthesis of my performance for Greg opening at the forum, transcribed below.

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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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Official Call for Entries/Presenters for Low Lives: Occupy!

Low Lives: Occupy!
INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ARTISTS AND PRESENTERS

Event Date: 3 March 2012

Deadline for proposals: 6 February 2012

www.lowlives.net

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Low Lives launches new program in partnership with Occupy With Art and The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.

On March 3rd, 2012, Low Lives: Occupy! an international platform designed to enable artists, audiences, and presenters in alliance with the Occupy movement to support the occupation, will transmit live performances, actions, and happenings online as they occur in real time around the world. Participating artists, artist collectives, Occupy groups, and presenters worldwide will expand the reach and visibility of the Occupy protests by broadcasting to an international community and audiences. The Occupy protests, and the myriad of perspectives and experiences related to this unique moment, will be amplified, explored, and experimented with, through Low Lives’ internet-based creative platform. Low Lives: Occupy! recognizes the powerful opportunity that is the presentation of performances from around the world, and invites artists to open eyes and minds by presenting a radical re-imagining of possible ways of existing and relating.

Over the past 4 years Low Lives has developed a platform that invites and enables artists, audiences, and presenting venues to "plug in and participate" from anywhere an internet connection exists. This technological platform brings a history of supporting artists’ full creative freedom to imagine new worlds and is now offered to artists interested to present work in solidarity with #OWS. Online documentation of the live event will allow Low Lives: Occupy! to inspire online audiences far into the future.

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OWS events at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn - Jan 5 to Jan 11, 2012

I want to invite you to a very exciting action at the Invisible Dog
Art Space (51 Bergen St. in Brooklyn). It will be for 7 days, from
January 5th until January 11th. Here's the deal:

Steve Valk, a choreographer and activist from Occupy Frankfurt was
invited to organize a series of performances as part of the PS122 Coil
Festival. He thought it would be a great opportunity to "Occupy" a
performance space, and approached a few of us from Arts and Culture in
early December about a collaboration. Steve is excited about having a
dialogue with with OWS artists, writers, and activists of all kinds,
and a group of about six of us from OWS have collaborated with Steve
to prepare this event. So far, it's looking mighty good.

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Occupy Broadway, Dec 2, 2011

Dramatic Karaoke #occupybroadway

See Paul Talbot's post on The Wheel blog about Occupy Broadway HERE.

Below:

""Video from the amazing monologist Mike Daisey performing at #occupy broadway afer his Off-Broadway show "The agony of Steve Jobs" at The Public Theater for more information http://www.publictheater.org/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,141/id,1043 or check out Mike Daisey at http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/