[OAS NODE #1]: When is #TITMOTA? And why?

From the notes of Jez Bold[NOTE]: The Occupational Art School Node #1 will launch its 3-month residency at Bat Haus in Bushwick (Brooklyn, NYC) with multi-faceted dimensional ana-event conducted by the incomparable Jez Bold, titled "Time in the Mind of the Anarchives." Below is the ana-press release #Jez3Prez has composed for #TITMOTA.] 

Axioms:

1. #TITMOTA is a show otherwise known as "Time in the Mind of the Anarchives"  
2. #TITMOTA has at least 2 parts, Part 1: Presentation/Performance and Part 2: Potluck & Potlache
3. You don't need to come to both (or either) to understand the #Anarchives, but you may get a better idea of what we're talking about.
4. You can start here, if you want: http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/es/e-misferica-91/jez3prezaatchu

Have you ever seen a work of art change over time?  Or watched a complex idea emerge from many unintentional steps?  For the Anarchives, process is product is process: each recorded moment brings a new iteration in an evolving work of art.  History itself is changing over time and each documented moment is an opportunity for a new interpretation.

Would you like to understand more?

Join Bold Jez, anarchivist, at the opening of the newly founded Occupational Art School for his 1st solo show called "TIME IN THE MIND OF THE ANARCHIVES."  Examine a collection of strange and familiar objects.  Discover what the universe looks like when refracted through the infinite panels of the K(rystalleido)scope.   Join him for a performance-presentation "Recording Future History: Activist archivism in Occupy Wall Street" to learn more about how the Anarchives altered recent history and informed the origins of OWS. 

As stated by #Jez3Prez, anarchist candidate for Prezident, "In order to radically change our history, we must revolutionize our concept of time." The site of historical struggle can begin anywhere, and here it begins by infiltrating the archive.

Magic Mountain

*Time in the Mind of the Anarchives, Pt 1 [#TITMOTA][August 9, 2012 at OAS Node #1][BAT HAUS, Bushwick]

• 7 pm
  • Wander/wonder/wait/explore (discover drawings inside of journals, find movies inside books, look for scenes on the ceiling)
• 8 pm 
  • Presentation/Performance "Recording Future History: Activist archivism in Occupy Wall Street" featuring:
    • - #LiveReports from the 1st General Assembly of OWS 2011.Aug.2, "testing wall street" 2011.Sept.1, and the NY Fun Exchange [#NYFE] 2012.Sept.17
    • - #LiveReplays of Pre-Occupy Wall Street direct action stunts in Wall Street by the original OWS Arts and Culture Posse #OWSACP
• (Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/370272566379787/  )

*Time in the Mind of the Anarchives Pt 2 [#TITMOTA2]: Potluck/Potlache

Revolutionary Games, in collaboration with the Occupational Art School, invites you to the latest in its series of salons: the #TITMOTA2 Potluck & Potlache will be a free space to participate in an art exchange and give away of recipes, books, media, art...whatever items of substance that you want to send out into the world. This event is a community BBQ and potluck, a review & replay of the first #TITMOTA, and a playground for games, music, and memees; bring things to share with everyone. #OASNode0 invites you to a potlache of orphan works that we commit the annals of the Anarchives by documenting their current presence and sending them into the world with new stewards (who collect, care for, & document the item's changes over time). YOU could already be the new host of an item from the Anarchives! We invite you to bring something to send out as well, something of your own to share with the world through the collection of this revolutionary community archive. As with any valuable experience, expect to come away with more than you came...

• (Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/154708874653530 )

WS2MS: Press Release [#f24]

[NOTE: We've launched a section in our WS2MS Active Projects & Proposals area for 411 on the Catskill production, where you'll be able to find the latest updates and info on WS2MS art, artists, initiatives, events, activities, context, press and documentation. You can find out more about the WS2MS programming HERE.]

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WALL STREET TO MAIN STREET

Six months after Occupy Wall Street (OWS) sparked a global 99% movement, Occupy with Art and Masters on Main Street launch "Wall Street to Main Street" (WS2MS) in historic Catskill, NY. Through a dynamic series of art exhibits, performances, screenings, happenings, public discussions, community- and family-focused activities, WS2MS will not only illuminate the amazing phenomenon of OWS, it will explore possible futures of the movement and build a creative bridge to connect the protests with the real needs and values of Main Street, USA. WS2MS opens March 17, 2012 in Catskill, NY. For additional details, see attached information. 

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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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Press Release for LOW LIVES: OCCUPY!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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

OCCUPY WITH ART ANNOUNCES
LOW LIVES: OCCUPY!

January 26, 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. Mark Read (creator of the 99% “bat signal”) will contribute a special projection and performance in conjunction with Low Lives: Occupy! in New York City.

Paul McLean, co-organizer of Occupy with Art, commented: “Occupy with Art is proud to present Low Lives: Occupy! in collaboration with the Hemispheric Institute of NYU. We hope to amplify the voice of the 99% (Mic: CHECK), and articulate our desires and dreams, as a transmission, relayed in real time to presenting partners (and occupations) around the globe. Low Lives: Occupy! will stage a sequence of unique encounters with the 99%, and Occupy with Art will serve, along with our collaborators, as facilitators and archivists for this event. We look forward with great anticipation to what promises to be a magical evening together celebrating Occupy and the Occupiers of Now.”

The Low Lives: Occupy! program will include over two dozen performance artists, Occupy groups, and artist collectives located worldwide in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy movement for the 99%. Participants will expand the reach and visibility of the Occupy protests by broadcasting to an international audience community. The Occupy protests, and the myriad of perspectives and experiences related to this unique movement, will be amplified, explored, and experimented with, through Low Lives’ internet-based creative platform.

Presenting partner and event organizer, Occupy with Art, will host the Low Lives: Occupy! live simulcast at OccupywithArt.com, providing the means for viewers around the world to access the program online. The Hemispheric Institute, presenting partner and official New York City venue for Low Lives: Occupy!, will present one live performance during the March 3 event, and screen all other selections in real time using live-streaming technology. Other presenting partners of Low Lives: Occupy! will present the simulcast in their own venues and public spaces.

Occupy with Art is an affinity group of the Arts & Culture Working Group of the NYC General Assembly for Occupy Wall Street. Formerly Occupenial, Occupy with Art is made up of artists, writers, curators, and art professionals lending their skills to produce art, cultural events and projects, with a particular focus on OWS itself as a social art process. Occupy with Art produces art projects, large-scale events, and exhibitions, working with Occupy groups as well as outside organizations.

Artist proposals for Low Lives: Occupy! are due February 6, 2012. Interested co-presenters must contact Low Lives in advance of that date. For information on proposal and presenter requirements, visit lowlives.net

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