OASN1 + Human Relations Books: Flyer for Ben Nadler's The Men Who Work Under The Ground

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OASN1 + Human Relations Books Present Ben Nadler's The Men Who Work Under The Ground

The Men Who Work Under The Ground: An Experimental Reading, featuring the poems of Benjamin Nadler + audio by Blake Seidenshaw, Chris Moffett & Amelia Winger-Bearskin + Animations by Paul Mclean [+]

Co-presented by Human Relations Bookstore & Occupational Art School Node #1 on Saturday, December 8, 2012, 7-9PM

• OCCUPATIONALARTSCHOOL.COM
• OCCUPATIONALARTSCHOOL.TUMBLR.COM
• OCCUPYWITHART.COM
• FACEBOOK.COM/occupywithart
• HUMANRELATIONSBOOKS.COM
• FACEBOOK EVENT: http://www.facebook.com/events/299156983534990/

[About The Men Who Work Under The Ground]:

 BEN NADLER
Ben Nadler is the author of the poetry chapbook, The Men Who Work Under The Ground (Keep This Bag Away From Children Press, 2012), and the novel, Harvitz As To War (Iron Diesel Press, 2011). He lives in central Brooklyn, and teaches writing at The City College of New York. He is the grandson of a coal miner.

[Excerpt from Brooklyn, the opening poem in The Men Who Work Under The Ground]:

I always knew we were working against the earth

with a foe like that the odds weren't in my favor.

You attack something for long enough

eventually it attacks you back.

Trespasses are not forgiven.

I do believe electricity

remembers being coal before it was burned. 

[About Human Relations Books]:

Human Relations is a joint venture of some hopeful, fresh-faced youth and the jaded, scowling he-crones of Williamsburg’s Book Thug Nation.

[About Occupational Art School 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. - OASN1 founding member Chris Moylan

[About Chris Moffett & Blake Seidenshaw]:

Chris Moffett and Blake Seidenshaw collectively assemble, on occasion, as The New Ergonomics (thenewergonomics.com) only to collaborate in turn with other assemblages, reworking the nature of work.

Blake is a contributing editor at ecogradients.com, an online journal of interdisciplinary culture and education. A ceramicist and a musician, he is a cofounder of the Ashtanga Yoga Outreach network. Also: interdisciplinary edutecture; the history and practice of philosophy and the natural sciences; and contemporary (cosmo)political (ethno)ecology.

Chris engages the imagery, philosophy and architecture of education, the way we image forming and being formed by our environments. Sitting in a chair, or refusing to sit still, becomes a form of art making. A nomad scholar and movement educator, Chris is also a founding member of the artist collective ARE (aestheticrelationalexercises.com).

[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.

[About Paul McLean]: 

Paul McLean is an artist accomplished in new media and traditional fine art, a pioneer in dimensional production and integrated exhibit practice. He has exhibited in one-man and collective shows extensively since 1986, and is currently represented by SLAG Contemporary Gallery in Bushwick (Brooklyn, NYC). His research interests include media philosophy, specifically pertaining to time and systems; individual and collective expression; and the convergence of 4D methodologies among military, political, business and social sectors. McLean holds a B.A. in English with a Fine Art concentration from the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN), two Masters degrees from Claremont Graduate University (MFA in Digital Media, Masters of Arts & Cultural Management) and is currently a doctoral candidate at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He is a contributing writer for the Brooklyn Rail and other publications and has been blogging since 1999. McLean has been a co-organizer of Occupy with Art since September 2011, and is a founding member of the Occupational Art School Node #1 in Bushwick. He creates moving images for projection, art environments and the web; net.art, web and print graphics; paintings and drawings; poems, commentary fiction and non-fiction. McLean lives and works in Bushwick.

New Collab: OASN1 & Human Relations Bookstore

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

OAS Node #1 @BAT HAUS: STARR STREET SLAM!

TONIGHT!

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

OAS Node #1 [9/21]: David Spaner

Occupational Art School Node 1 at Bat Haus is pleased to present an evening with David Spaner, who is visiting New York City to talk about his book SHOOT IT! Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film. Friday from 7-9PM, David Spaner will read a few passages from SHOOT IT! and engage in an open forum on the global corporate movie industry and its positive and negative effects on burgeoning alt.cinema. Copies of SHOOT IT! will be available for purchase and signing. Event is free for first-time visitors to OASN1@Bat Haus. Barter-gifts can arranged with OASN1 for returnees. 

CONTACT: OAS co-organizer Paul McLean artforhumans [at] gmail [dot] com

FACEBOOK EVENT: http://www.facebook.com/events/515008968528042/

ABOUT DAVID SPANER: 

David Spaner has worked as a movie critic, feature writer, reporter, and editor for numerous newspapers and magazines. Spaner's writings about culture (mostly film) and politics have appeared in alternative (The Open Road, Yipster Times, Georgia Straight) and mainstream publications (Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Magazine). His movie coverage and other cultural writing was featured in the Vancouver Province daily newspaper from 1999 to 2008, and won the Publishers Award for best feature writing in the paper. Spaner's column on independent film, "Indie City," also appeared in the newspaper.

MORE: http://www.cbsdtoolkit.com/microsites/?p=3&id=556

ABOUT SHOOT IT!:

Shoot It! is a revealing history of how Hollywood, with its eye on the bottom line, arguably lost its ability to support the work of creative filmmakers; it is also a passionate portrait of the independent filmmakers around the world who have risen up to fill the void.

While the studios envisage a generic universe, repressing local film cultures along the way, talented independents continue to tell local stories with universal appeal. This book is a celebration of those determined filmmakers who, despite it all, overcome every obstacle and just shoot it!

MORE: http://www.cbsdtoolkit.com/microsites/?id=556

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE DAVID SPANER THIS WEEK IN NYC: 

Wednesday, September 19th, 7:00pm

Shoot It! reading, screening of Cassavetes' Shadows, & a discussion w/ Leila Goldoni

Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway (at 12th Street), 3rd floor, New York, NY

Ticketing info: $10 Strand gift card or purchase of Shoot It!

Thursday, September 20th, 6:00pm (Doors: 5:30pm)

"Meet the Scholar" clips & discussion with David Spaner

3rd floor Screening Room, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Centre

111 Amsterdam Ave., 64th-65th Sts, New York

FREE EVENT

MORE INFO: http://www.cbsdtoolkit.com/microsites/?p=2&id=556

AUTHOR DAVID SPANER DISCUSSING SHOOT IT! ON URBAN RUSH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PezskcbmxM

READING + DISCUSSION WITH SHOOT IT! AUTHOR DAVID SPANER AT BOOK SOUP: http://youtu.be/SSfrnmLWD5Q

PREVIEW AND/OR PURCHASE SHOOT IT! ON AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/Shoot-It-Hollywood-Rising-Independent/dp/1551524082

WS2MS: Reading @Occupy Books + Dinner [#M21, 6-8PM]

Monday, May 21, 6-8 PM, stop by for a pop-up night of poetry and prose from OCCUPY BOOKS, the literary heart of the Wall Street to Main Street project at 450 Main Street in Catskill, NY.

Sander Hicks new book, Slingshot to the Juggernaut

Meet the writers at OCCUPY BOOKS for a short reading followed by pay-for-yourself dinner at Wasana’s Thai Restaurant, 336 Main Street.

Rebecca Wolff

The event will be hosted by Fence editor Rebecca Wolff. The reading is headlined by Sander Hicks, author of Slingshot to the Juggernaut: Total Resistance to the Death Machine Means Complete Love of the Truth, just out from Soft Skull Press.

Sam Truitt's Street Mete

Hicks is joined by beloved [Occupy] poet Sparrow, who will present on the power of silence. Sam Truitt will read poems from Vertical Elegies- Street Mete. Rebecca Wolff will share some of her new poetry, as well.

Sparrow, from his 2008 Presidential campaign

This promises to be a wonderful night, occupied by great people, verse, food and fun. Don't miss it!

http://www.facebook.com/events/103822953089752/

FREE SPEECH

The Brooklyn Rail presents "Free Speech: A Literary Celebration" with Jason Flores-Williams, Mark Read, Ted Hamm and special guests. Fri 3/16 12:30 pm, Zuccotti Park

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Come to “Free Speech: A Lit Event” w/ Jason Flores-Williams, Mark Read, Ted Hamm and special guests. Fri 3/16 12:30 pm, Zuccotti Park

Bios:

• -Jason Flores-Williams is a writer and criminal defense attorney. His story “The Battle of the Open Heart” is an OWS classic.
• -Mark Read is an activist, educator, and the artist who coordinated the "99% Bat Signal" that has inspired Occupiers everywhere.
• -Ted Hamm is editor of the Brooklyn Rail.

[The short essay I wrote for this is HERE - Paul]

& More on The Rail's Free Speech Weekend menu! >

SUNDAY, MARCH 18 AT 10 AM @ LEFT FORUM:

THE FUTURE OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT IN NEW YORK CITY

A panel discussion with the NYCLU's Donna Lieberman, civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel, and Brooklyn College professor Alex Vitale. Moderated by the Rail's Ted Hamm.

More on Left Forum (3-16/-18 @Pace) is HERE.

WS2MS: Occupy Books

[From Sam Truitt]

SO@H Residency Reading Group, Session 5 [#M4]

Spatial Occupation @Hyperallergic Reading Group

Sunday, March 4

7-9PM

Reading Group Session #5

Readings (both texts by David Graeber, and available for free download at Graeber’s Wikipedia page, HERE):

1. ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF GIANT PUPPETS: broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture
2. THE SADNESS OF POST-WORKERISM or “ART AND IMMATERIAL LABOR” CONFERENCE, A SORT OF REVIEW (Tate Britain, Saturday 19 January, 2009)

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

Hyperallergic

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



Spatial Occupation Reading Group [Session #4]

Spatial Occupation @Hyperallergic

Reading Group Session #4

Readings: Selections from Moby Dick [introduced by Chris Cobb]; + reading groupers are encouraged to bring 1-4 page printouts for the group to read, or to be read aloud, on the subject of food, plus other substantials/substances

[TEXT LINK]

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

Hyperallergic

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

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

Spatial Occupation Residency Reading Group Session 2 [#f12]

The Arts & Culture Space Team will be occupying the offices of Hyperallergic from February 1 through the end of March 2012. On Sunday, February 12 at 7PM, the Spatial Occupation Reading Group will convene to discuss Greg Sholette's seminal text, Dark Matter.

Spatial Occupation Residency Reading Group Orientation [#f5]

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Arts & Culture Space Team will be occupying the offices of Hyperallergic from February 1 through the end of March 2012. On Sunday, February 5 at 7PM, the Spatial Occupation Reading Group will convene with an orientation session.

[PROPOSITION 1]: At our first meeting, we will ask ourselves to construct a reading program for the two-month residency at Hyperallergic. What are the questions we would like to raise? What texts and printed matter will be in our library that speak to those questions? Our initial focus - aligned with the residency objectives - will be Occupied Space, and the projection of it, its materialization processes, the definitions and realities of space and habitation. How does history affect (or not affect) space, or location? Time? Naming? Do the differences between virtual and actual need to be addressed, or can they co-exist? Who owns “space,” and who owns “occupation” of it? What contingent schemes emerge, once we begin to answer such questions. Is space a fact? Can or does space change? Is occupation the energy that drives such change, and is such change progressive or systematic? Of course, because we are agents of Arts & Culture, these and other considerations and conjectures will be inspected through that particular lens, at least to begin. Because we are OWS, we must articulate our grievances (peacefully), for their redress; & because we are OWS, we must simultaneously investigate ourselves, collectively, individually, expressively. Finally, we can explore what arts best apply to space and occupation, and who and what factors engage to determine the spatial arts of Occupy, in this threshold moment - [an event?]. 

The “Spatial Occupation” residency at Hyperallergic will generate screenings, a reading group, exhibits, performances, demonstrations, artist talks, workshops, teach-ins and much more over a two-month span. To learn more about the residency, visit the website ( http://spatial-occupation.tumblr.com/ ) or contact the Space Team ( ows-arts-and-culture-spaces@googlegroups.com ).

About Hyperallergic: Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful and radical thinking about art in the world today. To learn more, visit the website ( http://hyperallergic.com/about/ )

Hyperallergic:
181 N 11th St
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Spatial Occupation Reading Group Session 1 [Orientation]: 7PM, Sunday February 5, 2012

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Occupy Wall Street: It Ain’t Over Yet

Occupennial co-organizer Chris Cobb wrote this essay for his SFMoMA blog. To read the essay in its entirety, click HERE.

Surely Fox and other news media wouldn’t deliberately try to smear a legitimate grassroots movement opposing such things as financial industry corruption, media corruption and bias, and political corruption? No of course not, the news is always fair and balanced.

A Note from Jason Flores-Williams

....I'll never forget yesterday at OWS long as I live. Such a privilege to be around it. For me, nothing shows how things could be versus how they are, than to spend a day in the cool humanness of Zucotti Park, then to walk a block over to Wall Street and feel like the guy next to you wants to stick a knife in your neck. For what..I don't know. Maybe the wrong shoes.

Today Times Square 5:00 pm EST. 

Tomorrow, doing a reading with a bunch of cool writers - Ina P, Ted H, Mark, Paul, Brenda - at the Bowery Poetry Club 3 to 4 pm. The gig is in 110 percent solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, requested donation of five bucks that will go directly to the cause. Food, clean, up, socks - all the sort of essentials required to mount an occupation. 

Bowery Poetry Club 3 to 4 pm tomorrow. Sunday.  

No doubt this will roll into something Kesey-ish.



OCCUPY THE CULTURE

Jason Flores-Williams will be in NYC this week doing occupant interventions, including a reading at Bowery Poetry Club & Cafe. Here's an excerpt from the text Jason will be reading from (originally published in Brooklyn Rail):

Now here was the vision: truth has a way of being relentless. Truth has a way of refusing to die. There will be many people who read this and see it as an overly sincere and melodramatic piece of crap, but there are those who will recognize it as one loser’s agonized attempt to get at the heart of the matter. And for those people, i.e. you and me, this game isn’t over. You can say that truth is going to use us for something, or maybe we’re braver than we think we are, or maybe that the bullshit volume of misery is going to get turned up so high that ultimately we’ll have no choice but to say fuck it and take a stand, but something is going to happen here. We will not go gently. I can see it in the eyes and on the faces: the desperate realization that five years of something beautiful is infinitely better than 30 more years of lies. We may go down, but we will go down swinging. The final act of this generation has yet to be staged.

The reading is from 3 to 4 pm this Sunday the 16th of October, and will also feature Ted Hamm, editor of Brooklyn Rail, and the Occupennial's Paul McLean.

"Jason Flores-Williams is a literary force of a nature...A train wreck of genius." San Francisco Chronicle.

"Jason Flores-Williams is the king of American protest literature." The Yellow Rake.