CO-OP/Occufest Flyer [b/w]

Free flyer download (8.5" x 11" 300dpi 1.9mb GS) HERE:

• http://artforhumans.com/co-op/occufest-flyer2-bw-op.tif

CO-OP/Occufest Flyer

Download a printable flyer (8.5"x11" 300dpi TIF 18.5mb) HERE.

CO-OP/Occuburbs Kick-off, with Films by Liza Bear, and More: Save the Date!

[Save the date: July 25, 2012]

Occupy with Art and Cinema Arts Center present a selection of short films by Liza Bear, + an evening of discussion, poetry, music and more -- to kick off CO-OP/Occuburbs in Huntington, Long Island.

Occupy: Corporations Can’t Cry

Date:

• July 25, 2012

Showtime

• Wednesday, July 25 at 7:30pm

Film / Discussion / Public Forum / Music /  Poetry
Co-Presented by Occupy with Art and Cinema Arts Center

Join us for a lively and illuminating evening about Occupy Wall Street, featuring the films of Liza Béar (who has been at OWS since the first day of the occupation), music, poetry, and information about numerous Long Island activist organizations

• In Person: Filmmaker Liza Béar
• Music by Brian O’Haire
• Poetry by Christopher Moylan 

$10 Members / $15 Public
(includes reception)
Tickets also available by calling 800-838-3006, or at the CAC Box Office
Scholarship Tickets are available for those unable to pay – Contact Charlotte Sky at 631-423-7610 x22

Since Day One, September 17, 2011, Liza Béar has filmed the modus operandi of Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park and at other New York locales. Shot over a 7 month period, these 65 minidocs or situationist videos combine dialogue between–and with—an eclectic range of OWS participants, members of the community and the security forces. The style is a mixture of verité filmmaking and a more proactive, direct cinema approach. The aim has been to dispel mass media stereotyping and facile judgments. To be screened tonight: OWS Day 5: “Corporations Can’t Cry”; “Zuccotti Gets Surreal”; “Occupy the SEC: Enforce the Volcker Rule,” “Occupy the Courts: Foley Square Rally to End Corporate Personhood”; OWSJ29: “Murder By SpreadSheet; Health Care for the 99%”; OWS M28 “The Trap of Violence” and others.

Liza Béar is a New York-based writer, filmmaker and media activist.  After arriving in New York in 1968, she cofounded the avant-garde artists’ magazine Avalanche 1970-1976 with Willoughby Sharp and was a co-producer of Communications Update, a public access artists’ tv show that also dealt with information politics. Her films have been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Sao Paulo Biennial, and most recently at Torpedo Kunsthalle, Oslo, Macka Art Gallery, Istanbul and the ICA London. She is the author of “Beyond the Frame: Dialogues with World Filmmakers” (Praeger, 2007).  Learn more at http://lizabearmakingbook.blogspot.com and http://communicationsupdate.blogspot.com

ROUND 2: Wall Street Stunts! [#F21]

SPATIAL OCCUPATION @ hyperallergic
Round 2/Session 3 [Screenings+]
7PM Tuesday

181 N. 11th Street [Williamsburg/BK/NYC]
 
RSVP: ows-arts-and-culture-spaces@googlegroups.com



SCREENING: Wall Street Stunts! OWS Arts & Culture before September 17

[From Jez]:

Tuesday, Feb 14 @ 7 pm, Hyperallergic in Brooklyn 

SCREENING: Wall Street Stunts! OWS Arts & Culture before September 17

On September 1, 2011, a group of unsuspecting individuals wandered down to the front of Federal Hall Memorial with the intent of pulling a harmless stunt: to have a sleep-over on Wall Street!  Little did they realize this little performance, this playful act of bravery, would result in 9 arrests (the first of OWS) and help instill many activists into new life.

In the early days of the OWS general assemblies, the Arts and Culture group helped plan and perform a number of direct aesthetic actions on Wall Street that helped set the stage for Occupy Wall Street as a movement.  Tonight ____, we offer a look back at some of the first appearance of this movement to be caught on video.  We'll be gathering several members of the original Arts & Culture team to be in attendance to comment, tell stories, and answer questions!   We're going to #memee all about it!  If you wish to learn about the inventive origins of Occupy Wall Street, we encourage you to attend!

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

Hyper-Imaginary [Movie]: A Screening Program for the Spatial Occupation residency at Hyperallergic: F7

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
February 6, 2012

Hyper-Imaginary [Movie]: A Screening Program for the Spatial Occupation residency at Hyperallergic
Tuesdays 7PM, February-March 2012
Start Date: February 7, 2012 (orientation)
Contact: ows-arts-and-culture-spaces@googlegroups.com

HYPER-imaginary MOVIE

[SUMMARY]: For February and March of 2012, Hyperallergic has invited the Spatial Team [Occupy Wall Street/NYCGA/Arts & Culture Working Group] to occupy the Hyperallergic office in Williamsburg/Brooklyn/NYC/NY/USA. On Tuesday evenings at 7PM, we will meet to consider the moving image in relation to Occupy Wall Street. We will watch movies, videos, animations and maybe create some of our own. We'll also talk, share ideas, and invite guests to inspire the occupation of the moving image.

[PROPOSITIONS]: Is a fully occupied life better than any movie? Does a movement have a movie?

When Occupiers appeared as an intervention on the Law & Order: SVU set in December of 2011 did they re-establish actuality to the "Mockupy" scenario made-for-TV, or did something more profound occur? [1] What would Baudrillard say? One sign carried by a protester read, "WE ARE A MOVEMENT - NOT A TV PLOT." Is this true?

How has Occupy Wall Street inspired filmmakers to re-examine cinema as a project? Is filmmaking by consensus possible? Is Hollywood immune to horizontal structures and transparency? Will OWS inspire a 99% cinema? What would that be, and who will produce it? What of the "director," the "actors," the "star," or the "crew?" How does the production praxis of the moving image, and the roles of the players within its context, shift in the 99% movie's creation? How will the final cut be distributed?

Which films would be on a Top Ten Movies of Occupation list?  

Regarding online video [2]:

>>In his rather grim assessment of the domain of small screen video in the introduction to Video Vortex II: Moving Images Beyond YouTube, Geert Lovink writes, “The Attention War is real.” [3] Nothing has authenticated Lovink’s claim more profoundly than Occupy Wall Street. Earlier in the short but seminal text, Lovink doggedly propositions us with a sequence of questions about the future of online video, finishing with this one: “Is online video liberating us from anything?”

Post-9-17-2011 (the day OWS materialized as an occupation of Zuccotti Park), we have some new answers about the utilitarian value of online video. I’m not referring to anything remotely art-centric here, yet, with regards small-screen, networked video transmitted on/for/by electronic devices.

I mean moving images that seemingly erupt from the societal margins and shoot into the monopolized global perceptual space, disrupting the placid managed surface of acceptable 1% talking points. I mean movies that project a 99%-oriented iteration of real events into the stream of content wired people access to figure out what’s happening now, and not just what’s happening in one’s particular, preferred info-silo.

Online video has occupied Big Picture reality, finally offering more than laughing babies, cute kitties and bedroom guitar maestros. Online video is maturing as a decentralized syndicate for unmediated transmissions. What OWS has proven is that the “margins” are really the main, and the Dark Matter Greg Sholette describes in his book by the same name, [4] the 99% - is us, to paraphrase Pogo.<< (Paul McLean, “Low Lives: Occupy”)

Will we make our own movie, starring ourselves? Is this a "game" project for the Novads, and what are the stakes?

REFERENCES:
[1] http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/law-order-svu-occupy-wall-street-set-overtaken-real-ows-protestors-video-33468

[2, 3] http://www.occupywithart.com/llo-supporting-text/ + free download of Video Vortex Reader 2: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/vv-reader

[4] In the Occupy with Art library: http://www.occupywithart.com/occupennial-library/2011/10/9/dark-matter-art-and-politics-in-the-age-of-enterprise-cultur.html

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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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