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Tuesday, Feb 14 @ 7 pm, Hyperallergic in Brooklyn 

An Occupy Love Screening: OWS Arts & Culture's First Encounters with Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street Arts & Culture's first activities on Wall Street focused on rhetorical poetry were a confrontation -- not unlike the Situationist art of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, prominent artists of the May 1968 events in France.  These situations were aimed to provoke a memee with society about Wall Street on Wall Street, the now zombified public forum.  Jez Bold will offer a public memee session with members of the original team of Occupy Wall Street Arts & Culture, who helped plan and perform a campaign of direct aesthetic actions on Wall Street, performances that attempted to set the stage of Wall Street before September 17, 2011 and the beginning of the occupation.

Hyperallergic

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

ARTISTS & OCCUPY - NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE CALL

Calling all occupy artists, musicians, performers, cultural workers, printmakers and pranksters!

We invite you to join the first of a series of nationwide conference calls focusing specifically on the Arts & Culture of our movement. This will be a chance for us all to share who we are, find collaborators, announce projects, learn about resources, and push our movement forward in Spring, Summer and Fall.

Date: Wed, Jan 11 2012 7:00pm PT / 10:00 ET
To Register for the call, visit: http://interoccupy.org/national-arts-call-11112-10pm-est-7pm-pst/

From Day One arts and culture have been central to occupy, from the very first Adbusters ‘ballerina’ poster to the Anonymous videos, protest puppets, posters and ‘bat signals’ that followed. In a few short months, occupy has birthed an explosive new political arts movement that encompasses almost every artform, as well as a number of new promotional platforms like Occuprint, to Occupennial, and Occupy Design. Now, a new phase is beginning as support projects are emerging, like ArtIsMyOccupation, to provide funding and other support for occupy-related arts projects.

Now that we’re all here, it’s time we all got to know each other.

This first call will be about just getting to know WHO and WHAT is out there, so that we can brainstorm together and join forces on plans and projects for Spring, Summer and Fall. If you have an existing arts/culture project or arts resource you would like to present on the call, please send a description of that project/resource to Ken Srdjak at akeneka@gmail.com beforehand to be put on the list.

This is planned to be the first in a series of regular, bi-weekly nationwide calls on the arts & occupy. Planning calls happen between the national calls, and are open to everyone. Future call themes will be decided at these meetings. To join the planning committee, contact janellet@occupydc.org

Remember, to get on the call you must register here: http://interoccupy.org/national-arts-call-11112-10pm-est-7pm-pst/

Questions? Contact janellet@occupydc.org

In solidarity,
InterOccupy Arts Call Planning Committee