I had forgotten that we (Sean Dockray, Jason Smith and Matteo Pasquinelli) published an edited version of the text we presented at UCIRA’s “Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University” conference held in San Diego, California on November 18, 2010 in the first issue of …ment.

I was reminded because …ment is doing an event this Wednesday, the 29th of June, in Neuköln that looks great.

Here is a link to their first issue.

Here is info about our contribution:

There is Nothing Less Passive than the Act of Fleeing
What follows is a condensed and edited version of a text for a panel that was presented at UCIRA’s “Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University” conference held in San Diego, California on November 18, 2010. The panel shared the same name as a 13-day itinerant seminar in Berlin organized by Dockray, Waldorf, and Fiona Whitton earlier that year, in July. The seminar began with an excerpt from Tiqqun’s Introduction to Civil War, which was co-translated into English by Smith; and later read a chapter from Pasquinelli’s Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons. Both authors have also participated in meetings at The Public School in Los Angeles and Berlin.Both the panel and the seminar developed out of longer conversations at The Public School in Los Angeles, which began in late 2007 under Telic Arts Exchange. The Public School is a school with no curriculum, where classes are proposed and organized by the public.

The text is available here.

Computational Design Strategies taught by Chandler McWilliams and Naoko Miyano
Soviet Cinema facilitated by Dennis
Independence Day facilitated by me?
Situationist Jogging ran by Fabagit
Hegel, by way of Marx facilitated by Aaron
Flusser Lesegruppe facilitated by Claudia Becker, Rodrigo Maltez-Novaes (both of the Flusser Archive) and Paul Feigelfeld

More photos can be found here.

We (Cara Baldwin, Ken Ehrlich, Michael Wilson) recently relaunched Occupy Everything and held a session at TPS to inaugurate the event as part of the Practicalities of Revolt class (with Ken, Michael and myself). The initial goal for the redesign was simply to make the site more legible and easy to navigate. The other ideas were to develop an open-editorial system (think the TPS methodology, but replace classes with texts) and to develop a resource section of the website. The open-editorial system is forthcoming, but we did develop and initial framework for comrades to upload resources and save them to their own lists. This is still very raw at the moment, but sometime soon will become a bit more robust to work with.

Stay tuned.

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Los Angeles, CA – January 11, 2011 – Collective Show is pleased to present “Collective Show Los Angeles 2011,” an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art groups recently established in Los Angeles. This collaboratively curated “group show of group shows” features artist-run spaces and projects formed in the past five years.

Previously realized in New York in 2009 and 2010, Collective Show exhibits local art groups that work in a growing space between established non-profit organizations and commercial galleries. These groups explore a wide range of collaborative approaches and missions, often in flexible and adaptive conditions with an emphasis on communities and conversations.

Over 30 groups will exhibit artwork, publications and posters during the show at a newly renovated space in Chinatown. In addition, screenings, performances and talks will take place during the exhibition. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition and will be available atwww.collectiveshow.org/LA

Participating groups include: 323 Projects, Actual Size Los Angeles, Adrian Piper Gallery, Art 2102 of Los Angeles, ACP (Artist Curated Projects), CANAL, Commonwealth and Council, CUBO, Dan Graham, Darin Klein & Friends, Eighteen Thirty Collaborations (ETC), Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 *particle group* b.a.n.g. lab, Elephant, The Elysian Park Museum of Art, Eternal Telethon, Human Resources, J Moca (Justin’s Museum of Contemporary Art), LA Pedestrians, Los Angeles Road Concerts, MATERIAL, Monte Vista, [Name], NIGHT GALLERY, Open Arms, Public Address, Public Fiction, The Public School, Silvershed, Statler Waldorf Gallery, Summercamp’s ProjectProject, Workspace, WPA, and upcoming Collective Show hosts: Ditch Projects (Oregon) GIBSMIR-Family (Zurich) and Secondhome Projects (Berlin).

Collective Show Los Angeles 2011 is organized by artist groups ACP (Artist Curated Projects), Human Resources, [Name], Night Gallery, Public Fiction, The Public School, Silvershed, Statler Waldorf Gallery and Workspace. Collective Show was founded by collaborators from New York and Los Angeles, and aims to further creative relationships by providing an open-source format for locally organized shows. Collective Show is not-for-profit, volunteer organized, and is free and open to the public. To learn more about Collective Show, please visit us online atwww.collectiveshow.org

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6-9pm

Exhibition Hours: Friday, January 21 to Sunday, January 23, 2011, 12-6 pm and Thursday, January 27 through Sunday, January 30, 2011, 12-6 pm

Location: 995, 997 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

November 7, 2010: The NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, NY

The second in an ongoing series of conversations exploring how print culture is being changed by the manifold forms of online publication, and how public spaces are being constituted around those forms. Caleb Waldorf, Triple Canopy’s creative director will moderate a discussion about the role played by design in shaping digital forms of publication: How are certain tropes of print publication—and the reading and viewing experiences they have engendered—being translated for new media (while others are being jettisoned entirely)? How has the shift from graphic design to user design, with its focus on interaction and interface, changed the way publications function? Participants include James Goggin, design director at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and principle of Practise; Jiminie Ha, an independent designer and founder of W/—— project space in Chinatown; and Rob Giampietro, a designer, writer, and principal at Project Projects. The conversation will be open to the audience.

2010 UCIRA STATE OF THE ARTS CONFERENCE AT UCSD

Sean Dockray, Matteo Pasquinelli, Jason E. Smith and I will kick of the conference with a panel called There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing…

Conference Description:

The last two years have witnessed an unprecedented crisis on college campuses around the world, as the social compact that governed higher  education in the United States and Europe for the past half century  has begun to collapse. Universities from London to Sussex, from Athens  to Vienna, and from Berkeley to Santa Cruz, have experienced protests, occupations, walkouts and other actions directed against the  encroaching privatization of public education. This crisis has been  particularly acute at the University of California, the flagship  public university system in the United States.  Dramatic funding  cutbacks, layoffs, furloughs, and fee hikes have been combined with an upsurge in the sort of racist and sexist attacks that often accompany  periods of economic turmoil, as the perception of dwindling resources  leads to the predictable search for scapegoats.

This complex mix of  economic, cultural and social forces places particular pressure on the  status of the arts within research universities, and the very notion  of the university itself as a haven for liberal arts education. New  tensions have opened up, between the arts and humanities and  engineering and science, and between public and private funding  sources and priorities, even as new solidarities have emerged, among  and between staff and faculty, graduates and undergraduates,  disciplines and departments. This conference seeks to address the following questions:

• How can the arts respond to this crisis?
• What new alliances can we form both within the university campus and the communities beyond its walls?
• What alternative economies exist for the support of artistic research?
• What new pedagogical models and new forms of knowledge production can the arts offer as our educational  mission is both threatened and, potentially, transformed?
• And what  forms of creative practice have been mobilized by the protests,  walkouts and occupations?
• As the campus itself becomes a field of  symbolic resistance and contestation, from swastikas at UC Davis to  Klan hoods at UC San Diego, what are the limits and the political  implications of freedom of expression?

Schedule

Embarrassment 1: Vulnerability

Liz Glynn and I are collaborating on a book (with contributions from many others) for an exhibition on the concept/theme of embarrassment at Gallery KM in Los Angeles that opens on December 4th (Part II opens on January 11th).

The Public School

On 4 December I’ll be facilitating the next Specters of Los Angeles on Echo Park Communism. The following week, on 11 December, I’ll be facilitating the final meeting of the semiotext(e) class in which will be reading the The Agony of Power by Jean Baudrillard.

Last but not least, Triple Canopy 2.0 will be relaunching this weekend with new articles from Issue 10 to be published next week!

We are excited to announce the opening of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN. On 18 September at 19:00 we will hold an event at Program called The Future of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN.

Earlier this summer THE PUBLIC SCHOOL organized a 13-day seminar in Berlin, There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing… The seminar, meeting each day at a different location in Berlin, took the form of an open reading group, where the texts discussed each day resonated with the site selected. Please visit the project web site for more information on our activities and discussion topics: http://thepublicschool.org/thereisnothinglesspassive/thantheactoffleeing.html

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