Our Tomorrow Emotions Today (collectively, with trust in trust)
The goal of this fifth class is to identify emotional hot flashes associated with collective economies of the future. The first hour of the class will consist of a guided discussion around lessons learned from collective experiences and then a design charrette with the goal of productively visualizing these flash points into working, manipulative concepts.
The first half of the class will be a guided conversation with the goal of sharing experiences of several collectives from around the LA area whose cultural or art production implicitly or explicitly aims to create new economic models (list in process).
We expect the themes at play to include stasis and change (the building of internal balance and the affect of positive growth outside from outside the collective) trust (working on trust within the collective and building trust from participants external to the collective... we're building economies here) and (for a lack of a better word) strange attractors (those pop moments and synchronic events that create massive change, and/or growth in the collective project).
(Note) This event is done in conjuntion with FOCA LA's Performing Economies exhibition curated by Elana Mann. http://www.focala.org/event_detail.php?id=284
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Suggested Readings:
Its a light reading month.
Browse the following article by Rebecca Zorach of Chicago's Feeltank collective around the emotional economies of performance.
http://joaap.org/6/another/zorach.html
We may dig into Michael Albert's Parecon
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About the series
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest will be teaching one class a month for six months. The classes will focus on subject matter that went into our sixth issue. Classes will be held on the third Sunday of every month starting January 2008. First class was held by Robby Herbst, 2nd Act by Marc Herbst, Act 3 will be held by Christina Ulke.
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About issue 6 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
In this time of political transition the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest offers a portrait of creative and critical ideas driving at the grassroots. 8 years of failed and erratic leadership underlies this new issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. In three essential acts of contemporary analysis, an
- Dates
- January 18, 2009 at 12:00pm
February 15, 2009 at 12:00pm
March 15, 2009 at 12:00pm
April 19, 2009 at 12:00pm
May 17, 2009 at 12:00pm - Location
- 972B Chung King Road
- Facilitator
- Christina Ulke
- Limit
- none
- Fee
- $5
- Other information
- Next class on Sunday, March 15 at Noon.
Comment
Thank you for a brilliant and productive first class: bravo.
One another note, when will "we" know of the specific readings for the next meeting, which I deeply look forward to.
As ever ...
19 Jan 2009 4:23PM
We will be posting the readings and emailing them soon.
M
19 Jan 2009 4:57PM
The Graeber/Shukaitis and BAVO texts for this Sunday's class were sent out by email to the paper signup list, but there are a few new signups on the website, so I took the liberty of adding those texts to AAAARG and posting to class webpage.
http://aaaarg.org/introduction-to-constituent-imagination
http://aaaarg.org/always-choose-the-worst-option-artistic-resistance-and...
14 Mar 2009 12:13AM
may class description up.
11 May 2009 1:04AM
class 5 title...
"Our Tomorrow Emotions Today (collectively, with trust in trust)"
The goal of this fifth class is to identify emotional hot flashes associated with collective economies of the future. The first hour of the class will consist of a guided discussion around lessons learned from collective experiences and then a design charrette with the goal of productively visualizing these flash points into working, manipulative concepts.
(Note) This event is done in conjuntion with FOCA LA's Performing Economies exhibition curated by Elana Mann. http://www.focala.org/event_detail.php?id=284
11 May 2009 1:52AM
Confirmed participants include...
1. Echo Park Time Bank (Autumn Rooney and Manny)
2. Fallen Fruit (Matias Viegener)
3. Jessica Fleischmann (Journal of Aesth. and Pro. designer)
4. Michael Wilson (artist researching alt Economies)
13 May 2009 7:13AM
Hi,
here is a call for papers for a conference at Lucerne University about a cultural perspective on protest/social movements and alternative media.
best,
Marion
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Call for Papers:
Conference - Culture, Media: Protest
September 3-5, 2009
Organisation: Research Project "Protest as Medium - Media of Protest"
Location: University of Lucerne (CH) – Department of Sociology - Pfistergasse 20
Deadline for abstracts: 30. June 2009
Contact: contact@protestmedia.net
The conference seeks to bring together social movement analysts with different disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, cultural studies, political science and political theory. It aims at opening up a space of debate on protest cultures and alternative media within the framework of social and political struggles. We invite researchers to submit abstracts for presentations on the following topics:
- The cultural construction of protest: Protest cultures as subcultures and counter cultures
- The cultural construction of media: Protest media cultures and the everyday
- The militant construction of new subjectivities: Protest identities and subjectivities
- The dispersed body of protest: Performative protest cultures
Keynote speakers:
Ernesto Laclau, University of Essex (UK); Chantal Mouffe, University of Westminster, London (UK); John Downing, Southern Illinois University (USA); Kevin McDonald, Goldsmith College (UK); Jenny Pickerill, University of Leicester (UK); Klaus Schönberger, Zurich University of the Arts (CH); Oliver Marchart, University of Lucerne (CH).
We invite abstracts (max. 500 words) to be submitted by 30. June 2009. Conference fees: 25 Swiss Francs for one day; 50 Swiss Francs for the complete conference.
If you would like to attend the conference, please send an e-mail to contact@protestmedia.net before 30. July 2009.
For detailed information, please check the attached CfP or visit it online:
http://www.protestmedia.net/cms/front_content.php?idart=327
Contact:
Oliver Marchart, Marion Hamm, Stephan Adolphs Research Project "Protest as Medium - Media of Protest"
University of Lucerne, Department of Sociology Bruchstrasse 43/45 CH 6003 Lucerne
Email: contact@protestmedia.net
Website: http://www.protestmedia.net
Online Call: http://www.protestmedia.net/cms/front_content.php?idart=327
This conference is funded by the Swiss National Foundation and the Research Commission of Lucerne University.
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14 May 2009 8:59PM