if you get a chance, check out the hong kong community museum project:
doing something similar to epmoa in hong kong... nice to see how they've identified their goals in a slightly different way, but we could definitely learn from some of the questions they are asking (and answering!)
this afternoon at 6 pm east coast time they'll be on skype if anyone is interested in listening in / joining in the public chat....
Hey all,
Quick note to let you all know what you should and shouldn't wear to class tomorrow:
It's supposed to rain, so this may go with out saying, but everyone should wear close-toed shoes. Also, no baggy shirts/sweatshirts please - long sleeves are fine, but nothing puffy.
Long hair should be in a pony tail or otherwise out of the way, and please no hoodies with dangly drawstrings.
We won't be gluing anything the first day, but as a rule of thumb it's probably good to wear clothes that can get dirty.
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Overview of Greywater Irrigation systems including:
Pros and Cons of Greywater reclamation
Types of Greywater System
Legality / Building Code Issues
The class will also include a hands-on workshop installing a "Laundry-to-Landscape" system, and/or a "Branched Drain" system.
Hi everyone. I'm excited the furniture class is getting close.
Here's a picture of the chair that will be one of the projects for the class. It still needs a few tweaks (the back of the chair needs a bit of a steeper angle to allow for more slouching) but this is basically it. A shelf below for the journal/magazine of your choice.
More to come...
hi all,
a belated follow-up; just wanted to post a couple links that will help us move forward with T/P-related offshoots & c:
solomon proposed a class on the manifesto stemming from our discussion on february 13th; i will do my best to organize this ASAP.
chandler created a theory/practice tumblr page to which we can add T/P-related quotes to our hearts' content(s).
and chandler turned me on to fuck theory which is at times hilarious.
more soon, from everyone!
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The first session(s) of Making Furniture will be taking place this weekend! We still have a few spots open so if you are interested in taking the class please sign up. Everyone who has paid will be in one of the two time slots. Please be sure to fill out this form as soon as you can: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHZ4ZUE2N2ZiMWcwUjlmeFl5...
Looking forward to seeing everyone on Saturday at Issac's studio located at: 4006 N Figueroa St Los Angeles, CA 90031
this course will bring together artists and occultists to discuss how art and magick intersect. we will study both high and low magick techniques to see how they can be applied to an art practice. some days will consist of lectures on occult history, theory, and specific occultists/artists who use magick in their work. other sessions will be experiential meditations and rituals. the general discourse will be about how to apply magick to art- as concept, physical material, ritual process, or final result. artists of all mediums and levels of experience are invited to attend, as well as anyone with an interest in this subject. i am open to suggestions about readings and guest lecturers.
Since the 16th century in France the Salon served as a platform for cultivating exchange of ideas, to support young talents in arts, literature and music. Despite its connotation with the circle of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy, salons also fostered critical debate, individual autonomy and cultural literacy, e.g. Voltaire and Diderot prepared the foundation for the French Revolution in a Parisian Salon.
In the spirit of critical debate and exchange Urban Salon invites everyone who is interested in presenting, exchanging and testing out ideas on the urban space, as a site in which multiple spaces, temporalities and webs of relations and produced meanings are co-present, and in which local sites and subjects are tied into globalising economic, social and political systems. (Depending on numbers of attendance the presentations should be ca. 15 minutes).
We have ways to preserve creative work that falls into easily-defined categories: writings, recordings, films and videos, etc. Ephemeral experiences are often something that we desire to have preserved, and live events that are usually documented through video often fail to properly capture an experience.
This course would look at strategies of preservation and documentation that are currently in use, looking at the art world as well as the current theories of digital preservation and information science. What are the significant properties of, say, an event of performance art? Which of these properties does video or transcription fail to convey, and can there be solace in just accepting that something has passed (without needing a record of it)?
The Public School is participating in "An Exhibition of Proposals for a Socialist Colony" in Houston, presented by the artists run-space, Skydive. Our contribution will be 40 class proposals, much in the same spirit as the way the school works already. It is purely speculative, an exercise in desire and imagination, but maybe also a context in which to argue about utopias and overcoming capitalism.
This class would be a 2 hour workshop where we would produce the 40 (or more) proposals, alternating between discussing, making, sharing, and repeating. In addition to the exhibition, we will also print a small publication with the same material, using our fantastic new (to us) Risograph.
Everyone who participates will be credited equally in both the exhibition as well as the publication. If you can't make it on Saturday but wish you could, then you're encouraged to add proposals in the comments below!