I'm afraid I proposed the workshop in LA while it actually will be happening in Brussels!
But ofcourse you are very welcome to come to Brussels :D
Maybe somebody else can teach it in LA?
i would like to get this class scheduled if we can find someone interested in teaching. if you or someone you know would like to teach this class, please respond to this note or contact me.
a reading group for the strange and contradictory. possibilities include but are never limited to: alfred jarry, antonin artaud, daniel paul schreber, members of collège de 'pataphysique,' and radio alice.
This class would explore the substance and structure of the WikiLeaks site, and its implications behind mainstream op-ed characterizations. We could begin with the case study of the "Collateral Murder" video release for the first class, and read some background biographical information about the site's founder. Later sessions could investigate different methods of analyzing intelligence reports and data, using traditional and alternative methodologies.
Potentially, we could include a session or a seperate series of classes on different data analysis software used to catalog such documents as those contained on the wikileaks database.
Roasting beans on the stove
I found this undated photo in the LA Public Library Photo Collection. On the right of Angels Flight, you can see a sign that reads "Vegetarian Cafeteria".
3rd & Hill Street, Angels Flight, Undated
This would be a 2 or 3-meeting class and we would
1. Read about revolutionary struggles in Guatemala (URNG), El Salvador (FMLN) and Nicaragua (FSLN) during the period from roughly 1965 to the fall of the Sandinista government in 1990. Discuss.
2. View movies, such as Pictures from a Revolution (On an American photograph in Nicaragua during the triumph of the Revolution) or Voces innocentes (on the civil war in El Salvador).
3. Bring in speakers and lectuers who took part in these struggles and-or have studied them extensively.
The purpose will be to understand the way in which these movements came to be and existed in the face of dictatorship, the tactics and theory used by the revolutionaries, how the increasing importance of women changed the face of the revolution, an analysis of the Sandinista government (1979-90), the role of the US in suppressing these struggles, as well as their possibilities and limitations.
A simple, one session, how-to class on cutting and using your own stencils. Perhaps getting a bit more advanced than the basic one-layer cardboard stencils, I would like to learn how to use mylar, acetate, vinyl and flexible plastics - as well as learn the differences between these materials (when to use which and why). It would also be great to be shown how to fabricate identical stencils for use in multi layer images.
The Los Angeles mirror session for the Berlin reading group will meet this Thursday at 8pm, poolside at the Westin Bonaventure hotel. We are meeting at the Public School through July, and in August, we will go nomadic. Please join us - readings are listed on the class comments.
“Let’s not throw away anything”
The participants of this workshop will make sculptures with seasonable vegetables, pulses and other edible things.
Afterwards we will dismantle the sculptures and cook them into a delicious dinner.
10 participants maximum!