Share OWS

[NOTE]: Occupy with Art is a proud participant in the new NYCGA Arts & Culture initiative Share OWS! Share OWS has been developed by Antonio Serna and refined/approved by consensus in the A&C Working Group meetings. Antonio sent this message today:

SHARE OWS is a new program from OWS Arts Network that facilitates the sharing of content being produced within the OWS movement. What does that mean? Anyone working within OWS/NYCGA is free to re-circulate art, writing, photography, poetry, and other content produced within the OWS movement and for the movement. Read more about it here: http://artsandculture.nycga.net/share-ows/

We need your help: If you are a member of a working group, collective, affinity group, or thematic group within OWS/NYCGA, please contact us so we can add you the SHARE OWS list: nycga-arts-and-culture-org@googlegroups.com or reach out to Arts & Culture on the A&C Forum (nycga) or here, at the 917 Wall Street Arts Google Group. You can also help by spreading the word about this program and asking other groups to participate!

[From the SHARE OWS PAGE]:

SHARE OWS IS AN ARTS & CULTURE PROGRAM TO CREATE SOLIDARITY WITHIN THE OWS
COMMUNITY THROUGH THE SHARING OF ART, WRITING, and ALL OTHER CONTENT FREELY AMONG WORKING GROUPS AND MEMBERS IN THE NYCGA/OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT.

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Evict Us, We Minify

The Institute for Infinitely Small Things in collaboration with the Occupy Boston Tiny Tent Task Force invites you to construct miniature tents and occupy. On Saturday, January 14th from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, there will be a workshop at the Mobius Art Space to construct hundreds of these tiny nomadic structures. Following the event we will go seperate ways to place them throughout the city. Participants are encouraged to document their actions and share results on the Tiny Tents Task Force website.

Mobius Art Space is located at 55 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, MA.

Free materials, instruction, and hot beverages will be provided. Optionally, bring your own fabric, and/or defunct credit or debit cards to construct tiny tents out of. Bringing a camera for documentation purposes is highly suggested.

Please RSVP to forezt@gmail.com with the subject line "Mobius Tiny Tents RSVP."

Can't make it to the Mobius event? Visit the Tiny Tents Task Force website for information about other events and to download a PDF template for making tents anywhere a printer and adhesive are available.

The January 14th tiny tent-making workshop with The Institute for Infinitely Small Things will appear as part of the Mobius series "The Art of the UnGrand."

The Occupy Boston Tiny Tents Task Force is a project of the Creative Actions and Subversive Art (CASA) Working Group of Occupy Boston.

Occupy Art #f12

Occupy Art: Hi there, shall we collaborate on this?

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“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” - Albert Einstein

February the 12th has been announced as an international day of creative action for the worldwide Occupy movement.

Stemming from Occupy Melbourne, the home of the ‘tent monsters meme’, this day is all about coming at things from different angles, playing with reality and having some fun in these very serious times.

Exhibitions, music, street-art, performance, theatre, you name it, lets infect it with a bit of Occupy creativity.

Spread the word, lets start this creative virus. Here is a little video:

http://youtu.be/iSxgHHfZvGs

To discuss and collaborate please join the Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Art-International-Day-Of-Creative-Action-Feb-12-F12/346946421987719

Or if Tumblr is your style:

http://occupy-art-feb12.tumblr.com/

Please use the hash tag #F12

Please contact carlscrase@gmail.com with further questions.

Social Dreaming at the Invisible Dog Arts Center

Hi all,

I was recently approached by a man from Frankfurt named Steven Valk, a dramaturge, choreographer, and artist who has worked throughout Europe and the United States. Lately his work has been to create what he calls "New Meaningful Public Spaces," which, he admits, is almost synonymous with "The Arts Institution of the Future." He has been bringing together people from all sectors, from the most renowned philosophers in Europe to the most marginalized, in specially designed spaces with events created to defy our preconceptions and open the door for us to engage in radical "Social Dreaming."

A space in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, called the Invisible Dog Arts Center, http://theinvisibledog.org/, has opened its doors to this project for 10 days or so in January. It is a beautiful space. One event that will for sure be happening over that period is a performance Steven calls "Choreography for Blackboards" (its interesting, see the links below). But other than that, he is insistent that OWS plays a role in planning the kinds of events and open conversations, teach-ins, social events, etc. that occur in that space during that time.

I had a meeting with him last Saturday that was truly inspiring - he's a very interesting man, well connected with Occupy Frankfurt, and invested in the work we are doing at OWS.

THE FIRST MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE at the Invisible Dog on Tuesday (the 20th)  from 7:30 until 9:30pm at The Invisible Dog. It begins with a lecture from Valk called "Social Choreography" and will open into a discussion.

It is a great opportunity and I hope we at A+C can take advantage of it.

Email me directly if you are planning on coming: talbeery@gmail.com

Links are here (all pdfs):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37450772/Social%20Dreaming_.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37450772/TAB%203%20Reflection%202011_.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37450772/zodiak_project_book.pdf

Love,

Tal

DISKJAMMY #8: CALL FOR COLLAB

CLICK THE IMAGE TO GO TO SEE THE PROSPECTUS.

#OCCUPYTHISMIXTAPE!!

A note from Jesse Darling:

Hi there,
I make a collaborative digital mixtape project inspired by the principles of bricolage, open-source and P2P data-sharing. It's always a jam and it's always a kind of experiment: each Diskjammy mixtape is a compilation of songs submitted by different people, from all over the world, in response to a brief. This brief takes the form of a particular theme or idea, and I try to keep these broad and universally resonant.

The theme for Diskjammy #8 had to be #occupy, or: "what are YOU fighting for?"

I'm looking for people's original music, spoken word, first-person accounts - or just favourite protest songs, good jams, music that represents this moment. I know there's been a lot of singing around Zucotti & environs - I wonder if you might post up the call for submissions, and help me make the mixtape-that-is-a-snapshot-of-a-movement. The greater the range and diversity of submissions, the better.

Let me know what you think.
Love & solidarity,
Jesse.

FROM THE PROSPECTUS:

What are YOU fighting for?


I want your songs of rage, your battle-cries, your protest songs; I want the new young soldier, the voice of a generation; I want the song that speaks of what has made you angry again, even after ten years or twenty; I want the song that wordlessly expresses all you care about. I want the song whose harmonies suggest new models for non-hierarchical self-organization. I want your tracts. I want voice recordings made in your bedroom or on your bike; I want you to identify, and express, what kind of a war we're fighting, and to speak your part in it - in your own words or someone else's, with beats or countermelodies, with silence, with breaks, with speech, with sound.

The mixtape is the quintessential token of exchange in a gift economy wherein love is the common currency (for a person, for an idea, or for the music itself). This seems appropriate enough given that the mechanisms of market capital are breaking down on all sides. "Something has been going on between the left earphone and the right earphone of this generation that represents a profound change in attitude" (Paul Mason, as before). I look forward to hearing it in mine.


[somewhat arbitrary but strictly enforced]
** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 25/11/11 **