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Alternative Art Economies Meeting Sun April 28
LAST SUNDAYS Arts & Labor’s Alternative Economies Monthly Meeting April 28th –> 11am-2pm Roebling Tea Room 143 Roebling St [google map] Williamsburg Brooklyn open meeting = open agenda … artist resource guide booklet new collaborations new partners new projects … rsvp-> al.altecon(AT)gmail(DOT)com http://artsandlabor.org/alternative-economies
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Building the Commons Feb 14th – NYC
Building the Common(s): Social movements, Tools, and Initiatives Thursday, February 14th 16 Beaver street #6, NYC facebook invite 6:00 Doors 6:30 – 8:00 Part 1: Intro to the context of today’s commons inquiry w/ discussion on The Great lakes Commons Initiative (Bradley) & Madrid City Commons Charter (Lopez). 8:00 – 9:30 Part 2: Dinner – ...
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Time for Alternative Economies?
“A solidarity economy does not arise from thinkers or ideas; it is the outcome of the concrete historical struggle of the human being to live and to develop as an individual and a collective.” Marco Arruda, Brazilian Solidarity Economy Network, World Social Forum in 2004 (via solidaritynyc.org) Is Occupy Wall Street ready for alternative economies? Coupled with ...
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Relief Resources for the Arts
Art & The Commons has compiled a short list of resources for artist and arts organizations affected by Hurricane Sandy that touched down on October 29th and greatly devastated the New York, New Jersey and the Tri-State area. http://www.artandthecommons.org/resources
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Network of Alternatives Meet-Up! Sun Oct 28 @3pm
Sunday October 28th, 3-6pm. Momenta Art, 56 Bogart in Bushwick. Calling artists interested in alternatives to the current system! If you are interested in organizing in your community or already doing so, let’s meet-up and talk! 3pm- Pre-Event Meet-Up: Building A Network of Alternatives 4-6pm Event: Alternatives & the Commons* Momenta Art 56 Bogart Street Brooklyn, ...
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Culture and Public Space in Wuhan
[Hong Kong/China. Doxa collective recently invited groups to join in a discussion on negotiating public space at HK Art 12. Below is an excerpt about one of the invitees, an autonomous anarchist space called Womenjia from Wuhan China. Womenjia discussed a case we are all familiar with, a case where city and state officials are ...
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Statues Also Die (1953)
Les Statues meurent aussi/Statues Also Die (Chris Marker & Alain Resnais, 1953) When this film came out, it was banned in France for 10 yrs. Chris Marker and Alain Resnais must have been on to something that could possibly damage the image of France. But what could a documentary on arts & culture possibly do ...
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Workshop 3: Berlin Biennale BB7
Wednesday June 6, 2012 Autonomous University @ Berlin Biennale 7 KW Institute for Contemporary Art Auguststraße 69 10117 The workshop at the Berlin Biennale was attended mostly by artist and occupiers of the occupy space within the KW. We began with an informal presentation on art funding in Europe with a focus on a well ...
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Unmediated Culture, Issa Samba
“Except for radio, Samb does not use modern technological devices, which according to him kill the magic of human interaction. So when you want to talk to him, you have to go see him. When you want him to read something, you print it out and take it to him, better still, you write it ...
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Diagram for Commoning Culture (draft)
the above diagram expands the area within art that can be developed commons. defined broadly art is shown as a subsection of culture, not all possible subsections within culture are depicted. -draft V3 july 25, 2012