Events

@Dome of Visions
1016, Søren Kierkegaards Pl., in Copenhagen.

Open call

Update: deadline extended to Sept 14th!

Utopia School will hold a three-day slumber party for interested people – near and far – at the Dome of Visions in Copenhagen, beginning on Friday, October 16th and adjourning on Sunday, October 18th. Read more »

Where: Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens, New York 11101

Come join us for the second open review meeting and potluck to look over proposals for the October 2014 session of Utopia School. This is one of four open review sessions where we will gather, eat, and start to address some of the actualities behind the classes, installations, field trips and other explorative measures we’re cooking up for the Utopia School.  Read more »

Hi again,

After a long slumber, we’re ready to share some of what we’ve been working on over the past year.

Come join us, in person or by Skype, to brainstorm the curricula for Utopia School, meet and greet one another, and eat a delicious meal.

Utopia School is a temporary schoolhouse we’re creating to share information about spaces and initiatives that re-imagine the world in some crucial way. The first session of Utopia School will take place at Flux Factory in October, 2014.  Read more »

Sept 25 2012, 21:00 - 24:00
Camp, Opernring 5-7, 8010 Graz

Hosted by Stephen Wright (CAN)
With: Federico Geller / Abriendo caminos (AR), Éric Létourneau / lecollege (CAN), Scott Rigby / Basekamp (USA), Charles Esche / Van Abbe Museum (NL), Dmitri Vilensky / Chto Delat (RUS), Florian Schneider / kein.org (D), Greg Sholette / Dark Matter Archives (USA)

Part of http://www.truthisconcrete.org/ Read more »

Welcome back! This Tuesday, Shoghig Halajian, Corrado Salzano, and Sarah Sandler (Session 21 of the École du Magasin) will be talk with us about their curatorial project in Grenoble this Summer – Whole World is Watching – and their research into the local Vidéogazette collective (1973-1976). Vidéogazette was a “community televised journal”, produced by the inhabitants of Grenoble. Halajian, Salzano, and Sandler’s research formed the starting point for this exhibition and online project. Read more »

Hi everyone,

This week we’ll be hosting a public Skype chat about The Federated General Assembly (FGA), an open source, distributed social platform built around groups activating on the ground for social change – where information is broadcast between people, groups, and organizations in contexts that bring new meaning, value, and trust to relationships. Read more »

Hello everyone,

This Tuesday we’ll be talking with Justin Langlois and his collaborators at Broken City Lab, about their recent initiative HOMEWORK.

Broken City Lab is an artist-led interdisciplinary creative research collective and non-profit organization based in Windsor, Ontario. They work to “explore and unfold curiosities around locality, infrastructures, and creative practice leading towards civic change.” Read more »

Hi everyone,

In the spirit of Occupy Wall Street and the General Assembly, we have no guests this week – or really we are all guests

This week we are asking people from cities who are or want to be involved in the wider #occupy movement to connect with us and each other, share strategies, reports and ideas.

We would like to consider, among other things, how creative culture is playing or can play a part in this movement – what we can contribute and what we can learn. How are plausible artworlds formed or forming around and through occupation? Read more »

Hi everyone,

For our weekly chat this Tuesday we will be joined by the Berlin-based group Random Relevance (Susanne Husse, Jana Sotzko and accomplices) to discuss their recent project “37 MANIFESTOS. How to become collective in four easy lessons.” Read more »

Hi everyone,

Tonight we’ll all be talking with Claire Pentecost and Brian Holmes about their project, The Map in a Territory – along with their other invited guests – as we participate in person as part of the Drift session at Mildred’s Lane. Read more »

Hi everyone,

Last year we talked every week with representatives from what we referred to as “plausible artworlds”, many of which were built around ideas of alternative economies. In that vein, this Tuesday night we’ll be meeting up with founder Paul Glover to talk about the 20 year anniversary of the Ithaca Hours alternative monetary system, the oldest and largest local currency system still in operation in the United States. Read more »

Hi everyone,

This Tuesday we’ll be talking with Nicole Restaino and Aislinn Pentecost-Farren of The Philadelphia Lendry. Read more »

*.flag : two evenings exploring perspectives on flags.

January 13th and 14th 2011, 6-8pm.

Basekamp - 723 Chestnut Street, 2nd Floor - Philadelphia, PA 19106
… Read more »

Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week we’ll be talking with Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya of the Desire Machine Collective, who operate the Periferry project, an artist-led space situated on the M. V. Chandardinga, a ferry currently docked along the mighty Brahmaputra River in Guwahati, Assam, in the North East of India.

http://www.periferry.in/
http://www.desiremachinecollective.net/ Read more »

Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week we’ll be talking with Federico Zukerfeld and Loreto Garin, two of the co-founders of the Internacional Errorista. Read more »

Hi Everyone,

Hi again,

This Friday night - tomorrow - we’ll be turning our attention inward to focus on the Plausible Artworlds initiative, as part of the Summer Studio art school organized by artist Anthony Campuzano at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

http://www.icaphila.org/events/summerstudio.php#j23
Read more »

Are you curious about teaching and or facilitating some Public School classes? Please come to the meeting this Wednesday!

Hi Again,

This Tuesday is the next event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

We’ll be talking with Chris Kennedy, Brett Bloom and Scott Rigby, about the history and future of Groups & Spaces.

Edit - the URL is now live:
 http://groupsandspaces.net/ Read more »

Hi Again,

This Tuesday is yet another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week we’ll be talking with Orgacom, a group located between Istanbul & Amsterdam.

Orgacom (a combination of the words ‘ORGAnization’ and ‘COMmunication’) aims to develop and introduce new roles for art within businesses and non-profit-organizations. Read more »

Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

We’ll be talking with Barbara Steveni, co-founder of the legendary APG, or Artist Placement Group (later renamed O + I, for Organization + Imagination), an important precursor for many later “organizational art” practices, who are not always fully aware of the scope of APG’s proposal to rethink artist’s place in our lifeworlds, while at the same time maintaining art’s fundamental autonomy. Read more »

Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 focusing on examples of Plausible Artworlds. Read more »

Hi everyone,

This Tuesday is an event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 focusing on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week Alan Moore will join us in person to talk about the research project and exhibition House Magic: Bureau of Foreign Correspondence, which will be opening at Basekamp the same night. Read more »

Hi everyone,

This Tuesday is the first evening in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 focusing on examples of Plausible Artworlds, culminating in an online and printed publication in 2011. Let’s get started!

This week we’ll be talking with folks from The Public School and AAAARG.ORG. This is a rare opportunity to get people who have been involved in organizing, theorizing, participating in (or newly interested in) these projects to convene online for a couple hours in a public and open setting. Read more »

Hi everyone,

This week we’ll be also talking with Patrick Lichty about his collaborative performance work in and out of virtual space.

From www.secondfront.org: Read more »

Hi everyone,

This week we’ll be talking with Jorge Rojas about his work that connects online worlds and people in real space.

Jorge Rojas: My space(s) and Low Lives

My Space project:
http://www.jorgerojasart.com/ (Works > Projects)

Low Lives project:
http://labotanica.org/blog/?page_id=782 Read more »

Hello Everybody!

This week we are pleased to chat with Elysa Lozano who will be talking about Autonomous Organization and related projects, including the Socialist Colony project. Read more »

Hi everyone,
This week we’ll be talking with Stephan Hausmeister about x-marks-the-spot and “Break on Through to the Other Side…” in Berlin next month, organied by artbetween and the China Art Criticism Network (CACN).

Snippet from Stephan about x-marks Read more »

Hi everyone,
This week we’ll be talking with Beka & Jason from Not An Alternative about what they’ve been up to lately, including their recent Homeless Tent City Installation in NYC. It will be informal but fun (we opted away from the power point presentation they gave @ Conflux, for a more fluid conversation). Read more »

Hi everyone,

We’ll be talking with Joseph del Pesco, about his upcoming curatorial project at SFMoMA, The Pickpocket Almanack.

About The Pickpocket Almanack
Read more »

Hi everyone,

Tonight we’re having a brainstorming session for Thank Tank 2009: Centennial Lay State of Our Union.

Here’s a little more info: Read more »

Chat with Genesis Project (http://www.culturepush.org/?q=node/283) director, Arturo Vidich, and the four artists involved in the month-long residency. The discussion will surround issues and ideas that come up during real-time skype commentary on live performance and video showings of work generated during the residency.

DUET
Meghan Flanigan and Fergus Byrne will perform a drawing duet that traverses wall and floor in an exploration of mark making through full-bodied movement.

VIDEO Read more »

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow we’ll be talking with Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook, co-founders of SEED, and an artist couple, with an 8 year old son, living and working in Tennessee.

Here’s a little more info Read more »

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow we’ll be talking with a few folks from ‘The Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study’.

Here’s a link to their almost believable website:
http://www.pifas.net/

+ checkout this video intro: Read more »

Thank you to all of those that have participated in the Vagabondism class.
Our last meeting will entail a further look at available online resources, general evaluation of meetings and course material, and a brainstorming session on conceivable future travel projects connected to the course. And please join us at 6pm EST for the weekly potluck chat before class.

Potluck + Vagabondism Class:
Potluck 6-8pm EST
Class 9-11pm EST

Information regarding the class can be seen at Read more »

Potluck + Vagabondism Class:
Potluck 6-?pm EST
Class 9-11pm EST

The first part of the meeting June 16th will involve an in depth interview with current traveler, Hellen. Hellen is currently on the move in Europe and has been mobile since January 10th 2009. She will join us remotely on Skype from England . During the second part of the meeting we will discuss the text “Home Free Home: A History of Two Open-Door California Communes”. For more information including a link to download the class reader please go to Read more »

Potluck + Vagabondism Class:
Potluck 6-7:30pm EST
Optional film 7:30pm “Wild Boys of the Road”
Class 9-10pm EST

During the potluck Tuesday we will entertain a handful of questions related to transience, discuss conceivable travel projects and vagabonding’s relationship to alternative economies and art making.

For our class meeting this Tuesday we will discuss Riding The Rails, depression era youth on the move. Both the introduction, and accompanying text are available at Read more »

Hi everyone,

This week we’ll be talking with George Scheer from Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, North Carolina:
http://www.elsewhereelsewhere.org

For more info, read the personal message from George, below… Read more »

Hi everyone,

Quick note about tonight’s potluck - a few people want to have a friendly chat about informal communication and self-organized networks. We’ll start by talking about an event that happened last Friday: “Cold Call Friendly Phone Night”. The idea is we can open the discussion up to other examples of this sort of thing, and any ideas about the implications of extending or connecting these otherwise separate events.

Brief description of last Friday’s event below: Read more »