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Last Week of "House Magic: Bureau of Foreign Correspondence," May 5-7, 2009

Last Week of "House Magic: Bureau of Foreign Correspondence," May 5-7, 2009

The “House Magic: Bureau of Foreign Correspondence” informational exhibit on European squatted social centers finishes its final week of programming at ABC No Rio. Then it will be boxed up and moved to Queens for the summer. After this week we'll be working on the catalogue zine, which will be a PDF posted in June.

THIRD WEEK

Tuesday 5 “Visions of Utopia,” directed by Geoff Kozeny; Part One, the historical background (94 min.; 2009); and excerpts from Part Two, on urban communes Two (about 30 min); collective living discussion with James Andrews of Nsumi, other invitees

Wednesday 6 Zurich -- The Art Squat – “Dada Changed My Life,” directed by Lou Lou and Daniel Martinez (2004) about the Zurich art squatting action that saved the Cabaret Voltaire, with selected classic Dada shorts Guest: Olga Mazurkiewicz

Thursday 7 Denmark, Copenhagen -- “Christiania You Have My Heart,” directed by Nils Vest (62 min.; 1991; Danish with English subtitles); talk with Rebecca Zorach

Michael Cataldi & Nils Norman’s show “University of Trash” is the next venue for the summer: press release: http://www.sculpture-center.org/pressSpecific.htm?id=12595 project website, with already interesting events programmed, including enraged artists from Copenhagen: http://www.universityoftrash.org/ The “University of Trash” is soliciting proposals for events. They also have a radio station… The "House Magic" show website is at https://sites.google.com/site/housemagicbfc/ See also collectiva/wikispaces.com “House Magic” Show-related blog is at: http://occuprop.blogspot.com