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November 10, 2003 - 10:52am -- hydrarchist
Announcements
Culture

The Arts Collective writes

The Arts Collective stands for the release of the poet out of the typist, the painter out of the handyman, the musician out of the radio presenter, the activist out of the bureaucrat. Artistic expression in a process of radical democratisation. Art in various forms from song to sculpture, from commentary to critique, from drawing to dance.

November 6, 2003 - 11:24am -- jim
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Events

1st International Visual Studies Conference:

Visual Studies in the 21st Century

CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION

Dates: 15th and 16th February, 2004

Venue: ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, IFEMA, MADRID

The 1st International Visual Studies Conference will be held during ARCO'04, organised by the Amigos de ARCO Association, in collaboration with the Centro Párraga de Murcia.The Conference is being directed by José Luis Brea, Professor of Contemporary Art Theory at Spain's Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM).

November 6, 2003 - 11:19am -- jim
Announcements
Independent Media

Anarchist Infoshop Opening in Dunedin, New Zealand

After several years (at least!) of people wanting an
infoshop/anarchist resource centre in Dunedin, a group
of us are setting up an infoshop and media space
called Black Star Books.

October 31, 2003 - 1:40pm -- hydrarchist
Announcements
Culture

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"It’s the “Gangs of New York” for real, or really playing… This weekend a crew of hardcore re-enactors will try to put on the Draft Riots of 1863 at the Richmondtown Restoration in Staten Island. The riot starts at 2pm, Saturday and Sunday.

October 31, 2003 - 1:36pm -- hydrarchist
Announcements
Culture

Bureau of Public Secrets writes:
Brassens and the other post-World War II French singers are responsible for the greatest renaissance of song in modern times. . . . The great secret of Brassens is that he speaks for the total unassimilables with complete self-awareness. He knew that he and behind him his ever-growing following could not and never would be assimilated, and he knew why, and he said so in every song, whatever that song was about. With him the counterculture comes of age"
(Kenneth Rexroth, "Subversive Aspects of Popular Songs"). * * *

October 29, 2003 - 9:32am -- jim
Announcements
Independent Media

Stuff it: The Video Essay in the Digital Age

Edited by Ursula Biemann for the Institute for Theory of Art and Design, Zurich


With the entry of documentarisms into the arts, the video essay, as a visual reflection on reality, has gained much attention in recent art debates. Moreover, due to its subjective, dissociative, and highly self-reflexive characteristics, this video genre has become a preferred visual medium for theoretical considerations regarding the major shifts taking place in visual culture.

October 27, 2003 - 1:46pm -- jim
Announcements
Events

"South African Social Movements"

Franco Barchiesi and Sean Jacobs, New York City, October 29, 2003

"Insurgent Communities: Changing Forms of Social
Antagonism in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
FRANCO BARCHIESI, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA AND THE CUNY
GRADUATE CENTER


"New "Social Movements," Pressure Groups, and Media in
Post-Apartheid South Africa"
SEAN JACOBS, INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED
STUDIES, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY


Discussant

THOMAS G. KARIS, CUNY


WEDNESDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2003, 6:00 pm

(Refreshments will be served)


CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

365 FIFTH AVE @ 34th Street

ROOM 5409


For more information contact:

Tatiana Carayannis tcarayannis@gc.cuny.edu

ARG, Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave,

NYC 10016-4309

October 25, 2003 - 5:06pm -- jim
Announcements
Events

Alter Arts writes:

"Anti-Diva Anarchist Drag Comedian, Jennifuh Leathuh"

Church of the Living Womb Revival,

6 p.m., Saturday, November 1st, 2003

Aaron Davis Hall, Convent Ave @ 135th St., Harlem, NYC $20.


Anti-Diva Anarchist Drag Comedian, Jennifuh Leathuh is part of the Church of the Living Womb Revival,
a carnival of colorful urban artists pushing the boundaries of theater, spoken word, dance and music; presided over by Sistah Pastor Preacha' Prayer and Sistah Pastor Merlina (aka Liza Jessie Peterson and Tish Benson).—A Heavy Hitaz Production


Attention all subversives (That's you reading this), I know that you have been waiting for the "right time" to see Jennifuh Leathuh, and that time has arrived. I will be performing in the Church of the Living Womb Revival segment "The House of Oth'ah" on Saturday, November first at the very early hour of six o'clock p.m. Yes! This is the geriatric show that my large octogenarian fan base has been requesting for years.

October 25, 2003 - 4:35pm -- jim
Announcements
Reviews

House of Nehesi Publishers writes:

"Two New Books by Amiri Baraka"


SINT MAARTEN (October 2003)—The Essence of Reparations and Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems, by controversial American author Amiri Baraka have just been published here by House of Nehesi Publishers.

October 25, 2003 - 10:30am -- jim
Announcements
Culture

"Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies"

A project by Oliver Ressler

Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana (SI)

Opening: Wednesday, 29 October, 8 p.m.

30 October - 29 November 2003

www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si

After the loss of a countermodel for capitalism -- which socialism, in its real, existing form presented until its collapse -- alternative concepts for economic and social development face difficulties at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In the industrial nations "alternatives," are, namely, only broadly discussed when they do not question the existing power relations of the capitalist system and representative democracies. Other socio-economic approaches are, on the other hand, labeled utopian, devalued, and excluded from serious discussion if even considered at all.

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