[Noisebridge-discuss] FW: Issue#8 Submission Reminder/Wisconsin/Left Forum etc...

Mitch Altman maltman23 at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 20 14:44:37 UTC 2011


some might find this interesting
 

 

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> Subject: Issue#8 Submission Reminder/Wisconsin/Left Forum etc...
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:09:22 +0100
> From: Journal of Aesthetics and Protest <editors at joaap.org>
> Reply-To: editors at joaap.org
> To: mitch altman
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> 
> 
> 1. Submission Call #8 Reminder
> 2. News Briefs- Wisconsin Michigan/peers news and blogs
> 3. Journal Events- Left Forum/Parsonsl/Leipzig Book Fair
> 4. etc...
> ........
> 1. Submission Call #8 Reminder
> Submission Call #8 Reminder
> 
> Submission due April 1st (send submission proposals to editors (at) 
> joaap.org)
> 
> Grassroots Modernism- movement for today's tomorrow.
> (see the original call here <http://joaap.org/submission.htm>)
> 
> 
> We heard talk of the imminent possibility for radical, situated, 
> formalizable modes of expression that were equal parts productive, 
> critical and discursive. We assumed they would be happening in the 
> future. We called this Grassroots Modernism
> 
> A month latter, the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear-fucking-meltdowns 
> that hit Japan feels as though its hit everywhere.
> 
> Even though, the sudden shifts in rules and rulers gives us short pause;
> aesthetics in the suddenly broad struggles today are a result of 
> people's push forward, and not the immediate motivating factor.
> 
> As artists/activists, this reality does not solely compell us to put 
> down our brushes, (ok, we put them down a while ago, but…) just the 
> opposite.
> 
> We have now another clear frame by which to understand the role of 
> aesthetics;
> 
> * as avante garde political activators (Artists Against Cuts, the
> multiple university occupations and the now venerable San Precario
> Movement)
> * as avante garde bohemian activators of new social relationship
> (modeling, researching, and on localized scales re-inventing
> solidarities through dance, performance and language)
> * as researchers in adjunct to movements- (acting either as
> autonomous news bureau or as think tanks from the future.)
> * as psychic inventors
> * as popular cruel critics of the inanities of the present
> 
> This list can be more detailed- we invite you to fill it with your 
> proposals. But we provide this list above /because our ability to 
> collectively know forms and share them is partly what Grassroots 
> Modernism is about./
> 
> Again, we are looking for
> projects from or in the context of collaborative or collective 
> practices
> projects in the context of movement or scene building
> grounded in specific practices and mediums
> lessons learned/best practices
> constructive criticality
> that are of the flesh, for our flesh
> that are strategic propositions to the readership on constituting 
> movements.
> affect in effect
> art with a role in a movement
> new or old things
> 
> Note: feel free to send us anything, we're generally interested.
> 
> To submit:
> LENGTH: Proposals can be short, one (1) paragraph is fine.
> CONTENTS: Please provide us with enough information to be able to grasp 
> what you are aiming at.
> ETC: Please make sure your contact info is up to date.
> DEADLINE: April 1st, 2011
> SEND: editors at joaap.org
> PROCESS: After the deadline, we will review submissions and be in touch 
> as soon as our schedules allow.
> NOTE :We are imagining a relatively long writing and editing period. We 
> are aiming to release the issue in the late Autumn of this year. If 
> this time frame was used advantageously, that might be interesting.
> Website for the call:http://joaap.org/submission.htm
> 
> ……
> 
> 2. News Briefs- Wisconsin peers news and blogs
> 
> What a wild ride it is and will be.
> Dan S Wang's on-the-ground blog reports 
> <http://prop-press.typepad.com/blog/2011/03/from-madison-third-report.html#comments> 
> from the streets of Madison have been an invaluable resource for news 
> and reflection.
> Dan also has pointed us to Rotundaville <http://www.rotundaville.us/> 
> which will continue to be a useful source of news as the movements 
> switch into a new phase.
> We saw that Family Farm Defender's organized this past Saturday's 
> tractorcade to Madison. Family Farm Defender's wrote an article 
> <http://inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/you-are-what-you-eat> in 
> the Whirlwind's project we published online (the Whirlwinds book 
> <http://www.amazon.com/Envisioning-Real-Utopias-Erik-Wright/dp/184467617X/ref=pd_sim_b_4_> 
> by AK press came out last year. Note:Daniel Tucker and Amy Francescini's 
> Farm Together Now Book <http://farmtogethernow.org> has an interview 
> with them as well .
> Also Check out Just Seeds blog <http://justseeds.org/blog/> and the Erik 
> Drooker's General Strike 
> <http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2011/03/be_prepared_for_the_general_st.html> 
> poster posted there.
> Check out this post on the Groundswell blog 
> <http://blog.groundswellcollective.com/2011/03/12/the-art-of-the-wisconsin-uprising/> 
> as well.
> 
> …..
> 
> 3. Journal Events- Left Forum/ Parsonsl /Leipzig Book Fair
> 
> The Platypus Affiliated Societies <http://platypus1917.org/> put 
> together a panel at the Left Forum <http://www.leftforum.org/>- a 
> quasi-accademic, DIY conference in NYC. Our panel, Aesthetics in Protest 
> <http://www.leftforum.org/content/aesthetics-protests> is Saturday March 
> 19th from 3.00 to 4.30. It'll be a treat to chat with Platypus folks, 
> Stephen Duncombe and people from the Yes Men.
> Wednesday in New York City, we are doing a panel at Parsons/New School 
> <http://logantsibrel.com/2011/03/10/see/> with members of W.A.G.E 
> <http://www.wageforwork.com/>, members of Platypus 
> <hhttp://newyork.platypus1917.org/>, and Not an Alternative 
> <http://www.notanalternative.net/>. The event is free and open to the 
> public.
> 
> We are also participating in the Leipzig Bookfair 
> <http://www.spectorbooks.com/> that weekend in Leipzig Germany. If your 
> in town, come on down to the Centraltheater also on March 19th.
> 
> …..
> 
> 4. Etc...
> Check out this new book "The City is Our Factory 
> <http://www.saloon-la-realidad.com/christophschaeferprojekte/thecityisourfactory/thecityisourfactory.html>" 
> by Christoph Shaefer of Park Fiction, published by Spector Books 
> <http://www.spectorbooks.com/>.
> 
> Also, our friends at Occupy Everything <http://occupyeverything.org> 
> have been posting a whole lot of new articles very pertinent to our 
> readership.
> Regional Relationships <http://regionalrelationships.org/> is a new 
> project from the Radical Midwest that commissions artists, scholars, 
> writers and activists to create works that investigate the natural, 
> industrial and cultural landscapes of a region.
> Hey! Check out this petition! People (as artists) are pissed off at the 
> Guggenheim Museum syndicate 
> <http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/gulflabor/> for using near slave 
> labor! Who'd a thunk?
> 
> …..
> 5. Solidarity
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