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Kim Hoerbe’s talk on “Pauline Oliveros and the Archive” was the occasion for an excellent Nonsite event that took place on Sunday afternoon, 2/21/10, at the collective’s provisional South of Market digs, Nicole Hollis’s design studio.

Hoerbe is visiting from Berlin, and his research is located at the intersection of music and philosophy. He’s currently writing about Oliveros’s work with experimental electronic music in the 1960s, and his research has brought him to Mills College, which is the location of the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM). (Oliveros was the first director of the Mills Tape Music Center after the San Francisco Tape Music Center migrated to Mills with a Rockefeller Grant in the Summer of 1966, only to become the CCM several years later under the direction of Robert Ashley.)

Hoerbe had barely introduced his talk when the group began voicing a range of questions, all of which seemed to dovetail beautifully with Hoerbe’s own intentions, concerns, and ideas.

Welcome to the new look and feel of the Nonsite Collective homepage. I've incorporated suggestions from a number of users on making the site easier to navigate from the front page, and I think you'll find an overview of just about everything you'd want to access on the site right here on a single page.

If the feedback continues to be generally positive, I think I'll begin migrating all of the site's content over to something like this panel-style layout and away from the multi-region layout we have now, with its array of menu bars, sidebar boxes, etc. Users have consistently found that setup confusing, so I'm inclined to go with something more like this (although stripped down a bit on the individual content pages).

Those changes will probably take a few weeks, so in the meantime we'll have a new and improved front page sitting on top of the old layout. It's a bit inconsistent, but I hope users will bear with me as I try to squeeze the additional changes in around my work schedule.

Wed 1/27: Trisha Brown exhibit opening/talk/performance at Mills

Thur 1/28: Recipes for Encounters at SoEx

Fri 1/29: Anne McGuire & WetGate at BAM

Sat 1/30 afternoon: Yvonne Rainer workshop & talk at Mills

Sat 1/30 eve: Cedar Sigo & Brenda Coultas at SPT

AN ARCHITEKTUR BERLIN
TEN DAYS FOR OPPOSITIONAL ARCHITECTURE
November 12-21
Gair Building No 6, 81 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (York Stop on the F Train) Map

What would happen if an intergalactic consortium of investors bought up all of New York City's affordable housing? If automated labor and robot workers took over Manhattan ? If an evil super villain released a mutant nano-virus into the urban water supply?

City of Tomorrows is a workshop about the New York City of the future that merges urban geography, science fiction and guerrilla theater. In the space of 2 hours, participants will develop, script and rehearse short sci-fi scenes about New York City's political, spatial and social futures. We will then perform the scenes in public space for both a Performa audience and passersby. They will follow along and even participate as these utopian and dystopian tomorrows are played out on the streets of Lower Manhattan.

Who we're looking for: Science fiction writers, visionaries, astronauts, astral psychics, sci-fi geeks, drama queens, class clowns, urbanists, protesters, agent provocateurs, brainstormers.

You will be given reading and viewing material prior to the workshop as well as background info on the issues to be explored. You will be asked to contribute to a collaborative mini-drama as well as perform in public space.

Please email cityoftomorrows@performa-arts.org to reserve a space. Please include a brief description of yourself and your interests, your current email address; and phone number. We will inform you within a few days if space is available. bit.ly/fgAOb for more information.

Workshop limited to 20 people.

Created by Lize Mogel, Stephanie Rothenberg, and Jenifer Kaminsky.
Curated by Defne Ayas. Presented by Performa and Storefront for Art and Architecture.

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About PERFORMA 09
Performa 09, the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance, will be held in New York City from November 1-22, 2009, showcasing new work by more than 150 of the world's most exciting contemporary artists. Over its three week-run, Performa 09's innovative program will break down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, film, television, radio, graphic design, and the culinary arts, presenting over 110 events in collaboration with a consortium of more than 80 of the city's leading arts institutions, 40 curators from around the world, and a network of public and private venues throughout the city.

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Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
10012 New York, NY
Tel. 212.431.5795
Fax 212.431.5755

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New exhibit open at the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Los Angeles location:

URBAN CRUDE: 
The Oil Fields of the Los Angeles Basin
Open to the public starting October 30th, 2009


 
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The CLUI Los Angeles Exhibit Hall is open noon to five PM, 
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, or by appointment. 
Admission is free. 

Directions 

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The Center for Land Use Interpretation
9331 Venice Blvd. 
Culver City, CA 90232 
310.839.5722 office
310.839.6678 fax 
support (at) clui (dot) org 
www.clui.org 

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Also on view in Los Angeles:

Two CLUI landscans on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 
as part of the exhibit New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM:
South Belridge Oil Field, Kern County, California
and Houston Petrochemical Corridor
October 25, 2009–January 3, 2010

Exhibition Symposium: 
"What's at Stake?" 
New Topographics: Photography and the Man-Altered Landscape 
Saturday, November 7 

at LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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The Center for Land Use Interpretation 
is a non-profit organization dedicated to the increase and diffusion of knowledge 

about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived.