discussions

Should We Propose Something at Flux Factory? (NYC)

Thom Donovan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:05:29 -0500

Flux Factory – Call for Proposals Flux Factory, an artist collective and artist-run center in NYC, is currently accepting proposals for collaborative art projects for our 2009 programming. Projects must commission new work that is collaborative in nature. We create projects in which artists can interact and experiment in ways that produce new works, either as thematic group shows or as giant collaborative works within themselves. Projects must be structured to accommodate an open call to local and international artists. Examples of past shows include turning the gallery into a giant music box, a exhibition inspired by a movie, an exquisite-corpse exercise in a derelict building, an interdisciplinary monument to Tatlin, an edible art show, bus tours by artists, and many many more. Since we’re temporarily losing our headquarters, we’re looking for itinerant projects, or ones that we could find specific venues for. Budgets for each show are around $4000 all inclusive. Think big! Submissions should be no longer than a one page description of the project, and should be emailed to info@fluxfactory.org with the subject heading “Proposal.” Deadline for submissions is November 26th, 2008. A bit about us: Flux Factory began as a collective living space in 1994, in an old spice factory in Williamsburg, New York City. Its original members were undergraduates at the New School For Social Research (now New School University). About four years later, with a new stage built and twice as many members, the Flux Factory living room evolved into a site for art events and performances of all kinds. Flux became an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 1999 and moved to Long Island City, Queens in 2002.

the pursuit/persistence of risk, post-potluck aporia

M. Perel — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:11:10 -0400

I am entering this discussion within the fibers of personal and professional desire/response/ community discourse. On one hand, it delights me to know that notes for this discussion on disability/disablement were made during the Movement Research Festival Potluck, though also find admitted irony in the fact that I could not attend it due to my own chronic pain (as disability or from a physical disfiguration that is the disability, who can define which?). Something that has been a little hard for me to enter in this blog is the technical apparatus of "disability" and its various functions... I prefer more to find agency in a discussion of the mechanism of suffering, which is a very personal and continuous ____ for one who is disabled. This ____ is my gift to you, reader to insert whatever word you think fits best. I think of "place," "ground," "text," "momentum," "test," "dance," "funk," or "motherfucker." For me that is more interesting than this idea of re-invention that we seem to be fantastically splashing around in through this discourse. I am not saying that it is beside the point to re-work this term, or to create perspectives or situations where this sense of the abled and disabled border is dismantled. I think that the previous bloggers have done an excellent job of that on the nonsite, but I AM saying that pain is pain, discomfort is important information, and that can't be by-passed by a revision of terminology or code. The most important art that I have witnessed or been a part of has emerged from or addressed the artist's struggle to overcome suffering, whether it is rooted in disfigurement, addiction, loss of many kinds, and the awkward place where a desire cannot be met but persists in its strength of presence, like the struggle for identity whether that is maintaining one or uncovering one.

Nonsite Symposium this Winter in NYC?

Thom Donovan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:42:51 -0400

Can we consider meeting while I am in SF July 19th-26th? Perhaps on the 23rd? Will be great to see folks in person regardless. Looking forward! *** This coming January I would like to collaborate with others to organize a symposium in New York City that would focus (on) the efforts of the Nonsite Collective. I'm imagining this as a series of conversations, public presentations and readings. The purpose of such a gathering would be multifold as it might advance curricula already developed by the Collective, as well as provide an opportunity for Nonsite to extend its efforts in NYC where, as in the Bay, there exists a critical mass of interest in the Collective's work. I'm proposing this symposium in the interest of pursuing questions we agree matter to us, and that are consequential for discourse about the future. I would also like to propose here four "conversations" which could accommodate a variety of participants from New York, San Francisco, and elsewhere. These four "conversations" may be devoted to four problems which originally preoccupied the Collective's attention during the creation of the original "draft proposal" in the spring of 2007. The first, concerning the creation of new archives; the second, concerning new forms of commons; the third, regarding activism and aesthetic intervention/response; the last, revolving around on- and off-page poetry as a nonsite. The question of how these conversations are organized remains open; but regardless of how the discussions are formatted, I believe it is principle that we think collaboratively about how to design a forum that may be most open for all, and that will generate a rich record for possible ongoing curricula and further collaboration.

Upcoming Translation Events

Rob Halpern — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:48:43 -0500

Start: 03/03/2008 - 08:40

Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

"Translation as Social and Aesthetic Practice" will continue over the
next month--beginning this Thursday night-- with several informal discussions facilitated by Bruce Boone (on translation and Pascal Quignard: 3/6), Chris Nagler (on translation and Alberto Masferrer: 3/10 ), Susan Greene (on translation and public art practices in occupied Palestine: 4/1).

Please join us!

Information about any or all of these discussions--as well as related
materials--can be accessed easily by clicking on the event, and then following the prompts by way of the sign-up tab.