For our first ever audio broadcast, we spoke with Mark Tribe, renowned new media artist, and founder of Rhizome.org. His Port Huron Project reenacts protest speeches from the New Left movements of the Vietnam era, and is the focus of our talk.
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Special thanks to Mansfield, Dan Parker, and Rob Hughes for their contributions.
Sea Change Residencies was founded in 2001 as a project of the Gaea Foundation, to provide time, space, and funds to outstanding artists and activists making critical headway in bringing forward alternative paths to social change.
… in the life of the artist, there is an appreciation of the need for time and space that activists generally cannot afford. And, in the life of the activist, there is an underlying commitment to social transformation that is not widely supported in the “art world.” Sea Change Cottage nurtures the artist/activist, that rare being that inhabits both of these worlds, both of these realities.
Residents are selected from a committee-nominated pool, and hosted in the Sea Change Cottage in Provincetown, MA. From their website:
A rotating nominations committee consisting of accomplished artists, activists, non-profit leaders, and academics submits candidates for Sea Change Residencies to Gaea Foundation staff. Additionally, former Sea Change Residents are asked to submit one nomination following their residency. From this pool of nominees, in concert with an outside advisory committee, Gaea staff makes final selections, which are submitted to the Gaea Foundation Board for approval.
Part one of our collaboration with Artists At War is now available for download. Below are two new posters that deal with privacy in our increasingly surveilled state, and are (in part) a reaction to the preemptive raids on activists at the RNC.
Three hundred of the posters were distributed earlier this week, and some promised to put them to tactical use.
A detail from the background of the poster on the right is below:
These were designed to be installed in a pattern, and though we’ve yet to try it, the idea was to display the security cameras in 3D. Each poster is sized 11×17″ – click the images above for a free PDF download!
We wish to create a high structured and internally strictly organized all-society platform whose goal is the attainment of a future with a humanity of higher quality.
RAFANI operates mainly within the Czech Republic, from their founding in Prague in 2000 as an open, democratic and collective structure for artistic action. The group is responsible for many actions, which are almost always situated historically, take place in the public sphere, and are accompanied by explanatory manifestos. This fall, however, RAFANI brought their work to Vaclav Spala Gallery, and for the exhibition, broke with their past practices, electing the gallery over public space and intentionally resisting any textualisation of the project. From the show’s review at Afterall:
The show remains untitled, as do the exhibited works. The website and email server for the group have been closed down, and there is no text in the catalogue only images. What is left is the subjectivity and personal experience of the spectator, which can come to life only through encounters with individual works.
Groundswell’s friend and ally Rayna Fahey prepared this presentation – titled The Fabric of Resistance – about the radical history of craft, particularly in Australia.
Don’t miss Rayna’s recent interview with the Wooster Collective.
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