Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) has put together the ultimate guide to selling out. Incorporated as DAM Inc., members Carrie Moyer and Sue Schaffner offer up lesbianism as “a viable commodity that can be bought, sold and traded.”
Since 1991 you’ve known Dyke Action Machine! as a team of media watchdogs who operated from the margins of mainstream culture. Today, instead of testing the status quo, we now recognize that it’s our responsibility to restructure and work from within the system. Turning Dyke Action Machine! into DAM Inc. is the frst in a series of exciting changes you’ll begin to notice in the days and weeks ahead.
Find out more about their pioneering efforts in Population Offset Credits and their socially responsible work with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in their press materials, avaialable as a PDF, and in hardcopy from Printed Matter.
Via Art Fag City.
Former Black Panthers Billy X Jennings and Emory Douglas have lent a hand to the San Francisco based bookstore Babylon Falling, pulling from the It’s About Time Archives to present an exhibition of radical underground newspapers from the 1960s-70s in the United States.
The exhibit will be comprised of a variety of original copies of Berkeley Tribe, Berkeley Barb, The Realist, Chicago Seed, East Village Other, Catholic Worker, Civil Liberties, I Wor Kuen, American Report, SDS New Left Notes, the Black Panther Party Newspaper, and more.
The show will open tomorrow, February 19, and run through March 11. At the opening, Billy X will lead a short discussion on the history of the underground press in the U.S. and Emory Douglas (former Black Panther Party Minister of Culture) will also give a short talk on the role that art played in these papers.
Also check out Babylon Falling’s photo narrative of their trip to the Billy X’s house.
This year, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography celebrates 40 years of critical scholarship, and to celebrate, has released 40 key articles from their archives.
On four consecutive Saturdays in Chicago, residents filled the city with games, silliness, and enjoyable activities that cracked open the bid to hold the 2016 Olympic games in their hometown. They interrogated the implications of the bid with real sports, fake sports, and things that aren’t sports at all. In a word, they staged the Unlympics.
A project of Anne Elizabeth Moore and InCUBATE, the Unlympic Games included eleven different events between the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, all of which were:
open to all Chicago residents. These games are sponsored by organizations whose constituencies will be directly impacted by the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid, and will be preceded by concrete information—and not marketing—about the impact the Olympics may have on Chicago.
Get the play-by-play recap on the official Unlympics Games website.
The Institute Design2context, at the Zurich University for the Arts, seeks to counter loss of the ability to imagine peace, and to substantiate their argument that this incapacity has resulted in an increase in disquieting space. In this effort, they have embarked on a search for visual representations of peace, a project they’ve titled Imagine Peace!:
We are gathering these representations in a variety of historical, cultural and political contexts, and bringing them together in research constellations. These constellations allow for a renewed ability in imagining peace and should contribute to forthcoming debates and controversies that encompass a vital presence of peace in political, civil and everyday life contexts.
The results of the research will be published as an encyclopedia in the autumn of 2009, and paired with written arguments that “today’s discordances and hostilities express the absence of proper imaginations of peace.” Conceiving of “Imagine Peace!” as
an exchange project, a source and networking knot for everyone active for the cause and creation of peace, be it in a political or personal context
the organizers have issued a series of calls for contributions, both written and graphical.
Worldwide workshops, entitled “Imagine Peace!”, are currently being held in places marked by situational crisis – recent locations include China, Brazil, and El Salvador – wherin key participants, artists, designers, graphic artists along with active grassroots peace organizations pursue effective and active concepts of peace.
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