Out Now: Harmonic Dissidents Magazine – Issue #2

Out Now: Harmonic Dissidents Magazine – Issue #2

James David Morgan

Harmonic Dissidents is a digital magazine produced by and for mobile oriented, politically active, socially conscious musicians, bands, and other performers in the HONK! Fest tradition. Issue #2 is just out, and includes offerings on defining a HONK! band, operating as an explicitly political and non-hierarchical band, the low down on HONK! at the US [...]

Public Things: A group exhibition for Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

Public Things: A group exhibition for Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

James David Morgan

Public Things, curated by Conrad Bakker, highlights the necessarily contingent nature of producing in public, including work from six artists whose works focus on the dialectic between public and private, between objects and their surroundings, between networks and the nodes within them. Ryan Thompson’s “Glacial Erratics” regards the erratic displacement of rocks by both glacial [...]

Haiti: What Now?, a sprout spaghetti dinner

James David Morgan

This Wednesday evening, sprout asks “What should happen next in the rebuilding of Haiti, and how can we best support the reconstruction?”  As part of their ongoing dinner series, this event gathers linguists, puppeteers, and urbanists to unpack the history, politics, and contemporary issues within the recovery effort. sprout In addition to spaghetti served up [...]

The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Goes on Strike

James David Morgan

Kudos to our friends at JOAAP, who have issued the following statement via their website: ON STRIKE This Website Is Closed Today Read Online Another Day In Solidarity with the Occupation Movements occupyca.wordpress.com www.occupyeverything.com -editors JOAAP.org We’re very much looking forward to reading the digital parts of Issue #7 when you’re back online.

72 Hours: A Block Rebellion in Boston’s Neighborhoods

72 Hours: A Block Rebellion in Boston’s Neighborhoods

James David Morgan

City Life/Vida Urbana and Greater Four Corners Association have teamed up with Groundswell Journal contributors John Hulsey, Ilaria Minio Paluello and other members of the community, to recapture a group of foreclosed houses in the Four Corners part of Dorchester, a neighborhood of Boston.  The intervention begins this Saturday (March 13th, 2010) at 5:00PM, at [...]