Adam Friedman’s “No Vestige of a Beginning, No Prospect of and End” (2010)
Big Shots | Take a look at the rich, white men at the top rung of the NYC cultural ladder. [NYTimes]
DIY WPA | The Work Projects Administration is experiencing a revival, at the hands of public artists and community organizers. [WPA]
Reason to Interfere | Invitations are being solicited for work combining art, politics, and protest, for Interference 2010. [Artsadmin]
Preference & Prejudice | Tackle the issue of bias where art and politics meet. [The Arts Politic]
In the spirit of their mission, Platypus is turning its attentions to the questions we address here:
Can art really have a stake in making political change? If so, has contemporary art been at all successful in doing so? How must art’s relationship to politics be understood, and what must be rethought in light of our present?
If we are to accept the maxim put forth by Platypus and others, that the Left is not, at least right now, a capable force to be reckoned with, then these questions are seen in a wholly different light than what Groundswell proposes. However, it being necessary to continuously revisit (especially our most dearly held) assumptions, this union of practicing artists and critical theorists could present a valuable opportunity to those interested in critical cultural production.
Participants include:
Coco Fusco (Artist, Writer and Professor at Parsons ), Andrea Geyer (Artist and Professor at Parsons), Jim Miller (Chair of Lib. Stu. and Professor of Poli. Sci. at the NSSR), Haseeb Ahmed (Platypus Affiliated Society)
The event takes place Wednesday, April 28, at 7:00PM in The New School’s Wollman Hall (Map).
More Repression | NYC cops and Federal agents raided the headquarters of the fourth annual Anarchist Film Fest. [Infoshop]
Reason to Celebrate | Our friends at Red Sun Press celebrate 35 years with a retrospective show this May. Here’s the video (Facebook required) for those who can’t make it to Boston. [Red Sun Press]
Notes from Underground | Boston’s local zine library celebrates its reopening this weekend with some lovely friends. Come say hello! [Papercut Zine Library]
Heather and Ivan Morrison’s How to Survive the Coming Bad Years
Sweet Release | Autonomedia’s dropping their new book, Critical Strategies in Art and Media, and throwing a big party. [Eyebeam]
Eponymedia | The conference that inspired the book, also titled Critical Strategies in Art and Media, featured Steve Kurtz, Bifo, Brian Holmes, and more. The video documentation can be watched online. [World-Information Institute]
We ♥ Geo-Affinities | Spend some time with this experimental mapping project exploring the interrelation of gender, ethnicity, race, class and sexualities in contemporary European art. [GenderArtNet]
Groundswell Gains | We wrote a piece on how we work, and what we do when we work. [Sheepless]
Oh, so Democratic | The UK Border Agency has denied visas to five artists participating in a group show at Cornerhouse Art Gallery. [Animal]
Not One, but Two | Not only Ricardo Dominguez, but also Ken Ehrlich is targeted by the UC Regents, just when it seemed they couldn’t possibly do any more wrong. [b.a.n.g lab]
Sold Out | Every copy of our journal that we had in stock has moved from our shelves. These spots might have a few left. [Red Emma's, Bluestockings, Ada Books, Half Letter Press]
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