Notes for a People’s Atlas of Greater Boston
UPDATE: We’ve released a compilation of the maps made for Notes for a People’s Atlas of Greater Boston as a PDF. Get it here! Experimental geographers who were able to attend last night’s event, and others who couldn’t be there, can download the template of the Notes for a People’s Atlas of Greater Boston map [...]
Pizza is Political – Designer Hwang Kim Inserts DVDs into Ideological Circuits
Despite a long-running rejection of foreign cultural influences, North Korea permitted its first pizzeria in March 2009. Pies are reportedly available only to a wealthy and political elite, prompting London-based designer Hwang Kim to create Pizzas for the People. Hwang writes: With the aim off challenging current cultural obstacles in North Korea, I have contacted [...]
FLOW, SWARM, FLOOD – The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination in Hamburg
The same rebel cyclists who swarmed COP15 and lived to tell the tale in Groundswell’s journal are bringing their postcapitalist utopian strategies to Hamburg. The Lab of ii prepares for COP15 The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination‘s (Lab of ii) FLOOD< FLOW> SWARM will include: a pedal powered cinema performance, bike swarm trainings for experimental and [...]
On The Radio, a sprout spaghetti dinner
The theme for this month’s sprout spaghetti dinner is On The Radio. We’re going to look at the history of radio, the artistic medium of radio, and how radio has been used as a tool for communication and organizing. As usual, it’s happening at sprout at 339R Summer St Somerville MA with dinner at 730PM–prepared [...]
Groundswell’s Add Art Show, “Our Fire and Our Tenderness” Goes Live
The current Add Art show, Our Fire and Our Tenderness, is curated by Groundswell and deals with questions about care. This subject has been the center of many recent conversations I’ve been having, but is in no way a new one. From the art historical take on early institutional critique and feminist art practice to [...]
