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Red Sun Press, our local, movement print shop, has issued a call for political art in preparation for September’s Critical Views 5: A New Generation.
This show will highlight emerging artists illustrating contemporary struggles for social justice, the environment, and economic & political change.
Guidelines for submission after the jump!
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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 below.
Download the Notes for a People’s Atlas of Greater Boston PDF here
Submissions can be made in hard copy until September 1st and only digitally thereafter. Please mail to the address below, or send your map as a PDF via e-mail.
Groundswell
991 Massachusetts Ave #1
Cambridge MA 02138
You are encouraged to map out sites that are significant to you as someone who lives, work and plays in this city. You can map out sites of past or current political struggles, lost histories, cultural spaces, environmental devastation, personal histories, real estate speculation, social movements of the past, places of formal/ informal education, sites of gang violence, where to get the best coffee, places where tourists do not go, the periphery of the city, proposals for alternative uses of public space, distribution of wealth, anything. You are encouraged to combine, intersect, contrast, flip upside down themes or topics of your maps. You are encouraged to map out personal histories and points of interests as well as what else they relate to, why are these points important, and to whom are they important to?
Many thanks to the Design Studio for Social Intervention for hosting, and to the attendees and participants!
More on Call for Participation, Events, Friends & Allies, Local, Work by GroundswellDespite 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 a number of Chinese smugglers in China to distribute illegal propaganda over the border to North Korea, through the popular DVD format, which players are widely found in NK homes.
The Pizza to NK is the first in a series of designed insertions that explores how design can playfully contribute and impact on a social and cultural level, subtly challenging an ideological status quo.
Cildo Meireles would be proud.
More on Globalization, Re-blogged, VideoThe 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 aspiring cyclists, and a distributed sound swarm on the final day, intervening in the city with a mass of bike-mounted sound systems conducted by DIY radio waves.
The Lab of ii reports:
All events are free just like life should be lived > > >
FLOW: Come help pedal-power our utopian road movie, a fictional documentary based on a 7 months journey through a post-capitalist Europe of liberated zones. The world premiere of the film part of our bookfilm project Paths Through Utopias. Free popcorn for all !August 20th & 21st – 19:00
SWARM: Bring a bike (and FM radio) and get involved in our preparations for the final intervention, Sunday’s cycle sonic adventure across the city, FLOOD. Based on our Bike Bloc trainings in civil disobedience used in Copenhagen during the UN climate summit you can practice the art of flowing like water, swarming like bees and being in a bike gang.Sunday August 22nd – 19:00
FLOOD: The Grand Finale. Bring a bike, an FM radio and the desire for collective adventure, invite your friends and rebel cyclists, the more the merrier…
Go forth and swarm!
More on Call for Participation, Events, Friends & Allies, ResistanceThe 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 by the lovely folks at Food Not Bombs–and performances starting at 8PM.
Performers will include ::
+ music by _The Russian Nonsemble_
+ Switches, a sci-fi radio drama by Paul Dworkin, will be performed by members of the local radio troupe _The Post Meridian Players_
+ _Jacques-Antoine Jean_ will speak about his radio program “Haiti Focus” and its role as a community radio program that helps connect the Haitian community in the Boston area
+ John Bell and a group of volunteer musicians will present a modern re-interpretation of _John Cage’s Radio Music_, a piece written for 8 radios
