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Kudos to our friends at JOAAP, who have issued the following statement via their website:
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In Solidarity with the Occupation Movements
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We’re very much looking forward to reading the digital parts of Issue #7 when you’re back online.
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 21 Bullard Street in Dorchester.
72 Hours, an audiovisual intervention comprised of a series of video projections evoking the personal histories of neighborhood residents, will be seen through the building’s windows, and one unit will be opened to the public for a walk-through sound installation that evokes lives of former owners.
A still from 72 Hours
From the artists’ description:
Walking through an empty foreclosed unit in the building, visitors will encounter sounds of a family in its daily life cycle, relayed by hidden speakers. In the kitchen, people will be heard washing dishes and discussing the day’s events. Upstairs in the bedroom, a father reads his children a story before going to bed. As visitors explore the vacant rooms, they become animated by the sounds of former residents.
The houses, clustered together in the space of a city block, are owned by Deutsche Bank and other international banks. During the Block Rebellion, demands will be made to immediately cease all no-fault post-foreclosure evictions and begin negotiations to sell back the vacant units at real value.
John Hulsey’s portfolio site has more on 72 Hours. Keep up with this and other actions at the City Life/Vida Urbana website.
The Free Store, courtesy of Gallery 400
Following on the heels of LA’s counter-CAA, Chicago plays host to the gathering of visual arts professionals in 2010 – beginning today – and organizers will offer programming for socially engaged artists both within and outside of the conference center.
Three Walls will workshop the history, practice, and theory of experimental pedagogy inside and outside institutions, in conjunction with AREA Chicago’s issue #9 (Peripheral Vision), with Greg Sholette, Dara Greenwald, Counter Cartographies Collective, Bert Stabler, and others this afternoon.
The ongoing Art/Work exhibit (get your free copy of the newspaper from us here) and Free Store are promoted in conjunction with the conference, as is Mess Hall’s Chicago Activist Art Spaces, Collectives, and Projects.
Within the conference walls, the Radical Art Caucus offers a range of meetings and sessions, from pedagogical to cartographic concerns, the schedule for which can be found here.
The Influencers, a three day think-tank on art, guerrilla communication, and radical entertainment, convenes today in Barcelona. The event brings together the Yes Men, Critical Art Ensemble, Black Label Bike Club, and several others strategically imagining our post-capitalist future, whose “dangerous and risky narratives,” as described by the organizers, “force [the] physical, aesthetical (sic.), legal, and political boundaries of our society, and challenge [our] collective imagination to desire the unthinkable.”
For more on the participating artists, see the Influencers’ program of activities. The festival’s archive is not to be missed.
Update: The Space Hijackers are going to sue the cops over their arrest at the G20.
There’s reason to celebrate this morning, and we join Leah Borromeo in raising a toast to the Space Hijackers’ strength and determination through the several month ordeal of defeating the charges brought against them for their action at the G20.
Leah has posted an excerpt of the letter the Hijackers received from their lawyers on her site, and the official reasons – insufficient evidence – were not dissimilar to those in the dismissal of a similarly high-profile case brought against Steve Kurtz of Critical Art Ensemble.
