Events
Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses
Posted February 3, 2012 by jmacphee in Events
Tomorrow night Greg Sholette's installation "Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses" opens at the Queens Museum. One of the islands was conceived by Dara Greenwald, an "Island of Healing and Restfulness."
Opening party: Saturday, February 4, 6 – 10 pm
Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Fifteen Islands for Robert Moses is a site-specific art infiltration into the Panorama of the City of New York, which was built for the 1964 World’s Fair by urban planner Robert Moses and is now a centerpiece of the Queens Museum of Art. Artist and theorist Greg Sholette made and placed new islands about the Panorama’s waterways, where they exist as silent, post-9/11 observers of the City’s past, present, and future.
In Defiance, In Defense
Posted January 27, 2012 by dylanminer in Events
Next Friday, I am heading to Tromsø, Norway for an exhibition at Small Projects Gallery, a small artist-run center. The exhibtion is called In Defiance, In Defense (English) or Nággárvuodas, Bealustussan (Sami). My work in the Arctic will also include a print collaboration with Sami youth, as well as a small series of text-based screen prints incoporating aspects of poems written by Sami artist Sara Margrethe Oskal. These sorts of projects, ones which integrate but go beyond the printed image, ar becoming more central to my artistic and activist practices.
Painting 2 Banners in Acteal; 14 Years of Impunity
Posted January 19, 2012 by santi in Art & Politics
For a while I’ve been going to Acteal in the municipality of Chenalhó, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Acteal is a small Tzotzil community who were victims of the 22nd of December 1997 massacre by a PRI party sponsored Mascaras Rojas paramilitary group.
I have encountered lots of people who mistake Acteal as a Zapatista Community. One key difference is that Las Abejas (The Bees) is a pacifist and religious organization. Despite those differences, Las Abejas have vocally expressed their support for the EZLN and their demands. It was this link with the Zapatistas which led to the massacre of 45 members (4 of them pregnant) of Las Abejas. The members were murdered inside a small church praying, in an environment filled with fear of the EZLN growing stronger.
12/16: Interference Archive Open House Tonight
Posted December 16, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
Open House
Friday December 16th, 6:30-9:30pm
Interference Archive
131 8th St. #4
Brooklyn, NY 11215 (Gowanus)
2 blocks from the F/G/R trains (4th ave. and 9th st.)
Dara Greenwald, Josh MacPhee, Molly Fair, and Kevin Caplicki (as well as all the other people that have helped) would like to introduce you to our space, which we have been working on building out all Fall and Winter. In addition, we have hung a collection of materials from the archive related to punk feminism (largely pulled from Dara’s personal collection) which is a nice introduction to some of the kinds of work we are archiving.
The Interference Archive explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements. The archive consists of many kinds of objects that are created as part of movements: posters, flyers, publications, photographs, t-shirts, moving images, audio recordings, and other printed matter. Through public exhibitions, a study center, talks, screenings, publications, workshops, and an on-line presence, we use this cultural ephemera to animate histories of people mobilizing for social transformation.
12/16: Justseeds Talk at Westmoreland Museum of Art
Posted December 15, 2011 by mary_tremonte in Events
Common Cause
Friday December 16, 2011 • Artists Discussion
7:30PM Cost : Free
Join Mary Tremonte and Shaun Slifer for a discussion about artist cooperatives at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, as part of their current exhibit The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony (1899-2011). Learn about the variety of print mediums and tactics used by the artist members of Justseeds and their current collaborative projects. They will discuss the collective process, addressing the challenges inherent in a decentralized group of artists with differing beliefs and levels of involvement in the group.
Westmoreland Museum of American Art
221 North Main Street
Greensburg, PA 15601
(about 45 minutes from Pittsburgh)
And website for more info: HERE
12/10-12/11: Justseeds at Crafty Wonderland
Posted December 10, 2011 by roger_peet in Events
If you're in Portland, Oregon this weekend: Justseeds will be tabling at Crafty Wonderland, the giant craft fair in the convention center. Lots of prints, cards, stickers, and organizers will be there! Come by and say hi.
CRAFTY WONDERLAND HOLIDAY SALE
Saturday + Sunday, December 10th + 11th, 2011
11am – 6pm both days
At the Oregon Convention Center – HALL C
777 NE MLK Jr. Blvd in Portland
Dec: Super Presse Club - Print sale in Montreal
Posted December 9, 2011 by Jesse_Purcell in Events
If you are in Montreal come come check out the SUPER PRESSE CLUB Pop-up-shop at Casa del Popolo (4873 St-Laurent) Montreal.
There will be a great selection of Justseeds prints and a dizzying array of work by 13 awesome Montreal print makers
Opening Hours:
12-5pm Thursday – Sunday for the first three weeks of December
and Tuesday – Friday the 20th-23rd of December.
For Decoration and Agitation
Posted December 7, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
I just got a notice that myself and four other Justseeds' artists (Roger Peet, Shaun Slifer, Chris Stain, and Swoon) are including in this new historical stencil exhibition at the Newark Public Library. It looks to be a great historical retrospective of stencil art, from Soviet-era use, to cubism and surrealism, to it's more recent use in artists' books. I've always wanted to be in an exhibition with Mayakovsky!
For Decoration and Agitation: An Exhibition of Stencil and Pochoir Books and Art
Newark Public Library, Newark NJ
Curated by Jared Ash, Special Collections Division
On view: Nov. 16, 2011 – Jan. 21, 2012
Main Library, Third Floor Gallery
More info HERE
TODAY: #OccupyHomes National Day of Action
Posted December 6, 2011 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Events
Are you ready for the #OccupyHomes Day of Action?
Find an event here: http://bit.ly/uA4evF
Today, courageous people around the country are taking a stand to keep their homes, and fight big banks and foreclosures. Meet a Los Angeles mother who is protecting her home – Rosa Gudiel.
Rosa’s bank refused to negotiate to keep her in her home. They were coming for her house, no excuses. But Rose refused to give in. Joined by her family, allies in her community and Occupy LA, Rose took the fight to her bank by refusing to leave her home. And she won – her bank came to the table to negotiate a modification which will keep her in her home.
Photos From War Is Trauma Opening at Booklyn
Posted December 6, 2011 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects
Booklyn has posted some photos of the War Is Trauma opening on their Booklyn Flickrpage. Pictured above is the portfolio cover, made by the Combat Paper Project, out of uniforms from active-duty soldiers. It was a really fortunate weekend to have the opening since the IVAW Board of Directors were in town for a meeting, and attended the opening! Come out and see:
War is Trauma: Justseeds & IVAW Dec. 3–Jan. 8. 2012 @ Booklyn Art Gallery
DJ Mary Mack/Queers Against Deportation
Posted December 2, 2011 by mary_tremonte in Events
This weekend, I am traveling to Philadelphia and Providence, RI, to visit friends and fellow Justseeds members, and to DJ two queer danceparties.
The Philly Event, Queers Against Deportation, is co-organized by Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela, (aka DJ Halfbreed), founder of Thread Makes Blanket Press, and Caitlin Barry, my former cohort with the Projet Mobilivre-Bookmobile Project (which other Justseeds member Jesse Purcell was also a part of). Caitlin is a now an immigration lawyer. Small, rad world!
Here are details of the Philly event:
Justseeds December Sale!
Posted November 28, 2011 by roger_peet in Events
It's that holiday time again, and we're having a sale! From now through the 7th of December you can get 10% off any order made in the Justseeds store. Enter the code "december" in the coupon code box on our shopping cart page to get the discount. Please share widely! Tell your friends, families, co-workers, co-conspirators, and persons unknown. Thanks for all the support you give us- we really appreciate it.
12/3: War Is Trauma Opening Reception
Posted November 27, 2011 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
This coming Saturday is the New York City release and exhibition of the new Justseeds/IVAW/Booklyn War Is Trauma print portfolio!
Opening reception: Dec. 3, 2011. 7 - 10pm
Booklyn, 37 Greenpoint Ave. 4th Fl., Brooklyn, NY 11222
The show will be up from December 3, 2011 - January 8, 2012
An exhibition of 30 prints including work by Justseeds, IVAW and their allies. War Is Trauma is a portfolio of handmade prints produced by the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative in collaboration with the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). For this project over 30 artists from Justseeds, IVAW, and their allies have each created a print to focus public attention towards important issues not being publicly discussed—GI Resistance, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), sexual assault of women in the military, and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). More information HERE.
11/29: Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil
Posted November 20, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
For those that have been following the work of Liberate Tate in the UK, you know that they are doing some of the most inventive and challenging cultural activism going on right now, and for those that haven't been following, check them out! They have a big event coming up on 11/29 in London, for a release of their new book project Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil:
Liberate Tate, Art Not Oil and Platform warmly invite you to a get-together to end oil sponsorship of the arts. Featuring a performance from singer-comedian Mae Martin, contributing artist to the upcoming Tate à Tate audio tour, the evening will be the first opportunity to purchase the freshly stamped limited edition copies of Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil.Tuesday 29th November
Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA10.30am – 6.30pm: Oil daub performance by Ruppe Koselleck
6.30pm – 9.00pm: 'Culture Beyond Oil' launch event (refreshments provided)More info HERE.
Un Grito from the Great Lakes
Posted November 18, 2011 by dylanminer in Events
Un Grito from the Great Lakes: Works by Dylan Miner
Galería América, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Hangs through 03 December 2011 (Possibly moving to Crossroads Gallery afterwards)
Last week, I traveled to South Bend, Indiana to create a site-specific painting for my show at Galería América, University of Notre Dame. For those that don’t know, Notre Dame has a wonderful Institute for Latino Studies, which includes two art galleries, one on campus (Galería América) and one in downtown South Bend (Crossroads Gallery). Prof. Gil Cardenas, Director of the Institute, is a huge patron of the arts and a supporter of Latino printmaking. I have known Gil for a few years and was happy when he invited me to do a show in Galería América. Since the show has a short run, it may continue into the new year at Crossroads Gallery.
Animas Perdidas, Fort Lewis College
Posted November 17, 2011 by dylanminer in Events
Animas Perdidas
Art Gallery at Fort Lewis College
Durango, Colorado
Through the end of November
11/19: "Which Side Are You On? Book Release
Posted November 17, 2011 by k_c_ in Events
Brooklyn based artist Christopher Cardinale presents slides of his artwork and process for the children's book Which Side Are You On? written by George Ella Lyon.
Saturday November 19th, 1pm
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street (btw Stanton & Rivington)
11/18: WW3 Release Party
Posted November 16, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
This Friday check out an art show opening and comic book release party for the brand new World War 3 Illustrated, featuring a comic by Justseeds' very own Molly Fair!!
Tahrir : Liberation from the Mideast to the Midwest
Friday, November 18th, 2011 - 8pm to 11pm
Sixth Street Community Center
638 East Sixth Street (between Avenue B & C), NYC
World War 3 Illustrated, the independent political comix magazine, presents its new issue, dedicated to the Arab Spring and the spirit of world-wide revolt it has inspired, at a gallery opening exhibiting original art and new work made in conjunction with the Occupy Everywhere movement.
War Dialogues Project & New IVAW Portfolio Preview on Nov.11 (Pittsburgh)
Posted November 10, 2011 by shaun in Events
Join the War Dialogues Project and Justseeds for an Armistice Day Event!
Featuring Stories and Art and Interactive Discussion about war and reconciliation from the perspectives of veterans and refugees living in the Pittsburgh area.
Pre-Release exhibition of War Is Trauma: a Justseeds/I.V.A.W. (Iraq Veterans Against the War) Portfolio featuring prints from over 30 artists, including veterans, on the subject of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and GI Resistance
Friday November 11th
6:00-8:00 Dialogues
8:00-10:00 Opening Reception for War Is Trauma: A Justseeds/I.V.A.W. Portfolio
at Justseeds Distribution HQ (Pittsburgh, PA)
3410 Penn Ave, Second Floor (enter in back on Spring Way)
Free and Open to the Public!
Prints Gone Wild 11/4 & 11/5
Posted November 3, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Hey it's time again for PRINTS GONE WILD- the super affordable art fair for prints. Justseeds will be there selling our wares, so come check us out.
Friday Nov. 4th, 6pm-midnight
Saturday Nov. 5, 12pm-6pm
at Secret Project Robot
389 Melrose St., Brooklyn, NY
located between Flushing and Knickerboxer Aves, a few blocks from the Morgan Ave. L train stop
Calculus of forms: building and erasing utopias
Posted October 15, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
My friend Adrian Blackwell has been working for years in Toronto on an antiauthoritarian analysis and practice of architecture and public planning. He's got a new project that just went up, and I wish I was in Toronto to see it!
Calculus of forms: building and erasing utopias
Adrian Blackwell and Jane Hutton
October 14 – December 31, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, October 14, 7-10 pm
G Gallery, 134 Ossington St, Toronto, ON M6J 2Z5
Calculus of forms examines the relationship between the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of urban form. Cities have certain shapes which hold us in particular ways and allow us to move along specific paths. They are historical, changing over time according to political and economic vicissitudes.
A Show about Colab (and Related Activities)
Posted October 14, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
A Show about Colab (and Related Activities)
October 15–November 30
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 15, 6–8pm
Printed Matter, Inc., 195 Tenth Ave, New York, NY 10011
From the press release:
Printed Matter, Inc. is pleased to announce the exhibition, A Show about Colab (and Related Activities), which runs from October 15 through November 30, 2011. This overarching survey will presents a wide range of materials and artworks from various Colab activities from the late 1970’s through the mid 1980’s, including screenings of film and video works, and cable broadcasts. The exhibition also features works and material from other related groups, collectives and projects. An opening reception is scheduled at Printed Matter on Saturday, October 15th,, from 6 – 8 pm. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue between 21st and 22nd Street in Chelsea, New York City.
Justseeds in Copenhagen
Posted October 13, 2011 by mary_tremonte in Events
A preview shot of the window at YNKB!
Shaun Slifer and Mary Tremonte are in Copenhagen this week and have a few Justseeds events lined up. We will be giving a talk titled Justseeds: Tactics for Social Movement Graphics in the US at Kunsthøjskolen i Holbæk on Thursday October 13th, and then at the Fynske Kunstakademi (Funen Art Academy) on Tuesday October 18th (link to the event on their site HERE)
We will also present the Resourced portfolio and related prints at YNKB
The show opens on Saturday October 15th, with a talk by the two of us.
Join us if you're in the area!
Resourced
Saturday October 15
18:00 - 21:00
Artists' Talk at 19:00
Ydre Nørrebro Kultur Bureau
Baldersgade 70 st tv
Show runs through November 15
'Preoccupied' Exhibition at Alma College
Posted October 10, 2011 by dylanminer in Events
This weekend, I installed a solo show at Alma College located here in Michigan. Titled ‘Preoccupied’, the two part exhibition includes a social practice-based installation that asks gallery goers to create prostest placards, as well as exhibits my series of Louisville Slugger relief prints evoking baseball and its relationship to immigration and the use of Indigenous people as mascots for sports.
POP: Print Only Please
Posted October 7, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
POP: Print Only Please
8 October - 12 November 2011
Opening Party: Saturday, October 8, 6 - 8 pm
Roos Arts, 449 Main Street, Rosendale NY, 12472
Roos Arts is pleased to present "POP: Print Only Please", a group exhibition featuring artists who work with various techniques of printmaking. The work represents a range of practices that reflect the diverse ways of utilizing printmaking to create narrative images. We are also featuring artists from Women's Studio Workshop and Justseeds Artists' Cooperative who create a nurturing community for artists to collaborate and support each other's unique viewpoints.
Up the bees! A papercut show
Posted October 7, 2011 by bec_young in Events
If you're in Pittsburgh, please visit a show that opens tonight on the theme of honeybees. The show features papercuts by myself (Bec Young) and two other artists, Kathryn Carr and Stacey Malasky. Bee pollination is essential to human life because of their symbiotic relationship with flowers, and we thought it would be a good idea to show our love of bees in paper. I have three papercuts in the show and two glass tiles. The show runs for a month.
A Bee's Experience at WildCard
4209 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA
Opening Friday, October 7th 6 -9pm
Tonight! Crash Course on the Collective Process
Posted October 6, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Hey NYC folks who want a break from occupying Wall St. - come see justseedster Dara Greenwald present over at Union Docs Tonight!
Crash Course on the Collective Process
Thursday, October 6 at 7:00pm,
Union Docs, 322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
$10 suggested
The evening, part of the Congress of Collectives, will consist of two parts. In part one, Dara Greenwald will present and discuss videos that document collective creative actions. In part two, three radical art collectives, Voina, Red Channels, and Paper Tiger Television, will screen recent videos and discuss their collective process.
Seeds of Liberation Exhibition
Posted October 4, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
"Seeds of Liberation" is a exhibition featuring work by Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration between artists Melanie Cervantes & Jesus Barraza. Emerging from the everyday struggles of Third World, Raza & Indigenous peoples, Dignidad Rebelde produces art intended to transform people's stories into a radical visual language that is then returned to those who inspired it in the first place. Working primarily as poster artists, Dignidad Rebelde continues working in an important artistic tradition deeply rooted in popular social movements throughout the Americas.
An artist reception will be held on Friday, October 7, 2011 from 6-8pm.
September 16, 2011 to October 31, 2011
Addison Street Windows Gallery | 2018 Addison Street, Berkeley 94704
Justseeds installation in Ljubljana finished!
Posted September 22, 2011 by shaun in Justseeds Collective Projects
We've just wrapped up our installation for the 29th Graphics Biennial in Ljubljana, Slovenia at the Alkatraz Gallery in amazing Metalcova! I've posted a ton of new photos on our Flickr just now, have a look...
Ljubljana installation coming together fast...
Posted September 21, 2011 by shaun in Justseeds Collective Projects
Today Colin showed up after a couple days on trains and planes, and we've started pasting images on the walls! Everyone present brought multiple images of migrant humans and displaced animals - we have dozens of multiples of about 50 different images, each reflecting the individual styles of various Justeeds members. They're being pasted in vast "swarms" all over the room, surrounding this shipping container that we're still hammering away at. It's coming together pretty rapidly at this point, so stay tuned for new uploads on our Flickr page throughout the rest of the week! Photostream here, Slovenia-specific collection here. The opening is tomorrow night, Thursday, at 9pm at Galerija Alkatraz, Metalkova - if you're in Ljubljana, Slovenia, come on by!
More work in Ljubljana...
Posted September 20, 2011 by shaun in Justseeds Collective Projects
We're rolling out of our second full day in Ljubljana, with a shipping container created out of scrap wood and the walls washed and dotted with "obstacles". Tomorrow we're set to start pasting a mad number of prints all over the place. Posting new photos on our Flickr collection every few hours, check in often for updates as the whole thing comes together! Sorry if these posts are vague, I'm hoping the photos will fill in the gaps that I don't otherwise have time to write about...
Favianna Rodriguez, speaking at CSU Long Beach, CA, 9/20 & 9/21
Posted September 20, 2011 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Events
I'm at CalState Long Beach today and tomorrow! I'll be on a panel today, Tuesday and doing a solo lecture on Wednesday. Info is below. Come through if you are in the LA Area!
Art Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series, featuring Favianna Rodriguez
Wednesday, September 21, 5:00 pm
CSULB Department of Art, UT-108, 1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach CA 90840
Graphics are powerful living reminders of struggles for worldwide peace and justice. I will share various slides of my current projects, discuss my own creative process for developing my work, as well as my creative inspiration. Topics covered in my lecture include globalization, immigration, women, sex positivity, and youth organizing. More info here.
Organizing the Ideal: Contemporary Collectives & Cooperatives
Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 3:00-5:00pm
University Art Museum 1250 Bellflower Blvd. Long Beach, CA
One of the pivotal aspects of Peace Press’ success was its dedication to consensus decision-making. By implementing worker control through all aspects of production, the collective successfully merged the ideal with the practical, creating a non-hierarchal space benefitting those who made contributions. This panel presents contemporary collectives and cooperatives that continue to offer an alternative to capitalist-related models. Members of decentralized collectives and cooperatives explain how production can be based on mutual aid rather than merely profit. The panel is a part of the exhibit, PEACE PRESS GRAPHICS 1967-1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change showing in the University Art Museum through December 11, 2011. I will speaking together with Zach Blue (AK Press – an anarchist publication press that releases radical literature, art prints and multimedia materials) and Brent Aragon (Blood-Orange Info Shop – an anarchist information center dedicated to community outreach, education, and art). More info here.
Ljubljana - in progress!
Posted September 20, 2011 by shaun
We're deep into the installation of our work for the 29th Graphics Biennial in Ljubljana, Slovenia! As a customary first step, we're currently washing the walls with watered down wall paint. Twelve of us are here working in the Alkatraz Gallery in the Metalkova social center - we're still feeling our way through the whole process but things are moving rapidly. I'll be posting new photos here each day, but the majority will be in regular uploads to our Flickr page for those who want to follow from afar...
Pittsburgh Biennial Opens This Weekend...
Posted September 13, 2011 by shaun in Justseeds Collective Projects
We're getting ready to debut our huge installation in Pittsburgh this weekend as part of the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial! We worked a lot throughout the summer, with one heavy group work week this July, to produce a series of immigration-themed billboards in the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University. Above is a slideshow of our in-progress install shots from our Flickr site - have a scroll-through! The installation was coordinated by Pittsburgh-based Justseeds members, exhibition curated by Astria Suparak. Stay tuned for more details, and visit the overall Biennial website here (details specific to the Miller Gallery show are here). The opening reception is this upcoming Friday, Sept.16 - please come by if you're in the neighborhood! Opening is 6-8pm, but there's an exhibition tour with all the artists (not just us) at 5pm.
The Eye, The Hole, The Picture
Posted September 11, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
My friend Luis Jacob has a new show that just went up in Montreal. Wish I could be there to check it out, so if you are in Montreal, go see it and let me know how it is!
The Eye, The Hole, The Picture
at the McCord Museum
690 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal
from September 2 to November 20, 2011
presented as part of Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal 2011
More information HERE.
Prints for the People
Posted September 10, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
PRINTS FOR THE PEOPLE is a exhibition featuring work by Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration between artists Melanie Cervantes & Jesus Barraza. Emerging from the everyday struggles of Raza & Indigenous peoples, Dignidad Rebelde produces art intended to transform people's stories into a radical visual language that is then returned to those who inspired it in the first place. Working primarily as poster artists, Dignidad Rebelde continues working in an important artistic tradition deeply rooted in popular social movements throughout the Americas.
August 1st Through September 28th, 2011
Cultural Heritage Center at the San Jose State University Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library (for more info, click HERE)
War, Materials & Lies, Part 2
Posted September 9, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
There is going to be a sneak peak of four prints from the Justseeds/IVAW portfolio, War Is Trauma, at the upcoming exhibition, War, Materials & Lies, Part 2, in Hudson, NY. Prints from the portfolio by Kevin Caplicki, Molly Fair, Josh MacPhee, and Chris Stain will be included in the show!
War, Materials & Lies, Part 2
Time & Space Limited
434 Columbia St, Hudson, NY
(518) 822-8100
Opening reception 5:00 - 7:30 Saturday, September 10th.
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri: 11am - 3pm; 1hr before weekend events and by appointment from Saturday, September 10th to Friday, November 11th
LA vs War this weekend!
Posted September 9, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
This weekend is the giant LA vs War show, if you are in the Los Angeles area, definitely check it out!!! Full details can be found HERE. A ton of artists have work in the show, including Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, Favianna Rodriquez, and myself from Justseeds.
Justseeds Pittsburgh Print Sale
Posted September 8, 2011 by mary_tremonte in Events
Sunday September 11th
2:00-8:00pm
3410 Penn Ave, 2nd floor (enter in the back on Spring Way), Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, PA!
Come visit our world distribution headquarters in Pittsburgh this Sunday for a print sale to support our travel to Slovenia to create a collaborative installation for the International Biennial of Graphic Arts. Almost everything in the store will be 10% off if you pay by cash or check, 20% off work by Pittsburgh Justseeds artists who are traveling: Shaun Slifer, Mary Tremonte, and Bec Young.
Come learn more about our upcoming projects, enjoy refreshments and see us off!
2012 Organizer Teaser
Posted September 7, 2011 by roger_peet in Justseeds Collective Projects
Next year's Justseeds/Eberhardt Press organizer is about to go to press! This is a cleanly designed, uncluttered, wirebound datebook featuring 12 months of Justseeds art, a lunar phase calendar, notepages, and months-at-a-glance. It will be available in the Justseeds store October 15th, so make sure you don't buy any other organizers before then!
Memorial de Agravios Book event at Bluestockings-TONIGHT 9/6
Posted September 6, 2011 by k_c_ in Events
Memorial de Agravios, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2006 brings together the work of 24 photographers who followed the social movement in Oaxaca during 2006 and 2007, along with essays by five Mexican writers translated into English, French, and Italian. A remarkable edition, conceived as an art book is a testimony to the difficult months in which citizens confronted the corrupt administration of Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, is an independent work which encourages critical reflection on the violence that dominated Oaxaca during 2006 and 2007.David Jaramillo, photojournalist/activist from Mexico City, covered the movement, will discuss the trajectory of the movement, its current state, and present images of the uprising. Copies of Memorial de Agravios will be sold to benefit widows of this movement
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St
NYC
7pm
Hobos to Street People
Posted September 2, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
A couple years back on a trip to San Francisco I was lucky enough to check out a then new exhibition entitled Hobos to Street People: Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present. It was a great show, using the history of American social realist art to illustrate the plight of the marginalized in society. Now the curator Art Hazelwood has new book out which catalogs the exhibition! The book, also called Hobos to Street People, is available from the publisher Freedom Voices, and there are a series of upcoming events celebrating it's release:
September 15, book release party at Alliance Graphics
September 22, Exhibition opening reception at de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University
September 29, Panel Discussion and book release party at de Saisset Museum
More information can be found on Art's site HERE.
Justseeds at 1st Ever Pittsburgh Zine Fair
Posted August 31, 2011 by mary_tremonte in Events
Justseeds will be representin at the 1st ever Pittsburgh Zine Fair, this Thursday September 1st at AIR (Artists Image Resource). Bec Young will be giving a lettepress demo at 7:00, and Mary Tremonte will be on a panel discussion about zines and social change also at 7:00. Mary and Shaun Slifer will be holding town a table of Justseeds goods. The event is free and features workshops, discussions, food, DJ's, and loads of zines! There is also a benefit raffle for Book 'Em, Pittsburgh's books-to-prisoners program. And it all happens during AIR's Thursday Night Open Studio. Come get your zine on and get your print on too.
Thursday September 1
5:00-10:00
AIR, 518 Foreland St, Pittsburgh, PA
for more info: pghzinefair.com/
Anishnaabensag Biimskowebshkigewag
Posted August 28, 2011 by dylanminer in Justseeds Collective Projects
I just finished installing at exhibition entitled Anishnaabensag Biimskowebshkigewag (Native Kids Ride Bikes). Based on a six month project building lowrider bikes with urban Native kids in collaboration with non-Native university students and Indigenous artists, we constructed a series of seven lowrider bicycles based on the sacred Anishnaabeg teachings known as Niizhwaaswi G’mishomisinaanig or Our Seven Grandfathers. These seven core values, seen in the pennants exhibited in the gallery, include concepts such as Nbwaakaawin (Wisdom), Zaagi’idiwin (Love), Minaadendamowin (Respect), Aakwa’ode’ewin (Bravery), Debwewin (Truth), Dibaadendiziwin (Humility), and Gwekwaadiziwin (Honesty).
The show will be up at Michigan State University through the end of September. Contact me if you are interested in bringing this show to your community.
Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987
Posted August 27, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
This show looks great, wish I was on the West coast!
Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change
September 10 - December 11, 2011
Opening Reception
September 10, 2011, 5:00-8:00pm
The UAM, in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), will mount Peace Press Graphics 1967–1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change, a survey of the press’ work and their connections to artist collectives of the time. Founded in 1967 by a unique group of L.A. activist-artists who created an “alternate everything” printing and publishing business, the Peace Press (1967-1987) emerged from the tangle of progressive political and alternative groups that flourished during the decades between 1960 and 1990. The poster archive, now housed at the CSPG in Los Angeles, exemplifies an important element of visual and cultural history: art that reflects the desire and intention to create social and political change, as well as artists who attempt to affect change through both their work and their actions. More HERE.
image: La Raza Unida, c.1972, 21.50 x 13.50 inches, Collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, © Peace Press.
Two Readings This Sunday in Pittsburgh!
Posted August 24, 2011 by shaun in Events
This SUNDAY, August 28th,
...and after that, the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writer-in-Residence Program and Justseeds present readings by Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela & Adriana Ramirez at 6:30 pm!
Light snacks and refreshments will be provided at Justseeds, more info on the readers and event locations after the cut...
RESOURCED exhibit at the Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture
Posted August 23, 2011 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects
Last April, Roger Peet and myself, traveled up to northern California immediately after the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair. Justseeds was invited to exhibit the RESOURCED portfolio and A Crisis in Common, at the Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture, in Weed, CA. It's in a gorgeous place and the exhibition was hung in an antique refrigerated train car from 1923.
I have finally uploaded some images up to our flickr account, check them out at Justseeds/Visual Resistance. 
Thanks to everyone that I met in that adventure, Crackbox (who played in the adjacent railcar), Austin/the flopbox, and to everyone at BBCRC for making the exhibition possible.
The Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture was founded in 2008 as a way to support and develop a community-building institution focused on railroad culture in the western United States. The BBCRC is located on the site of a long-abandoned junkyard amid several acres of forest, chaparral, and wetlands directly adjacent to Black Butte Siding, the junction of the Union Pacific and Central Oregon and Pacific railroads right on the southeast edge of Weed, California.
Tonight screening of Madame X: An Absolute Ruler
Posted August 22, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Red Channels presents:
Madame X: An Absolute Ruler
MONDAY AUGUST 22, 2011, 7 pm
200 Hudson Street, NY, NY
$10
This is something-this is extreme- the Outlaw-the Misfits- this is what I was looking for! - Betty Brillo
The notorious pirate ruler Madame X places a print ad, calling on women to escape their boring lives and promising "gold, love and adventure" to all who come aboard her ship, the Orlando. A motley crew including a housewife, diva and artist (played by Yvonne Rainer) embark on a quest for self-transformation, which quickly heads towards destruction as they are subjected to Madame X's sadistic, erotic escapades. Director Ulrike Ottinger's Madame X is a surreal subversion of the swashbuckler genre that challenges notions of feminism, sexuality, and liberation.
dir. Ulrike Ottinger, 141 min. 1977, 16mm print
Justseeds at the Seattle Bookfair
Posted August 19, 2011 by roger_peet in Events
People of the Northwest: We'll be tabling at the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair this weekend. It's at the Vera Project, near the Seattle Center, and runs Saturday 11-5 and Sunday 12-5. Come out and say hello!
Come to Our Party, Dress In White
Posted August 10, 2011 by mary_tremonte in Events
I'm collaborating as a DJ with interactive installation artist Casey Droege and poet Christine Choi for COME TO OUR PARTY, DRESS IN WHITE, part of the Trespass artist-in-residence series at Future Tenant.
Thursday August 11th
8:00-11:00
Come to Our Party, Dress in White
a project of Casey Droege and Christine Choi
Future Tenant
819 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA
What moves you? Song drives movement—to feel, nod, shake, congregate, celebrate. How do dance lyrics function when lifted from their song-nested context and displayed apart as visual rather than auditory? How does this cognizance influence our moves/movement or tinge the dynamic of the party?
Come to our (dance) party, dress in white—LITERALLY. DJs Mary Mack, Drop That, and Square Peg will be in effect along with curious projections. Gesture-input poetry, lively investigation and laughter.
Aug. 9, BIG MOUTH: contemporary voices in feminist art + illustration
Posted August 5, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
I'm part of this art show, BIG MOUTH: contemporary voices in feminist art + illustration. I will be showing my prints and illustrations from Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas. Come check it out!
OPENING Tuesday, AUGUST 9, 6pm-9pm
@ Brooklyn Fireproof
119 Ingraham St (at Porter Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11237
A group show featuring: Suzy Exposito, Molly Fair, Kim Funk, Kathleen Hanna, J. Morrison, Adee Roberson, & Gabby Schulz
Curated by Kate Wadkins & Lauren Denitzio
BIG MOUTH: contemporary voices in feminist art + illustration is a platform for unpopular visual opinions. Feminist movements have historically grown out of interventions within radical communities in the face of silence, anger, and often, violence. Still, these conflicts and contentions are fought with the utmost passion and humor in hopes for a radical resolution. BIG MOUTH illustrates the ever-evolving search for feminist/queer identities and communities. This group show places feminist narratives at the center of radical art-making, where often our voices are poorly represented or left out altogether. BIG MOUTH is a celebration of our pluralism, our goofiness, and a proclamation of defiant love.
Tonight Screening of The Communard's Pipe
Posted August 2, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Tonight Red Channels presents:
The Communard's Pipe
dir. Kote Marjanishvili, 1929, 50 minutes
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 9:30PM
Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
$5
Set during the Paris Commune of 1871, A father takes his young son to the barricades and is killed. The boy is then captured (refuses to part w/ his father's pipe) and taken to the prison at Versailles where he is tormented by the ladies of the bourgeoisie, treated as a wild child.
Featuring live musical accompaniment by Silver Process:
Joe Merolla - violoncello
Coralie Lonfat - electronics
Chuck Bettis - electronics
with very special guests Nonoko Yoshida - alto saxophone
& David Pearson - soprano saxophone
Listen to Silver Process here
Roger Peet and Garrett Price at Flight 64
Posted June 29, 2011 by roger_peet in Events
Tomorrow! Last Thursday, the 30th June, at Flight 64 print studio (down the alley off NE Alberta between 29th and 30th, behind Bella Faccia), an opening of new print work by Roger Peet and Garrett Price. Steel etchings, screenprints, and blockprints of corroded superstructures, insects, ships, sharks, and slogans. If you're in Portland, come on by between 5 and 10!
We Agree Closing in Portland
Posted June 29, 2011 by roger_peet in Art & Politics
Tonight, 7pm, at the Fresh Pot on NE Mississippi in Portland OR, we're having a closing for the big Anti-LNG blockprints from this project. Stop by for some coffee, presentations from Amy Harwood and Olivia Schmidt about the threats still posed by LNG development plans, and a presentation by Roger about the project.
Raffle Benefit for Marie Mason and Eric McDavid
Posted June 28, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
There will be a benefit raffle for political prisoners, Marie Mason and Eric McDavid who are both targets of the Green Scare. The raffle is on July 11, 2011.
Buy your tickets now online here
Watch the raffle drawing LIVE with host Annie Nonymous on Monday, July 11th, at 8pm Eastern here
Win prizes from Spectacle Theater, Book Thug Nation, Champs Family Bakery, Autonomedia, Black and Red Books, Mooshoes, Lula's Sweet Apothecary,
Acupuncture by Famous, Sparrow Media, Prints by Justseeds artist Molly Fair, Arissa Media, Kingsland Sandwich Shop, Green is the New Red, Bluestockings, Amie's Vegan Truffles, & many more!!
Read on for more info about Marie, Eric, and the Green Scare...
Remains to be Seen Book Release
Posted June 27, 2011 by jmacphee in Books & Zines
For those in New Zealand!
Remains to be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill's ashes in New Zealand—an easy-to-read account of censorship and radical labour during the First World War—will be launched in Christchurch this Thursday June 30 at Beat Street Cafe (Corner Barbadoes and Armagh), at 5.30pm.
WI Rise Up: Posters and Photographs from the 2011 Wisconsin Labor Movement
Posted June 22, 2011 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Aaron Burr Society: Summer of Change
Posted June 22, 2011 by shaun in Events
Coins, those age-old metallic discs struck with the symbols of national mythology, just might unlock reason & light in the fourth year of the Dire Global Recession, an economic state whose laws do not apply within the stones of Wall Street; whose invisible great wall is impregnable to marauding justice, equality, and change. So we present the Summer of Change; a series of numismatic ritual offerings to our nation’s bankers; those citizens worthy of prizes and honors; which we as artists are honored to bestow in public. Standing on The Street safely within the commons of the commonwealth, we shall seize this extraordinary moment by the horns to re-distribute wealth in the form of dollars, fifty-cent pieces, quarters, dimes, nickels, and the Lincoln penny; sacrificing one denomination per event.
One Million Bones Project
Posted June 21, 2011 by meredith_stern in Events
One Million Bones is a fundraising art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides.
Check out more info HERE.
Films and Food at Cinders
Posted June 21, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
This Thursday I'll be cooking dinner with friends for this free dinner and screening at the new Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn. If you are in town, come by and eat, and watch the crazy new film by SF artist Sara Thustra:
Cinders Gallery: 28 Marcy Ave (Btwn Hope and Metropolitan)
// Thursday June 23 8pm // FILMS AND DINNER//
There will be a rare NYC screening of Sara Thustra’s most recent feature length film, The Treatment, along with two short films, “California is an Island” by Sarolta Jane Cump, and “Performance Spaces” by Heather Rene Russ. Inspired by Sara Thustra’s long time tradition of serving free food at his San Francisco protest and art events, the screening will be preceded by a free dinner for all. Vegans welcome!
Signs from the March on Blair Mountain
Posted June 21, 2011 by shaun in In the News
Two weeks ago, I traveled down to West Virginia for the 5-day, 50 mile March on Blair Mountain, nominally a peaceful march to demand that Alpha Natural Resources not blast out the rest of one geological formation with particular historical resonance but also, perhaps more urgently, a symbolic action to demand an end to mountaintop removal coal mining as a practice in the United States. Personally, I need some time to parse out everything that happened throughout that week... but in the meantime, here's a slideshow of some of the signage from both protesters, supporters, and counter-protesters along the winding route from through the West Virginia coalfields.
Banner & Cranks Festival in NYC
Posted June 19, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
BANNERS & CRANKS: a cantastoria festival
curated by Dave Buchen & Clare Dolan
June 22 — June 26
Banners & Cranks: Interview with Clare Dolan from here on Vimeo.
Pre-cinematic technology takes over HERE for a week of contemporary cantastoria, cooked up by puppeteers, artists and craftspeople from across the country. A millennium-old art form is rejuvenated and re-imagined, as performers animate paintings and banners alongside texts, puppets, jokes, songs and stories.
Viande de Brousse Opening
Posted June 18, 2011 by roger_peet in Art & Politics
The Bushmeat Food-cart is opening today, in Downtown Portland, on the third floor of Pioneer Place Mall! Corner of SW Fifth and Morrison. Come and check it out between 6 and 9 pm. It is pretty unnerving, and the fact that it is in the mall makes it even more so. For more information, click this link.
Thea Gahr art show
Posted June 14, 2011 by bec_young in Events
Thea Gahr is having a solo show at the Justseeds space in Pittsburgh this Thursday evening. Her show consists of hand-printed linocuts and woodcuts, some of which Thea has added color to with watercolor. Please come check it out! Details below.
In preparation for her show, Thea has been inciting groups of people around Pittsburgh into revolutionary free-form coloring jam sessions. If you thought improvising was only allowed in jazz, you should try this new method of color application. Thea recommends colored pencils but markers or crayons also do the trick. Everyone works on the same piece of paper, and just when you are almost done with your section, it's time to rotate! Thanks to Mary, Scott, Kira and Samara.
Artists Against Apartheid XVI featuring Palestinian artist Shadia Mansour.
Posted June 8, 2011 by Jesse_Purcell in Events
I made this poster for an awesome show tomorrow night if you are in Montreal or can get up here you should check it out.
Workshop: Existence is Resistance:
Film Preview and Discussion with Shadia Mansour
Wednesday, June 8 2011
1pm-3pm at la Sala Rossa
4848 St. Laurent
Concert:
Thursday June 9, 2011
Doors 8pm, $12
La Sala Rossa
4848 St. Laurent
Install Photos from Artspace Leguit, Antwerp, Belgium
Posted June 6, 2011 by colin_matthes in Events
A few photos from my (Colin Matthes) residency / expo in Antwerp. To see more you can check out my flickr site.
Photos of the Celebrate People's History Art Show in Milwaukee
Posted May 31, 2011 by colin_matthes in Events
A few photos of the Celebrate People's History Art Sow that was up in Milwaukee at Astrix Gallery last month.
High Peaks, Low Coal
Posted May 23, 2011 by k_c_ in Events
Our friend and collaborator Laura Scheinkopf is putting on this benefit tomorrow for the March on Blair Mountain. Come check it out!
Tuesday, May 24
7-10pm
@ The Commons
388 Atlantic Avenue, between Bond and Hoyt
High Peaks, Low Coal
New York Loves Mountains hosts a screening of the new documentary Low Coal, an exploration of the sacrifices made by Appalachian communities living with deep mining and Mountaintop Removal. The film's director, Jordan Freeman, along with former union coal miner and environmental activist Chuck Nelson, will be present for a talk-back after the screening. The discussion will be followed by a concert featuring local musician Morgan O'Kane (who played the score for the film).
Funds raised will be directed towards the March on Blair Mountain, a unifying rally in West Virginia from June 5-11th, 2011, which calls for historical preservation of Blair Mountain and an end to Mountaintop Removal.
This year commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest open class war in U.S. history, when 10,000 coal miners rose against the rule of the coal operators and fought for the basic right to live and work in decent conditions.
For more information visit www.appalachiarising.org.
$10 suggested.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214345141918646
The Workers
Posted May 19, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
This looks promising. Although I don't generally trust major art institutions to do right by political engagement, any look at labor and class seems a step in the right direction:
Stephen Malkmus and Rebecca Gates Pancake Brunch Benefit
Posted May 12, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
Rock & Roll Pancake Breakfast Benefit for Dara Greenwald
with pancakes and performances by Stephen Malkmus and Rebecca Gates!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
11am, music begins at noon
Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center (8371 N. Interstate Ave.)
$8 - $100 sliding scale for admission to rock show
$1 pancakes, $1 coffee, $1 juice
For more info contact Vanessa Renwick.
On Sunday, May 22, 2011, musicians Stephen Malkmus (of the band Pavement) and Rebecca Gates (of the Spinanes) will each perform sets at the Rock & Roll Pancake Breakfast Benefit for Dara Greenwald. The event will take place at Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center at 8371 N. Interstate Avenue. A pancake breakfast will be served beginning at 11:00am until 2:00pm, with musical performances beginning at noon. The cost of admission is a sliding scale fee of $8 - $100, with pancakes, coffee, and juice available for an additional $1 per item.
Gavin Grindon in NYC
Posted May 10, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
Thursday, May 12, 7:30pm
@ No-Space (formerly called The Change You Want To See Gallery)
84 Havemeyer St, at Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
With the wave of opposition to austerity measures in the UK, many new creative political groups and projects have appeared. Not only the high-profile actions of UK Uncut, but others such as the University of Strategic Optimism, Arts Against Cuts, Precarious Workers Brigade, the Really Free School, and the Free University of Liverpool.
This informal talk will present stories and films from recent groups and activities that experiment with new creative approaches to activism’s materials and performance. From the Book Bloc’s very literate means of protecting crowds from police batons, to The University of Strategic Optimism’s critical theory lectures in high-street banks; from Liberate Tate’s oil spills inside the Tate galleries to encourage them to drop BP sponsorship, to the Space Hijackers driving a tank into an arms fair, and the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination's reverse-engineering of hundreds of bikes into a swarming mass of direct action machines.
Gavin will introduce some of these groups and activities, tell some ridiculous stories of general trouble making and daring misadventure, show some videos and do his best to answer any of your questions.
Celebrate People's History exhibition at Justseeds in Pittsburgh
Posted May 4, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
Please join us on Friday, May 6th for an art show and film showing. We are exhibiting all 69 printed posters from the Celebrate People's History poster series, curated by Josh MacPhee since 1998.
Then we will show As Still As Horses, a short film by local filmmaker Israel Vasquez (with a short Q and A), and then Exit Through the Gift Shop, a feature film by the street artist Banksy.
This event is free, all ages, and BYOC (Bring your own cushion)!
6 - 8 pm -> Art show
8 - 10 pm -> Film showing
Justseeds
3410 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15201
Please park bikes and enter around back! We hope to see you there!
Click on the above image for a closer detail of the show.
Screening of New Babylon and Hay! Market Research May 4
Posted May 3, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Hey friends! Come check out this screening we're doing!
Red Channels and Spectacle Theater present:
New Babylon
(dir. Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg,1929, 120 minutes)
silent film with live score by Silver Process
screened with short Hay! Market Research (dir. Dara Greenwald, 2003, 3 minutes) to commemorate the Haymarket Riot
Wed. May 4th, 9:30 PM
at Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd. St. (off of Bedford Ave.), in Brooklyn
Set during the Paris Commune of 1871, Louise, a clerk in a fancy Paris store becomes politicized and joins the Communards...
From Screenslate, "...New Babylon manages to capture the spirit of a Lautrec image brought to life. The depictions of Paris cabarets and communes account for the most startling mis-en-scénes in all cinema, and from the smoke-filled dancehalls to rain-soaked executions, it’s difficult to imagine Moulin Rouge and Blade Runner without it. But beyond mere aesthetics, New Babylon an incredibly moving and sophisticated political film, one that sidesteps the contemporary polemics of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov et al and addresses workers’ struggle through the 1871 Paris Commune...though Shostakovich created a score for New Babylon‘s initial release, The Spectacle features a live score by The Silver Process tonight. Sacrilege, but it should be noted the conductor at the original 1928 performance was so wasted and confused by the unorthodox instrumental combinations that it was a complete disaster. So really, this can only be an improvement."
Essentially Indigenous?
Posted May 1, 2011 by dylanminer in Events
For those of you in and around New York City, I will be giving a talk this Friday at the Gustav Heye Center, the NYC branch of the National Museum of the American Indian. My talk, 'Against Hybridity, Against Globalization: An Indigenist Provocation on/as Contemporary Art', is part of the symposium Essentially Indigenous?. My session is scheduled for 9:15-10:45 on Friday morning.
The symposium is FREE, but please register in advance.
ABC No Rio 2011 Gala & Benefit Auction
Posted April 30, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
This coming Tuesday, the ABC No Rio Benefit Gala!! As many people know, ABC No Rio is one of the longest running counter-culture and communities spaces in New York City, and is on the edge of raising enough money to build an entirely new building to house all of its awesome projects (including screenprinting facilities, a zine library, community computer access, exhibitions, and all-ages shows). It is well worth your support!
ABC No Rio 2011 Gala & Benefit Auction
Tuesday May 3, 2011 || 7:00 - 10:00pm
Hosted by Allegra LaViola Gallery
179 East Broadway
Festivities will include beer, wine, buffet, guest DJ's, brilliant conversation and spirited bidding throughout the evening. Ticket prices begin at $50.
Event info, auction preview, ticket purchase on-line at http://www.abcnorio.org/benefit2011
Save the Mountains and Water Event in Brooklyn
Posted April 26, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Our friend, collaborator, and fellow activist Laura Sheinkopf is putting on this event and fundraiser for Appalachia Rising and the Safe Water Movement- all-volunteer, grassroots organizations dedicated to protecting our region from the highly destructive practices of mountaintop removal coal mining, and hydrofracking - drilling for 'natural' gas.
Blue Sky Bakery (@ 53 5th Avenue, Brooklyn)
on Wednesday, April 27th, from 6:30-9pm.
Admission, snacks, and music are all free!
Musician Chris Van Voorst playing on bass
You'll also have the opportunity to check out and purchase:
- Handmade jewelry by lalaloops
- Beehive Collective True Cost of Coal posters
- Glory to the Mountains, a chapbook of short essays written by NYC-based activists organizing against mountaintop removal
- and a selection of other art
Profits from sales will go directly to support on-the-ground efforts to protect our fresh water and mountains, and to stop hazardous energy extraction, in favor of renewable alternatives. Funds raised will also support artistic efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues.
Houston's First Anarchist Bookfair
Posted April 23, 2011 by k_c_ in Events
This weekend, MECA will play host to Houston's very own Anarchist Book Fair. Organized by folks from Sedition Books, the two-day event spans 28 hours of programming, offers free meals, free lodging for those coming from out of town, and free childcare for those that wish to attend.
Houston Press has a decent interview with one of the organizers at:
Houston Gets Its First Anarchist Book Fair
Celebrate People's History Art Show Opens tonight - Milwaukee
Posted April 22, 2011 by colin_matthes in Events
Here is a preview shot of the Celebrate People's History Show opening tonight from 6-9pm. We also hung the Resourced Portfolio!
Astrix Gallery, 524 W National, Milwaukee, WI.
Prints from the Oaxacan Resistance
Posted April 20, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
This just in:
Prints from the Oaxaca Resistance 2006 - 2010
Mission Cultural Center, Mission Grafica 4th Floor, San Francisco
Reception - Friday April 22 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Formerly Incarcerated People's Movement Event in NYC
Posted April 20, 2011 by k_c_ in Events
Formerly Incarcerated People's Movement Event
We gather for an evening of discussion and movement building aimed at the prison crisis sweeping our communities. Come add your voice and your hands to our effort to kick the forces of repression and division out of our homes, schools, and streets!
Saturday, April 23, 7-10pm
LaundPad
721 Franklin AVE
Brooklyn NY
This will be a multi-part event of:
Report back from FICPM organizational meet-up
Video Screening
Poetry Reading
Art by JUST SEEDS
With free healthy food provided by Kalabash Co-op
No cost to attend (though donations will be accepted at the door)
April 17- last day of our Collectively Made Film and Video series!
Posted April 17, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Our Friendships are Constructed on the Basis of Conflict: collectively produced film and video presented by Red Channels and Spectacle Theater:
Sunday, April 17
at Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street (between Bedford and Berry)
Brooklyn, NY
Sunday is the final day for our series- come join the marathon with us! Skip Blumberg of TVTV (and Videofreex) will be there to discuss Four More Years.
3PM program:
—Traveling with Hibakusha: Across Generations – Takashi Kunimoto, NDS, 2010
5PM program:
—Garbage – Newsreel, 1968, 10 minutes
—GIs Take Manhattan: Operation First Casualty – Meerket Media Collective, 2007, 5 minutes
—Anarchists Liberate the Deflating World – Glass Bead Collective, 2009, 9 minutes
—People’s Firehouse – Newsreel, 1979, 25 minutes
7PM program:
—Everything has been done – Azorro Group, 2003, 6 minutes
—Proto Media Primer – Raindance, 1970, 16 minutes
—Four More Years – TVTV, 1972, 61 minutes
—discussion with Skip Blumberg of TVTV
9PM program:
—Truth to Power- Glass Bead Collective, 2011, 7 minutes
—And the War Has Only Just Begun, Imaginary Party, 2001
—Get Rid of Yourself – Bernadette Corporation, 61 minutes- 2003
Program description:
Collectively Made Film and Video Series, April 16 schedule
Posted April 16, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Saturday is a full day for our series- come join the marathon with us! Our Friendships are Constructed on the Basis of Conflict: collectively produced film and video presented by Red Channels and Spectacle Theater:
Saturday, April 16
at Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street (between Bedford and Berry)
Brooklyn, NY
3PM
A collective brunch- we will meet at the theater and probably go get breakfast burritos somewhere.
5PM
—Inciting to Riot – Pacific Street Films, 1970, 35 minutes
—Taiwan: The Generation After Martial Law – Green Team, 1986, 58 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 103 minutes | Digital Projection
7PM
—Mill-in – Newsreel, 1968, 12 minutes
—Ipimpi – Pacific Street Films, 1971, 10 minutes
—Help the Child, Help Your Country! – Voina, 2010, 2 minutes
—Por los circuitos de la Precariedad Feminina – Precarias a la Deriva, 2003
— and some other stuff!
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 74 minutes | Digital Projection
9PM
—Rhodia 4×8 – Groupe Medvedkine, 1969, 3 minutes
—Shut the Fuck Up – General Idea, 1984, 14 minutes
—Handsworth Songs – John Akomfrah, Black Audio Film Collective, 1986, 58 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 75 minutes | Digital Projection
Program description and collective bios:
Collectively Made Film and Video Series, April 15 schedule
Posted April 15, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Here is the schedule for night three of our series Our Friendships are Constructed on the Basis of Conflict: collectively produced film and video presented by Red Channels and Spectacle Theater:
Friday, April 15
at Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street (between Bedford and Berry)
Brooklyn, NY
We decided to do this series out of our interest in the collective process, and what happens when artists intentionally share authorship of their work. I am excited to announce the screening of Nightcleaners I, rarely shown in the U.S.
7PM
-Sandwiched – Chto Delat?, 2004, 11 minutes
- Angry Sandwich People - Chto Delat?, 2004-2005, 8 minutes
—Nightcleaners I– Berwick Street Collective, 1972-1975, 90 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 109 minutes | Digital Projection
9PM
-Lincoln Hospital – Newsreel, 1970. 12 minutes
-Blood of the Condor – Jorge Sanjines, Groupo Ukamau, 1969, 74 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 86 minutes | Digital Projection
Justseeds at Handmade Arcade!
Posted April 15, 2011 by mary_tremonte in Events
HMA 2009...
Join Mary Tremonte and Bec Young from Justseeds as well as dozens of other artists and crafters from Pittsburgh and beyond at the seventh annual Handmade Arcade.
Handmade Arcade is Pittsburgh’s largest indie craft fair, and was created to give grassroots, independent crafters an opportunity to show and sell their wares, and to provide an alternative to traditional craft and art fairs. We'll have lots of prints from ourselves and other Justseeds artists, as well as books, t-shirts, and some other goodies not available on our website. Come say hi!
Saturday, April 16
11:00am - 7:00pm
The David Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown Pitsburgh
Free Admission
Collectively Made Film and Video Series: April 14 schedule
Posted April 14, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Here is the schedule for night two of our series Our Friendships are Constructed on the Basis of Conflict: collectively made films and videos presented by Red Channels and Spectacle Theater:
The namesake of our series is from Chto Delat's "Builders" which is screening tonight!
Thursday, April 14
at Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street (between Bedford and Berry)
Brooklyn, NY
We decided to do this series out of our interest in the collective process, and what happens when artists intentionally share authorship of their work.
7PM
—Builders – Chto Delat?, 2005, 8 minutes
—Media Primer (Schneider) – Raindance, 1970, 23 minutes
—Processed World Reads Processed World – Paper Tiger Television, 1985, 28 minutes
—Street Sheet – Paper Tiger Television, 1993, 28 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 87 minutes | Digital Projection
Discussion with members of Paper Tiger Television and Marty Lucas of Paper Tiger and professor at Hunter College.
9PM
—Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre – Workers Film and Photo League, 1932, 7 minutes
—Northern Lights – Rob Nilsson & John Hanson, Cine Manifest, 1978, 97 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 104 minutes | Digital Projection
Collectively Made Film and Video: April 13 program
Posted April 13, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
Tonight kicks off a series of collectively made film and video presented by Red Channels and Spectacle Theater!
April 13-17, 2011
Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street (between Bedford and Berry)
Brooklyn, NY
We decided to do this series out of our interest in the collective process, and what happens when artists intentionally share authorship of their work.
Screening Wed., April 13:
All films in tonight's programs are silent with live musical accompaniment
Our Friendships are Constructed on the Basis of Conflict: Collectively Made Film and Video, April 13-17
Posted April 12, 2011 by molly_fair in Events
This Wed. kicks off a series of collectively made film and video presented by Red Channels and Spectacle Theater!
April 13-17, 2011
Spectacle Theater
124 South 3rd Street (between Bedford and Berry)
Brooklyn, NY
We decided to do this series out of our interest in the collective process, and what happens when artists intentionally share authorship of their work (how this actually plays out may be different, will egos be crushed?). The programs feature the work of artists from around the world and span over a century! See the full schedule here. Later in the week we are screening work by Paper Tiger, Black Film Audio Collective, Newsreel, the Bernadette Corporation, and many more!
Screening Wed., April 17:
All films are silent with live musical accompaniment
7PM
—San Francisco Earthquake and Fire 1906 – Red Channels, 2009, 17 minutes
—La Commune – Armand Guerra, La Coopérative du Cinéma du Peuple, 1914, 19 minutes
—Yamamoto Senji’s Farewell Ceremony - Prokino, 1929, 2 minutes
—Yamamoto Senji Watanabe Masanosuke Worker-Farmer Funeral - Prokino, 1929, 11 minutes
—Twelfth Annual Tokyo May Day - Prokino, 1931, 7 minutes
—Workers Film and Photo League newsreel, TBA
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 75 minutes | Digital Projection
Live Music by
Yuriko Huguchi (tenor saxophone)
Coralie Lonfat (laptop electronics)
Chuck Bettis (laptop electronics)
Joe Merolla (violincello)
9PM
—Cinétracts – 1968, 75 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 75 minutes | Digital Projection
Live Music by
Ras Moche (saxophone)
Ken Silverman (guitar)
RESOURCED Exhibition at the Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture
Posted April 11, 2011 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects
RESOURCED Exhibition Opening and Boxcar Music Show at 6pm
Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture
800 Black Butte Rd.
Weed, California
We will have an opening for the exhibition RESOURCED, a production of the Just Seeds screen print cooperative, which will be on display in our "reefer" gallery through June. It focuses on resource extraction and climate issues, major issues in our region, and includes 26 artist prints. See RESOURCED for more info. The show will also feature work by two of the individual Just Seeds members, New York City-based "Kevin Caplicki" and Portland-based "Roger Peet".
Later in the evening we'll have a boxcar music show with "Crackbox" (punk), featuring some BBCRC supporters and frequent visitors, on tour from New Orleans, making a stop at Black Butte.
Justseeds at the Bay Area & NYC Bookfairs
Posted April 8, 2011 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds will be tabling on both sides of the USA this weekend.
Roger Peet, Kevin Caplicki, Jesus Barraza, and Melanie Cervantes will be attending the
16th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
April 9–10, 2011
SF County Fair Building (Hall of Flowers)
Golden Gate Park
See what's scheduled for the weekend at
sfbookfair.wordpress.com
While Molly Fair and friends will be holding down the
5th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair
Saturday, April 9th 2011
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
Find out all that is happening in the next few days at
anarchistbookfair.net
Josh MacPhee presents at Justseeds HQ (Pittsburgh)
Posted April 5, 2011 by shaun in Justseeds Collective Projects
Josh MacPhee is coming to our Pittsburgh Headquarters this weekend! Josh will present a short presentation/discussion entitled "Visualizing History from Below". The event is also the closing party for a solo exhibition of his prints. We hope to see you there! We are also now open on Sundays 2:00-6:00 pm! You can still email us at store at justseeds dot org to visit us at other times as well.
Josh MacPhee Talk & Closing Party: Visualizing History from Below
Saturday April 9th
7:00-10:00pm
Justseeds HQ
3410 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
At Doughboy statue. Enter at the back on Spring Way. Bike Parking Available...
BYOB & Snacks
Prints, posters, and books available for sale!
Justseeder, Favianna Rodriguez, to speak in the Bronx on April 5th!
Posted April 4, 2011 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Events
Attention New York Art Fans. Favianna Rodriguez will be in NYC doing a public lecture at Lehman College. She will be speaking about her beginnings as an artist, about the various community organizations she helped found, and about how artists can develop innovative models to sustain their work. Info here:
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
4:30 pm
In the Rotunda of the Lehman College Art Gallery
Fine Arts Building
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West
Bronx, NY 10468
Warrior Writers in NYC
Posted April 3, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
This just in from our friends in the Warrior Writers project and Iraq Veterans Against the War:
Please join us in celebrating the growth of our Warrior Writers community, now taking root in New York City.What: In support of recent veterans in NYC, Warrior Writers launches Veterans’ Voices, a series of creative events for veterans and allies to move forward together.
Why: One of the greatest needs in times of conflict is to support veterans returning from war, as many of them find themselves isolated and unable to connect with the civilian environment in which they now live.
• To extend the reach of our successful programs to veterans and non-veterans in New York City and lay the foundation for an expanded Warrior Writers community.
• To see and hear how veterans have transformed their war experiences creatively.
• It is our right, our responsibility and our privilege to choose not to let conflict and misunderstandings escalate at home.Who: Warrior Writers and you!
A Philadelphia-based organization working nationwide to support veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan through writing, creativity, alternative healing and dialogue with each other and the civilian community. Warrior Writers seeks to involve veterans, writers, artists, students, activists, healers and the general public in this ongoing creative process.
American Icons: Graphics of Patriotism & Dissent
Posted April 2, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
American Icons: Graphics of Patriotism & Dissent
April 1 - 16, 2011
Otis College of Art & Design
Ben Maltz Gallery
(310) 665-6905 · galleryinfo@otis.edu
American Icons presents 75+ posters that riff on classic American icons including the flag, eagle, dollar sign, Statue of Liberty and Uncle Sam-in order to confront contemporary political and social issues. This project is a partnership with the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Otis' Integrated Learning seminar "Designing the Political" led by Guy Bennett, Kerri Steinberg and Carol A. Wells.
Standing up with Labor April 4th
Posted March 31, 2011 by k_c_ in Events
It appears the AFL-CIO is calling for a nationwide day of actions.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., where he was standing with sanitation workers demanding their dream of a better life. Today, the right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a middle-class life are under attack as never before. Find out more here.Join us to make April 4, 2011, and the days surrounding it, a day to stand in solidarity with working people in Wisconsin and dozens of other states where corporate-bought politicians are trying to take away the rights Dr. King gave his life for.
You can find events in your area at:
local.we-r-1.org/
I mention this on the Justseeds blog, because if activities like this are your bag then check out the downloadable graphics from a Justseeds blog post earlier this month:
Wisconsin Downloadable Graphics Page
Print out useful ones, let others be inspiration to make new images.
Carlos Cortéz and Allied Artists Exhibition
Posted March 29, 2011 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Walker's Point Center for the Arts (WPCA) in Milwaukee is hosting a timely show this Friday that celebrates the art and life of Carlos Cortéz. Included in this show are prints by his allies in the labor movement/Chicana rights/anti-war/radical art community - many of whom are part of Justseeds. Prints by Favi, Josh, Nicolas, Dylan, and Collin are included in the exhibition. (Dylan also included some text and long-time friend to Justseeds, Susan Simensky Bietila, helped co-organize the show.) Many might recall that WPCA hosted the Paper Politics exhibition when it was in Milwaukee, so please come out and support this important show and vital art space that is at the epicenter of the community arts scene in Milwaukee.
Exhibition runs: April 1 – May 14, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, April 1 from 5 – 9pm
Spring Gallery Night: Friday, April 15 from 5 – 9pm
"Dancing For Dara" Benefit Film Screening Providence, RI TONIGHT
Posted March 23, 2011 by meredith_stern in Events
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents: The Dancing for Dara Show TONIGHT!
Them
Posted March 22, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
My friend Dave Loewenstein (who has a poster in the Celebrate People's History book) has a new show opening this Friday, and just sent along this announcement:
Friday, March 25th , 6-9 pm
THEM by Dave Loewenstein
An installation of cut-paper tableaus that follow Drones, Nimbys, and Frame-up Specialists as they try to rid their back yards, business districts, and border towns of Them.
at the Invisible Hand
upstairs at 801 1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, KS
Dancing for Dara Screening in DC
Posted March 19, 2011 by jmacphee in Film & Video
Radio CPR and friends present... a benefit for the fabulous artist and activist Dara Greenwald, our dear friend who is battling cancer.
SPOONBOY + + + folk-punk favorite
DANCING FOR DARA + + + film shorts*
BUBBLING WELL + + + (acoustic melodies)
Friday, March 25th
8:00 PM
La Casa (3166 Mt. Pleasant St. NW, WDC)
$5-20 sliding scale
Tasty treats also available for the snacking.
*Video Data Bank of Chicago has assembled a program of exciting videos by internationally recognized artists who have donated their work to benefit Dara:
Pink Bloque, DANCING IN THE STREET (excerpts) (Domestic Violence Awareness Month Rally), October 2003 to end, 8:00—14:00
Ben Coonley, ONE TRICK PONY, 2002, 4:50
Tara Matiek, OPERATION INVERT, 2003, 12:30
Caspar Stracke & Gabriela Monroy, KULESHOV SUKIYAKI, 2004, 2:58
Melinda Stone & Igor Vamos, SUGGESTED PHOTO SPOTS, 1997, 10:00
Jim Finn, SHARAMBABA, 1999, 3:00
Jem Cohen, LITTLE FLAGS, 2000, 6:30
Paul Chan, UNTITLED VIDEO ON LYNNE STEWART AND HER CONVICTION, THE LAW AND POETRY, 2006, 17:30
Dara Greenwald with Ona Mirkinson, THE PACKAGE, 2010, 12:00
Learn more about Dara's work here: http://www.daragreenwald.com/.
Stand in Solidarity March 19th: Madison, Wisconsin
Posted March 17, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
This just in from IVAW:
Iraq Veterans Against the War calls on all veterans and peace organizations to mobilize to Madison, Wisconsin on March 19th, the 8th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, to stand in solidarity with workers organizing for their rights. We will be joined in the streets by the AFL-CIO, union members, and their supporters:- 10AM rally at Library Mall, 750 State Street in Madison, WI
- 11AM march up State Street to the capitol, stopping at the Civil War Memorial
- Noon rally and speak-out at the capitol, joined by the Wisconsin AFL-CIO and other unions - King Street entranceWith Scott Walker's latest maneuver to erase collective bargaining rights, Wisconsin workers are calling for continued resistance, with the possibility of a general strike on the table. Scott Walker has threatened to call in the National Guard to repress these mobilizations. As military veterans, we call on our brothers and sisters in the Wisconsin National Guard to refuse and resist any mobilization orders. We believe military service members are public employees. It is dishonorable to suggest that military personnel should be deployed against teachers, health care providers, firefighters, police officers, and other government employees, many of whom are serving in the National Guard. The Wisconsin National Guard was sent in to repress workers fighting for the eight hour workday over a century ago. It is vital that our brothers and sisters know they have a choice and can fall on the right side of history this time by standing with the working people of Wisconsin.
Mary Tremonte at NAEA in Seattle
Posted March 16, 2011 by mary_tremonte in Events
I am headed to Seattle in a few hours to present a hands-on workshop on Mobile Silkscreen Printing at the National Arts Education Association (NAEA) National Convention, with my life partner-in-teaching, Heather White. Last year we presented workshops on Radical Silkscreen Printing at the NAEA Museum Education preconference in Baltimore. We spend so much time facilitating print projects with teens, which is totally our jam, but I am looking forward to sharing knowledge with fellow educators. Any radical educators who read this blog who are attending the convention? Come say hi! Our workshop is Saturday night, and on Friday we will be doing a silkscreen workshop with my mom's first grade class in Snohomish. Silkscreen Power for Everyone!
(This silly photo is of the silkscreen station at the Justseeds table at the USSF)
Justseeds @ Charlottesville Anarchist Bookfair March 19
Posted March 15, 2011 by shaun in Events
Come check out the Justseeds table this weekend at the Charlottesville (Virgina) Anarchist Bookfair, Saturday, March 19! The whole shindig is hosted by Random Row Books at 315 W. Main St. We'll have a bunch of our books, small prints, zines, People's History posters, etc. There's a schedule for the bookfair here, and the organizers are keeping a blog with other details here. Full press release from the organizers after the cut:
Visual Dialogues: Public Art and Social Transformation
Posted March 8, 2011 by k_c_ in Events
My friend Katie Yamasaki is a really talented mural artist and will be giving a presentation this Friday, in NYC.
Her work is devoted to the idea that everyone should be free to grow and experience their lives on their own terms, liberated from a power and material-driven society that so often values things above people. By helping to provide a visual platform where different communities can have a public voice, Katie is committed to the idea that art can play a major role in social transformation.
Visual Dialogues: Public Art and Social Transformation
Friday, March 11, 6-8pm
Asian American/Asian Research Institute
25 W. 43rd Street,
(btn 5th & 6th Ave)
Room 1000
New World Border Exhibition
Posted March 5, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
I just got an announcement for this great looking exhibition coming up in the Bay Area:
New World Border
ARTISTS RESPOND TO US/MEXICO BORDER WALL
March 3 – April 30
Reception: Saturday, March 12, 3:30-5:30 pm
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 USA
510-849-2568
The wall, now being constructed across the length of the US/Mexico border is like a knife cutting off neighbors, wildlife, indigenous people, and families. The wall is inflaming hatred and contributing to an atmosphere of vigilantism and oppression. While the US walls itself off from the world in the name of “security” what is it sacrificing? A group of artists respond to the wall with imagery from a variety of viewpoints.
The artists represent a wide cross section of approaches to the printed image, from esteemed Latino Poster Movement artist Malaquias Montoya, to Black Panther Minister of Culture Emory Douglas, Kearny Street Workshop icon Nancy Hom, New York political illustrator Frances Jetter, co-founder of the California Indian Art Movement, Frank LaPena, as well as powerful work by many other artists. The wall is destroying and dividing families, communities, eco-systems, and indigenous lands. The wall is part of a national move towards increased militarization of all aspects of society. The time to speak out against it is now.
Steve Ignorant Sings CRASS
Posted March 2, 2011 by chris_stain in Events
Steve Ignorant and some friends have gotten together to give it one final go with some of our favorite punk anthems from CRASS. For myself the band had broken up by the time I bought my first CRASS album, Feeding of the 5,000. I still feel their message is relevant and inspiring after all these years. So quit slam dancing in the mirror and stage diving onto the bed and get out to one of these gigs and keep the fire burning! Look for an interview with Steve and the band in the weeks to follow. Cheers!
The Last Supper US Tour dates 2011
Thursday MARCH 10 New York, NY @ Santo's Party House
Friday MARCH 11 Montreal, QC @ The Olympia
Saturday MARCH 12 Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
Sunday MARCH 13 Chicago, IL @ Logan Square Auditorium
Wednesday MARCH 16 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
Thursday MARCH 17 San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge
Friday MARCH 18 Pomona, CA @ Fox Theater
Tuesday March 22 Austin, TX @ Emo's
Friday March 25 Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
Dara Greenwald Benefit/Josh MacPhee Exhibit (Pittsburgh)
Posted March 2, 2011 by shaun in Events
Join us this Saturday (March 5) in Pittsburgh for a three part event celebrating Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, and help us raise funds to help them both! We've hung a huge exhibit of Josh's print work at our distribution headquarters in Lawrenceville, and we're open throughout the afternoon for anyone to drop in, check it out, and maybe pick up some prints and books. We'll be moving up the hill to the Brillobox for a video screening and dance party in the evening! Details below the cut:
Dancing for Dara NYC
Posted February 24, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
For everyone in NYC, please, please, please come out to the Dancing for Dara screening and out Birthday Party!!!!
Dancing for Dara NYC
Saturday, February 26 · 3:00pm - 6:00pm
anthology film archives
2nd ave. and 2nd st., Manhattan, NYC
a benefit screening for dara greenwald @ 3pm
birthday festivities for dara and josh @ 4.30pm
all at anthology film archives!
Video Data Bank of Chicago has assembled a 75 min video program called DANCING FOR DARA composed of work by internationally-recognized artists who have donated their work to benefit Dara Greenwald who is currently battling cancer.
SUGGESTED DONATIONS (cash or check):
$20 for the screening
$30 for the screening and the birthday after-celebration (with drinks and treats!)
$40 for the screening, after-celebration, and a copy of dara and josh's new book Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures
Please RSVP—on facebook or by sending an email to: rachaelrakes [at] gmail.com
Can't attend but want to donate?
please visit http://healdarag.org/donate-2/
image: Ben Coonley, One Trick Pony. Image courtesy Video Data Bank.
special thanks: the Chocolate Room, Brooklyn
Political Poster Jam in Oakland
Posted February 24, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
A reminder, coming up in the Bay Area on Friday:
Please join us for a Political Poster Jam on Friday, February 25th at Oakland Museum from 8 to 11pm. We'll honor the power of political graphics and the Museum's recent acquisition of a major collection of political posters.8pm - 11pm Printing Demonstrations:
San Francisco Print Collective - print your own screenprint!
The Great Tortilla Conspiracy - Edible tortilla prints and new technology of food breakthroughs in honor of African American History!
& Eddie Colla - cut your own stencil!9pm Discussion:
Emory Douglas, former Black Panther Ministry of Culture
Favianna Rodriguez, artist/activist
Lincoln Cushing, poster archivist
moderated by Carol A. Wells, director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Dancing for Dara Baltimore
Posted February 23, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
Dancing for Dara Baltimore
A video screening to benefit Dara Greenwald's fight with cancer
Thursday, February 24 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Space 2640
2640 St. Paul St., Baltimore, MD
Video Data Bank of Chicago has assembled a 75-minute program of exciting videos by internationally recognized artists who have donated their work to benefit artist and activist Dara Greenwald who is currently battling cancer. Jesse Stiles and Jenny Graf will play some lovely music before and after the screening so all can mill and visit with each other.
Suggested donation of $5-$10 all money goes directly to Dara.
THE PROGRAM:
• Pink Bloque, DANCING IN THE STREET (excerpts) (Domestic Violence Awareness Month Rally), October 2003 to end, 8:00—14:00
• Ben Coonley, ONE TRICK PONY, 2002, 4:50
• Tara Matiek, OPERATION INVERT, 2003, 12:30
• Caspar Stracke & Gabriela Monroy, KULESHOV SUKIYAKI, 2004, 2:58
• Melinda Stone & Igor Vamos, SUGGESTED PHOTO SPOTS, 1997, 10:00
• Jim Finn, SHARAMBABA, 1999, 3:00
• Jem Cohen, LITTLE FLAGS, 2000, 6:30
• Paul Chan, UNTITLED VIDEO ON LYNNE STEWART AND HER CONVICTION, THE LAW AND POETRY, 2006, 17:30
• Dara Greenwald with Ona Mirkinson, THE PACKAGE, 2010, 12:00
A nice write up in the Baltimore City Paper HERE.
(Image from Jem Cohen's Little Flags)
Visualizing Radical History
Posted February 15, 2011 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
For those in NYC this Thursday, I'll be having a "public conversation" with filmmaker John Gianvito regarding the representation of, and cultural engagement with, history:
Thursday, February 17 · 6:30pm - 9:30pm
CUNY Graduate Center, James Gallery
365 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Join artist Josh MacPhee and director John Gianvito as they discuss the triumphs and challenges of Howard Zinn’s "A People’s History of the United States," which famously re-wrote American history through the eyes of the common people rather than political and economic elites.
John Gianvito's hour-long 2008 documentary "Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind" will be screened. There will be a one-night exhibition of the posters from Josh MacPhee's new book, "Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution."
You can find the event on facebook HERE.
Celebrate People's History in Toronto
Posted February 9, 2011 by jmacphee in Books & Zines
Toronto Free Gallery and Groundswell present Celebrate People’s History!, a show of poster art created by over ninety artists – including many of Toronto’s own – to document the hidden history of social justice movements. The Celebrate People’s History series is the culmination of 12 years of work, a massive collection of 110 posters, the complete set of which has just been released as a hardcover book by The Feminist Press. The full collection will be on display at Toronto Free Gallery from February 10 – March 19, 2011, and you’re invited to the opening on Thursday, February 10th at 7:00PM.
Two Book Events in Philly!
Posted February 2, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
For all in Philly, please come out to these events!
I'm doing two different book release activities, this Thursday and Friday nights:
Thursday, Feb. 3rd, 7-9pm
Signs of Change Book Release
Wooden Shoe Books, 704 South Street
Signs of Change is a visual introduction to the past 50 years of social movements from around the globe. An archive of more than 350 posters, prints, photographs, films, videos, music, and ephemera, the material included and discussed here is from more than twenty-five countries. Surveying the creative work of dozens of international social movements, from the do-it-yourself graphics and media of the 1960s to today's instantaneous digital technologies, it investigates the themes and representations of global struggles for equality, democracy, freedom, and basic human rights.
Join co-editor and Justseeds member Josh MacPhee for the Philly release of Signs of Change along with his other brand-new book, Celebrate People's History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution.
Friday, Feb. 4th, 7-10pm
Celebrate People’s History: peace, justice, freedom, creativity, revolution and love
Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Avenue
The closing event for the Celebrate People’s History art show, as well as a release party for the Celebrate People’s History poster book (Feminist Press, 2010). The posters and book beautifully visualize revolutionary movements from around the world and throughout history: antimilitarism, autonomy, Palestine solidarity, prisoners rights, queer and trans liberation, sustainability, Theater of the Oppressed, universal health care, worker rights and so much more.
We will be joined by Josh MacPhee, the curator of the CPH series and editor of the book; and former political prisoner and CPH poster artist Laura Whitehorn. Local poster artists and activists will also speak about their work in the book.
Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture
Posted February 1, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
Book Release and event
Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture
Thursday, February 10, 2011, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design
The Sheila C. Johnson Center for Design
Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, Ground Floor, NYC
Admission: Free
Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture is both a book launch for Gregory Sholette's new work of the same title, and a concrete application of the principles laid out in the book. The book argues that imagination and creativity in the art world originate and thrive in the non-commercial sector. It examines the political economy of art and business by highlighting interventionist and collective art as the 'dark matter' of the art world. This dark matter is indispensible to the survival of mainstream culture which it frequently opposes.
Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On
Posted January 28, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
Spectres of Liberty (an art project I collaborate on with Dara Greenwald & Olivia Robinson) is in a great looking show that opens Friday in Chapel Hill, NC. We're exhibiting video documenting and prints made at our Syracuse project, The Open City Workshop in the Great Central Depot:
Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On
an exhibition of over 50 artists from across the U.S. exploring Alfredo Jaar’s idea that
“place can not be global,” curated by artist elin o’Hara slavick + art historian Carol Magee, Professors in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
January 28 – April 29, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION: February 11, 5-9pm
523 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA (formerly the Chapel Hill Museum)
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 2-7pm; Saturday 12-7pm; closed Sunday + Monday
Celebrate People's History Book Release and Exhibition in Lawrence, KS
Posted January 28, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
Celebrate People's History Book Release Tonight at the Lawrence Percolator!
Book Release Party - Friday, Jan. 28th 5-8 pm
The book release coincides with an exhibit of the Celebrate People's History posters and printed matter from a local 1970s printshop in Lawrence, the Kansas Key Printer.
For more info click HERE. And click below for more photos (thanks to Dave Lawrence for his organizing efforts and photo taking)!
DANCING FOR DARA: a multi-city fund-raising screening for Dara Greenwald
Posted January 27, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
Tonight in Boston!!!
DANCING FOR DARA: a multi-city fund-raising screening for Dara Greenwald
Video Data Bank of Chicago has assembled a 75-minute video program composed of work by internationally recognized artists who have donated their work to raise money for Dara Greenwald, an artist and activist who is currently battling cancer. Please find detailed information on Dara below.
Thursday 27 January 2011, 8pm
Spectacle
17 Edinboro Street #3, Chinatown, Boston
$5-15 suggested donation
All proceeds will go directly to Dara.
This program will be screened in cities across the country in the first part of 2011. Click below to see the program list.
Graphic Radicals, WW3 Illustrated Retrospective
Posted January 22, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
GRAPHIC RADICALS: 30 Years of World War 3 Illustrated
December 7, 2010 – February 5, 2011
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave (at 36th)
New York, NY 10018
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Thursday 10:00am – 6:00pm
Friday 10:00am – 6:00pm
Saturday 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Closing Reception: Friday, February 4, 7-9 pm
Graphic Radicals is a 30th anniversary retrospective of World War 3 Illustrated, an independently published political comic magazine founded in 1980 by artists Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper. Comprised of original comics, drawings and paintings, posters, commissioned murals, documentary film, animation and a complete set of issues, Graphic Radicals will be the largest World War 3 exhibition to date and will highlight the history that World War 3 has scrutinized, documented, and participated in for three decades.
World War 3 Illustrated was first established in response to the Iran hostage crisis and impending election of Ronald Reagan and since then has confronted social and political issues ignored by the mainstream press. The magazine is an annual publication produced by a collective of artists with each issue addressing a particular theme. WW3 has covered topics as diverse as the Tompkins Square riot, homelessness, first-person accounts of 9/11, the prison industrial complex, a teachers’ strike in Mexico, Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts and, in the upcoming issue, the food chain.
Watershed install photos 1
Posted January 17, 2011 by nicolas_lampert in Environment
Busy days in Milwaukee. Here are a few install photos of the Watershed exhibition that opens in Milwaukee on Friday, January 28th at the Union Art Gallery at UWM (same space that Justseeds created an installation at in 2008.) Watershed: Art, Activism, and Community Engagement addresses the shifting ecological and political dimensions of water. This project, organized by Nicolas Lampert and Raoul Deal brings together artists, scientists, and urban farmers and uses art as a form of activism to comment on water issues in Milwaukee and the Great Lakes Basin, and their impact on the world at large. It tackles issues such as water shortages, notions of abundance, water privatization, invasive species, industrial pollution, and water as a human right.
Celebrate People's History exhibition in Oakland
Posted January 9, 2011 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Celebrate People's History!
Poster Exhibition - Book Release Party
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705 USA
510-849-2568
www.lapena.org
January 7 - February 27, 2011
Reception: Saturday, January 15, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
There's a good chance that at some point in your life you've seen a Celebrate People's History poster decorating the walls of your classroom, community center or neighborhood book shop. Initiated by Josh MacPhee in 1998, this far-reaching project uses poster art created by over ninety artists to document the hidden history of social justice movements. The complete set of these posters has just been released in book form by Feminist Press. More than 50 posters will be on display at La Peña from January 7 - February 27, 2011
CPH Book Launch and Exhibition in Philly!
Posted January 6, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
Five Celebrate People's History poster artists live in Philly, and they've banded together to put on a larger exhibition of the CPH posters, and a book launch! Morgan Andrews, Dan Berger, Beth Pulcinella, Erik Ruin, and Eian Weissman have organized a show at Studio 34 on Baltimore Ave. in West Philly. Check it out tomorrow night, books and posters will be available!!!! I was hoping to be at the opening but have come down with the flu, but now I plan on coming to the closing on February 4th:
Celebrate People's History!
Opening: Friday, January 7, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
4522 Baltimore Ave
Philadelphia, PA
Pony Pedro has a new space!
Posted December 28, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
My friends in Berlin, the screenprint and performance crew Pony Pedro, have a brand new shop and exhibition space! They have a show up now of Berlin-based political screenprints called Ein Blick Drauf [A Look At It]:
New works by 14 berlin based artist/silk-screen-printers !
The exhibition focuses on the personal analysis of the contributing artists of relevant themes of our times. Current political and social debates are addressed. The exhibition features ambitious graphic that goes beyond decorative graphic design and provides a small overview over berlin's silk-screen-printing scene.
List of contributing artists:
Alexandra Klobouk, Anna Busdiecker, anef, Beat Gipp, Bera White, Danny Gretscher, Frank Höhne, Franziska Schaum, Kenneth Hyttel, Mark Thomann, Micha Hirt, Roland Barth, Tim Dinter, Various & Gould
Support GI Resistance
Posted December 16, 2010 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects
This is an image that I created for the November 2010 "Operation Exposure-War is Trauma" collaboration between Justseeds and Iraq Veterans Against the War." The project involved Justseeds artists creating images for the IVAW campaign "Operation Recovery" to stop the redeployment of traumatized soldiers.
I got inspired to make text like this when a garbage truck passed me recently.
NYC trash hauling vehicles are hand painted and the lettering styles have always interested me. I took on the style of a baseball uniform since it has multiple cultural references in the USA. The concept of rooting for a team seems to me like such a typical relationship to war. One team must lose, the cost is the devastation of societies and the loss of life. Rooting for GI Resistance to redeployment is supporting the preservation of life, of both teams.
It can also be interpreted as a riff off of the military use of sports events and programs in recruitment leads. The numerous commercials during sports games, that offer adventure and education, is astounding.
TONIGHT! Celebrate People's History Book Release and Exhibit in Boston
Posted December 12, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Today!
Sunday, December 12 · 4:00pm - 8:00pm
(Brand New) Lucy Parsons Center, 358A Centre St., Jamaica Plain
—A book release party for Celebrate People's History! The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution.
—Release of the brand-new National Prisoners Reform Association CPH poster.
—Silk-screen station for printing your own t-shirts and posters!
—Screening of the film "3,000 Years and Life," the documentary about the Walpole Prison uprising.
—snacks and drinks!
The event is a benefit for the LPC Movie Projector Fund.
Donate to Kids in Arizona affected by anti-immigrant policies
Posted December 10, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Events
This was a hard year for immigrant families in Arizona. Not only did the state pass SB 1070, but also it alone accounted for a shocking 20% of the nearly 26,000 deportations this year under the 287g federal program.
That means more than 5500 immigrants were pushed out of our community, many of them parents, homeowners, workers, and our neighbors.
Children are deeply affected by these policies. For this reason I'm helping to organize a Toy Drive for children in Arizona. and recently designed the poster you see above.
There are 3 easy ways you can help out:
1) Donate online by clicking here
2) Get out your cell-phone & text "ARIZONA" to 50555 to donate $5 to help purchase toys, or
3) Donate a toy at one of our drop off locations. Get a list by clicking here
Favianna's Annual Art Jam this Weekend in Oakland, CA.
Posted December 10, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Events
art + lovely people + local food + music & beats
- limited edition prints & posters
- calendars, datebooks, zines
- books & journals
- shirts, dresses & other wearables
DJs: Max Champ, Quixx, & Jonathan Rickert
Spinning everything from funk to soul to electro to cumbias
This is a family friendly event & zero-waste event.
Facebook Event Link: http://on.fb.me/favios
Justseeds Show & Art Sale this Friday in NYC!
Posted December 8, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Brecht Holiday Party & Justseeds Print Exhibit!
Come celebrate the end of the year and the start of a new one with the annual Brecht Forum holiday party and a Justseeds print show and big-time art sale! The show features over 40 prints, which will be for sale along with books, calendars, and a special box of misprints and damaged work that will be extra cheap!!! This stuff will make perfect holiday gifts for all you anti-capitalists out there.
Did we mention it will be fun? We hope to see you there!
Friday, December 10th, 6-9 pm
The Brecht Forum
451 West Street (btw Bank & Bethune Sts)
New York, NY 10014
brechtforum.org
Heal Dara G Auction day 6
Posted December 4, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Only one day left!!!! Here's some more very cool art at the Heal Dara G art auction (Click on the artist name to go to auction page):
Bill Daniel, Early 90s SF graf, silver-based photo prints (5), 11″ x 14″:
Just Seeders in Oakland Art Sale this Sat. Dec 4th
Posted December 3, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Events
On Saturday, Dec 4th, Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, and Favianna Rodriguez will be at the EastSide Arts Alliance Holiday Art Sale. Jesus and Melanie will be selling limited edition prints and other goodies and I will be selling my new calendars!
This event will also double up as a public mural celebration. So you can expect:
Local Artists. Delicious Food. Live DJ. Beautiful Murals
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Art Sale 12-7pm, Murals dedication at 3pm
EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd, Oakland CA
Heal Dara G Auction day 5
Posted December 3, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Here's some more very cool art at the Heal Dara G art auction (Click on the artist name to go to auction page):
Heal Dara G Auction day 4
Posted December 2, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Here's some more very cool art at the Heal Dara G art auction (Click on the artist name to go to auction page):
Swoon, Irina, block print on mylar with coffee, hand painting (image to the left)
JUSTSEEDS Pittsburgh Holiday Sales Dec 3 & 4
Posted December 2, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
Justseeds Artists Cooperative is opening our doors
Friday, December 3rd 6:00-10:00
& Saturday, December 4th 12:00-8:00
We have many beautiful and radical handmade prints, books, and calendars, as well as some items only available in person (so far), such as these Bear Hankies by Mary Tremonte.
Enjoy new and fun art on the walls, and peep through our flat files to check out hundreds of prints from artists throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and beyond...
Refreshments will be provided to warm up your holiday shopping experience.
We accept cash, check, and credit cards
Take good care!
Justseeds
3410 Penn Ave, 2nd Floor (at the Doughboy)
Enter in the back on Spring Way. Bike & car parking available
Celebrate People's History Book Party Tomorrow!!!
Posted December 1, 2010 by jmacphee in Books & Zines
Come out and celebrate the release of the new book Celebrate People's History! The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
Thursday, December 2 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
New York, NY
Wanna learn history? Visualize it! Come out for a presentation of Celebrate People’s History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution, edited by Josh MacPhee. Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned over 100 posters that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women’s rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative organizing. The book offers a visual tour across decades and continents of human rights struggles by over 80 artists. "Celebrate People's History" poster artists Christopher Cardinale, Alexander Dwinell, Molly Fair, Sabrina Jones, Mara Komoska, Erik Ruin, and Laura Whitehorn will discuss their work along with MacPhee.
Heal Dara G Auction day 3
Posted December 1, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Here's some more very cool art at the Heal Dara G art auction (Click on the artist name to go to auction page):
Erik Ruin, Diggers, paper-cut, 11″x17″ (to the right)
Dara's Auction Day 2
Posted November 30, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Here's some more very cool art at the Heal Dara G art auction (Click on the artist name to go to auction page):
Ronnie Goodman: The Color of Hope
Posted November 30, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
This just in from printer-extraordinaire Art Hazelwood in San Francisco, it looks great!:
Ronnie Goodman: The Color of Hope
Linocuts, Drawings, & Paintings from San Quentin and Folsom State Prisons
December 4 – 30, 2010
Reception: Saturday, December 4th, from 7:00 - 11:00 pm
Precita Eyes Mural Arts & Visitors Center
2981 24th street
San Francisco CA, 94110
(415)-285-2287
Check out the Heal Dara G Auction!
Posted November 29, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
As many of you know, my partner, girlfriend, collaborator, and generally better half, Dara Greenwald, was diagnosed with cancer during the summer, and we've been struggling to kick it for the past 4 months. This has put her under great financial strain, and friends have pulled together an amazing art auction to help carry the load. The auction has almost 200 items from over 150 people, many of which are amazing, and would be of great interest to fans of Justseeds. You can go to the auction HERE and you can jump straight to the print section HERE. And click below to get a peek at some of the great art available!!!
Justseeds at 3rd Ward Annual Craft Fair
Posted November 29, 2010 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds will be tabling the 3rd Ward Craft Fair this coming weekend. We'll have a handful of new prints, Work: 2011 Calendar, our recent portfolio RESOURCED, and the many recent publications, Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas, Celebrate People's History!, Signs of Change, and Signal:01.
On December 4th, 3rd Ward and Brooklyn Based bring you the 4th annual installment of one of New York’s most unique holiday shopping events. Bring your holiday shopping lists -- this fair will have something for everyone you cherish. Hailing from all over the country, this year’s craft vendors are gathering the best of their collections in clothing, accessories, jewelry, housewares, prints, winter essentials and culinary treats.Enjoy live music from Zoz Beat, Respect Two, DJ Nonformat, beats by DJ Clay Franklin and cheap Intelligentsia coffee and specialty cocktails from Red Jacket Orchards.
Plus, we'll have 3rd Ward workshops in DIY printmaking, flocking and sewing. Even make your own electronic holiday card!
Handmade Holiday Craft Fair Saturday, December 4, 12-6 pm 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY FREE admission
Art and Resistance Film Series (Portland)
Posted November 26, 2010 by icky in Events
Cool film series showing at Portland State early next week! Here's the details:
"The ART AND RESISTANCE Film Series is a collection of video shorts focused on different artist collectives around the Americas using culture as a tool for radical social transformation. From street musicians and hip-hop artists in Venezuela, to graffitti artists in Mexico, the mini-documentaries focus on how people are actively using their creativity to challenge the status quo and empower their communities."
Two days of showings:
Day ONE – Monday, November 29th:
1-3pm, Portland State University, SMSU 296
Day TWO – Tuesday, November 30th
7-9pm, PSU, SMSU 294
Bmedia Collective website here
Justseeds tabling Arts versus Craft in Milwaukee: Saturday, Nov. 27th
Posted November 26, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Stop by and say hello! We will have a ton of prints, books, postcards, and other goodies from Justseeds. 55+ unique vendors
Saturday November 27th, 2010
10am-6pm
Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center
790 N. Van Buren Street (Downtown Milwaukee)
$3 admission, kids under 13 free
Justseeds Pittsburgh Print Sale
Posted November 25, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
Give Love, Buy Something!
Handmade Print Sale
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26 NOON-8:00PM
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative HQ in Pittsburgh is having a sale.
See vibrant new work on our walls, get a jump on your holiday shopping, catch some sweet in-store deals and save on shipping.
We'll even pack up your prints safely for bike travel, if you so desire...
See beautiful and radical hand-printed silkscreens and relief prints, printed by Justseeds artists from near and far. Like Kristine Virsis' "Winter" or Roger Peet's "Escape"
or be real about the ridiculousness of it all, with Meredith Sterns "Give Love! Buy Nothing!"
Pick up books like the hot-off-the-press "Celebrate People's History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution" edited by Josh MacPhee
or "Firebrands: Portraits From the Americas," edited by Pittsburgh's own Shaun Slifer and Bec Young.
Keep track of time with 2011 wall calendars from Certain Days:Freedom for Political Prisoners & Justseeds/AK Press/Eberhardt Press
Visit our space on Friday, November 26th from NOON - 8:00pm
3410 Penn Ave, 2nd floor (above Bike Pgh, where Penn Ave meets Butler St, at the edge of Lawrenceville)
Enter at the back on Spring Way, bike parking available
Refreshments too, you know how we do...
Also this weekend in Lawrenceville, our friends at Tugboat Printshop are opening their doors.
TUGBOAT PRINTSHOP HOLIDAY OPEN STUDIOS! // November 26+27, 2010. NOON-6PM!
Tugboat's Printshop will be OPEN from NOON-6PM on the Friday & Saturday following Thanksgiving (Nov. 26+27)
Coffee, tea & cookies provided for print shoppers!
Find us at 298 Main Street
more info: www.tugboatprintshop.com
Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum North America 2024
Posted November 24, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
I just saw an announcement about this exhibition coming up in Syracuse, looks great:
Rigo 23: Taté Wikikuwa Museum North America 2024
Exhibition on view Nov. 18, 2010-Feb. 6, 2011
Location: The Warehouse Gallery, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse, N.Y. 13202
About the exhibition:
Intercultural relations and issues of justice are often present in Rigo 23's art, which includes working with political prisoners, such as Native American Leonard Peltier, the subject of this show. Accused and convicted of the murder of two FBI agents in 1976, Peltier has been and remains the center of an international controversy. The exhibition title refers specifically to Peltier's given name in Lakota (Taté Wikikuwa), to his next parole hearing in 2024, and showcases Peltier through his paintings; works by French-born documentary photographer Michelle Vignes; arts and crafts by the Oglala Sioux tribe in Pine Ridge, N.D.; as well as documents, books, writings, and educational material.
CPH event in SF this Saturday!
Posted November 18, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Friends in the Bay Area are putting on a big celebration of the release of Celebrate People's History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution this Saturday!
November 20th, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Center for Political Education
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Favianna Rodriguez and Lincoln Cushing will speak, books and posters will be available, and everyone is going to have a great time! Let's Celebrate People's History!!!
More information HERE.
(The image is of Fernando Martí's brand new CPH poster about Los Seite de la Raza)
Justseeds: Out of Office
Posted November 11, 2010 by shaun in Events
This weekend we'll all be in Chicago at our annual planning retreat (this year we'll be holed up in Mess Hall, where we promise to clean up and leave a thank you note). This means we won't be in the office filling orders until the middle of next week, so apologies for the delay. It's likely we won't be on top of emails as quickly either.
Please come by Mess Hall on Sunday (Nov.14) to check out the opening for "Operation Exposure", an exhibition of prints and stencils that many of us designed for the new Iraqi Veterans Against the War “Operation Recovery” campaign. We'll be there from 7-10pm alongside members from the IVAW Chicago chapter. The prints will be part of a street art campaign and installations at the “In These Times" building, Co-Prosperity Sphere, and Eastern Expansion, among others.
Celebrate People's History! Book event in Chicago
Posted November 9, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
This Thursday I'll be in Chicago to launch the brand new book: Celebrate People's History!: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution. It's great to be heading back to Chicago, where the poster series was originally born. A number of the artists in the book will be joining me, so come out and say "hi!," hang out, and pick up a book!
Thursday, Nov. 11th, 7pm
Quimby's
1854 W. North Ave · Chicago, IL 60622
773-342-0910
Poster artists John Jennings, Nicolas Lampert, Damon Locks, Marc Nelson and Andre Perez will be in the house! (Poster image by John Jennings)
Revolutionary Films/People's History Week!
Posted November 3, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
In celebration of the release of Celebrate People's History! The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution, the Feminist Press and Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn have organized a week long celebration of people's history through film.
Beginning November 3rd (tonight), the series of films centered on People's Revolution kicks off at Spectacle Theater. 15 films that engage with revolutionary people, movements, and actions from all over the world and connect to people's history posters from the ongoing series and collected in the new book.
Check out www.spectacletheater.com for more info, and the schedule is below:
Wed., Nov. 3
The Murder of Fred Hampton – Howard Alk, (1971), [Black Panthers], 7pm
Germany in Autumn – various, (1978), [Red Army Faction], 9:20pm
Thur., Nov. 4
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria – Victor Silverman, (2005), 7pm
Fast Trip, Long Drop - Greg Bordowitz, (1993) [ACT UP]
Sacco and Vanzetti – Giuliano Montaldo, (1971), 9:20pm
Justseeds tabling the NY Art Book Fair
Posted November 2, 2010 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds will be tabling the NY Art Book Fair opening this Thursday. Come check out the RESOURCED portfolio along with Justseeds member's zines and book titles! Josh, by himself, has a great selection of new stuff!
Printed Matter presents the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair, November 5–7 at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. Free and open to the public, the Fair hosts over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and publishers from twenty countries, offering the best in contemporary art book publishing.The NY Art Book Fair includes special project rooms, screenings, book signings, and performances, throughout the weekend. Other events include the third annual Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, and The Classroom, a curated series of informal conversations between artists, together with readings, workshops and other artist-led events.
MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave (at 46th Ave) Long Island City, NYThursday, November 4, 2010, PREVIEW, 6pm - 9pm
Friday/Saturday, November 5-6, 2010, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, November 7, 2010, 11am - 5pm
Just Seeder presenting in San Francisco Bay Area this weekend, Nov 5 & 6
Posted November 1, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Events
To all Area peeps! This is Favianna Rodriguez here, hoping that you can make it to either of these events. I have just returned to the Bay Area after a few months in the East.
Nov. 5 @ 7 PM
Art Lecture @ De Young Museum/ Koret Auditorium
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr. San Francisco, CA 94118
Mission Muralismo Cultural Encounters
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, I will be talking about how my work is derived from the political printmaking tradition of Mexico. This event is another dynamic program in the ongoing series Mission Muralismo in conjunction with the recently published book Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo.
Nov. 6 @ 1 - 2:30 PM
Calendar Signing @ Green Fest, Booth 926
San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center
I'll be signing my new Perpetual Calendar and other goodies at Green Fest, the legendary Bay Area event! There is something for everyone at Green Fest. You can learn a new skill, listen to inspiring words from political, ntellectual and cultural icons, munch on delicious cuisine, and sample fair trade chocolate!
Convocatoria Gráfica frente a las movilizaciones contra el COP16
Posted October 20, 2010 by santi in Events
Convocatoria para enviar gráfica copyleft para pegotes y esténciles en el
marco de las movilizaciones contra la COP16, bajo la consigna: “No al
cambio climático, si al cambio sistémico, No a la destrucción ambiental,
si a la destrucción del capital”. Cierre de convocatoria: 25 de octubre de
2010. Se imprimirá una selección de las imágenes, y todas se subirán a la
página web de la convocatoria: http://espora.org/adao.
CSPG Party Auction
Posted October 14, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Center for the Study of Political Graphics' pARTy AuCTION
Live & Silent Auction · Elegant Reception · Great Company & Entertainment
Sunday October 17, 2010
, 3 - 6 pm
Track 16 Gallery · Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Emcee: Sandra Tsing Loh
Music: Marcus L Miller w/ Freedom Jazz Movement
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) is excited to invite you to celebrate our 21st birthday! Please join us at the Track 16 Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, Sunday, October 17, 2010 as we honor these outstanding individuals:
Mid America Print Council Conference
Posted October 13, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
I'll be giving a talk about Justseeds at the Mid American Print Council Conference tomorrow, Thursday Oct. 14, at 10am. The talk is in the Humphrey room at the Regis Center for the Arts at the University of Minnesota. If you are in Minneapolis or St. Paul, come check it out and say "Hello!" There is a ton of other great stuff going on at the conference as well, including a workshop by Nicolas Lampert on mud stenciling, a talk by Swoon, and a project by Artemio Rodriguez.
More info on the Conference HERE.
The Hidden 1970s
Posted October 13, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
I recently designed a cover for the book The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism, edited by Dan Berger on Rutgers University Press. Dan Berger will be in NYC this coming week doing a series of events related to the book, if you're in the city, check him out:
Book Party for The Hidden 1970s and The War Before
Tuesday, October 12, 7 p.m.
The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
with Dan Berger, Andrew Cornell and Laura Whitehorn
Prisoner Support: Lessons from the 1970s
Wednesday, October 13, 7:30 p.m.
Freebird Books, 123 Columbia St. (btw Kane and Degraw) Brooklyn
with Dan Berger, Andrew Cornell, Victoria Law, Matt Meyer
Book Party for The Hidden 1970s
Thursday, October 14, 7:30 p.m.
Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (btw Bank & Bethune) Manhattan
with Dan Berger, Andrew Cornell, Victoria Law, Matt Meyer, Ben Shepard & Meg Starr
Howling Mob Society/Gregory Sholette/Jim Costanzo presentation (NYC)
Posted October 12, 2010 by shaun
If you're in New York City on Thursday, I'll be presenting on behalf of the Howling Mob Society as part of Not An Alternative's Open Sourcing the City: Invited and Uninvited Participation series. I'm excited to be joining Jim Costanzo (Aaron Burr Society) and Gregory Sholette, who will be speaking about REPOHistory (which was highly influential to myself and the Mob project!). Read a more in-depth description of the themes we'll be discussing here.
Where: The Change You Want To See Gallery, 84 Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
When: Thursday, October 14 at 7:30pm
Justseeds tabling in Montreal Oct 2-3
Posted October 1, 2010 by Jesse_Purcell in Events
If you are in Montreal this weekend come say hi and check out some new print work at Puce Pop. You can be one of the first in the north to pick up a copy of Firebrands.
October 2nd & 3rd 11-6pm
105 St. Viateur Ouest
Montreal, QC
CUP Benefit Thurs 9/30
Posted September 29, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Join designers, artists, community advocates, and other urban enthusiasts at the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) benefit for an evening of conversation, cocktails, appetizers, and a chance to spend some quality time with recent CUP projects.
Thursday Sept. 30, 7-11pm
Old American Can Factory
232 Third St., Brooklyn
What's on tap: a host of Brooklyn Brewery beers, wines generously provided by the Fearless Critic, and tasty treats from Breuckelen, Tanoreen, Cannelle Patisserie, and Brooklyn Brine. Plus, go face to face with the Sewer in a Suitcase, the Affordable Housing Toolkit, and lots, lots more!
Please come out to support CUP's work and to meet other folks that are curious about the city, how it works, and how it can work better for all of its residents.
You can get tickets HERE. For more information, or to purchase tickets by phone, please contact CUP at 718 596 7721. (Please note you must be 21 or over to attend.)
Tickets will also be on sale at the door, but we encourage you to buy early!
Pittsburgh! Justseeds at EEFC Art Harvest
Posted September 23, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
Image: Abby Gordon, RUST 2008
Justseeds will be representin at the East End Food Co-op' s Annual Art Harvest. This is a block party with live music and local foods as well as arts n' crafts.
All ages, all fun! Come peep our prints and say hi.
Sunday September 26
12:00-5:00pm
East End Food Co-op
7615 Meade Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15208
412-242-3598
Signal Slideshow & Reading (Olympia)
Posted September 22, 2010 by icky in Events
Just a quick note that I'm doing another slideshow and reading from Josh and I's new journal, Signal, this weekend. I'll be in Olympia, WA at one of my favorite bookstores in the northwest, Last Words Books.
The particulars:
Last Words Books
211 E. 4th ave
Saturday September 25th
7PM
If you're in the South Puget Sound, please come down!
Tonight: Educators Happy Hour At Paper Politics
Posted September 17, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
We are happy to present this evening by and for educators at Paper Politics: An International Exhibition of Socially Engaged Printmaking. Please come have a bite and a drink and network with other educators working with art and social change---share lesson plans and strategies, see and use the Mobile Silkscreen Unit in action, and enjoy a presentation and discussion with Justseeds' Shaun Slifer and Bec Young, editors of Firebrands: Portraits of the Americas.
Firebrands, Celebrate People's History posters, and other pertinent Justseeds goods will be available for purchase.
Most crucially, see Paper Politics and learn how to bring your students to engage with this exhibition of over 300 handmade prints on issues of our time.
Paper Politics Educators Happy Hour
Friday September 17
5:00-8:00pm
Space
812 Liberty Ave
FREE
(donations requested to cover the cost of refreshments)
6:00 Live silkscreen demonstration with Mobile Silkscreen Unit
(hands-on silkscreen printing ongoing)
7:00 Presentation & Discussion with Shaun Slifer and Bec Young, editors of Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas (2010, Microcosm)
Tonight: Art in the Contested City
Posted September 16, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Art in the Contested City
Emily Foreman
Drawing from her own practice and from first-hand research, artist/activist Emily Forman will take us on a visual tour of the contested Neoliberal City, highlighting the ‘uninvited participation’ of its discontent inhabitants; grandmothers, squatters, and artists, joined together in a shared struggle for spatial justice.
First we will go to Chicago, where the mythic ‘Department of Space and Land Reclamation’ catalyzes a flurry of public interventions around hyperreal governance and runaway gentrification; and where an anonymous PR campaign nearly threatens to implode the City’s careful rebranding of its controversial public housing policies.
Then we visit ‘Miles de Viviendas’, a social center and ‘Pirate University’, housed in a squatted police barracks in seaside Barceloneta; where the neighbors bring culture to the barricades, defending themselves against immanent displacement and tourist-driven Disneyfication using bottom-up urban planning, critical cartography, tactical textiles, and creative direct action.
Thursday, September 16, 7:30pm
@ The Change You Want To See Gallery
http://thechangeyouwanttosee.com
84 Havemeyer St, between Metropolitan and Grand
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Community Alliance of Tenants Art Sale (Portland)
Posted September 15, 2010 by icky in Events
My friends at the Community Alliance of Tenants are having a cheap art sale /benefit this weekend. If you're in the Willamette Valley go on down and support! It's at Augustana Lutheran Church at NE 15th and Knott, Saturday 9/18 11am to 3pm.
poster wall at Dig It! exhibition/discussion
Posted September 15, 2010 by shaun in Justseeds Collective Projects
Last week I ran a quick-n'-dirty set of the posters from our Resourced portfolio for the "Dig It! (But Not Like That)" pan-Appalachian, resource-extraction-themed exhibition and discussion at Artist Image Resource in Pittsburgh. Working with available inks (brown is easy to make!) on newsprint, I layered these on the wall as soon as they were dry, leaving a pile on the floor for people to take (and encouraging them to pull them off the wall as well). Mary ran some more prints the night of the show, and the pile kept getting snatched up! Thanks to Jude Vachon and Angela Wiley for organizing! See more images of the show here.
You Are Here opening
Posted September 14, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
My friend and collaborator Olivia Robinson has a piece in an upcoming show at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, see below:
“You Are Here → Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City”
September 24 – November 6, 2010
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street, 2nd Floor
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Public Reception: 6–8 p.m. Thursday, September 23
Pratt Manhattan Gallery will present “You Are Here → Mapping the Psychogeography of New York City,” an exhibition of work by a selection of contemporary artists that will map the emotional terrain of the world’s most famous and influential urban center, New York City, and explore the effect of the city’s powerful moods on those who live and work here. “You Are Here” will run from September 24 through November 6, 2010, and will be celebrated with an opening reception on Thursday, September 23 from 6–8 PM. The exhibition and opening reception are free and open to the public.
Justseeds at Lawrenceville Little Flea!
Posted September 8, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
Come visit Justseeds at Lawrenceville Little Flea this Saturday September 11, 9:00-3:00, at the corner of 36th & Butler
This is our friendly neighborhood flea market, right down the street from the shipping HQ space.
Bec & Mary will be representin', come buy a sweet print for your dorm like Meredith Stern's Cooperation Cats, or Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza's EZLN Women Laws, or pick up some back-to-school reading with Firebrands or Signal!
We have lots of great new stuff in stock, come see it in person!!! The weather should be beautiful this weekend.
About Little Flea:::Little Flea is a neighborhood marketplace featuring a rotating variety of flea, craft and food. Located in Lawrenceville, Little Flea aims to contribute to the sustainability of our community by providing a venue for local vendors and neighbors to gather and share. Little Flea is part of Act Locally! a project of Equita.
Yo! SCAM hits Justseeds HQ
Posted September 3, 2010 by bec_young in Events
Even though I've never been to Miami, the first four issues of SCAM zine are nostalgic for me, and probably a lot of other people. So it's fortunate that Microcosm Publishing recently released an anthology of those issues so we can all put our dog-eared, duct-taped copies safely away. SCAM #7 is hot off the presses too. With all this fanfare the Justseeds headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, is happy to welcome SCAM author Erick Lyle for a book / zine reading this Sunday, September 5th. If you're in the area, stop by early for a potluck-style bbq, with the reading starting about 9pm. We're at 3410 Penn Avenue (park bikes and enter in back), right across the street from Lawrenceville's doughboy statue, the likes of which will be in a SCAM story, someday, I'm sure.
Modern Day Slavery Museum
Posted August 23, 2010 by k_c_
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers have created a touring exhibit called the Modern Day Slavery Museum. It toured the last few weeks around the Northeast of the USA, stopping in NYC.
Tonight: Sam Sebren, Art Lesson #1
Posted August 21, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Installation: Sam Sebren, Art Lesson #1
"The anthropomorphic shopping bunny has become a zombie, numb to any goal of existence other than to shop & consume. Viewers will be dwarfed by a billboard size graphic as they are invited to sit, connect the dots & color w/ crayons in the interactive "Art Lesson #1". What are the priorities of our 21st century, corporate-controlled, advertising-blitzed world? Where is the emphasis being placed as we raise children in this world where nature is seen as a commodity or even an inconvenience?"
—Sam Sebren, 2010
John Davis Gallery
362 1/2 Warren Street
Hudson, New York 12534
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY AUGUST 21, 6 - 8 pm
Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday, 10:00 till 5:30 p.m.
Justseeds Presents Bird Brains at The Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY
Posted August 19, 2010 by k_c_
Justseeds Print Exhibit opens Friday August 20 6pm
Birds, birds, birds. From the extinct passenger pigeon to the mysterious crow to the avian flu, birds hold a unique place in our urban imaginary. Justseeds artists depict animals in many of our designs. Birds can represent liberation, autonomy, mutual aid, and cooperation, as well as vermin, predatory behavior, extinction, and ecological collapse. Bird Brains, a collection of handmade prints from the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, takes on this versatile metaphor.
The Knitting Factory Front Bar Gallery 361 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, NY
Secret Pockets Release Party
Posted August 18, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
My year-long Pittsburgh residency with Encyclopedia Destructica culminates this Friday with the release of SECRET POCKETS, a collaborative, interactive artist's book. We're throwing a release party at Space, where you can take another gander at Paper Politics
-THE FLYING DESTRUCTICATE: SECRET POCKETS RELEASE
Friday August 20th 6:00-9:00
Space 812 Liberty Ave, Downtown Pittsburgh
This book also features work by a slew of amazing artistic lifeforms:
Caldwell Linker, Bec Young, Ally Reeves, Shaun Slifer, Leslie Stem, Sarah Evans, Jude Vachon, Jen Cooney, Vincent Klopfenstein, Meredith Stern, Hannah Thompson, Mary Mack Tremonte and Heidi Tucker!!!!
This will be a Party to End All Parties! Not only will you be able to have and hold finished, immaculate copies of the new FLYING DESTRUCTICATE, but you will be entertained, thrilled, flabergasted by the performances of:
-DJ'S AMOR SECRETO (latino lover beatz) & D.H. (sappho sister)
-POP THROUGH THE AGES, WIZARDS OF SOUND
-A PHOTOBOOTH BY CALDWELL
-TAMALES MADE BY HEIDI & CALEB
-FREE EAST END BEER
-PLUS: peep PAPER POLITICS: AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF SOCIALLY ENGAGED PRINTMAKING, on view @ SPACE from August 13-October 23.
Encyclopedia Destructica can't do this without your help! Grab your friends, fiends, and family and come to Encyclopedia Destructica Studios, 156 41st street, Lawrenceville Wednesday August 18th around 7PM! See our studio space! Learn how to bind books! Consume alcoholic and/or caffeinated beverages! Have meaningful and life-changing conversations!
The Big She-Bang V
Posted August 11, 2010 by molly_fair in Events
I'm really happy to be a part of the Big-She Bang this year in NY! Come check out the amazing art, music, and workshops!
organized by For The Birds Collective
Saturday, August 14th
11AM to 10pm
at Church of the Messiah,
29 Russell Street (Lower Level)
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
The Big She-Bang is an all-day event of workshops, panel discussions, visual art, and music by and for women-identified artists & community members. The Big She-Bang strives to cultivate a space for women to share creative endeavors, exchange ideas, and provide support in a safe and open-minded environment. It is a multimedia event that serves as a platform for women artists and activists. This year’s She-Bang festival will include workshops and panel discussions, live musical performances, an all-day art show and tabling by various feminist organizations from New York. The event is always all ages, and everyone is welcome.
We are asking for a $6 to $10 sliding scale donation, although no will be turned away.
For The Birds is a collective of New York women whose main intent is fostering the creative empowerment of women, as well as the dissemination of feminist projects: art, music, information, and scholarly work. A large part of this feminist info-sharing occurs in the form of a distro and a label imprint. In our distro, we carry writing, art, and music by feminists and women-identified folks. On our label imprint, we continue to publish similar work.
"We Agree: A Crisis In Common" Opening!
Posted August 5, 2010 by roger_peet
Portland! Come out tomorrow evening, Thursday August 5th, to the SEA Change Gallery, downtown in the Everett Station Lofts, for the Opening of "We Agree: A Crisis in Common". Two giant blockprints about the impact of the natural gas industry on both sides of the Pacific: One made by the Portland-based members of Justseeds, and the other by renowned Indonesian printmaking cooperative Taring Padi! The prints are huge and dense and awesome, and the gallery is packed to the rafters with other work by Roger Peet, Alec "Icky" Dunn, Pete Yahnke, and members of Taring Padi. For more information on the project, navigate here
SEA Change Gallery
625 NW Everett Street
Gallery #110
Portland, OR
Opening at 5pm, refreshments will be available to those with quick feet and swift lifting elbows!
Justseeds Exhibit Opens Aug 6 at Marketplace, Albany, NY
Posted August 4, 2010 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects
Justseeds members Kevin Caplicki & Molly Fair, with friend Jesse Goldstein, will be creating a multi-disciplinary installation incorporating the recently completed Resourced portfolio.
They will fill the gallery with large scale wall-paintings, 3-D sculpture, and video projection. Molly Fair & Jesse Goldstein will treat you to some Dimock "Lemonade" where one can taste the benefits of Hydro-fracking for Natural Gas.
Opening is August 6, 2010
Greenbush Tape & Label Building
Marketplace Gallery
40 Broadway
Albany, NY
Firebrands Book Release Party: Friday in Brooklyn!
Posted July 22, 2010 by molly_fair in Events
We're having a book release for our new book Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas!
Come hang out, enjoy some refreshments, and see illustrations from the book on display!
Friday, July 23
7:30-10:00 PM
BOOK THUG NATION, Used Bookstore/Community Space
100 N3rd St Between Berry St and Wythe Ave Williamsbug, Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, NY
Curated by the Justseeds Artists' Collective, Firebrands is full of peoples' history, and dangerous information. These beautifully illustrated mini-poster pages showcase radicals, dissidents, folk singers, and rabble-rousers, from Emma Goldman to Tupac, Pablo Neruda to Fred Hampton. As say editors Shaun Slifer and Bec Young in the introduction, the book "is especially made for anyone who has sat, trembling with frustration and disappointment in history class, or reading a text book heavily edited of anything interesting or useful. It's for all our ancestors, especially for the ones left out of or misrepresented in said textbook, because they were too brown, too female, too poor, too queer, too uneducated, too disabled, or because they felt or thought too much." This is a real people's history, a book packed with dynamite, desire, and, above all, courage.
Out of the Closet & Into the Street Opens
Posted July 1, 2010 by jmacphee in Posters & Prints
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics presents:
Out of the Closet & Into the Street: Posters of LGBTQ Struggles & Celebrations
July 3 – September 26, 2010
Opening Reception: July 3, 5-8 pm
ONE Archives Gallery & Museum
626 N. Robertson Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Despite decades of affirmation and positive role models engendered by the LGBTQ liberation movements, discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation continues. Hospitals still refuse to allow lesbians and gays to be with their sick or dying partners by restricting visitation to “family” only. Same-sex couples are denied equal inheritance rights, pensions and health-care benefits, and lesbian and gay parents are often denied custody of their children. Violent attacks and homicides against members of the LGBTQ community continue and recent legal gains are tentative and subject to reversal—Californian’s right to marriage equality was taken away; open lesbians and gays continue to be excluded from the military; and as recently as February 2010, the Governor of Virginia signed an executive order deliberately removing gays and lesbians as a protected class in state-wide hiring procedures.
Heading to Maui for an Artist in Residence
Posted June 30, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez
Attention Maui Residents! I will be in Maui in less than two weeks for an artist in residency at the Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center. My task is to engage Maui-based nonprofit organizations to develop a case study about how artists can collaborate with non-arts community groups to develop messages around social justice on a local scale. I will be hosting a wide range of hands-on activities, including a teen intensive workshops focusing on printmaking and street graphics. All prospective students under the age of 18 are eligible for financial aid to help offset the cost of tuition. The Hui is a place that has been visited by some of my favorite artists, such as Swoon, Enrique Chagoya, and Artemio Rodriguez.
If you are in Maui, pls come check out some of the events! Sign up now!
Come see Justseeds at the USSF!
Posted June 23, 2010 by Favianna_Rodriguez in Events
We have been having a ball out here in Detroit! Twelve Justseeders are participating in the USSF - conducting workshops, running the live silkscreen table, selling posters, and building alliances. Please make sure to come check out some of the new work by the collective, particularly our new print portfolio, RESOURCED (which you can buy at the USSF for a deal!) and new book, Firebrands. GET ALL THE DETAILS by clicking here.
Justseeds at our table in Cobo Hall!
New World from Below Collaborative Book Party
Posted June 17, 2010 by jmacphee in Books & Zines
If you live in Detroit (or are visiting for the US Social Forum) come out and help us celebrate our new book Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas, my not quite as new book Paper Politics, as well as other recent radical publishing with AK Press, Autonomedia, the Institute for Anarchist Studies, Microcosm Publishing, Team Colors Collective, PM Press, author Jordan Flaherty and artist Seth Tobocman, and many others.
Friday, June 25, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
New World from Below Convergence Center
Located at the Spirit of Hope Church, 1519 Martin Luther King Dr., Detroit, MI 48208, at the corner of MLK and Trumbull.
Justseeds at AMC/USSF
Posted June 17, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
Half of Justseeds members and half of the prints and posters in the store are in Detroit for the Allied Media Conference (June 18-20) and US Social Forum (June 22-26). Come visit our tables, chat us up, take a hand at the Mobile Silkscreen Unit, see beautiful prints in person, and take home some rad art and books!
If you are trying to order online, some items may appear out of stock because they are out on loan for tabling...please be patient and try back after June 28th.
Hope to see ya in the D!
Spectres of Liberty gets wet, moves indoors
Posted June 5, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
So the giant public art project I've been working on for a month with Spectres of Liberty is finally happening today, and there's practically going to be a monsoon in Syracuse tonight! So we're moving the whole operation indoors, and it is still going to be awesome. Details:
Great Central Depot in the Open City
Saturday, June 5, 2010
8:00pm - 10:00pm
XL Project Space
307 S. Clinton St, Syracuse NY
OAXACA. SUPPORT FOR THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN COPALA: A call to mobilize in support of the resistance of the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala next June 8
Posted June 4, 2010 by santi in Art & Politics
OAXACA. SUPPORT FOR THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN JUAN COPALA
A call to mobilize in support of the resistance of the Autonomous
Municipality of San Juan Copala next June 8
The Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala has been under siege for
the last 6 months. Armed paramilitaries continue to block roads and
refuse to allow people to come and go freely. As a result of their
actions, there is no electricity, drinking water, or medical attention
in Copala. The children can’t go to school because there are no
teachers. Paramilitaries shoot at townspeople daily, resulting in the
deaths of at least 21 people between last November and May.
BP Take Back Your Oil
Posted May 27, 2010 by k_c_
My pal Jonah threw this together a few weeks ago. Its scary and a shame that there is STILL oil leaking into the gulf. It appears ever more clear, "we" are our own undoing.
Code Pink and the Freedom Glory Project are holding a flash protest in NYC, tomorrow.
May 28, 2010
6-6:15pm,
at the BP Station
21 Houston St
NYC, NY
CPH Show in Quebec City
Posted May 22, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Our friend Fred at La Page Noire, the anarchist infoshop in Québec City, has hung a Celebrate People's History Poster exhibition at a local bar. Here's some photos.
Spectres of Liberty May 17-June 5 in Syracuse
Posted May 19, 2010 by dara_g in Justseeds Collective Projects
We (Olivia Robinson, Josh MacPhee, Joanna Spitzner, & Dara Greenwald) are doing a multi-faceted public art project in Syracuse, NY to engage ideas coming out of the cities' abolitionist past to current social conditions. Please forward this to people in the area.
The project has several components:
1. a storefront gallery workshop which is open every day from 12-6, (XL Project Space, 307 S. Clinton Street)
2. public discussions with local organizers and artists (see schedule below)
3. an outdoor multi-media installation on June 5th (at Lipe Sculpture Park)
PUBLIC PROGRAMS (all events are free & refreshments are served)
Pictures of our opening night event, Open Access, Open Art
more:
Born In A Cent CD Design and CD release
Posted May 18, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Awhile back I got an email out of the blue from the band Born In A Cent, a NY-based political punk band with folk overtones. They were putting out their new record, and asked me to do the cover. So I did! It was a fun project, and the CD is about to come out, at the end of this month. Below is the info about the CD release show, and also images of the cover design.
Born In A Cent
CD Release Show
Bushwick Music Studios, 55 Waterbury St., Brooklyn (L train to Montrose)
May 29, 2010
with Huasipungo, The Last Internationale, Wild Babies, and more TBA!
The Black Dot Museum of Political Art
Posted May 14, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
This just in:
The Black Dot Museum of Political Art
David Lester and Jean Smith of the rock duo Mecca Normal co-curate a month-long, group art exhibit at Northern: The Olympia All Ages Project titled The Black Dot Museum: Political Artists From Vancouver—art by David Lester, Jean Smith, Brian Roche and Gord Hill.
Exhibition:
Saturday, May 1 - Friday, May 28, 2010
Northern: The Olympia All Ages Project
321 4th Ave, Olympia, WA
Gallery Hours: most Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment gallery@NorthernOlympia.org
The Black Dot Museum of Political Art functions online with touring exhibits focused on political art and music.
The Black Dot Museum of Political Art on FaceBook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Black-Dot-Museum/10150141919340195
Northern Gallery
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Northern-Olympia-All-Ages-Project/119818901101
RAZA! CULTURA, POLITICA Y TRADICION
Posted May 12, 2010 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
RAZA! CULTURA, POLITICA Y TRADICION
¡RAZA! CULTURA, POLÍTICA Y TRADICIÓN
May 15 Reception begins @ 7pm-11pm
$5 Suggested Donation
Featuring:
Carlos Francisco Jackson
Jesús Barraza
Malaquías Montoya
Melanie Cervantes
Xico González
Celebrate People's History in New Zealand!
Posted May 11, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Jared Davidson, designer of the Red Feds people's history poster and engine of the Garage Collective and Beyond Resistance has organized a Celebrate People's History poster show in New Zealand! Check it out:
Justseeds and Beyond Resistance are proud to present 'Celebrate People's History', an exhibition of over 50 international posters documenting radical moments in history.Since 1998 the Celebrate People's History Project has produced an amazing array of political posters by different artists from around the world, each highlighting a historical example of social struggle. Here in New Zealand for the first time is the complete series, celebrating important acts of resistance by both individuals and collective movements who have fought tirelessly for social justice. From the Spanish Revolution to feminist labour organisers, indigenous movements to environmental sustainability, protests against racism to the Korean Peasant's League — Celebrate People's History canvases global movements in collaboration with a global network of artists.
GLAMARCHY
Posted May 7, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
This month's Operation Sappho has a queer self-defense, safety, and fabulousness bent, in response to our dear friend Veruca La Piranha getting gaybashed after a gay 80's danceparty I DJ-ed last weekend, and the amazing community response to the attack: within 9 hours, 200 people mobilized for a protest in front of the bar where the attack began. Queers and allies say: NO MORE!
Come out to Operation Sappho to create a vibrant safe space and connect to other queers to learn about new self-defense projects we are taking on.
monthly queer-lez gay danceparty
queer it up glitzburgh!
To Print for the Revolution
Posted May 6, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
To Print for the Revolution: Celebrating Five Years of Eberhardt Press
Throughout the month of May print and design work from Eberhardt Press will be displayed at the Red and Black Café, a worker-owned vegan café in Southeast Portland, Oregon. Posters, propaganda, books, zines and other printed materials—which enliven and educate—will be exhibited. Additionally, copies of Eberhardt Press titles will be available for sale. To view the exhibit, donate and purchase titles please visit during the Café’s open hours—9am to 11pm, 7days a week.
The exhibit will run throughout the month of May. The Red and Black Cafe is at 400 SE 12 Ave @ Oak St. Portland
Mexican Revolutionary Art for the 21st Century
Posted May 3, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
For the month of May, the Lucy Parsons Center in Boston is holding a Mexico film series and print sale: Mexican Revolutionary Art for the 21st Century
Beautiful, politically themed woodblock prints from the ASARO artist
collective from Oaxaca, Mexico, will be for sale at the Lucy Parsons Center for the month of May. ASARO (La Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca /
the Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca), is a collective of young Mexican artists responding to Mexico’s current political turmoil. ASARO’s remarkable woodblock prints continue Mexico’s long tradition of popular revolutionary art.
All proceeds of the sale of the prints will go to the ASARO collective in Oaxaca.
Wednesday May 5, 6:30pm
Boston Premier of the Zapatista film Corazón del Tiempo/ Heart of Time (2008) film shows at 7:15
Art Opening (with food & wine with donation) at 6:30
Tear Down the Walls
Posted May 2, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
I just got this announcement for a prison activist event, and it's illustrated with a banner I made back in 1999 or 2000! Wild! If you're in the Bay Area, check this event out:
Tear Down the Walls
an evening of music and performance benefiting The Prison Activist Resource Center
Uptown Body and Fender
401 26th Street, Oakland, CA (between Broadway/Telegraph)
Saturday, May 8, 7pm - midnight
$10-1k suggested donation
Featuring: Angela Davis, Lisa Marie Alatorre of Critical Resistance, and Jack Bryson
Performances by: Citizen Marty Payne of the Caribbean Allstars, Elana Dykewomon—spoken word, Raks Africa—belly dancing, Mbele—cuban folklore ensemble, Sassy Crew!, Medea Sirkas—Synchronized Strutters, Drag King Sensations: Momma’s Boyz, O Zone and J~milli~on, Erica Benton—singer/songwriter, and dancing with DJ Ponyboy
Kyle Goen Closing Party
Posted May 1, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Kyle Goen, an artist in the Paper Politics book and show, has a closing party coming up on May 4th in NYC for his exhibition, The Voice That Arms Itself To Be Heard. Details below:
Wallpaper Show & Zine Release
Posted April 28, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
THE ZINE CIRCLE
a winter project of jen cooney, mary mack & tree:::we got together biweekly with a rotating group of woman-identified peeps to make stuff, eat snacks, and keep the winter blues at bay. lovingly printed in full color with hand-silkscreened covers
Providence Talk & Screening April 27 & 28
Posted April 26, 2010 by dara_g in Events
I will be in Providence, RI this week doing a talk on Tuesday (April 27, 6:30pm
Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, RISD Museum, 20 North Main Street) and Paige Sarlin and I have organized a screening (Wednesday April 28, 2010, 9:30 PM, Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street) which Josh MacPhee designed the poster for. More info on our screening below. Also event invite HERE.
Bristol IWW May Day Party
Posted April 26, 2010 by k_c_ in Events
Our comrades in Bristol are having a party this May Day. We met some of these folks during their trip to NYC for their Bristol Radical History Project presentations, good blokes! And check out their good taste in art!
Earthday is Everyday Bike Ride & Justseeds Eco-Art Show
Posted April 21, 2010 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects
Earth day bike ride starting 7pm from Union Square Park South. Dress in green with respect for the planet! Festive musical ride will end at a 8pm, BBQ and dance party at Time’s Up Brooklyn space and East River Bar at 97 South 6th Street, Williamsburg. Bring food to share.
Thursday, April 22, 2010 7pm BIKE RIDE Meet at Union Square Park South, Manhattan. 8pm AFTER-PARTY Justseeds Eco Art Show & BBQ
The Justseeds Collective will also be exhibiting members prints of an ecological & environmental nature following the Times Up Earth Day bicycle ride. Included in the exhibit will be previews of the upcoming Justseeds portfolio Resourced.
Resourced is a portfolio of handmade posters designed by over 30 different artists, including Chris Stain, Gaia, Armsrock, Design Action Collective, and many Justseeds Members. Justseeds is an artists’ owned and operated cooperative that is dedicated to producing socially engaged artworks. Prints and projects can be viewed at Justseeds.org
Go to Times Up for more information on the ride.
Christopher Cardinale Book Release Party
Posted April 21, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Our close friend Christopher Cardinale has been working for more than two years on his first graphic novel, and it is finally done and being released! Info below, please come celebrate!
Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush
Christopher Cardinale and Luis Alberto Urrea
Book Release Party
Wed., April 28TH, 7:30PM
Word Bookstore
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
126 Franklin St. at the corner of Milton St.
(Two blocks from the Greenpoint Ave. stop on the G train)
Videofreex Screening Tonight
Posted April 19, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Videofreex
Curated by Dara Greenwald
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 7:30pm
Light Industry, 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
Light Industry presents a survey of work by seminal guerrilla television outfit Videofreex, featuring a number of newly restored tapes. The screening will be introduced by Dara Greenwald, who assisted with the acquisition and preservation of this collection by Video Data Bank.
Justseeds at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair
Posted April 16, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Molly, Erik, and I will be at the NYC Anarchist Bookfair today, April 17th!!!
Please come out and say hi and check it out. Here is the poster I designed for the bookfair, and I believe there will be posters and t-shirt versions of it available tomorrow!
Printervention // Opening in Chicago
Posted April 16, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
Following the success of last years' Version Festival program: the Bridgeport WPA pilot project, we have asked artists from around the country to create works that raise awareness of social and political issues of our day. Printervention debuts April 16, 2010 at the The Chicago Tourism Center Gallery and continues through Version Festival to include workshops, a mobile silkscreen cart, a window display at The Whistler and more. For more information and a complete schedule of events and participants please visit www.printervention.org
Several Justseeds Artists are in this show! Leftover prints from this exhibition will travel to the US Social Forum in Detroit June 21-26.
World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Posted April 16, 2010 by k_c_ in Events
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World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Cochabamba, Bolivia
April 19-22, 2010
From the Guardian.co.uk:
...presidents, politicians, intellectuals, scientists and Hollywood stars will join more than 15,000 indigenous people and thousands of grass roots groups from more than 100 countries to debate climate change in one of the world's poorest nations.The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth which opens next week in the small Bolivian town of Cochabamba, will have no direct bearing on the UN climate talks being conducted by 192 governments. But Bolivian President Evo Morales says it will give a voice to the poorest people of the world and encourage governments to be far more ambitious following the failure of the Copenhagen summit.
Thu April 22nd Graphic Artshow - Scratchboards by Antonio Valverde - Mexico City
Posted April 15, 2010 by santi
GRAPHIC ARTSHOW OPENING
Scratchboards by Antonio Valverde
Thurdsay April 22nd
7pm
Doug Minkler Retrospective!
Posted April 14, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
I've been so behind on email this almost slipped by. If you are in the Bay Area, GO SEE THIS SHOW! Doug Minkler is one of the most prolific yet under-appreciated poster artists working in the US today:
Chris Stain Skateboard Piece
Posted April 14, 2010 by k_c_ in Art & Politics
Celebrating and Collaborating: The Graphic Work of Justseeds
Posted April 12, 2010 by dylanminer in Justseeds Collective Projects
"Celebrating and Collaborating: The Graphic Work of Justseeds"
April 05 - April 23 | LookOut! Gallery
Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI
Reception: 5-7pm, April 16
Gallery Talk: 7pm, April 16
Workshop: 8pm, April 16
Justseeds is Moving!
Posted April 7, 2010 by roger_peet in In the News
Hey Justseeds enthusiasts! Breaking news! Justseeds will be moving our headquarters from Portland to Pittsburgh in May. Justseedsers Mary and Shaun will be driving a well-laden U-Haul across the country, leaving behind our beloved Portland basement in the neighbourhood that smells like cookies to a much larger base of operations in the other City of Bridges. We're all excited about the move, and hopefully we'll be able to generate a photo essay or two for the blog, as well as candid shots of the flat files, dehumidifier, and piles of cardboard tubes in scenic locations across the wide continental center. Keep your eyes on this space for further updates....
Oaxaca Now: Young Radical Printmakers
Posted April 1, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Mexico in Chicago 2010
Oaxaca Now: Young Radical Printmakers
April 9-May 17, 2010
Marwen's Alumni Gallery will feature brand new woodcut prints and videos from the Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca (ASARO). In keeping with the collective's visually polemic tone, the new prints and video add breadth and depth to this traveling conversation on art, activism, and politics in Oaxaca today.
Oaxaca Now: Young Radical Printmakers is co-curated by Arielle Bielak and Professor Kevin McCloskey.
Please join us for the opening night celebration:
Friday, April 9, 2010
5-7 PM
Marwen, 833 North Orleans Street, Chicago, IL
A dynamic month-long series of radical art exhibits and presentations in West Philadelphia!
Posted March 26, 2010 by k_c_ in Events
Beginning March 5th, international artists’ cooperative Justseeds presents Bring Down the Walls!, a series of artistic exhibitions and educational events. The series celebrates radical movements that struggle to collapse the boundaries of class, race, gender and generation. The majority of events will take place at two locations, blocks apart on Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia. An Independent Project of Philagrafika 2010, Bring Down the Walls! is organized in collaboration with local activists.
Exhibitions-
At the A-Space (4722 Baltimore Ave.), there will be an exhibition of Justseeds' recent portfolio Voices From Outside: Artists Against the Prison-Industrial Complex and related materials. This project is a limited edition portfolio of original prints that either critique the prison industrial complex or address alternatives to incarceration. Twenty artists from the US, Canada, and Mexico contributed prints, which were then collated and presented to 50 different groups working on prison related issues. Many organizations have organized exhibits and have used the images as tools for educating and discussing incarceration.
At Studio 34 (4522 Baltimore Ave.) there will be a larger and more varied exhibition of prints from Justseeds members. This show will feature dozens of pieces from over 25 artists from across North America, with bold images addressing topics from personal inspiration to environmental devastation.
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements.
More Events below!
Women of Color HERstory Events
Posted March 12, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Events
Please join dynamic women of color activists, experts, innovators, artists and entrepreneurs at the "Kinks, Locks & Twist: Environmental and Reproductive Justice Conference 2010."
The third year of Kinks, Locks and Twists will be bigger and better than ever and we hope you will join us for this groundbreaking opportunity to achieve Human Rights for women of color in the Greater Pittsburgh Region at the intersection of two powerful social change movements.
Power Up girls will be attending the conference and assisting with live silkscreen printing in the afternoon. Saturday evening, celebrate Women of HERstory month and New Voices Pittsburgh's 6-Year Anniversary, with a celebration featuring music, art, performances and more...Justseeds artist Mary Tremonte joins others in exhibiting work in the silent auction.
for a full calendar of HERstory events and more information, look HERE
15th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
Posted March 10, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Justseeds will be tabling again at the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair, March 13-14th. A number of us will also be doing a panel at the book fair on Sunday, see the schedule for more info. Come by and say "Hi!" and pick up some awesome books and art!:
15th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 10am – 6pm
Sunday, March 14, 2010, 11am – 5pm
San Francisco County Fair Building
Golden Gate Park, 9th Ave and Lincoln Way
For more information call 415.431-8355 or visit www.sfbookfair.wordpress.com
the Missoula Oblongata in Brooklyn tonight
Posted March 3, 2010 by kristine_virsis in Events
Tonight the Missoula Oblongata will be performing their new play, The Moon, The Raccoon, The Hot Air Balloon (an hour long play set at the worlds fair with magic and palindromes!), along with an acoustic set by Laura Stevenson and the Cans.
Wednesday, March 3rd.
8:00pm
Dominic, Borth, And Angie's apartment
102 Ryerson st. #2
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
$6 Suggested Donation.
Defiant Proclamations
Posted March 1, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
I'm involved in a number of Bay Area events coming up in mid-March, loosely in connection with the SF Anarchist Bookfair. Russell Howze, author of Stencil Nation and purveyor of HappyFeetTravels.org, is putting together a one night political poster exhibition at Cell Space which promises to be interesting. The Interference Archive (what Dara and I have named our increasingly unwieldy collection of posters, prints, books, ephemera, etc...) is contributing work, as are a number of other cool folks with interesting materials to share. Check it out:
Defiant Proclamations
Radical Posters from the 1960s to the Present
For decades, Bay Area walls have been pasted with bold art and pertinent messages about the politics, practices, and abuses of contemporary mainstream culture and its co-opted voices. Also speaking outside the frameworks of organized labor and left movements, individual artists and collectives have shouted defiant proclamations with ink and paper. Today, political graphics have reached a broad audience via many media sources, hopefully creating a new wave of radical art as well as a redefinition of visual art and it’s usual commodified structures. With a strong history in the Bay Area, this one night only exhibit will feature works old and new, giving a glimpse of the broad range of opinions and styles that have papered walls across the area.
Thursday, March 11 (one night only!)
7 pm to midnight
FREE!
CELLspace Gallery
2050 Bryant St., San Francisco, CA 94110
ART WORK events in Pittsburgh
Posted February 24, 2010 by mary_tremonte in Justseeds Collective Projects
ART WORK
A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics
Through Feb. 28, 2010 at the Miller Gallery.
Events This Week:::
Feb. 25, Thurs.
8-9:30pm: Discussion led by Marc Fischer (Temporary Services) around issues raised in Art Work: A National Conversation about Art, Labor, and Economics. Food available.
@ The Waffle Shop, 125 S. Highland Ave. at Baum, E. Liberty
Art Against Empire
Posted February 23, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
This just in (from Evil Monito, check it HERE):
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Intervention Since World War II
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
3/10 to 4/18/10
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) is proud to present Art Against Empire—Graphic Responses to U.S. Intervention Since World War II, curated by Carol A. Wells from the archives of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG). Featuring works by Josh MacPhee, Corita Kent, Jay Belloli, Cedomic Kostovic, Stephen Kroninger, and more.
Art Against Empire uses the power of posters to document 60 years of opposition to U.S. interventions into the domestic affairs of sovereign nations. Political, economic and military interventions, many of them covert, have repeatedly resulted in unacceptable deaths and misery for millions. These posters show hopes and dreams, and the pain of dreams destroyed.
WW3 #40 Release Party!
Posted February 20, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
World War 3 Illustrated has just release issue #40 (and is now 30 years old!). Justseeds artists Colin Matthes and Erik Ruin are in the new issue, and WW3 is having a release party in NYC next week, Feb. 26. See info below:
Paper Politics Event in NYC Tonight!
Posted February 17, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today
February 17, 2010
7pm
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen St., Manhattan
F train to 2nd Ave.
A large number of the artists in Paper Politics will be convening on Bluestockings tonight for a freewheeling conversation of politics, printmaking and posters. Come join us and here about what local political printmakers are doing, why, and what they think their work is accomplishing.
Monday night talk in Chicago on the Artists' Union and the American Artists' Congress
Posted February 14, 2010 by nicolas_lampert in Events
If your in Chicago, stop by Gallery 400 at UIC this Monday, February 15th. I am giving a talk from 6:00pm-8:00pm based on the essay that I wrote for the Art Work publication by Temporary Services.
Chris Stain at work
Posted February 11, 2010 by k_c_ in Film & Video
Chris Stain paints Flowers for January's Take 5ive event. Music by Cory Hillis.
Here's Chris' newest print in the Justseeds store.
You can see a bunch of other new prints Chris has available on his BigCartel store.
Slideshow/Discussion this Wednesday @ AS220 in Providence
Posted February 6, 2010 by shaun
If you're in Providence, Rhode Island this week, please come by AS220 on Wednesday the 10th and participate in the discussion and slideshow I'm putting on! It's free to the public and starts at 6pm at the AS220 performance space on Empire Street:
"I Brake For Historical Markers"
6-8:30pm, Wednesday, February 10
Pittsburgh-based artist Shaun Slifer will present a slideshow and discussion of problematic and progressive historical monuments and plaques with an eye towards remembering the often-buried stories of struggles for social justice. Slifer will discuss the Howling Mob Society's 2007 guerilla historical marker series commemorating the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
Signs of Change in Portland, OR!
Posted February 2, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Dara and I just finished installing our exhibition Signs of Change in Portland, OR at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). We're doing an artist's talk/walk through tomorrow, Wed. Feb 3th, at 12:30 (see HERE), and the opening is Thursday, Feb 4th, from 6-9pm (see HERE). If you are in the Pacific Northwest, please come check it out!
Justseeds show in DC
Posted January 29, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
I just got some photos of the Justeeds (and friends) exhibition at the Hillyer Art Space in DC, and notice that the closing party is TONIGHT! A closing party for the Justseeds show and a fundraiser for Mountain Justice organizing at Hillyer Art Space from 7-11, Friday Feb. 29th.
"Join us for an evening of multimedia resistance featuring Appalachian Old Time music with "Here's to the Long Haul" and a screening of the film "Mountain Top Removal".
Also Featuring:
*A new limited edition screen print by DECOY
*New photo works by Emma Cassidy and Chris Eichler
*Anti-Mountain Top Removal artwork and design by RVLTN
$5 admission, FREE for those attending Funk the Warming! Proceeds will benefit Mountain Justice and Hillyer Art Space's local art programming. Look HERE.
What is a Trade: Donald Fels and Signboard Painters of South India
Posted January 28, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
Vanessa Renwick sent along info about this interesting looking show up in Portland right now:
What is a Trade: Donald Fels and Signboard Painters of South India
Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR
January 21 to March 14
gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11am to 4pm
Jim Finn at MoMA
Posted January 18, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
One of my favorite filmmakers Jim Finn is a having a screening at MoMA on Feb. 1st. Jim's films are an amazing, crazy mash ups of communism, sci-fi, wacky humor, and oddball performances, and well worth seeing. MoMA is showing his most recent feature, The Juche Idea, plus a number of shorts. A short clip from The Juche Idea can be seen on Jim's website HERE.
An Evening with Jim Finn
Monday, February 1, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2)
Justseeds at Historical Materialism
Posted January 14, 2010 by molly_fair in Events
If you are going to the Historical Materialism conference in NYC this weekend, stop by the Justseeds table and say hi!
Josh MacPhee at RISD this Thursday
Posted January 13, 2010 by jmacphee in Events
I'm giving a talk at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) tomorrow night, so if you're in Providence, come say "hello!"
Justseeds, Street Art, and Social Movements
A talk by Josh MacPhee
Office of Student Life Leadership Speaker Series
Tap Room of RISD's Memorial Hall
226 Benefit Street, Providence
Thursday, January 14th
7pm
A Night of Queer Women of Color Performance
Posted January 12, 2010 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
Mark your calendars and come support La RED Xicana Indigena's organizing! This organization is one that I have recently started working with. It should be a great night.
Saturday, January 30, 2010 -8 pm (doors open at 7:30pm)
LA RED XICANA INDÍGENA presents A NIGHT OF QUEER WOMEN OF COLOR PERFORMANCE
Poesía • Teatro • Comedy • Music • Artesanía De Oaxaca • Comida • Books • Posters For Sale!
Also music by:
LAS BOMBERAS DE LA BAHIA | SoliRose
ADELINA ANTHONY, performing “Zen Ranchera” and excerpts from “La Chismosa” (directed by D'Lo)
CHERRÍE MORAGA, reading from new works, including an excerpt from her play,“Who Killed Yolanda Salívar,” with Anthony performing with Moraga
Multicultural Community Center, Martin Luther King Student Union, UC-Berkeley (corner of Bancroft & Telegraph) Suggested donation: $10 - $25 or more.
For more information, contact Elisa Huerta at UC Berkeley Multicultural Center 510-642-6528 or elisahuerta@berkeley.edu
Tax Deductible Donations can be made to:
CNQI (Cetliliztli Nauhcampa Quetxalcoatl in Ixachitlan), earmarked "La Red."
La RED Xicana Indígena, which originated in 1997, is a network of Xicanas Indígenas who are actively involved in political, educational and cultural work that serves to raise indigenous consciousness among our communities and supports the social justice struggles of people of indigenous origins of this continent North and South, especially the human and civil rights campaign of undocumented migrant peoples and their children in the U.S.
All Shook Up: Jef Aerosol
Posted January 10, 2010 by jmacphee in Street Art & Graffiti
For all the street art and stencil fans in Brooklyn, this show seems like one not to miss:
All Shook Up: Jef Aerosol
January 29 - February 21, 2010
Opening Reception - Friday, January 29, 2010, 6-10pm
Ad Hoc Art
43 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, New York 11206
(via subway take the L Train to Morgan Avenue Station)
Ad Hoc Art presents international stencil master Jef Aerosol in New York City for All Shook Up, a stunning show of cultural icons by one of the old school European street stencil artists. The show features brand new stenciled works as well as classic pieces on paper, wood, and found objects. A true originator who helped spark what is now known as “Street Art” when he sprayed his first stencil series across the city of Tours, France one night in 1982. The self-taught Aerosol has continuously rocked the streets with his oversized portraits and helped define a new public art nomenclature with other French artists like Blek Le Rat, Miss Tic, and Speedy Graphito.
Justseeds: Paper Politics for a New Decade
Posted January 8, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Opening Tonight!!!!
Justseeds: Paper Politics for a New Decade
Hillyer Art Space at International Arts & Artists
9 Hillyer Court NW
Washington, DC, 20008
Exhibition Dates: January 8 - January 30
First Friday Reception: Friday, January 8, 2010, 6-9PM
Live music by experimental trio Vodka and Donuts!
Food and refreshments will be served
$5 suggested donation
The Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to collaborate, sell their work online in a central location and support social movements. Utilizing print and poster making techniques to address a variety of social and environmental justice issues, collective mates work together over many miles to create, resist, and bring meaningful artwork to the masses for affordable prices. These artists believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society. Featuring works by Justseeds artists and fellow political printers, including: Santiago Armengod, Jesus Barraza, Graham Boyle, Melanie Cervantes, DC51 Collective, Alec Icky Dunn, Thea Gahr, Sabeth Jackson, Nicolas Lampert, Josh MacPhee, Colin Matthes, Cesar Maxit, Dylan Miner, Roger Peet, Jesse Purcell, Favianna Rodriguez, Erik Ruin, Beth Schaible, Chris Stain, Meredith Stern, SWOON, Mary Tremonte, Kristine Virsis, Pete Yahnke, and Bec Young.
Excerpts from Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now
Posted January 8, 2010 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
171 Cedar Arts Center presents a selection from Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now.
Houghton Gallery at the 171 Cedar Arts Center
155 & 171 Cedar Street, Corning NY
Jan 8 - Feb 5, 2010
Reception: Friday Jan 8th, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
In conjunction with a celebration to honor Martin Luther King, the exhibition at 171 Cedar Arts Center focuses on the cultures created by during the Civil Rights Movement in America and the fights for freedom that were waged by oppressed people globally. (This exhibition consists of reprinted materials from a small portion of Signs of Change.)
In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee and originating from Exit Art in New York City, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.
Printmaking Workshop by Colectivo Cordyceps. Mexico City
Posted January 4, 2010 by santi in Events
Printmaking Workshop.
Friday the 8th through Sunday the 10th of January
5pm to 8pm.
Update on the 5th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk To Remember Cyclists and Pedestrians Lost on NYC Streets
Posted January 2, 2010 by k_c_ in Art & Politics
The (NYC) Street Memorial Project has decided, despite a forecast of very cold and windy tomorrow(Sunday, Jan 3), we are going to go ahead with the memorial ride tomorrow.But we are encouraging people to do what they think they can do given the weather and there will be someone riding each leg of the ride, but we are essentially canceling the Harlem portion of the ride (though the ride leader will be there to ride down with anyone who shows up).
We are especially encouraging people to come to the 3pm Grand Army Plaza meet up, which will be the shortest portion during the warmest part of the day and which will end at a warm spot with warm food and drink.
...spread the word that people should meet us at any of the later meet-ups and remove or cross out the first meet-up and memorial from your blogs, schedules...
Other meetups are:
11am Central Park West and 7th Ave
11:30 Queensboro Bridge, Queens
3:00 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
4:45 Milton and Manhattan Aves, Brooklyn
full schedule is at streetmemorials.org
(redirected from ghostbikes.org, which is down)
Graphic Roots of Revolution
Posted December 19, 2009 by jmacphee in Art & Politics
Favianna is over in Rome right now with the new Yo! What Happened to Peace? show, Graphic Roots of Revolution. There's more info HERE.
Justseeds Print Show and Paper Politics Book Release-NYC
Posted December 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
In case you're not on Facebook(contributing to the demise of flyer and poster promotion) the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is having an art show and book release party for Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today- featuring political prints by over 200 international artists, edited by artist/activist Josh MacPhee. The event will be today 8-11pm
at Book Thug Nation
100 N.3rd St.
Brooklyn, NY
There will be new work by the Justseeds artists on display and for sale, free snacks and drinks.
So come out, wish us a happy solstice, congratulate Josh on another book, meet Icky who's visiting from PDX, buy all your holiday gifts, and check out the Book Thug Nation space so you know where to sell/buy your used books!
FIESTA DE LA SANTÍSIMA VIRGEN DE LAS BARRICADAS
Posted December 17, 2009 by santi in Events
Fiesta de la santisima virgen de las barricadas. 10 years of Subleva®te Colectivo
Dance & Resist!
Posted December 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
DANCE & RESIST!
Art Auction and Dance Party
Friday December 18th
7pm @ Brillobox 4104 Penn Ave
In support of G20 Legal Defense, assisting arrestees in covering their legal fees
Art Auction 7pm-10pm
donating artists to date:
Alberto Almarza, Jen Cooney, Magali Duzant, Deren Guler, Horsie, Rev. Jason Jones, Ben Kehoe, Amos Levy, Caldwell Linkerbelle, Chris Lisowski, Josh MacPhee, Maria Mangano, Teresa Martuccio, Nathan Mould, Jillian Nintze, Jenn Pascoe, Stefan Pilipa, Jae Ruberto, Shaun Slifer, Eric Stern, Hannah Thompson, Mary Tremonte, Heidi Tucker, Heather White, Bec Young.
DANCE PARTY TIME! 10pm-2am
$3 at the door (or more if you can spare it!)
DJs PANDEMIC'S Pete & Spat and 90's NIGHT'S Jenny Jihad & Sean MC
Red Emma's Red & Black Ball
Posted December 15, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
For those in Baltimore and surrounding environs, party with Red Emma's!!:
Celebrate Five Years of Red Emma's at the Red & Black Ball!
December 19, 2009:
7:30PM - 11PM
2640 Saint Paul Street
That's right my fellow mischief-makers: the Red Emma's Red and Black Ball returns again this year on December 19! Join the Red Emma's collective as we celebrate the traditional anarchist gift-giving season with an all-out, over-the-top evening of revelry in your Victorian-era red and black finest! Think Victorian-era dances, parlour games, phrenology, and, of course, spirits to warm your body and soul. Think renaissance festival dress gone anarchist. Think steampunk. Think Alan Moore (V for Vendetta). Live and DJ'd music throughout the evening, as well as performances, games, "etiquette" lessons, phrenology, and more, led by our very own Master of Ceremonies, Ryan Coffman, with the help of a variety of Baltimore favorites! Plus ... freakin' amazing vegan cake. And booze. Pull out that fancy dress you picked up at a thrift store; borrow your brother's tuxedo! Make a mask, or grab one at the door! This is the holiday party you don't want to miss ... come out and celebrate with us!
It all takes place at 2640 Saint Paul Street, December 19, starting at 7:30PM. Tickets are $10-$15 sliding scale, and include food and a free drink. Masks provided for those who need them. Proper attire is NOT required, but isn't it more fun to cobble a costume together? Email info@redemmas.org for more info ... this event is all-ages, and no one turned away for lack of funds.
Justseeds at Handmade Arcade Pittsburgh
Posted December 11, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
(old pic of justseeds & ally reeves at NCOR 2008)
Justseeds Pittsburgh will be at the Handmade Arcade this Saturday December 12th 11am-8pm at the Hunt Armory.
Come do some radical holiday shopping! Or just say hi and snag a sticker & a sip from our thermos.
Go DJ Go! Workshop for Teens
Posted December 10, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
FREE DJ workshop for teens!
Friday December 11th
5:00-7:00pm
Young Men & Women's African Heritage Association
1200 Boyle Street, Northside
For more information, read on...
TONIGHT! Stumptown 10 Year Anniversary Party!
Posted December 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Stumptown Printers Celebrates Ten Years of Ink & Iron!
The Local Shop That Went Worldwide Declares: PRINT'S NOT DEAD!
Stumptown Printers 10th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday, Dec 10th, 8pm
Holocene
1001 se morrison
portland, oregon 97214
Stumptown Printers works primarily with independent musicians and small record labels. This show features Northwest artists who have worked with the shop to craft paper-and-ink complements to their own quirky musical visions: Norfolk & Western, a defiantly unclassifiable crossbreed of spooky folk and sawtoothed indie rock; LAKE, echoey, orchestral pop; Karl Blau, spacey, genre-annihilating singer/songwriter; Ilyas Ahmed, "Free-flowing, mind-bending folk-infused mantras"; Foghorn Duo, heart-wrenchin', whiskey-swillin' Old Time; and DJ Hometapes, selections by the braintrust of the local record label. Catering by Voodoo Doughnuts! Plus printed ephemera giveaways from Stumptown Printers!
Bushwick Print Lab Grand Opening
Posted December 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A long time friend of Justseeds, and former co-director of Ad Hoc Art, Ray Cross has just opened up his new spot, the Bushwick Print Lab!:
Bushwick Print Lab
Grand Opening and Holiday Print Sale Spectacular
Thursday, December 17
6:00 PM to Midnight
1717 Troutman Street #203 - 204
Queens NY, 11385
(3 blocks form the Jefferson L stop and just across the Queens line in Ridgewood)
Bushwick Print Lab, a new community silkscreen space in Bushwick/Ridgewood, is excited to announce our Grand Opening and is hosting an affordable print sale for the holidays. The Bushwick Print Lab is a new rental space dedicated to offering film printing, screen-making, shelf and locker storage, and hourly and monthly shop rentals to artists, printmakers and designers who are seeking a professional and well equip lab to create work in silkscreen on paper and apparel. BPL has affordable rates and will offer classes and production assistance for contemporary artists using the versatile medium of silkscreen. We are dedicated to creating increased accessibility to printmaking for artists of all media and the advancement the art of silkscreen printing.
Daniel McGowen Art Auction
Posted December 9, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our friend Daniel is still locked up in Federal prison, and he needs your help! If you are in NYC, please come out this weekend and buy some art! More info about Daniel can be found HERE.
Art Auction to Benefit Imprisoned New York City Social Justice & Environmental Activist Daniel McGowan
On December 7, 2005, New York City activist Daniel McGowan was among the first people arrested as part of an FBI offensive against environmental activists called "Operation Backfire", which activists have dubbed part of the Green Scare (after the Red Scare of the 40s and 50s). Daniel began serving his seven-year sentence in July 2007. In August 2008, Daniel was moved to the Communication Management Unit (CMU) in Marion, IL, a federal prison unit that bypassed the usual review process and severely restricts inmates' communication with the outside world.
To mark the four-year anniversary of Daniel's arrest, and to highlight the continued repression of activists that the federal government has labeled "terrorists," Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan will be hosting an art show, auction and raffle this December. Proceeds will go to Daniel's commissary account and a number of his favorite environmental and social justice organizations.
WHO: Presented by Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan along with popular street artists; political printmakers; and renowned graphic designers.
WHAT: Art Show and Auction featuring artists such as SWOON; Nikki McClure; Justseeds Artist Cooperative members such as Josh MacPhee and Kevin Caplicki; BORF and many more.
WHEN: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 1-9pm. Reception: 7-9pm
WHERE: ADC Gallery, 106 West 29th Street, Ground Floor, NYC
Amilcar Cabral!
Posted December 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Tonight the African Diaspora Film Fest in NYC is showing a hard to see documentary about 1960s/70s African revolutionary Amilcar Cabral (which is playing with a doc about Frantz Fanon as well!). It's rare to be able to see any footage of or about Cabral, so this is a rare treat. Cabral's book Return to the Source contains a number of interesting essays exploring the connections between African liberation (particularly in his native Guinea Bissou) and culture. Details about the film and screening are HERE.
(The image is by Beth Gutelius, from Reproduce & Revolt, and as printed on a t-shirt by Liberation Ink, still available HERE.)
activism3cream in Tokyo
Posted December 5, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our friends at Irregular Rhythm Asylum in Tokyo have mounted an art show/installation/social movement archive/hang out space called activism3cream, which based on all the photos (see HERE) is awesome. Hidden in there is some Justseeds work.
ABC no Rio Clothesline Benefit Art Sale
Posted December 3, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
ABC No Rio, the Lower East Side gallery and arts center, is planning another Clothesline Benefit Art Sales to raise money for their Building Fund. The event will take place
December 10-11th
156 Rivington St
LES, NY
ABC No Rio is a center for the arts on the Lower East Side, founded by artists committed to an actively engaged culture and a vision of expanded possibilities for our lives, our neighborhoods, our cities and our society.
They are asking artists who support ABC No Rio to participate by donating work. Work should be no larger than 11" X 17", and limited to two works per artist. All work will be presented on clotheslines strung through No Rio's gallery space, and should be unframed, two-dimensional work.
The Clothesline Benefits prices are set at either $25 or $50, depending on the size and complexity of the work, and to be decided by you.
Work can be delivered on December 8th or 9th, between 7:00 and
9:00pm, or you can mail work to:
Clothesline Benefit ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street New York, NY 10002
Your participation and support is crucial and important to ABC No
Rio. Please freely forward this request to friends and fellow
artists. Announcements and invitations for the Clothesline Benefit
will be sent to all participating artists. Please invite your
friends, colleagues and collaborators!
Howardena Pindell on KARA WALKER - NO / YES / ?
Posted December 2, 2009 by jmacphee in Art & Politics
Philly correspondent Theodore A. Harris just sent this along, an great looking event this weekend in Brooklyn:
Howardena Pindell on KARA WALKER - NO / YES / ?
Sat. December 4th
2-4pm
MoCADA
80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, NY
Professor, artist and activist Howardena Pindell has created a new anthology. Kara Walker-No, Kara Walker-Yes, Kara Walker-? is a collection of essays written by other contemporary artists, educators, writers and poets discussing controversial artist Kara Walker. Whether you agree with Pindell or not, or whether Walker's silhouettes appeal to you or not, this book will certainly begin a
conversation about visual culture in the Black community. The talk features a number of authors and artists including Theodore A. Harris, Ben Jones and Rashida Ishmali.
collage image by Theodore A. Harris.
Filthy Lucre extended
Posted December 2, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
My friend Sam Sebren has a piece in the Filthy Lucre show at Gallery Aferro in Newark, which has just been extended for a week and now has a closing potluck on December 12th from 4-8pm. Sam will be holding "The Great Zombie Consumer Eradication Project" on that day, painting a giant 15 foot mural with everyone that wants to participate. Check it out HERE!
photo by Merle Becker
Benefit Dinner for CACITA and a Hudson Valley Radio Station
Posted December 2, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Come to a benefit dinner to support the work of a group of folks in the Hudson Valley who are seeking a license for the first Spanish-language community radio station in the region. As well as CACITA (autonomous center for the intercultural creation of appropriate techonologies- Oaxaca, Mexico). Both of these projects are vibrant and vital to the places in which they reside. Details on these groups below.
Saturday December 5, 7:30pm
10 Lefferts Place, BKLYN
Sliding Scale$10-20
There will be food! Delicious pozole and more! Cheap coronas and margaritas! There will also be live music by Nicaraguan guitarist Juan Basilio-Sanchez, as well as some people from the radio station to talk about their project, and a short film on the work that CACITA is doing in Oaxaca.
Sound good? Great, invite your friends and please RSVP.
Saludos!
Escribo para invitarles a una cena deliciosa y beneficial. Recaudemos
fondos para dos projectos: CACITA (El Centro Autonomo para La
Creacion Intercultural de Technologias Apropiadas) y tambien para
apoyar un grupo de gente en el Valle Hudson de Nueva York que esta
pidiendo una licencia para la primera estacion de radio en espanol de
la region. Los dos proyectos estan bien importantes en sus propias
comunidades, y usted puede apoyarlos solo por beber y tomar, que
suerte tiene! Hay mas informacion de los dos proyectos abajo.
WORK PROGRESS: Dill Pickle Club benefit this Thursday Dec 3rd.
Posted December 1, 2009 by pete in Art & Politics
If you are in Portland this Thursday Dec 3rd be sure to stop by this show. Alec Icky Dunn and Pete Yahnke from Justseeds both have some work in this benefit show. Here are the details from the Dill Pickle Club:
Join us at the Eyeful Gallery (NW 6th & Everett) Thursday, December 3 at 6PM, during the First Thursday art walk for the opening of WORK | PROGRESS, an art show, pop up bookshop and event series to benefit the Dill Pickle Club. Cape Perpetua and Niekrasz/ Jenkins Duet (of Why I Must Be Careful) provide live music, while Ninkasi Brewing generously serves libations.
WORK | PROGRESS features 24 socially-engaged artists creating replicated works, including:
Icky A, Brad Adkins, Moe Bowstern, Carye Bye, Bill Daniel, Dyslexxis, Harrell Fletcher, Sarah Gottesdiener, Sam Gould, Anna Gray, MK Guth, Ariana Jacob, Kendra Larson, Ian Lynam, Eric Mast, Justin Scrappers Morrison, Michael Parich, Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Brittany Powell, Khris Soden, Bwana Spoons, Matthew Stadler, Nim Wunnan, Pete Yahnke
Justseeds Gettin' Crafty
Posted November 27, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
justseeds at expozine montreal
mary & buddy at handmade arcade 2006
Justseeds will be reppin the radical themes at a plethora of holiday craft fairs over the next few weeks...come find us, get prints directly from the artists, save on shipping, and meet us! In Pittsburgh at least we'll have some special items you can't get on the Justseeds site, like peace dove t-shirts & squirrel pillows. In Montreal, the sale is at 100-Sided Die, a studio shared by 23 artists / crafters / musicians and weirdos including Jesse Purcell. There will be a huge collection of Justseeds work for sale there as well.
MILWAUKEE
Art Vs. Craft
Saturday November 28th
10am-7pm
Scottish Masonic Rite Center
790 N Van Buren Street
www.artvscraftmke.com
MONTREAL
100 Sided Die Monthly Open House / Art Sale
Saturday November 28th
1:25-6:25pm
5334 de Gaspe 12th floor rm.1202
PITTSBURGH
Handmade Arcade
Saturday December 12th
11am-8pm
Hunt Armory
324 Emerson St., Shadyside
www.handmadearcade.com
PORTLAND
Crafty Wonderland
Sunday December 13th
11am-7pm
at the Oregon Convention Center
777 NE MLK Jr. Blvd, Exhibit Hall D
www.craftywonderland.com
Also if you are in Brooklyn, keep an eye out on Bedford Ave, for our man Kevin C., hawkin prints to the hip & radical at heart
Art vs Craft - Milwaukee
Posted November 24, 2009 by colin_matthes in Events
If in Milwaukee come visit Justseeds at Art vs Craft on Saturday: One stop shopping if your list includes Celebrate peoples history posters, sock monkeys, beer soap, and a hand knit sweater for a small creature.
Milwaukee Zine Fest
Posted November 17, 2009 by colin_matthes in Events
Here are a few images from Milwaukee Zine fest. It was a great success a lot of fun in a great location. Thanks organizers.
A shot of the Polish Falcon beerhall where the zine fest was held, notice the justseeds table in the foreground.
Justseeds Presentation at Black Sheep Books, Montpelier, VT
Posted November 16, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Tonight! I'll be giving a presentation about Justseeds and the Voices From Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex.
Monday, November 16, 7pm
at Black Sheep Books
5 State St
Montpelier, VT
In 2006, Justseeds a radical art distributor transitioned from a project run by its founder to a cooperatively run business and collective committed to creating and distributing socially engaged artwork. Over the last three years Justseeds has produced posters, calendars, print portfolios, exhibits, books, and collective installations tackling numerous contemporary themes and celebrating radical history.Come join member Kevin Caplicki for a presentation on
the trajectory of the artist-owned and run Justseeds
Cooperative and an exhibition of "Voices From Outside:
Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex",
Justseeds portfolio project 2008.
Lucy Parsons Center Anniversary
Posted November 15, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
It's the 40th Anniversary of the Lucy Parsons Center! It's a reunion, an anniversary, a celebration, a party! Please come help us celebrate! Without you we wouldn't have been able to exist for 40 years!
The Lucy Parsons Center (formerly The Red Book Store) is Boston's only independent, non-profit, volunteer-run radical bookstore and community space.
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 7pm 'til midnight
Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., Boston
There will be an Open Mic and DJ's: Fast Eddy, DJ Philomina and more. Also some snacks and drinks, (including beer courtesy of Sam Adams). Bring your talents, stories, memorabilia and photos to share. See old faces and meet new friends. This is a free event, open to the public. Donations are welcome and we will also be signing up for monthly donors. For more info, please visit us at 549 Columbus Ave. in Boston's South End or lucyparsons.org
No Business As Usual
Posted November 14, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The University of California students, faculty, and staff are calling for a system wide strike on Nov. 18th. Check it out HERE.
NO BUSINESS AS USUAL: A CALL FOR A SYSTEM-WIDE STRIKEIn solidarity with students, faculty, and staff
In defense of public education in California
We call for a massive, system-wide student and teaching strike beginning November 18th
Justseeds Tabling at Expozine, Montreal
Posted November 13, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds members will be tabling at Expozine 2009, Montreal's Annual Small Press, Comic and Zine Fair
Saturday, November 14 & Sunday, November 15, 2009, from 12-6 p.m. at
5035 St-Dominique
(Église Saint-Enfant Jésus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Métro)
Free admission
This incredible event brings together nearly 300 creators of all kinds of printed matter – from books to zines to posters and graphic novels – in both English and French. Over the past seven editions, Expozine has grown to become one of North America's largest small press fairs, attracting thousands of visitors as well as exhibitors from across Canada, the United States and Europe.
Milwaukee Zine Fest - Tomorrow (nov 14)
Posted November 13, 2009 by colin_matthes in Events
Come visit Justseeds at the Milwaukee Zine Fest tomorrow. (Saturday, nov 14 - 11am - 6pm) Also there will be Microcosm Publishing, World War 3 Illustrated, and many others.
We will be at the Polish Falcon Beer Hall / Bowling Alley, one of my favorite places in Milwaukee.
Become the Bike Bloc
Posted November 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Art & Politics
Put the fun between your legs: Become the Bike Bloc
Bristol and Copenhagen Nov – Dec 09
An irresistible new machine of resistance will be launched during the COP15 UN summit protests in Copenhagen. Made from hundreds of old bicycles and thousands of activists' bodies 'Put the fun between your legs: Operation Bike Bloc' is a collaboration between Climate Camp and art activist collective The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
Bristol Radical History Group in NYC Nov 12-15th
Posted November 12, 2009 by k_c_ in Art & Politics
Some old English comrades, a few I met in Mexico over 8 years ago, are in NYC giving some presentations on the Bristol Radical History Group, a project they've been doing since 2006:
The 'History Workshop' movement was founded in 1966 in Ruskin College, Oxford, U.K. by the Marxist academic Raphael Samuel, a champion of 'history from below.' He famously defined this movement as being "the belief that history is or ought to be a collaborative enterprise, one in which the researcher, the archivist, the curator and the teacher, the 'do-it-yourself' enthusiast and the local historian, the family history societies and the individual archaeologist, should all be regarded as equally engaged."In 2006 in the U.K., Bristol Radical History Group was formed with a view opening up some of the hidden history of their home city to public scrutiny, to challenge some commonly held ideas about historical events and approach this history from 'below'. Unlike Samuel's 'History Workshop,' the group actually came 'from below' its genesis being in an expanded sports club rather than in the academy. As a result it has been able to successfully integrate both the formal lecture with street performance, the organic intellectual with the academic and engage the public in the excitement of radical history by the use of different media.
The Internet as Playground and Factory
Posted November 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our NYC readers might be interested in this conference coming up this week:
The Internet as Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor
Thursday, November 12, through Saturday, November 14, 2009
The New School, 66 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street, New York City
veralistcenter.org | digitallabor.org
This conference confronts the urgent need to interrogate the concepts of labor and value in the digital economy and seeks to inspire proposals for action. There are currently few adequate definitions of labor that fit the complex, hybrid realities of the digital economy. The Internet as Playground and Factory poses a series of questions about the conundrums surrounding labor (and often the labor of love) in relation to our digital present. It is the first in a series of biennial conferences titled The Politics of Digital Media.
365 & Counting
Posted November 8, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
An interesting looking show opening in Los Angeles:
365 & Counting
A group exhibit that examines the 1st year of the Obama Administration.
Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park, CA
Artist's Reception: Sat. Nov. 14, 2009, 7-10 p.m.
Avenue 50 Studio asked 15 artists to create artworks that provide insight into the first year of the Obama Administration. Issues of race, class, war, health care, the enrivronment and the economy, plus other global challenges - are explored in this timely exhibition. Given the escalating war in Afghanistan, Vallen painted a glimpse of Obama's Guantánamo - the notorious U.S. military prison at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. The prison holds more than 600 detainees designated as "unlawful enemy combatants"; individuals that in some cases have been held for years without charge, legal representation, or due-process rights. In February of 2009, the Obama administration began a $60 million expansion of the Bagram prison so that it could potentially hold as many as 1,100 suspects.
McClure's Revive in SF
Posted November 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Revive
an exhibition of new works by Nikki McClure
Needles & Pens
3253 16th Street, San Francisco, Ca. 94103
Friday, November 6, 2009, 6:00 - 9:30 PM
On display will be a collection of original paper cuts from the Olympia-based artist's 2010 Calendar and from her latest children's book, "All In A Day."
DISCOrderly Conduct
Posted November 5, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
I am DJing another G20 Legal Fund benefit---this one in a happy hour timeframe...
Those RAVENSTAHLIN posters from DJ Thermos as well as a new BASH BACK print from me will be available for purchase!
DISCOrderly Conduct
G-20 Legal Fund Benefit Dance Party
DJ Mary Mack
DJ Thermos
Thursday, November 5
Shadow Lounge
6-9pm
$5
Live it up, boogie down, support the arrestees!
Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture
Posted November 5, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture
Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces
New York, November 12-21, 2009
Gair Building No 6, 81 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (York Stop on
the F Train)
The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the real estate and financial market, these neoliberal politics and attendant forms of production of space have been subject
to a loss of legitimation. For this reason, not only do the dominance and promises of the privatization model, the free market and private property have to be questioned, but also the conventions of the space-producing professions that follow and materialize these policies.
Books Through Bars Bingo Night
Posted November 4, 2009 by molly_fair in Events
Join Books Through Bars NYC for a night of bingo, beats, and booze so we can
keep sending free books to incarcerated folks! Featuring prizes from
Babeland, BAM, Film Forum, NY Adorned... and many more!
Friday November 6, 2009
8pm
ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St., NYC
All Ages/ 21 to drink// Free to enter, $1 to play
Books Through Bars is a volunteer collective that sends free literature to
incarcerated people.
Freedom Dance Party
Posted November 1, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Freedom Dance Party
Fundraiser for the Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign (SAFC)
Saturday, Nov. 14th, 7pm to 11pm
MartinLuther King, Jr. Labor Center, 1199 SEIU
310 W. 43rd St., btw. 8th & 9th Aves
New York, NY 10036
$20 admission,food & beverages for purchase
From the announcement:
On Saturday, November 14th, we will dance and celebrate at Freedom Dance. This celebration is an opportunity for us as a community to acknowledge our victories and renew our efforts to continue this essential work. We celebrate the liberation and freedom of our sister Assata Shakur, who along with many other Political Prisoners (who still remain behind the walls) set the example of unselfish sacrifice for our beloved people. We also celebrate the sacrifice of those freedom fighters whose spirits were released due to their physical demise. This is a celebration for them all. We will especially honor Sundiata Acoli. Through music and the warm meaningful collective interaction of dance and laughter, we will reaffirm our commitment to their freedom.
Zine Reading at the Library
Posted October 28, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
above: collating artnoose's zine ker-bloom
I am doing a zine reading at the Carnegie Public Library on Thursday October 29th with awesome cohorts Leanne O'Connor (New to Everything zine), Artnoose (Ker-bloom zine) and Hannah Bean (Fat Snakes Are Patient zine). I will hopefully have my one-pager and the other ladies will have new zines to share. There might be treats. There will totes def be a zine-reading open mic without a mic after we read. Come enjoy sweet zine culture!
ZINE READING
Thursday, October 29th
6pm-8pm
Carnegie Library Main Branch (Oakland)
Classroom A
free, all ages
CRUCIAL BEATZ - G20 legal fund benefit
Posted October 16, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
My buddy Deanna & I are starting a new monthly danceparty at Remedy in Pittsburgh. Each month will tend to be a benefit, this kickoff party benefits the G20 Legal Fund, for those arrested during the G20 protests in Pittsburgh last month.
Come out and shake it!
Saturday October 17th
10pm-2am
CRUCIAL BEATZ
a party for everyone
*positive vibes * no haterz *
DJ's DROP THAT * MARY MACK * SPECIAL GUEST DJ BUS CRATES
remedy 5121 butler st 2nd& 3rd floor
no smoking on the dancefloor
$3 (extra donations accepted, no one turned away for lack of fundz)
Filthy Lucre
Posted October 14, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
My friend Sam Sebren is in this show, looks promising:
Filthy Lucre
Curated by Nancy Mahl of Progressive Culture Works
October 24 - December 5, 2009
Opening Reception, with performance, October 24, 7-10 PM
Panel Discussion and Screening: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Gallery Aferro
73 Market St Newark NJ 07102
What is Art Without Money?
Filthy Lucre examines the transformative power of valuation upon art and the people who make it. The artists, performers, and writers participating in the project have investigated the definitions and functions of art as a commodity and queried the practice of artmaking from inside and outside the realm of monetary exchange. The work, from the purely theoretical to the frankly hilarious, is by artists representing a broad spectrum of age, background, education, and commercial success. Particular focus is brought to unsalable art and what becomes of it, the effects of commercial success on artmaking practice, the spiritual function of art, defining the consumer of art, the difference between precious and valuable, the economic element in definitions of high, outsider, and folk art; and the ever-fraught relationship of artist and patron.
Debating Capitalists' Power in the Age of Obama: Strategies for a U.S. Left
Posted October 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
For those in NYC, I got roped into being a "questioner" for this upcoming debate on Thursday (Oct. 15th). I really have no idea what to expect, but it should be interesting:
Left Forum presents "Debating Capitalists' Power in the Age of Obama: Strategies for a U.S. Left."
* Debaters: Cindy Milstein, Stanley Aronowitz, and Tom Hayden.
* Debate questions: posed by a panel including David Harvey (author of Limits to Capital); Maria Svart (union organizer and chair of the NYC local of Democratic Socialists of America); and Josh MacPhee (artist, curator, and part of the political art cooperative Justseeds.org).
* Moderator: Esther Armah (host, WBAI's "Wake Up Call")
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
The Community Church of New York
40 E. 35th St. near Park Ave.
Justseeds at North of Nowhere
Posted October 12, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The Justseeds Prison Portfolio will be on display at this years North of Nowhere Festival in Edmonton, Canada! We'll be sharing the exhibition space with our friends from the Beehive Collective, who will also be on hand discussing their work. Check out all the info at the North of Nowhere Fest website HERE.
CSPG Celebrates 20 Years of Explosive Graphics
Posted October 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
I've always wanted to go to one of these CSPG annual events, but am never in LA at the right time. If you're in LA check this out and let us know how it went!!
CSPG Celebrates 20 Years of Explosive Graphics
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Union Station
800 North Alameda
Downtown L.A.
6:30 PM - Music & Silent Auction
Original art, vintage & contemporary posters
Music: Marcus L. Miller with Freedom Jazz Movement
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Buffet Dinner
On Location Catering
8:00 PM Program & Live Auction
Emcee: Sandra Tsing Loh
Auctioneer: Robert Berman
Elizabeth Catlett Show in Syracuse
Posted October 2, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Missed the opening, but there's a big Elizabeth Catlett show in Syracuse! If you're in the area:
INTERVIEW: Taylor Stevenson of Red Semilla Roja
Posted September 30, 2009 by icky in Interviews
The Esplanade is a narrow strip of land that lies between the Willamette River and Interstate 5 in Portland (OR). In 2001 the City of Portland remodeled this into a riverfront parkway, with some public art, a partially-floating bike/jog path, and some new boat docks. This area (near rail lines, social services, and with plenty of bridges and overpasses) has also been a long time spot for homeless camps, car campers, train hoppers, and also (of course) skate boarders & graffiti.
I put up a blog posting a couple weeks ago about a public art install, Live Debris, which occurred in this area. It was organized by the group Red Semilla Roja, and one in "a series of international events sharing reuse traditions as a means of reducing stigmas around garbage, poverty and street culture."
I went down late on a Saturday, added some art to the wheat paste wall, sat on a woven-from-garbage hammock, and looked out over the river. I then wandered back down the Esplanade and checked out all the different projects that were part of Live Debris. I was impressed and inspired by the project and interviewed Taylor Stevenson from Red Semilla Roja for the Justseeds blog via email on September 25th, 2009.
(photos taken from Live Debris website)
Dirty Pilot "Year One" Booksigning with Chris Stain & others
Posted September 30, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
DirtyPilot.com “Year One Rewind” Book Signing
Artists signing include Chris “DAZE” Ellis, PaperMonster, Chris Stain and Cern YMI at the Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair.
Dirtypilot.com Year 1 Rewind presents the work of 15 of the artists that Dirtypilot.com has showcased in its monthly online exhibitions during its inaugural year, beginning in May 2007. These works embrace a range of movements from graffiti, street and urban art to pop and and outsider art. Rendered in mediums, from spray paint, oil, acrylic, water color and mixed media, to simple pen and ink, graphic, silkscreen and other transfer methods
Friday Oct. 2nd 2-4pm P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Ave Long Island City, NY SCB ART BOOK COLLECTION – Booth Z-01
Open to the public.
Found this announcement at What You Write
ArtCrank opens Thursday
Posted September 29, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
ArtCrank Portland! A poster party for bicycle people!
ArtCrankPortland is set for Thursday, Oct 1 at the ACE Hotel. This will be opening night for the Oregon Manifest Bike Expo. Admission is free, and all posters are $30.
Also note that $5 from the sale of each poster will be donated to Bikes to Rwanda.
Oct 15th Resistance week
Posted September 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
I blogged a poster a couple days back by Jared Davidson in New Zealand for an exhibition of "Explosive Expression." Below is the info about the actual exhibit/events:
Creative resistance against colonial and state oppression will be celebrated in Wellington with an art exhibition and auction at Thistle Hall Gallery, Cuba Street in Wellington. October 15th Solidarity invites everyone to Explosive Expression.
The opening night of the exhibition on October 13th will be followed by a week of events, which will be an opportunity for discussion and debate about the raids on Te Urewera and communities around Aotearoa, the 'war on terrorism', colonisation and resistance. The auction is also an opportunity for the community to support creative resistance and assistance with funds for people affected by the raids.
Impressions for Change
Posted September 25, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Impressions for Change:
35 Years of Political Posters from Red Sun Press
This anniversary exhibit of posters printed by Red Sun Press highlights progressive activism of the past thirty five years – focusing on peace, justice and a sustainable world.
Jamaica Plain Open Studios
September 26-27, 2009
11 am-6 pm
94 Green Street, Jamaica Plain, MA
Reception
Saturday, September 26, 6-8 pm
Justseeds at Baltimore Book Fest
Posted September 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
Erik Ruin will be representing Justseeds at the Radical Bookfair Pavilion as part of the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend. He'll be there all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so visit him and say Hello!
Radical Bookfair Pavilian
Mount Vernon Place
600 block North Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Friday Sept. 25, 12-8pm
Saturday Sept, 26, 12-8pm
Sunday Sept. 27, 12-7pm
it looks like a lot of great stuff is going on in Baltimore over the weekend, organized by the totally awesome Red Emma's crew. Check it out!!!
Other Men: Portraits of Transmen
Posted September 24, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
Ebba has been working on this project for quite a while---they sold cookies at Sappho one month to raise funds to travel and photograph transmen in other cities. A final senior photography show will be displayed at The Space Upstairs, above Construction Junction, at the cross roads of Thomas Blvd. and 214 N. Lexington St in Point Breeze. (Also only a few blocks from The East End Co-op). There will be a door person to help you with where to park, and locating the correct entrance.
It will be open Thursday and Friday, September 24-25, from 6pm-8pm.
Closing reception on Saturday, September 26, from 5pm-8pm, catered by The East End Co-op.
For any questions, directions or comments, please contact ESchmid @ Chatham.edu or 412-735-8888.
Good Mob-Pony Pedro
Posted September 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
My friends Pony Pedro in Berlin have a new show up pulled from a public postr project they recently completed in Johannesburg:
Good Mob
Is freedom part of order, or is obedience the most important virtue of every citizen? Does the mob spontaneously bond together, to demand change for its own purpose? Does change drive society? An intervention and poster project, 'Good Mob' by Pony Pedro (Berlin/Germany) and Artist Proof Studio has explored communication processes in public spaces in Johannesburg (South Africa).
Bus-Factory
3 President Street
Newtown, Johannesburg
South Africa
September 16th-30th, 2009
Bookstock Library Benefit
Posted September 22, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
As a follow-up to the Sustain Our Libraries poster I put up here last week...
BOOKSTOCK
benefit, art auction + dance party
REMEDY 5121 Butler St, Lawrenceville (x 51st Street)
Thursday, September 24th
8:30pm-1:30am
Featuring artwork, homemade wares and services for auction, live silkscreening with D.H.
crazygood lady DJs Mary Mack, Drop That, ja(m) (bo)x
video projections by Blissy
music by Dean Cercone
Renée Alberts waxing poetic
library-themed coloring books, and more!
Sliding Scale admission $5-10 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Beehive Collective in Pittsburgh
Posted September 22, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
this just in:
The Beehive Collective presents their innovative True Cost of Coal graphic—
a visual exploration of Mountaintop Removal Mining and Resistance
TWO Presentations in Pittsburgh:
Tuesday, September 22, 4:30 @ Carnegie Mellon University Quad
Thursday, September 24, Noon @ 3 Rivers Climate Camp, Schenley Park Overlook
A swarm is coming! The Beehive Design Collective, a non-profit, volunteer driven, political arts organization based in eastern Maine, is headed this way. They are out to “cross-pollinate the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that deconstruct complex global stories for use as educational and organizing tools.
Fiesta Beneficio de la Zona Autonoma Makhnovchina
Posted September 22, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Fiesta en Beneficio y de Inaguracion en la "ZONA AUTÓNOMA "MAKHNOVTCHINA"
Nuevo espacio Autonomo en la Ciudad de Mexico.
El proximo Viernes 25 de Septiembre del 2009.
9pm
Habra musica, comida, cerveza y convivencia.
La fiesta sera en la Z.A.M. que se encuentra en:
Calle Xola #181-A, casi esquina con Calz. de Tlalpan
A 2 calles de la estacion del metro Xola y a una calle del la estacion del
Metrobus Xola.
The End or Future of Capitalism
Posted September 21, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
I've been hoping for an event asking this for the last two years! The End or Future of Capitalism. I was particularly unimpressed with the sentiments of the immediate response, "save capitalism", of the participating speakers right after the bank failures, a year ago. It was a moment, I felt, the world could really daydream, but was stifled by the fact there was an metaphoric gun to our head. I am really interested in their perspectives now, unfortunately I'll be outta town.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7.30pm Proshansky Auditorium CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave & 34th StDAVID HARVEY, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography; Author of The Limits to Capital (Verso, 2007) in conversation with
ALEXANDER COCKBURN, Editor of CounterPunch and columnist for The NationModerated by LAURA FLANDERS, GRITtv
Rectl: Cabaret of Creative Resistance
Posted September 21, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
For those looking for something empowering to do during the G20 summit this week in Pittsburgh...
Revolting Enthusiastic Creators for Total Liberation! (RECTL)
A Cabaret of Creative Resistance!
September 24th Thursday 7 pm sharp!
Public Health Auditorium/Pitts Campus-Oakland
On the corner of 5th and Desota, btwn Bouquet and Atwood (with a big sculpture of a man out front with outstretched arms).
Profound Poetics! Political Satire! Uplifiting Affirmations! Serious wit!
Spoken Word! Songs! Dance! Expressions! Motivational Speakers!
RECTL PRESENTS:
—Terry Vanween and Annie Danger!
Coming from a hotbed of RECTL activity in the Bay Area, this the dynamic duo boasts inspirational Advances, high tech pronunciations and more wildly effective metaphors then you can shake a nightstick at! Come prepared for personal growth.
Spectres of Liberty at Conflux
Posted September 18, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Dara Greenwald, Olivia Robinson and I are presenting at the Conflux gathering in NYC this weekend:
Date: Saturday Sept. 19th
Start Time: 10:00am
Location: Einstein Auditorium, Rm. 105
Barney Building, New York University
34 Stuyvesant Street
A multi-media presentation with Dara Greenwald, Josh MacPhee, and Olivia Robinson about projects that intervene in public amnesia and memory. Followed by discussion.
In this session we will present documentation from several public projects that attempt to make visible histories of struggle that are submerged from public memory. The projects we will present raise important questions about the representation of both history and the present in the urban landscape, how public memories are created, how the control of public spaces reinforces dominant histories and the impact of that on the here and now.
more info HERE.
Live Debris::Street Art Event::Portland (OR)
Posted September 18, 2009 by icky in Events
Live Debris presents installations and interventions about garbage and social inclusion, from Rio de Janeiro and Portland, Oregon.
When: September 19-26, 2009. All day opening event on September 19th (schedule below), works on display until September 26th . Installations will start to be built on September 17th.
Where: Between Burnside and Hawthorne along Portland’s Eastbank Esplanade.
Live Debris 2009 is a series of international events sharing reuse traditions as a means of reducing stigmas around garbage, poverty and street culture. Live Debris has taken place in Beirut, Lebanon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and now Portland, Oregon. Exchanging and comparing world perspectives on garbage and the people who work closely with it, Live Debris explores ways that collaborative reuse can affect how we see garbage and each other. This event is organized by Taylor Cass Stevenson of red semilla roja, with help from Portland City Art, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, Outside In, Chinook Book and Oregon Electric Group.
Opening Schedule- September 19, 2009:
9am Free Breakfast. Bring a mug if you want coffee
12-1pm Trashtastic garbage-related performances
1-2pm Trash Mash-Up Parade
All Day (10am-5pm):
Clothing Exchange- bring used clothes
Sewing Station - transforming old t-shirts into bags, bring t-shirts
Interactive Garbage Weaving -bring clean trash
Public Paste-Up wall- make a contribution with paper
Public Crafting Party - bring a craft project
Link to Live Debris' website
(Pete Yahnke and I are heading down on Saturday- see you there!)
Snippets of Nuart on Brooklyn Street Art
Posted September 11, 2009 by k_c_
Theres a handful of flicks of Justseeds members, Chris Stain & Swoon with friends at the Nuart Festival. The following links are from Brooklyn Street Art It begins here, continuing here, Swoon-ing here, growing here, to here with its most current post.
(photo by Logan Hicks)
The Metropolis and Common Life
Posted September 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The Metropolis and Common Life
Michael Hardt and Neil Smith in dialogue on the themes of Commonwealth, Hardt and Negri's newest book.
Thursday, September 17th
7PM (doors at 6PM)
ABRONS ARTS CENTER
Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002
Free and open to all
Signing Afterwards
Commonwealth will be available for purchase (before its official publication date)
Sponsored by THIS IS FOREVER event and discussion series and Bluestockings Bookstore
The Metropolis and Common Life
Posted September 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The Metropolis and Common Life
Michael Hardt and Neil Smith in dialogue on the themes of Commonwealth, Hardt and Negri's newest book.
Thursday, September 17th
7PM (doors at 6PM)
ABRONS ARTS CENTER
Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002
Free and open to all
Signing Afterwards
Commonwealth will be available for purchase (before its official publication date)
Sponsored by THIS IS FOREVER event and discussion series and Bluestockings Bookstore
4th Annual Benefit Book Sale for Daniel McGowan
Posted August 27, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
Sunday August 30th, 2009 [rain date: Sunday September 13th] 11am to 8pm Bedford Avenue at North 6th Street in Brooklyn there will be an all-day book sale to raise money for Daniel McGowan's legal defense and commissary fund. The sale will be held at the Book Thug Nation book tables on Bedford Avenue and North 6th Street in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Along with great books at cheap prices, there will be music, a table with Daniel t-shirts, merchandise and literature, and maybe even some free food!
Community Forum and Press Conference on ICE raids in Rikers Island
Posted August 23, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Join Make the Road New York and The New Sanctuary Coalition NYC on
Tuesday, Aug 25TH for a community forum and press conference and demand an end ICE raids in NYC jails. Learn about the changes that the Dept of Corrections, which oversees Rikers Island jail, agreed to make to help protect the rights of people being held at Rikers Island, and join the campaign to stop ICE from accessing our community at Rikers Island.
Tuesday, August 25th, 10:30am
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
Each year New York City helps Immigration and Customs Enforcement puts an estimated 4,000 New Yorkers into deportation proceedings. That's 4000 New Yorker families that must face the potential loss of a loved one. New York City puts its families in this position by giving ICE full and unfettered access to the Rikers Island Jail facility where ICE agents routinely violate people’s rights in order to determine their immigration status. These are not hardened criminals. More than three quarters of those being held have yet to be convicted and are at Rikers awaiting trial. For those actually serving sentences, the average stay is only 35 days. As the city elections approach, we need to tell our city officials that collaborating with ICE can end up destroying a family.
For more information check out What Having I.C.E. in our Jails does to New Yorkers
First you build The Foundation...
Posted August 18, 2009 by bec_young in Events
Detroit has a hot new hip hop spot known as the 5E Gallery. Started by DJ Sicari to provide a space for young people who are into hip hop and graffiti, the 5E functions as a music venue (with shows that are often free or for donation), art gallery, and cyber cafe. The outside walls are decorated by the work of Sintex, Sest and others; the inside has paintings by Shades and his contemporaries. Every Tuesday night 5E Gallery hosts a show called The Foundation, which highlights the incredible talents of women in hip hop. If you're not in Detroit, this show streams live on Ustream, but you'll miss the b-girls, and more importantly, the awesome vibe. Here's a description of the thinking behind The Foundation: "The social impact of Hip Hop is a cultural revolution which crosses borders, inspires ideas & influences behaviors. Encouraging freedom of expression, healthy competition, independent thought, & positive self-identity, this weekly event as a movement focuses on redefining the vital role of Women in Hip Hop. Our mission is to educate and empower the community through sharing our love of the arts, while inspiring change and growth."
Providence Anarchist Bookfair this Saturday
Posted August 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Justseeds will be tabling at the Providence Anarchist Bookfair this Saturday:
Providence Anarchist Bookfair
Fun! Books! Beer! Dancing! Revolution in the air!
August 15th 1pm to 1am on
Empire Street, Providence, Rhode Island
The annual Providence Anarchist Bookfair is back again this year and we
want you to come on by and enjoy the events, get some books and
participate.
The bookfair is set up during Foo Fest, a giant street festival put on by the local art and community center AS220. This year's festival has a $5 cover and a family friendly focus. Bring the kids!
In the evening local bands will be playing as the festival takes a street party atmosphere, come enjoy the music, the books and comradeship.
The Big She-Bang IV!
Posted August 13, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
The Big She-Bang, organized by For The Birds Collective, is being held on Saturday, August 15th at Judson Memorial Church, located at 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY from 10 AM to midnight.
The Big She-Bang is an all-day event of workshops, panel discussions, visual art, and music by and for women and women-identified artists & community members. The Big She-Bang strives to cultivate a space for women to share creative endeavors, exchange ideas, and provide support in a safe and open-minded environment. It is a multimedia event that serves as a platform for women artists and activists. This year’s She-Bang festival will include workshops and panel discussions, live musical performances, an all-day art show and tabling by various feminist organizations from New York. The event is always all ages, and everyone is welcome.
Throughout the day, there will be an art show exhibiting different mediums of work created by various women in New York City: Demostina, Heather Kelly, Caroline Paquita, Anna Sgherzi, and Kristine Virsis.
Workshops and panel discussions will also be happening throughout the day, covering topics such as: Feminist Urban Mobility (presented by Right Rides, Safe Walk, & Holla Back NYC), Women and Resistance in Prison (presented by Victoria Law), Queer Eye for the DIY (presented by For the Birds Collective, featuring Karen Soskin of Strength In Numbers), Sexual Assault and Accountability workshop (presented by Support New York).
The event will end with performances by: Full of Fancy, Zombie Dogs, Little Lungs, Ina Ina, Kate Ferencz, and Inertia.
Sick release party and reading at Bluestockings
Posted August 10, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
Tuesday, August 11, 7PM at Bluestockings Books, 172 Allen Street in New York City
Release Party & Reading with several contributors from Sick
Sick collects peoples' experiences with physical illness to help establish a collective voice of those impacted by illness within left/DIY communities. The zine is a resource for those who are living with illness as well as those who have not directly experienced illness themselves. Join several contributors for a reading from Sick as well as a discussion on experiences related to illness and the importance of creating networks of support within our communities.
http://sickzine.blogspot.com/
NYC premiere of Empires of Tin
Posted August 9, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
There is a one-night screening of Empires of Tin by Jem Cohen is this Tuesday, August 11th at
IFC CENTER
323 6th Ave
NY, NY
EMPIRES of TIN is a "documentary musical hallucination" on the subject of Empire inspired by the novels of Joseph Roth and the waning of the Habsburg and Bush dynasties. The film features performances by musicians Vic Chesnutt, Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), T. Griffin with Catherine McRae, and members of Silver Mt. Zion
Get tickets here.
Liquefy This
Posted August 7, 2009 by roger_peet
Here's a slightly out-of-date flier I designed for Portland-area environmental group BARK and their campaign against the proposed Palomar pipeline, part of a massive network of interconnected energy development schemes slated to overrun the estuaries, forests, and farmlands of the Portland/Astoria/Mt.Hood/Columbia River region. It's all part of a plan to bring Liquefied Natural Gas to California via Oregon. Why via Oregon? Well, the politically savvy and comparatively wealthy Californians for whom the gas is intended have resolutely opposed and defeated all the proposed gas terminals on the California coast. Washington's done the same; the only one on the west coast so far is in Baja California. Less money, less power? That's why they're coming to Oregon! Two large LNG terminals are planned for the Oregon coast, one in the mouth of the Columbia near Astoria, and one in Coos Bay. Both will have massive impacts on local areas, requiring astronomical security provisions and ensuring some large measure of environmental destruction. Part of that destruction will be the pipelines that are slated to be laid through the forests of the region; the lush firs, spruce, hemlock and pine that make up the land's green mantle. Hundred foot wide permanent clearcuts? No problem? Tunneling under upwards of forty creeks and rivers? Okay! Destroyed farmlands, annihilated wildlife, industrial accidents? Yessssss! This is a wonderful example of capitalist strategy: there is, as yet, no large corporation involved in the planning of this. It's being executed by a gaggle of suits in a boardroom somewhere, drawing lines on a map and estimating cost-benefit ratios, growth projections, and flow potential. It is the rarefied atmosphere of infrastructural planning, cynically imposed on the land by economic analysts. Liquefied Natural Gas is popular all over (although not everyone is super enthused) and promises to bring us a warm, green, sustainable future where nothing ever goes wrong.
Justseeds at Visionary Arts Festival
Posted August 6, 2009 by mary_tremonte
Justseeds will be displaying and selling prints at the Visionary Arts Festival this Weekend in Pittsburgh...this looks to be an interesting event! Justseeds friends and collaborators, including Ally Reeves, Ashley Brickman, and Etta Cetera are also creating booths for the event. Come say hello, get a brand new sticker or postcard, and peep some prints in real life.
When: August 7, 8 and 9, 2009, from 12pm to 9pm.
Where: Schenley Plaza, (directly in front of the Cathedral of Learning, in the heart of Oakland.) Pittsburgh, PA
What: The first Pittsburgh Visionary Arts Festival is bringing together more than 70 local visionary artists and art innovators into a single venue. For three full days, these artists will share their work, vision and unique ideas in a friendly outdoors festival setting. The VAF will feature a rich diversity of minds, covering the full spectrum of art mediums: from painting to mixed media, from digital media to sound art, through recycled and self-taught art… and beyond! Experience a slice of Pittsburgh’s greatest visionary art, in a festival that hopes to decorate your soul rather than your living room! Free and open to the public.
Who: Aimee Manion * Alberto J. Almarza * Ally Reeves * Amir Rashid * Ashley Brickman * Bob Ziller * Bill Davis * Bruce Brinker * Christina Martine * Connie Cantorm * Constance Merriman * Curt Sell * Deanna Mance * Elin Lennox * Encyclopedia Destructica * Etta cettera * Gabe Felice * Ian Green * James Gyre * Jay Del Greco * Jesse Riesmeyer * Jonathan Brodsky * Jude Vachon * Juliana Morris * Kyle Ethan Fischer * Laura Gyre * Laura Jean Mclaughin * Lowry Burgess * Mark Traughber * Matt Marino * Mike Budai * Morgan Cahn * Moshe Sherman * Philomena O'Dea * Pat McArdle * Randie snow * Rose Clancy * Ryder Henry * Sebastian Van Gorder * Sherry Rusinack * tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE * Tom Estlack * Troy Blum * Unicorn Mountain * Vanessa German * Robert Wright * Norman Scott * "Butch" Quinn * Jory Albright * Lena Gomane * Kathleen Serri * Dan Melandy * Andy Flannigan * Inez Hess * Mr. Imagination * Esther Phillips * John Graves * Devon Smith* Karl "The Master's Hand" Goodrich * Devia Davis * Marcus Brathwaite * Lori M. Johnston * Shervin Iranshahr * Vinny Corpuscle * Kate Wichmann Sherman * Ian Momyer * John Fox * “Cyberpunk Apocalypse” * Alicia Fronczek * Barbara Dahlberg * Agata Brunt * HiTEC
I get by with a little help from my friends
Posted August 6, 2009 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects
A few flicks I took the other day while at Ad-Hoc Art with Stain & Armsrock. Come out for Ad-Hoc's last gallery show, yup they're done after this one. Come out and support:
Friday, August 7th, 7-10pm
Ad Hoc Art
49 Bogart St
Brooklyn, NY
Other preview shots over at Vandalog and Brooklyn Street Art.
Vision Project | Institute for American Indian Arts
Posted August 3, 2009 by dylanminer in Events
For the past four days, I have been at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe participating in the Dialoging Texts Gathering. Alongside fourteen Indigenous curators, critics, and historians, I was invited to participate in an exciting collaborative writing project that continues to expand the dialog about Contemporary Native art in North America. While the project has encountered some serious bumps along the way, the project will hopefully develop into an exciting and important book project. What is apparent, however, is the vast infrastructural differences alotted to contemporary Native artists in the US and Canada, with the US lacking a supportive network for developing fresh and challenging voices.
If nothing else, the Vision Project continued the dialog between aboriginal writers in the US and Canada.
Hoodstock Montreal-North August 8th and 9th, 2009
Posted July 29, 2009 by Jesse_Purcell in Events
Hoodstock is a two-day gathering striving to be the ultimate urban musical event, with an explicit socio-political bent, accompanied by a social forum. This event, not to be missed by folks in Montreal-North and neighbouring areas, seeks to provide space to understand the past, root oneself in the present, and organise for the future.
This festival has been organized in part to mark the one year police shooting of Fredy Villaneuva.
Justice for Fredy!
Pervers/Cité – Montreal’s 3rd Annual “Underside of Pride”
Posted July 28, 2009 by Jesse_Purcell in Events
(Queers Against the singular model of the Gaygoisie- Capitalist White and Male)
This year’s Pervers/Cité – Montreal’s 3rd Annual “Underside of Pride” – will be taking place from August 6 to 16, 2009 throughout the city. The final event of the week will be a Queers Against Israeli Apartheid contingent in the pride parade.
Pervers/Cité is a collaboratively organized summer festival that aims to make links across social justice groups, queer communities, and radical visions of pride. In a climate of corporatized gay agendas and whitewashed homogeneity amongst queers, Pervers/cité strives to provide a critical and accessible schedule of activities, designed to bring back the radical underpinnings to the pride movement.
read on for a full listing of events in French then English
check out Queers against Israeli apartheid in Toronto pride earlier this summer.
Benefit for La Furia de las Calles
Posted July 26, 2009 by icky in Events
Southern Californians take note! There's a benefit in San Diego for the Mexico City infoshop La Furia de las Calles. With a beautiful flier made by our friend Santiago Armengod. here's the info:
Saturday August the 1st
5:00pm
@ Bikes del Pueblo,
2754 Snowdrop St. Azaea Park
City Heights, San Diego, CA.
(619) 283 3109
-Vegan Food
-Live Music
-Movies
-Discussion
Come join us next Saturday at Bikes del Pueblo. We are gonna be throwing a benefit dinner for the La Furia infoshop, publishing house and Community Garden in Mexico City.
Cena Beneficio para El espacio informativo La Furia de las Calles en
Mexico DF.
Sabado 1 de Agosto
5:00pm
-Comida Vegana
-Peliculas
-Musica en Vivo
-Charlas
@ Bikes del Pueblo,
2754 Snowdrop St. Azaea Park
City Heights, San Diego, CA.
(619) 283 3109
Te invitamos el proximo Sabado al espacio Bikes del Pueblo. Estamos organizando una cena en beneficio para el espacio informativo de La Furia, casa editorial, y huerto comunitario en Mexico DF.
Para mas Informacion: http://espora.org/furia/
furia@riseup.net
shit_swimmer@riseup.net
Revolt on Goose Island
Posted July 23, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
TONIGHT:
Please join us Thursday, July 23rd, as we help launch Revolt on Goose Island, the new book by award-winning Washington Post staffer Kari Lydersen. Lydersen will read from Revolt and discuss how she wrote the book “live” by blogging about events as they unfolded during last year’s worker takeover of Republic Windows and Doors factory. Labor rights activist Danny Postel will moderate and C-Span will record the event.Thursday, July 23rd, 7-9 pm
Stop Smiling Storefront
1371 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Wicker Park, Chicago
WARN - We Are Ready Now! Radio
Posted July 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This just in from fellow-traveler Andalusia:
In less than 10 hours me and a bunch of participatory radio enthusiasts are packing into a van and driving to Detroit for the 11th Annual Media Conference. If you haven't heard of the AMC before it's this amazing dynamic conference where participants have evolved the definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. This year's AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current social justice moment.
We Are Ready Now! Radio will be hosting a live broadcast throughout this weekend including the amazing opening and closing plenaries as well as part of the "The Zapatista's Other Campaign Breaking Down Borders: Live Cross-Border Press Conference with Mexico" Tune in to the webstream right here.
Additionally, throughout the weekend The Prometheus Radio Project along with People's Production House will be hosting a live radio broadcast featuring the voices, beats, and stories of Detroit Summer, Elementz, Project South, Palestine Education Project, Bump, Community News Production Institute, Radio Rootz, Philadelphia Student Union, The Media Mobilizing Project, Making Contact, Free Speech Radio News, Various LPFM stations and more. The station will also air all of the pieces produced by participants in the AMC-FM workshop. The radio schedule will be available here.
Justseeds at the AMC!
Posted July 16, 2009 by bec_young in Events
This weekend I will be selling Justseeds prints, books and postcards at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, and assisting with the Saturday morning stencil and silkscreen workshop by Juan of the Beehive Collective. If you're in Southeast Michigan, you must make it out for this amazing annual conference. As I will be the lone Justseed at the conference this year, please assuage my loneliness by stopping by the Justseeds table and saying hello. Here's a photo from last year.
Tuff Stuff from the Buff
Posted July 14, 2009 by jmacphee in Film & Video
Justseeds fellow traveler Marc Moscato is about to head out on 2 week Northwest bike tour showing a collection of short films and videos by artists in his hometown of Buffalo, NY. Riding along with David Gracon (and organized with Julie Perini), Marc will bring Tough Stuff from the Buff to a dozen theaters, all ages venues and non-traditional spaces throughout the Pacific Northwest this July-August.
Here's the dates:
July 17-18 Anacortes, WA | What the Heck Fest
July 19 Bellingham, WA | TBA
July 20 Vancouver, BC | Pacific Cinematheque
July 21 Vancouver, BC | Spartacus Bookstore
July 22 Nanaimo, BC | Outdoor show at CHLY
July 24 Victoria, BC | Open Space Gallery
July 26 Port Townsend, WA | The Boiler Room
July 27 Langley, WA | private screening
July 28 Seattle, WA | The Vita Warehouse
July 29 Tacoma, WA | private screening
July 30 Olympia, WA | Olympia All Ages Project
July 31 Chehalis, WA | The Matrix
August 2 Portland, OR | The Waypost
According to Marc:
Tough Stuff from the Buff highlights Buffalo’s DIY media arts community, focusing on works that blur the lines between video art, personal documentary and media activism. Representing a diverse group of artists, from accomplished media makers to youth-produced projects, the collection reflects the city’s public spaces, political struggles and its resiliency under late capitalism. Tough Stuff from the Buff acknowledges the origins of this tradition, while focusing on contemporary examples of those persevering against the odds of creating media in a dying rustbelt town. A website (tuffstuffbuff.wordpress.com) will be regularly updated, with photos, video and stories from the road.
Ink & Paper
Posted July 11, 2009 by jmacphee
Ink & Paper
The Biannual Studio Opening of the Taller Tupac Amaru
Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes & Favianna Rodriguez
July 11 & 12, 2009. 11am-6pm
Radical Political Art | T-Shirts | Books
Printmaking Demos, Raffle, Youth Activities and More!
1505 33rd Ave. Oakland, CA 94601
(accessible via Fruitvale BART)
Join members of the Taller Tupac Amaru, a collective of Xicana/o artists and printmakers, at their biannual Open Studios. They will be showcasing their latest political and fine art prints. Self-guided studio tours will give visitors a unique opportunity to meet the artists and see their work in the place where it was created. This is a family friendly event.
Also The Great Tortilla Conspiracy will be joining us on Sunday at noon.
featuring: Rene Yañez, Rio Yañez, and Jos Sances
MUSIC by DJ Max Champ and DJ Quix
Willoughby Windows
Posted July 9, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
So Chris and I recently took part in the Willoughby Windows project here in Brooklyn. Organized by Ad Hoc Art, the project is one of those strange hybrids between business interests, real estate and art entrepreneurship that rightfully make a lot of people uncomfortable. I'm still up in the air as to how to feel about it, but I'm definitely glad to have been invited to participate and struggle with the issues embedded in this.
Ad Hoc negotiated a deal with the Metrotech Business Improvement District (BID) in Downtown Brooklyn to temporarily turn a block of abandoned storefront windows into artist installation spaces. The trick is that the storefronts don't just happen to be abandoned. Awhile back the same developers behind the BID kicked everyone out of these buildings and basically leveled the existing community. These business luminaries then ran out of cash, and now are hoping artists will salvage the situation by bringing people back onto the block and keeping the buildings "safe" from vandalism and crime. So us artists aren't actually kicking anyone out, that dirty deed is long since done, we're sort of like mid-fielders, keeping the ball in play until the developers can siphon off enough bailout money to tear out the storefronts and start building another hideous glass tower for rich people.
Today's Daily News article about the windows makes it seem like I'm not the only skeptic. Former tenants and even passerby's argue that the art is no replacement for the former businesses and community. This is the type of tough situation all kinds of people in all kinds of fields find themselves in: inheriting situations and problems we had little role in creating. What to do? Because thousands of people are going to be looking at these installations for the rest of the year I decided to fill my windows with Celebrate People's History posters. Might as well use the space to advertise little known political histories....
But rather than just listen to my issues, definitely check it out yourself. The opening is this Friday, July 10th at 2pm. Here's the info:
Willoughby Windows
86 - 106 Willoughby Street, between Duffield and Bridge Streets
Downtown Brooklyn
July 10, 2-7pm
Willoughby Windows transforms 12 vacant storefronts into a street level gallery that brings art to the community. Over 12 well known artists, all with deep roots in the street art movement, have contributed to this project, many creating site specific works. This network of visual experiences can help redefine how people visiting, working and living in Downtown Brooklyn think about and interact with their environment during a time of transition. Artists include: Ad Hoc Art, John Ahearn, Tom Beale, John Breiner, Cannonball Press, Cycle, Michael De Feo, Ellis G, Gaia, Logan Hicks, Lady Pink, Greg Lamarche, Josh MacPhee, Dennis McNett, Morning Breath, Chris Stain and Werdink.
On display July 10 - Nov 5, 2009.
7/10- CONSPIRING FOR CHANGE: the politics of protest in the post 9-11 world
Posted July 7, 2009 by erik_ruin in Events
If you're in the Philly area this Friday, I'd highly recommend checking out this benefit for a worthy cause- in addition to some inspiring speakers, this will be the first Philly display of the Justseeds portfolio Voices From the Outside.
Wednesday Benefit for Right Rides in NYC
Posted July 6, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Benefit for SafeWalk and RightRides
Featuring:
Lady Bright
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
Old Hat, and
The Eskalators!
There will be music, baked goods (vegan and non), beverages, informational tables, and dancing. More info to come.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 8-12pm Silent Barn 915 Wyckoff L to Halsey or M to Myrtle-Wyckoff
All funds will go towards RightRides' operational costs. SafeWalk is a program of RightRides for Women's Safety that offers anyone a free, safe walk to any destination in northern Brooklyn on Friday nights.
$6-10 sliding scale
Emory Douglas: Black Panther
Posted July 6, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
For those in the NYC area, after 18 months of being open, the new New Museum is finally doing a show worth going to! They're mounting an exhibition of posters and artwork by Emory Douglas, former Black Panther Party Minister of Culture. Most of Douglas' work was originally published as graphics, covers, and centerfold posters in the Black Panther newspaper in the 1970s and early 80s, where he collaged together his drawings, found photographs, and ziptone patterns to create an amazing array of graphics in service to the Black Revolution in the US. For whatever reason (likely cannibalistic), a portion of the art world has recently taken a shine towards Emory, and I'm not going to complain, this promises to be a great opportunity to see a huge collection of difficult to find work from a political graphics master. Here's the details, and a link to more info and more images(!):
Emory Douglas: Black Panther
An Exhibition Curated by Sam Durant
7/22/09 - 10/18/09
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
212.219.1222
DIY Art Show--- Portland
Posted June 27, 2009 by icky in Events
We're having another art show at my house, we did this last year and it was super fun!
This is organized by Thea and will include new work from the Grafic Arts Collective Cordyceps (Thea, Santiago, and Geovanni- all who have work on Justseeds), Pete Yahnke, Justseeds' allies Katie B. & Lydia Crumbley, and me. Please come, everyone is welcome (I'll be there late, I have to work!). --Icky
Sunday June 28th
7:00 PM
5205 NE 19th
Portland OR
Exsposicion Hazlo Tu Mismx de Grafica Radical
Domingo 28 de Junio a las 7:00pm
5205 Calle NE 19th
Portland, OR.
AIR Summer Benefit Party - Seeing Red Poster Show
Posted June 26, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
AIR is having their Annual Summer Benefit Bash this Saturday - and this year there are two exciting shows of political prints on view for the event. Check it out!
Saturday June 27th 4pm-11pm
Artists Image Resource
518 Foreland St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
412.321.8664
info@artistsimageresource.org
A Visual History of the George W. Bush Presidency
a traveling print portfolio of 15 different artists critical take on 15 different moments of the Bush Administration's tenure.
as well as selections from the Seeing Red portfolio printed at Artists Image Resource in 2006. For more information please visit http://www.seeing-red.net/
plus-
the AIR artist submitted t-shirt raffle!!
one of a kind transformed threads on display throughout the AIR gallery.
raffle tickets for $1.
winners pulled at 10:45pm that night
Spoof International Herald
Posted June 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The Yes Men were involved in another spoof paper last week, this one is an edition of the International Herald, and the re-made paper focuses on climate change and the upcoming COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December. You can check out the whole paper and download a PDF of it here.
Think Galactic this weekend!
Posted June 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
I'll be at Think Galactic this weekend in Chicago! I'm looking forward to it, the schedule is packed with cool stuff. I'll be co-running a stenciling workshop, as well as on a panel about the continuing appeal of the apocalypse story in sci-fi/fantasy literature. I'll also be moderating panels on DIY and Climate Change, and having a small Justseeds table.
Here's the info:
Think Galacticon 2009
June 26-28
Roosevelt University
downtown Chicago
A full schedule, registration, directions, etc. can be found here.
NYC Zine Fest '09
Posted June 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Books & Zines
Justseeds will be tabling this weekend at the New York City Zine Fest '09. For a number of years successful zine fests have been held all over the country; they're a place for zine makers to talk shop, people to find the coolest new self-published projects, and an introduction to zines and DIY publishing for the uninitiated. This is the first zine fest in NYC, so if you are in town, come up and take part in the fun.
NYC Zine Fest '09
Brooklyn Lyceum
Sat and Sun June 27 and 28
12 - 7pm
FREE admissionThe mission of the NYC Zine Fest is to circulate and promote self-published, homemade, independent, and small publications called zines. The Fest aims to support and expand the network of creators who self-publish these zines, as well as independent publishers and distributors in and around the NYC metro area.
There will be more than 70 zinemakers, publishers and institutions participating in the Fest, including Printed Matter, World War 3 Illustrated and the Barnard Zine Library. There will be workshops, discussion groups and a screening of zine documentary '$100 & a T-Shirt' - the latter which will run at 5pm both days. As zines gain popularity and clamor, this fest welcomes a wide audience to attend, meet the artists, participate in the free workshops, and buy and learn about zines. There will be food, beer, coffee, and music!
The Fest will also include a raffle with prizes consisting of rare zines, books, gift certificates, art, and more. Raffle donors include Spoonbill & Sugartown, Printed Matter, Melissa Staiger, Picturebox Inc., Opal Massage, Microcosm, 92YTribeca and Trong Nguyen.
For info and programming schedule: http://www.nyczinefest.org
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Cultures
Posted June 22, 2009 by dylanminer in Events
As part of the 8th Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), the United Nations is hosting an exhibition entitled 'Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Cultures'. It isn't everyday that organizations such as the UN involve the work/ideas of Native people. So when I got an email about the exhibition during UNPFII, I was definitely interested. The curators liked my work and included it in the show.
Getting works to the UN in New York City, was nearly impossible, though. I sent three artworks using FedEx, as they were the curators' suggested carriers. However, FedEx made three unsuccessful delivery attempts and left my stuff sitting in a warehouse somewhere in Queens. When my brother (who lives in Brooklyn) attempted to pick the packages up to hand-deliver them, some knucklehead sent them back to me after the folks told me they'd hold it for me.
In the end, though, the works arrived. Thanks to America Meredith (Tsalagi artist, bike junkie and JustSeeds friend), we have photographic proof that the work was hung for UNPFII.
If visiting NYC, the exhibition hangs until the end of the month in the Main Gallery of the Visitor's Lobby.
My So-Called Bike: Book'Em & Free Ride Benefit
Posted June 18, 2009 by mary_tremonte
We are throwing a big ole My So-Called Life-themed party at Free Ride, Pittsburgh's amazing recycle-a-bike shop. All proceeds from the party benefit Free Ride's Youth Mobile Bike Repair program and Book'Em's ongoing postage costs for sending reading material to prisoners.
Organizing crucial benefit danceparties is part of my practice as an artist, DJ, and organizer. Aside from raising much-needed financial support, creating social events like this allow new folks to connect to our ongoing projects, and create much-needed space and time for collective members and volunteers to hang out in a non-work-meeting setting. In collectives, relationships are so important, and sweet hangouts build that! Check out the details (Nutmeg B is Justseeds own Shaun Slifer) Thanks to A.Brick for the silkscreened flyer design.
Another report from Iran
Posted June 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
We're getting so little information about what is going on in Iran, and most of it seems so skewed, these reports from friends inside are amazingly useful at trying to understand what is going on and why:
TEHRAN, June 17, 02h00---Today brought thousands to the streets again, although protesters changed the initial location of the protest because Ahmadinejad supporters were supposed to gather at the same site. Official state television was calling all peoples of all opinions to gather there, which in Islamic Republic code means: go and fight it out; we will provide the armed militias, and you will provide the targets.So the peaceful crowd changed their location, making their way from Vanak Square towards Tajrish, in the north of Tehran. Like each day, the protests are illegal, and people afraid of repercussions, but this has not kept them indoors. The government has announced that it will re-count votes, although what has happened to the votes is a mystery. Many have resigned from the Ministry of Interior and most likely the paper ballots we all hand-wrote have either been trashed or tampered with. In any case, it matters little. This is not about the elections, but about a people being mocked and disgraced over and over again by a fascist regime--YES...FASCIST... (with big capital letters, for all those who think otherwise!).
I took the day off from the rally to rest...and to move across the city to hide my video tapes, get internet access at a friend's house, and to converse and exchange ideas about what has happened and what will happen in the next days, weeks, months, and maybe years. We all think that this is a beginning of the formation of a movement towards major systemic change. The last decade, starting with the student movement of 1999, brought about a demand for a REFERENDUM. Yes or No to Velayat-e-Faqih, supreme and divine law as administered by the chosen Ayatollah. This will come with due time - people want a peaceful, yet determined transition, one that will mean change brought about through a long-term people's struggle. Our only hope is that this movement is not stolen or undermined as the 1906 Constitutional Revolution was, as the coup d'etat in 1953 brought an end to Mossadegh's fight, and as the 1979 Revolution turned from a people's (mainly leftist) revolution to an Islamic one.
More from Iran
Posted June 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Another report:
TEHRAN, June 15, 3h30-
Today, at least 1 million people gathered for a 'silent' march from Revolution Square to Freedom Square. The crowd, which filled the wide avenue, extended further, and at one point it became impossible to move forward. There are no official figures (and those would of course be disputable), but I have never seen a demonstration like this in my life, anywhere!People walked silently, hands raised. We had been warned to stay indoors, as the police have orders to fire live bullets, and this being Iran, we take that for exactly what it means, but people did not listen.
As night fell, and the crowd dispersed, Bassiji militiamen opened fire on the crowd, killing one (his photo is circulating) and many were injured. The city took flames again, but by this point I had come home. In our neighborhood, there were Bassijis stationed with police at the major square north of the house, pushing people and hitting cars with batons, telling people to go home. Again at 9:30 pm, people made their way to the rooftops to cry out, "Allah Akbar" and "Death to Dictatorship". We heard shots that sounded like tear gas pellets (although they are using some strange nerve gas or other chemical agent, not tear gas) but also live fire.
Today, students at Tehran University were in mourning. Many of their peers were arrested last night, and one student was shot dead, when Bassijis raided their dorms and beat them. Today, as the demonstration passed by the University, we saw students protesting from inside and speaking to people through the metal bars. They were locked in.
I won't get into the decisions and talks taking place in the high ranks of the regime, and amongst reformist groups. These people, no matter how much they represent 'change', are problematic political leaders with shady pasts.
Tonight we are only thinking of the dead, from the past and today, and preparing ourselves for more. Something is taking form, and it is only a matter of time before there is a bigger backlash than what we have seen.
Here are the names of the 5 people who have been confirmed dead from yesterday and Saturday's clashes. 2 women and 3 men, all of whom were buried in Behesht Zahra cemetery without their families being notified.
Fatemeh Barati
Kasra Sharafi
Mina Eterami
Kambiz Shoai
Mohsen ImaniWe do not yet know the name of the man shot dead tonight.
Red Lines exhibition
Posted June 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Red Lines
Housing Crisis Learning Center
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY
7 to Shea Stadium
opens Saturday, June 20
Red Lines is a large-scale installation that explores how we finance our living environments, and will remain on view through September 27, 2009. Opening day events include: a 3–5 pm screening and discussion of Primetime: Fighting Back Against Foreclosure, a documentary by Jennifer Fasulo and Manauvaskar Kublall looking at predatory loan practices and their aftermath, and a blow-out 5–7 pm reception. In conjunction with the exhibition, the Queens Museum Panorama of New York City has been used to map the pattern of 2008 foreclosures across the city. Red Lines is curated by Larissa Harris, and is a project of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). More information at
http://www.queensmuseum.org/exhibitions/redlines.htm
Street Styles Indianapolis
Posted June 16, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The folks at PEEL Mag are back to work. This time Holly is launching a Street Styles program in Indianapolis, bringing street art into public schools and community centers to teach youth about art, politics and public space. The Street Styles program was started in San Francisco by the street artist DAVE (Warnke) to much success, and hopefully will work just as well in the midwest...more info on the Street Styles website.
Radical Art and Sports
Posted June 10, 2009 by dylanminer in Events
Images Courtesy of Lincoln Cushing
'Hasta la Victoria (Deportista) Siempre: Sports Imagery in Revolutionary Cuba.'
Unlike many of my artist and activist friends, I grew up as a jock. My dad was a gym teacher (physical education, sorry) and I was raised playing football/soccer, basketball, and running track. When I became involved in hardcore, I was shocked when a punk friend of mine told me that the politics of sport did not intersect with those of athletics. Who knew that sports and punk were so separate? I guess my ex-friend did not realize that Kevin Seconds was a huge b-ball fan and the 7 Seconds song 'I Hate Sports' was written tongue in cheek. Remember the basketball on the inside of the Drop Acid album?
Artist and activist circles don't fair much better in regards to our position on sports. Notwithstanding the writing of folks such as Dave Zirin and CLR James, very little has been written about the relationship between sports and radicalism. This weekend I will be in Bristol, UK lecturing on Cuban sports posters. Although many of us are familiar with the silkscreened posters from socialist Cuba, little is written about the role of sports images within the larger domain of Cuban poster history. Hopefully the paper I present this weekend, as well as the article and book chapter that will emerge from it, will begin to lay the groundwork for what we know about revolutionary Cuban sports posters.
If you are in Bristol, stop by Burwals at 4:00pm-6:0pm Sunday evening. I will be presenting on 'Hasta la Victoria (Deportista) Siempre: Sports Imagery in Revolutionary Cuba.'
The Visual in Sport
13-14 June 2009
A Two-Day International Conference at Burwalls
University of Bristol, UK
Beats for Barriere Lake
Posted June 9, 2009 by Jesse_Purcell in Events
A night of solidarity for the ongoing struggle of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, featuring groundbreaking native artists SAMIAN, CerAmony and Cheri Maracle.
When : Thursday, June 11, 2009 @ 8 pm
Where : Petit Campus, 57 Prince-Arthur East, Montreal, QC
The concert takes place on June 11th, the first anniversary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apology for the residential schools system – an apology that many survivors in Barriere Lake believe will take on real meaning only when the government changes its policies to ensure just relations with Indigenous peoples.
performances from :
* SAMIAN : celebrated Algonquin hip-hop artist
with members of Nomadic Massive and Sola y las Lolas
Beats for Barriere Lake
SAMIAN is an Algonquin hip-hop artist who is the first to perform in French and Algonquin. Born in the community of Pikogan in Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Samian (Samuel Tremblay) recounts the tales of the youth in his community and the plight and struggles of First Nations. Samian’s music has struck a cord in Quebec society and within the hip-hop community and beyond through collaborations with the celebrated Quebec hip-hop ensemble Loco Locass.
http://www.samian.ca
http://www.nomadicmassive.ca
http://www.myspace.com/solaspace
with :
* CerAmony : Cree eclectic musical duo who hail from the James Bay region of Canada
http://www.myspace.com/ceramony
* Cheri Maracle : Mohawk singer/songwriter from Six Nations with Ojibway singer/songwriter Marc Nadjiwan
http://www.myspace.com/cherimaracle
* screening of Blockade on the 117 by filmmaker Martha Stiegman
Tickets for fundraiser : $10-12 at the door (sliding scale)
Presented by : Barriere Lake Solidarity, CKUT radio, Productions Multi-Monde, Tadamon ! Montreal and the National Campus and Community Radio Conference (NCCRC)
* background information on Barriere Lake
Since the Department of Indian Affairs ousted their Customary Chief and
Council in March 2008 and used the Surete du Quebec to forcibly impose
the authority of a minority community faction, the Barriere Lake
Algonquins have been organizing to roll-back the quiet coup d'etat. They
are campaigning to make the government honour a number of agreements,
including the Trilateral, a internationally praised land co-management
and resource-revenue sharing deal the Algonquins signed with Canada and
Quebec in 1991. It would significantly protect their forests from
clear-cut logging, but it remains unimplemented. They first signed the
agreement after a campaign of logging road blockades, which culminated
in a one-day blockade of highway 117, a crucial economic vein in
Northern Quebec, in 1990. In October, 2008, Barriere Lake once again
blockaded the 117, to force the government to respect their agreements
and their leadership customs. The SQ brutally put down the peaceful action.
info Barriere Lake Solidarity Collective:
http://barrierelakesolidarity.blogspot.com/
Chomsky Event Poster Designed by Josh Macphee & Kevin Caplicki
Posted June 9, 2009 by k_c_ in Posters & Prints
Josh Macphee and Kevin Caplicki collaborated on a 5-color handprinted poster for an upcoming benefit for the Brecht Forum.
The event features Noam Chomsky who will deliver a lecture called Crisis and Hope:Theirs and ours. He'll be introduced by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, and features music by Earthdriver and Mahina Movement
The event will be held
Friday, June 12
7:00 pm
At Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive (Btn 120 & 121 St)
NYC, NY
Sliding scale for talk: $20/$25/$30
Reception with Noam Chomsky (includes reserved seating for the talk): $50/$100/$250/$500
Special Benefit for the Brecht Forum,
Please contribute what you can afford.
The poster, a signed and numbered edition of 60, will be available for sale at the event, and tickets can be purchased through the Brecht Forum website.
I shold also mention that Justseeds will be tabling the event along with others, like our comrades from Bluestockings Bookstore
Benefit for Palabra Radio Network-Friday-NYC
Posted June 8, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Benefit for Palabra Radio Network-International Radio Technical Support Network
For communities in resistance. Palabra Radio is a project coordinated to bring materials, equipment, and expertise to community radio projects in Central & South America, as well as immigrant communities in the USA.
June 12, 2009 7pm 687 Park Ave. #1 Brooklyn, NYC (Between Marcy and Tompkins Aves) Flushing, Line G $5 Minumun Donation
Cardboard Installation
Posted June 5, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
My dear friend and housemate Heidi Tucker has a collaborative cardboard installation opening tonight at Morning Glory Coffeehouse in Pittsburgh...I thought it appropriate to post on here, what with Justseeds' affinity for cardboard, and some Justseeds peeps in the show...check it out, it will be up for the month of June.
June 5, 2009 - 7pm
Heidi Tucker - ART OPENING
at Morning Glory Coffeehouse
1806 Chislett Street, in Morningside
free food + wine
412-450-1050 for info
HEIDI TUCKER painted cardboard installation. come on dahn. will be up throughout the month of June
Cardboard installation floor to ceiling...
with pieces by
Mary Mack, Emilie Bosworth-Clemens, Nathan Mould, Morgan Cahn, Carly, Teresa, Leslie Stem, Gina, Ally Reeves, Caleb Gamble, Ashley Brickman, Niko Gomez, Chris St.Pierre, Aurelia Freidland, Mick, Blair, Gretchen Ann Neidert
Evil Twin will perform at 9pm.
MasterPeaces: High Art for Higher Purpose
Posted June 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This just in from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics out in Los Angeles:
MasterPeaces:
High Art for Higher Purpose
June 6 - 27, 2009
DaVinci Gallery
Los Angeles City College
855 N. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90029
323.953.4000
Gallery Hours: Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 12 – 4 pm
From Dada to Punk, from anti-war movements to feminism and ecology, high art has been repeatedly incorporated into a visual language that ranges from the iconoclastic to overt protest. MasterPeaces shows how works by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Picasso, Warhol and many others have been parodied, appropriated or altered to make statements about a variety of contemporary issues.
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 6 12 – 4 pm
Symposium: Saturday, June 20, 2009 2-4 pm
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics, students and faculty in the Designing the Political course at Otis College of Art and Design, will discuss the dialogue between the original art and the contemporary protest poster.
Portland Anarchist Bookfair
Posted June 2, 2009 by icky in Events
Portland (Oregon) is having its very own Anarchist Bookfair (our first! that I know of...)
Justseeds will be there, as well as Eberhardt Press, Axiom Collective, Little Black Cart, PM Press, the Multnomah County Library (?!) and many more....
Saturday, June 6, 10am - 6pm
Sunday, June 7, 10am - 4pm
Liberty Hall - 311 N Ivy | Portland, OR
503-516-9220 | axiom.infoshop@gmail.com
The Axiom Collective is hosting the Portland Anarchist Book Fair. This two day event will feature over 20 booksellers, publishers, and zinesters offering a wide range of radical literature and art. There will be a dozen workshops, cheap eats from the Red and Black Cafe, a rad raffle, and more!
This event is FREE to attend, and childcare will be provided!
¡Viva Carton!
Posted June 2, 2009 by molly_fair in Books & Zines
Friday June 5, 2pm-5pm
Sculpture Center
44-19 Purves St. Long Island City, NY
My friend Michael McCanne, a book and printmaker and a founding editor of Lightful Press will be giving a presentation and slide show about the work of Eloisa Cartonera, an art and editorial project based in Buenos Aires, Argentina who he spent four and a half months working with. There will also be a workshop on the methods that are used to create books out of recycled materials with cardboard covers, how to paint them and bind materials into them. You can make a new book, or bring your own zines or art to use.
Background:
In the wake of the 2001/2002 economic collapse two artists, Fernanda Laguna and Javier Barilaro, and a writer, Washington Concurto, initiated Eloisa Cartonera, a cooperative editorial project dedicated to working with Cartoneros (cardboard scavengers) to produce accessible books bound in cardboard. The phenomenon of the cartoneros, who are estimated to number in the tens of thousands, arose as a direct result of the distingration of the Argentine economy under neo-liberal policies of president Carlos Menem and the structural readjustment program of the International Monetary Fund.
Eloisa Cartonera is a part of the multilithic popular response to that crisis, a response that is both creative and based on equal cooperation. The project purchases cardboard directly from Cartoneros at an elevated price and uses it to bind short stories and poetry collections of well know and experimental Latin American writers. The books are stenciled and hand painted in bright colors and then sold for five pesos (equivalent of $1.30). Eloisa produces books in Spanish, English, Portuguese and German and has over one hundred titles.
Since its inception in 2003, Eloisa Cartonera has spawned an organic and independent movement of cartonerias across South and Central America, with workshops in Paraguay, Columbia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and Ecuador. Each cartoneria is autonomous and each country has its own unique social and economic situation but Eloisa has set a model. This phenomenon has spread in which people are organizing alternatives by example–organically and without any structure or over-arching hierarchy. In the vacuum left in Argentina, a new mode of production was synthesized; a production based in reuse, creativity and cooperation.
Bill Daniel/Shaun Slifer quick n' dirty tour...
Posted June 2, 2009 by shaun in Justseeds Collective Projects
Here's the schedule for the tour I'm headed out on with Bill Daniel this week. We'll be showing Bill's film "Who is Bozo Texino?", as well as putting up a couple shows of Bill's work along the way. I'll be opening for his film with a short presentation about a couple of current projects of mine. If you're in any of these spots, drop in!
June 5 -> St. Louis, MO - Cranky Yellow
June 6 -> St. Louis, MO - Black Bear Bakery
June 7-9 -> Dallas, then Austin, then back to Dallas... (that's in Texas, no gigs there)
June 10 -> Shreveport, LA - Danzell House (? house show ?)
June 11-12 -> Little Rock, AK - Chaulk Legends @ Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative (w/ Buz Blurr aka Colossus of Roads) (pictured below)
June 13 -> Nashville, TN - Little Hamilton Collective / Firebrand Infoshop
June 14 -> Knoxville, TN ?
Howling Mob Society at "Class Matters" conference
Posted May 29, 2009 by shaun in Justseeds Collective Projects
The Howling Mob Society will be presenting in Pittsburgh on Thursday, June 4, during the Working Class Studies Association's annual "Class Matters" conference. The conference will take place on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Details from the conference program:
Session C—2:30-3:45 p.m. - Thursday, June 4
Pitt Cathedral of Learning, 2nd Floor, room 252
C3. "Contested Markers: Two Views on Historical Commemoration"
Chair: Joel Woller, History, Carlow University
Howling Mob Society, Independent, “The Howling Mob Society Reclaims the Historical Marker”
Kenneth C. Wolensky, Penn State University and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
“Preserving and Interpreting Industrial and Working Class History Sites”
Richard Porton/Arena in NYC
Posted May 28, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Richard Porton, editor of the recently published Arena: On Anarchist Cinema, will be presenting in New York City on Friday. Anarchist cinema is a difficult idea, but Porton will unravel this history - from film collectives formed in the early twentieth century to contemporary video activism. Join Porton for discussion and showing of movies made by anarchist or having anarchist impetus. Porton is also the author of the great book Film and the Anarchist Imagination.
Friday, May 29th @ 7pm
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington
Arena can be found in our store here.
Tonight: Susan Greene in SF
Posted May 27, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Talk Tonight!
Art & Politics: Susan Greene
Susan Greene is a public artist, activist, educator and clinical psychologist. Her practice straddles a range of cultural arenas, focusing on borders, migrations, decolonization and memory. Greene is one of four Jewish American women artists who in 1989 founded the ongoing “Break the Silence Mural Project” in solidarity with Palestine.
Wednesday May 27, 7:30 pm
CounterPULSE
1310 Mission at 9th, San Francisco
Free!
Dispatch from LaLaLand: Zoobomb Bike Rack Opening: Portland
Posted May 25, 2009 by icky in Events
Zoobombing is a recent local tradition where people take little-kids bikes on the light rail under the West Hills in Portland. They get off in the station in the tunnel, take the elevator up the hill, and then ride a nice, fairly depopulated, stretch of road past the zoo through Washington Park and into downtown Portland. It's a weird local spectacle, pissing off cops and drivers, but somehow gathering support of other people in power so that it hasn't been outright criminalized. One issue that became a sore spot is that the zoobombers leave all the kids bikes (like 20 of them) locked up to a single bike rack across the street from Powell's books downtown.
Be Well! Benefit
Posted May 21, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
This Saturday there is a benefit for Be Well!: Healthcare Options for the Uninsured, a guide, online and in print to free and cheap healthcare in Pittsburgh. I did the cover artwork and will also be DJ-ing. It looks like a well-rounded evening of music and such a good cause!
Take care of ourselves!!!
Be Well! Benefit
Saturday May 23rd
7pm-2am
Brillobox
David Vachon
Slim Forsythe
Weird Paul medically-themed song video
Marvin Dioxide
Jon Brodsky
DJ's Mary Mack & Edgar Um
$5 at door
We'll have lil Be Well! mini booklets to pass out as well as medically-themed coloring books.
Leonard Crowdog speaking, Portland
Posted May 20, 2009 by icky in Events
This just in over the wire:
"Leonard Crowdog is a legend. He served as spiritual advisor to the American Indian Movement (AIM) and played a pivotal role at Wounded Knee during its 71-day siege in 1973. He will be speaking in defense of American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, next Wednesday, May 20 at 7PM, at the Native American Student and Community Center at Portland State University (on the corner of SW Broadway and Jackson Streets)."
The event is free.
Poster by Paul Davis, 1977
Leave Home group show at Death by Audio, Brooklyn
Posted May 15, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
May 15
LEAVE HOME Group Show.
Original works and collaborative installation by ladies in Punk Rock:
Cristy C. Road (Croadcore Illustration/Writing/etc, The Homewreckers), Lauren Denitzio (The Measure, Red and Black Eye), Tamara Waite-Santibanez (No Guts No Glory, Zombie Dogs) & Kate Wadkins (Cheeky, For the Birds). LEAVE HOME Binds varying linear structures with the sparkling connections between our souls and our soil.
Home is dissected. As Brooklyn slowly transgresses into a development landmine, we hold on to the purity of bricks, concrete, our soil, our urban breeding ground, and the spurts of nature which trickle inbetween. Our identities, and our connections to our home, vary as much as our artistic renderings; but in the end converge into a collective act of visual chaos.
And MUSIC By LITTLE LUNGS, LAURA STEVENSON + MORE TBA
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
Posted May 14, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This weekend Jesse, Erik, Kevin and Josh will be tabling at:
MONTREAL'S 10th ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
Saturday, MAY 16, 10am to 6pm
CEDA, 2515 rue Delisle
(near the Lionel-Groulx metro)
-> Part of the month-long Festival of Anarchy (May 2009).
-> Followed by a full day of Anarchist Presentations and Workshops (May 17, 2009).
-> Bring your kids! Kids activities and free childcare on-site.
-> For anarchists, allies, and those who are interested or curious about anarchism.
-> Free! Welcome to all!
[The main space is wheelchair accessible. For more information or to inquire about other accessibility needs, see our accessibility policy: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/en/node/6 or contact the collective.]
No gods, no masters; no bosses, no borders!
Curious about anarchism? Come check us out!
Demilitarized U
Posted May 12, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
This arrived in the inbox from Aaron Hughes. This series of events taking place in Chicago looks incredibly inspiring and important. Details below.
The intertwining of the military with industry is no longer new to the American experience. In fact it is widely accepted as the way things are. Less considered is the military’s insertion into research, technology, entertainment, education, and the wider American culture. At a point in history when the threat level is constantly orange, what would it mean to demilitarize American culture?
Demilitarized U consists of a series of teach-ins and workshops that endeavors to imagine and investigate what it means to create a demilitarized university; and ask what is a demilitarized physical and psychological space and what are the strategies and tactics needed to achieve demilitarization.
The Demilitarized U. will bring together Iraqis, veterans, community organizers, community leaders, activists, educators, and artists to lead and participate in a series of two-day teach-ins and workshops.
The series is free and open to the wider Chicago community. Please come and contribute to the discussion and production of a Demilitarized University.
Contact the DU with questions: demilitarizedu@gmail.com
click continue for schedule...
Agit-Prop Overload
Posted May 12, 2009 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
AGIT-PROP OVERLOAD
A month long exhibition of over 100 socially engaged print works by Justseeds radical artists cooperative and the Celebrate Peoples History poster series.
May 5th to May 31st, 2009
Le Cagibi
5490 St. Laurent
Montreal
Events:
May 10th - vernissage 8pm, followed by a dance party
May 16th - print sale at the MTL Anarchist Bookfair (2515 rue Delisle)
May 18th - slide presentation and artist talk by Justseeds' artists Josh MacPhee and Erik Ruin, 7:30pm
brought to you by:
The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
Justseeds
Disappearing
Posted May 10, 2009 by icky in Events
There's a great art show at Reading Frenzy right now, containing images from an upcoming book by Thistle Press. The show is about "attempts to address the marvelous nature of some of the many things that are disappearing from the world', eg- endangered species. Includes work from Justseeds' ally Vanessa Renwick and my favorite local illustrator Carson Ellis. If you're in Portland you should head down and check it (and buy some zines while you're there too).
If not the show is available online here.
Think Galactic Poster
Posted May 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
I just finished up the poster for Think Galacticon 2009, a radical political Sci-Fi convention held bi-annually in Chicago. This year it's going to be the weekend of June 26-28 at Roosevelt University. You can find out all about it here.
Anti-Police Brutality Show LA
Posted May 9, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A handful of Justseeds artists (and tons of other good folks) are in this show coming up in LA:
Stop the Armed Forces
An Exhibition of Conscious Art and Music Against Police Brutality
Friday May 15th
8pm - 2am
2323 East Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, 90021
Open Gallery May 16th, Noon - 6pm
Artists include:
Jon-Paul Bail, Brianna Lengel-Bail, Alison Smith, Tim Holgerson, Louis Hennings, Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, Ryan J. Saari, Taarna R. Grimsley, Paul Barron, Favianna Rodriguez, Frank Zio, Chuck Sperry, Ron Donovan, Emory Douglas, Contra, Yem, Ritzy Periwinkle, John Carr, Karen Fiorito, Hit+Run, 2Cents, 2Rabbits, ABCNT, David Kietzman, Josh MacPhee, Mear One, Vyal, and more...
RNC 8 Benefit in Pittsburgh
Posted May 8, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
This saturday evening, two of the folks in the radical marching band that I used to play with have organized a benefit for the RNC 8, who were arrested on conspiracy charges for their work helping to prepare for the protests of the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. These folks are facing serious jail time for some pretty basic organizing work. The case threatens to set a precedent that could hurt all kinds of political organizing efforts. The benefit will feature speakers (who will talk about what happened and the civil liberties issues involved), photos from the RNC, and food and drink.
It will also feature a performance by the Breakway Marching Band, which is somewhat special because our awesome and talented baritone player Charlie is moving out of town two days later. We'll also have a guest sousaphone player - some of you may know Matt Toups, he'll be back in town visiting for a bit and I'm sure he'd love to see some old friends.
Hope to see you all there! Please spread the word.
WHERE: Friends Meeting House, 4836 Ellsworth Avenue in Shadyside/Oakland.
WHEN: 7-10 PM
7:30 pm - Breakaway Marching Band
8:30 pm - Speakers and discussion
DONATION - pay what you can. All proceeds go to the legal fees of the RNC 8.
Artists Run Chicago
Posted May 8, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A bunch of artist-run spaces and projects multiple Justseeders have connections to are part of this exhibition opening up on Sunday in Chicago:
Artists Run Chicago
May 10 – July 5, 2009, Gallery 1
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
Opening: Sunday, May 10
3-5pm, FREE
Featuring 1/Quarterly, 65GRAND, Alogon, Antena, artLedge, Butchershop, Co-Prosperity Sphere, devening projects + editions, Deluxe Projects, Dogmatic, Fraction Workspace, Fucking Good Art (FGA), Green Lantern, He Said-She Said, HungryMan, joymore, Julius Caesar, Law Office, LiveBox, Margin Gallery, Medicine Cabinet/Second Bedroom Project Space, mini dutch, Modest Contemporary Art Projects, NFA Space, Normal Projects, Old Gold, Polvo, Roots & Culture, Scott Projects, Standard, Suitable, Swimming Pool Projects, Teti, The Suburban, and VONZWECK.
With special contributions by Imperfect Articles, INCUBATE, Mess Hall, Seven Three Split, and ThreeWalls.
Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds, apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the legacy.
Montreal Anarchist Theatre Festival
Posted May 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Also in the inbox. Justseeds will be at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair which is on May 16th:
MONTREAL’S 4th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST THEATRE FESTIVAL
MAY 13 + 14, 2009, D.B. Clarke Theatre
with NEW YORK’s LEGENDARY ‘THE LIVING THEATRE’
The fourth annual Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival (MIATF) proudly presents two nights with New York’s legendary ‘The Living Theatre,’ Wednesday, May 13 + Thursday, May 14, 2009 at Concordia University’s D.B. Clarke Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve West (Metro Guy-Concordia), 7:30pm.
Tickets are $15 at the door or in advance from AT the Montreal anarchist bookstore L’Insoumise, 2033 boul St-Laurent (tel: 514- 313-3489), starting april 15, 2009.
The Living Theatre - North America’s premiere avant-garde theatre project founded in 1947 by two non-violent anarchists, Judith Malina (student of Erwin Piscator) and the late Julian Beck (from the New York School) - will perform a new piece for their two night run called ‘The Beautiful Non-Violent Anarchist Revolution: A combination of Living Theatre Plays.’ The world famous troupe is renowned for their aesthetics emphasizing improvisation and their plays about revolutionary issues. Their work has influenced generations of radical playwrights, actors and artists, and they have won four prestigious Obie awards. They continue to produce and tour anti-war plays from New York. Judith Malina will perform as part of the troupe.
Opening for The Living Theatre May 13th, is Maikan, an Innu giant puppet theatre troupe from the Mali-Utenam reserve near Sept-Iles. For their Montreal debut, they will stage ‘Tshakapesh’ – an enchanting, mythical piece based on an Innu legend addressing contemporary social issues.
Friday-Justseeds at Books Through Bars event!
Posted May 6, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Benefit for NYC's Books Through Bars
Friday May 8th, 8pm
Art & Resistance: Slideshows and Discussion
Seth Tobocman: Author of "Disaster and Resistance: Comics and Landscapes for the 21st Century"
Peter Kuper: "Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz"
Kevin Caplicki & Molly Fair from Justseeds: Creators of the "Prison Portfolio Project"
Vikki Law: Author of "Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women"
Subversive Practices
Posted May 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A couple friends have passed along links to this upcoming show in Stuttgart Germany. It looks extremely interesting:
Subversive Practices:
Art under Conditions of Political Repression
60s–80s / South America / Europe
May 30 – August 2, 2009
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
Schlossplatz 2, D – 70173 Stuttgart
Subversive Practices:
From May 30 to August 2, 2009 the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart devotes itself to experimental and conceptual art practices that had become established between the nineteen-sixties and eighties in Europe and South America under the influence of military dictatorships and communist regimes.
The exhibition’s nine sections will be focused on various contexts and strategies of artistic production along with their positioning vis-à-vis political and cultural repression in the GDR, Hungary, Romania, the Soviet Union, Spain, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and Peru. Of equal concern here are both the particularities of and the relations between the different temporal and local environments.
(image: Luis Pazos, Transformations of living masses, 1973)
Breaking the Siege:Justice for Atenco
Posted May 3, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Film Screening of Romper el Cerco-"Breaking the Siege" a film by Canal Sies de Julio and Promedios in NYC
May 4, 2009 1:30-4:30pm Martin E. Segal Theatre CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue
"Breaking the Siege" documednts the repression of Atenco's social movement (Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra -FPDT). This is a simultaneous projection on Brasil, México and NY as part of Libertad Y Justicia para Atenco-Campaña Nacional y Internacional(The national and international campain for justice and freedom for political prisioners of Atenco)
a film about the events in Atenco / Mexico 2006San Salvador Atenco, May 2006. A small town in the suburbs of Mexico City. Two months before the presidential elections, a conflict for land and rights escalates between the population of Atenco and the Mexican government. Unbelievable events take place: the police attack a marketplace, the inhabitants block the highways leading to the city, and confrontations between an outraged population and police forces break out. The state of emergency goes on for several days and culminates in the death of a 14 year old boy.
This video analyzes the events in San Salvador Atenco during the first days of May and denounces the violation of the civilian population’s human rights by state and federal police forces. The documentary deconstructs the mass media’s operating methods, which were responsible for creating a climate of fear and an information blockade on the events in San Salvador Atenco, in the midst of an especially delicate situation: the 2006 process of presidential succession in Mexico.
WW3 Illustrated Release Party NYC
Posted April 27, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
World War 3 Illustrated Release Party
Thursday, April 30, 2009 7-9PM
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA)
594 Broadway, Suite 401 (Between Houston and Prince st.)
New York, NY 10012
Come celebrate the release of "Wordless Worlds" issue #39 of World War 3 Illustrated.
Featuring multi-media presentation of art by:
Peter Kuper
Mac McGill
Seth Tobocman
Paula Hewitt Amram
Sabrina Jones
Eric Drooker
Kevin Pyle
Chuck Sperry
Rebecca Migdal
and many others...
with an animated film by Onur Tukel
and live music by Eric Blitz, Steve Wishnia, Andy Laties, Breeze and more!
Subversive Tech & Burma's Struggle for Democracy
Posted April 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Just in:
In Burma/Myanmar, the military junta has ruled since 1962, brutally suppressing human rights and the flow of information. Yet in the fall of 2007, the military found itself challenged by Buddhist clergy and ordinary citizens who used nonviolent actions and 21st century technology to challenge the regime. Although the so-called Saffron Revolution failed to result in regime change, dedicated Burmese activists are continuing to risk their lives to work for change in their country. In a country of 58 million with less than 1% internet and cell phone penetration, how is technology being used to challenge a military regime?
Join us for an evening conversation on this topic, including:
-- A presentation by Digital Democracy on the use of technology inside and along Burma's borders.
-- Footage from the Sept. 2007 Saffron Revolution, where tech such as mobile phones and the internet allowed protesters to coordinate and publicize the largest protests seen in a generation,
-- A Q&A with "Stanley", a Burmese computer programmer and chairperson of the All Burma IT Students Union.
Monday, April 27th, 7:30pm, free
The Change You Want To See Gallery
http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Buddha Cat Press Opening
Posted April 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Karen Fiorito (of Hard Pressed Studio) has new project/studio she's launching in LA called Buddha Cat Press:
House Magic: Squatted Social Centers Exhibition
Posted April 23, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
There's a giant new show about squated social centers opening at ABC Nno Rio in NYC. If you are in town, check it out. Read through the whole post here, there is a schedule of great looking films and events at the end:
House Magic: Bureau of Foreign Correspondence
exhibition at ABC No Rio
April 21 to May 10, 2009
evening events Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings
Exhibition blog here.
Exhibition events website here.
The social center movement in Europe will be the focus of a project exhibition at the Lower East Side cultural center ABC No Rio during later April and early May. Images and information, videos and discussion will engage the realities of this vital urban movement.
An outgrowth of political squatting, the social center in occupied vacant buildings was a key feature of the Italian Autonomist movement of the 1970s and '80s. Squats on the Lower East Side of New York City in the 1990s borrowed elements of the English and German social center models, including cafes, infoshops (library/bookstores), performance spaces and art galleries. These models also influenced the “infoshops” of the anarchist movement throughout the US. Across Europe, the often short-lived social centers became important organizing foci of the global justice movement during the first decade of the new century.
The House Magic exhibition will be an open structure, a channel for a continuous flow of information from the social centers themselves. Bulletins will be posted, banners will be painted, soup will be served. Video documentaries will be screened, and guests will discuss their experiences with social centers.
The social centers arose out of direct action squatting. In the new century, however, these actions have been less about housing, and more intended to create social, cultural and political space for action in the city.
In many cases, social center squatting is a response to gentrifying development in the city, an instance of "bottom up planning and architecture." The social centers are usually well integrated into the neighborhoods in which they are set up, and provide free space for cultural activities to take place. Many social centers work closely with immigrant groups, organizing, supporting and demonstrating to protect their rights.
From April 21 to May 10, we will be working the theme at ABC No Rio, processing and presenting information about the social center movement. A key node in global justice organizing, squatted social centers have sprung up in cities throughout Europe. They represent a new wave of activism, often highly theorized, with participation by both radical intellectuals and grassroots activists.Increasingly architects, urban planners and artists are joining political activists in this movement.
City from Below documentation
Posted April 23, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A couple weeks ago Kevin, Erik and I headed down to Baltimore for the City from Below Conference, which was quite awesome. A large and diverse group of really hard working people, trying to build urban democracy from the bottom up. The conference organizers had asked Justseeds to design posters for them, and Erik, Icky and I answered the call. Erik's image is here to the left, and Icky's is here, and mine here. The organizers have been collecting all the video, photo and audio documentation from the conference, and putting it up on their website. You can see a lot of what happened in a great collection of videos here. In addition, there was a very cool companion conference for kids called Kid(z) City, which had a whole parallel track of activities for kids. They also produced an awesome coloring book, with a ton of great taking back the city images. They also included my "Free" image, which got some cool coloring jobs (thanks to Emily for the flic).
Signs of Change Reception Friday
Posted April 22, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
SIGNS OF CHANGE:
SOCIAL MOVEMENT CULTURES 1960s TO NOW
April 5, 2009 - June 5, 2009
Troy Night Out Reception: April 24 5pm - 9pm
at The Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River Street, Troy NY, 518-273-0552
In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee as part of Exit Art's Curatorial Incubator, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.
Organized thematically, the exhibition presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for Civil Rights and Black Power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women's rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis, as well as uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands; against airport construction in Japan; and student and worker revolution in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles, and social organization.
Although histories of political groups and counter-cultures have been written, and political and activist shows have been held, this exhibition is a groundbreaking attempt to chronicle the artistic and cultural production of these movements. Signs of Change offers a chance to see relatively unknown or rarely seen works, and is intended to not only provide a historical framework for contemporary activism, but also to serve as an inspiration for the present and the future.
Sponsored by iEAR Presents! and Humanities@Rensselaer
Here is some more info on the show:
The Miller Gallery
Exit Art
Justseeds at Left Forum NYC
Posted April 17, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Justseeds (Molly, Kevin and I) will be tabling at the Left Forum in New York City this weekend! In addition, Molly co-organized a panel which I'll be speaking on on Sunday at 3pm, and I will also be moderating a separate panel at 3pm on Saturday. All the details are here:
Left Forum
Sat. April 18 & Sun. April 19
Pace University
One Pace Plaza
New York, NY 10038
(across from City Hall)
Saturday 3pm:
Counter Culture Industries: Capitalist, Anti-capitalist, Non-capitalist
Jesse Goldstein - Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
David Spataro - Geography, CUNY Graduate Center
Brandon Joyce - Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Studies
Stephen Duncombe - Gallatin School, New York University
Chris Carlsson - author, "Nowtopia!"
Tianna Kennedy - artist and curator
Josh MacPhee - author and curator
Sunday 3pm:
Illustrating Resistance: Art, Activism and Popular Education
Molly Fair - member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
Kevin Pyle - artist, illustrator of Prison Town: Paying the Price, for The Real Cost of Prisons Comix
Peter Kuper - artist, editor of World War 3 Illustrated, author of Diario de Oaxaca
Susan Willmarth - artist, illustrator of Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children for the Real Cost of Prisons Comix
Josh MacPhee - artist, member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, editor of Reproduce and Revolt/ Reproduce Y Rebélate
We'll also be tabling all day long both days, so please come and say hi!
Microcosm Tour
Posted April 16, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A bunch of our friends are heading out on the Microcosm tour for the next month. Check them out in your town:
Microcosm Tour 2009
Who's on tour:
Shelley Jackson (Chainbreaker)
John Isaacson (DIY Screenprinting)
Joshua Ploeg/Plague (In Search of the Lost Taste)
Moe Bowstern (Xtra Tuf zine)
Dates:
apr 15 columbus - The Legion of Doom, 7 PM, 1579 Indianola
apr 16 pittsburgh - Carnegie Library, 6 PM
apr 17 Bard College - Root Cellar Infoshop, 7 PM
apr 18 buffalo - Sugar City, 19 Wadsworth St., 2 PM
apr 19 syracuse - Westcott Community Center, 4 PM
apr 20 albany - SUNY college, Humanities building of the Uptown SUNY Campus (rooms 116, 122, and 123), 7:30 PM
apr 21 providence - as220 w/ Screaming Females 10 PM
apr 22 new haven - Elm City Infoshop, 7 PM, 810 State St
apr 23 new york city - Bluestockings, 172 Allen St., 7 PM
apr 24 Brooklyn, NY - Surreal Estate, 15 Thames St., 7 PM
apr 25 philadelphia - Borrowed Time, 6:30 PM, 1202 s 46th street (near kingsessing)
apr 26 baltimore - Atomic Books
apr 27 dc - American University w/ Derrick Jensen
apr 28 richmond - Gallery 5, $3
apr 29 harrisonburg, VA - Clementine, 7 PM, 153 s main st, 22801 / 540.801.8881
apr 30 norfolk, va - Offbase, 2501 Fawn St.
may 1 Durham, NC - Bull City Headquarters, 7 PM
may 2 columbia, sc - help!
may 3 savannah, ga - The Pony Pen, 650 East 36th St, 7 PM, $3-5
may 4 atlanta - Central Library, 11 AM
may 5 knoxville - Birdhouse, 5 PM, 800 N. 4th Ave
may 7 murfeesboro, TN - Linebaugh Public Library, 6 PM, 105 W. Vine St.
may 8 nashville, TN - Firebrand Infoshop, 7 PM, 1318 Little Hamilton Ave
may 9 louisville - Skull Alley, 1017 East Broadway
(BRAWL) Broad's Regional Arm Wrestling League will hold its first 3 matches!
Posted April 14, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
How could you possibly miss this? Picture WWF theatrics meets bad ass women arm wrestlers competing like their lives depended on it!
LAY-DEES! Come put your elbows down and your hands together. Let's get dressed up, crank the volume, and twist some wrists! At BRAWL events, wrestlers like Jackie-O-Nasty and Queen Victorious duke it out to the tune of their own theme songs, and they don't do it alone: each girl brings her posse as back up.
This is beyond sport. This is beyond entertainment. This is brute strength on stage.
Place your bets on the broad of your choice, wager for the babe of your desire, put your wrists up and throw your dough down. Then watch your cash go towards local organizations whose services benefit women and girls.
There is no cover charge at any of the three events BRAWL is hosting this spring:
Friday April 17, 2009
The Black Swan in Tivoli, NY
8pm
(Proceeds from our first event will go to Family of Woodstock Domestic Violence Shelter)
Friday May 1, 2009
The Black Swan in Tivoli, NY
8pm
Friday May 15, 2009
THE BARN at 33 Broadway in Tivoli, NY
8pm
Learn more about our wrestlers, judges, and ref at
http://brawlnewyork.blogspot.com
All proceeds go to Family of Woodstock's Domestic Violence Shelter
http://www.familyofwoodstock.org/
If you are interested in being an arm wrestler in the future, contact hudsonvalleybrawl@gmail.com.
Justseeds Prison Portfolio graphics in Use
Posted April 12, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds Collective Projects
Good to see that some of the graphics from the Justseeds Prison Portfolio project are finding their way onto fliers and the covers of periodicals. The portfolios that were donated to groups organizing against the prison industrial complex each came with a cdr of all the images from the portfolio - plus prison justice related images from Reproduce and Revolt (a book of copy-right free graphics available through Justseeds / co-edited by Josh and Favianna.)
Here are examples of three. If you know of more, send us an email. Additionally, there are a few remaining copies of the portfolio left for sale on our site that help us recover the cost of creating 100 portfolios.
Shaun Slifer at Columbia College Chicago
Posted April 12, 2009 by shaun in Events
I'm spending this week at Columbia College in Chicago as part of the school's Critical Encounters program. The theme this year is "Human|Nature", and I'm going to have my hands full. Monday I'll be working with Joan Giroux's class doing a version of the coyote tracks project and hopefully getting some of them installed in spots around Chicago (which has a burgeoning coyote population). Then I'll be performing a day of back-to-back presentations in Fereshteh Toosi's class, where I'll be wrangling my ideas regarding the ongoing animal-attack videos I've been plugging away at for the last two years. And, later in the week I'm doing a public lecture about some of my recent individual and collective projects, including Justseeds. The public lecture will be this Thursday, April 16 at 6:30 pm in the Hokin Lecture Hall at Columbia (623 S. Wabash, 1st floor). Come by if you're in town!
I've also had some work included in the current exhibit "Loaded: Hunting Culture in America", curated by Audrey Michelle Mast and Ann Wiens at the Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S. Wabash in Chicago. I have two videos in the exhibition, both fairly new. I've posted one here, which was originally created for the Fugitive Projects' 60 Second Video Project (2009), which I was invited to participate in this winter. The footage is edited down from a pivotal scene in Jean-Jacques Annaud's "The Bear" (1988), which I first saw as a child. Other influences include listening to Sonic Youth while snowed in, camping in the woods, and a bit of that old fear and anxiety regarding "wilderness" that's been the fuel for all my videos lately...
NYC Anarchist Bookfair
Posted April 11, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
The NYC Anarchist bookfair takes place today. Come kick it with us at our Justseeds table in
Judson Memorial
55 Washington Square South
NYC, NY
11am-8pm
Illustrating Resistance: Art and Activism Event in NYC
Posted April 10, 2009 by molly_fair in Justseeds Collective Projects
Come on over to Bluestockings Sunday April 12 at 7pm for a panel co-hosted by Justseeds and PM Press. Slideshows by Kevin Pyle and Seth Tobacman, Justseeds members Kevin Caplicki, Erik Ruin, Molly Fair moderating.
Kevin Pyle, artist, educator, contributer and co-editor of World War 3 Illustrated, author of Blindspot The Real Cost of Prisons Comix, for the Real Cost of Prisons Project, read Josh MacPhee's review on the Justseeds Blog Kevin Pyle's comic Prison Town: Paying the Price tells the story the ways in which the financing and siting of prisons and jails effects the people of rural communities in which prison are built. It also tells the story of the how mass incarceration effects the people of urban communities where the majority of people who are incarcerated come from. Included in the comic book are alternatives to the current system. There are 3 comics in total which explore different aspects of the prison industrial complex and contain stories and statistical information that has been thoroughly researched and documented. As of October 2008, 125,000 copies of the comic books have been printed and more than 100,000 have been sent to families of people who are incarcerated, people who are incarcerated and to organizers and activists throughout the country. The demand for them is constant and the ways in which they are being used is inspiring.Comic books are sent free of charge to organizations who submit a one page email or letter explaining how you will use the comic books in your organizing, community education and outreach work. Book versions of the comic are published by PM Press, and free PDF versions of the comic and flyers are available via the website.
presentation by Kevin Caplicki and Erik Ruin
Justseeds portfolio Voices from the Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex
In honor of Critical Resistance's 10 Year Anniversary, Justseeds created a portfolio of original prints that either critiqued the prison industrial complexor addressed alternatives to incarceration. Twenty one artists from the US, Canada, and Mexico contributed prints. Justseeds donated over 50 portfolios to anti-prison movements groups including Critical Resistance, Books to Prisoners, the TAMMS Year Ten Campaign, The National Public Service Council to Abolish Private Prisons, and numerous other groups. There have already been several exhibitions and the prints have been shared with a discussion group of men at the Oakhill Correctional Facility. We will talk about the process of creating the portfolio, how we hope it will be used for organizing purposes, and what responses have been so far. This will be our first New York presentation of the portfolio. If you can't make it, there will be another on May 8th at ABC NO RIO and the images from the portfolio will soon be available on our website so you can use them in your organizing work!
Seth Tobocman, artist, activist, co-editor and contributer to World War 3 Illustrated, author You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive
Disaster and Resistance: Comics and Landscapes for the 21st Century
Promo From AK Press
In his new book Seth Tobocman he outlines pressing social and political struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century, from post 9-11 New York City to Israel and Palestine, to Iraq and New Orleans. Disaster and Resistance outlines pressing social and political struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century—from post 9-11 New York City, to Israel and Palestine, to Iraq and New Orleans. Fans of Seth's classic works, You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive, and War in the Neighborhood, will see that his punch has not softened as his new work skewers the individuals and institutions reaping havoc across the globe today. In his bold comic style, Seth chronicles events as they happen, musing not on the chaos of instability and fear, but on the struggle against it.
PM Press in NYC
Posted April 10, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
PM Press will be in NYC participating and holding plenty of events. check em out!
The schedule is packed! The weekend of the 11th-12th we are tabling at the New York Anarchist Bookfair and will have a load of panelists. With events at Bluestockings Bookstore and the Brecht Forum throughout the week, and everything culminating at the Left Forum the following weekend with a sprinkiling of outside events...well you can see we will be busy! And we hope to see you around, it's going to be an amazing week indeed.
Stencilada Photos
Posted April 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Jesus and Melanie took Russell Howze's Stencilada event a couple weekends back in San Francisco. Here are a couple photos of the stenciled mural panels painted at the event, and you can see more here. And here.
Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees: A Living Newspaper on Haiti
Posted April 8, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees: A Living Newspaper on Haiti
Performances and Post-Show Discussions on Haiti, Political Theater, and Global Healthcare
Thursday through Saturday, April 9 – 11; and Wednesday through Friday, April 15 -17
General Admission: $8, Students $6.
All shows at 8 p.m. Post-show discussions April 9, 10, 15, and 16 at 9:30 p.m.
Kresge Little Theater, 48 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
Tickets will be available 45 minutes before showtime at the Kresge Little Theater box office.
For advance tickets: http://dramashop.mit.edu/tickets/
Further ticket information email: ds_tickets@mit.edu
A new puppet, object, and music spectacle about the politics of global healthcare in Haiti premieres at MIT’s Kresge Little Theater for a two-week run from April 9 to 17. "Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees: A Living Newspaper on Haiti" looks at the past, present, and future of Haiti in terms of the politics of global healthcare, as refracted through the work of Paul Farmer's Partners in Health organization and its fight against AIDS.
Signs of Change Troy
Posted April 7, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
I just got back to NYC from installing Signs of Change upstate in Troy. Here's the info for the show (please stop by if you're in the area!), and below are some photos from the install.
Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now
Reception: April 24, 2009 5:00-9:00 PM
Exhibition runs from April 5, 2009 - June 5, 2009
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy NY, 518.273.0552,
Sponsored by iEAR Presents! and Humanities at Rensselaer
In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee as part of Exit Art's Curatorial Incubator, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements. Organized thematically, the exhibition presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for Civil Rights and Black Power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women's rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis, as well as uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands; against airport construction in Japan; and student and worker revolution in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles, and social organization. Although histories of political groups and counter-cultures have been written, and political and activist shows have been held, this exhibition is a groundbreaking attempt to chronicle the artistic and cultural production of these movements. Signs of Change offers a chance to see relatively unknown or rarely seen works, and is intended to not only provide a historical framework for contemporary activism, but also to serve as an inspiration for the present and the future.
Resistencia y Solidaridad
Posted April 6, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Deep Dish TV Presents Part Four of DIY Media: Movement Perspectives on Critical Moments
Resistencia y Solidaridad:
El Salvador, Colombia, and the U.S. Solidarity Movement
A Retrospective Film Screening & Discussion
April 7th, 7:00pm
Labowitz Theater of New York University
715 Broadway (at Washington Place),
New York City
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Presented in Collaboration with WBAI's Wake Up Call, and NY CISPES, this special community forum is a retrospective film screening and panel discussion where filmmakers, activists and scholars will get together to discuss the U.S. role in Latin America, and how grassroots, solidarity organizing by U.S. activists has made a difference in resisting those policies. We will specifically examine how video and other popular media forms have been used as a tool of resistance and solidarity.
Recent elections in El Salvador put the FMLN - the former guerilla group and long-time opposition movement - in control of the government after years of right wing domination, supported by Washington. In Colombia, the indigenous and popular Minga of 2008 has sparked a renewed call for broad-based change in a country that for years has been dominated by repressive, militarist leaders. In both these countries, as in other parts of the region, social movement activists have used video technology and other alternative media to promote their calls for change. As part of Deep Dish TV's commitment to using media as a tool for community empowerment, panelists will discuss some of the lessons learned over the last 20 years of resistance and solidarity, and their efforts to resist militarism, corporate globalization and U.S. interventionism in the hemisphere.
STEN at the House of Love & Dissent
Posted April 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our friends at the House of Love & Dissent in Rome are putting on an exciting new show, an evolving installation by street artist Sten (along with comrades Lex and Lucamonte). My Italian is not so good, but it sounds like they'll be covering the space with a growing number of giant wall posters, building an environment focused on images of a woman that has the power to heal the world. The show is called PO-STErN, and initial images look pretty cool.
Edgar Heap of Birds in Michigan
Posted April 3, 2009 by dylanminer in Events
Beginning this weekend, my friend and amazing Cheyenne/Arapahoe artist Edgar Heap of Birds will be creating a public installation at Michigan State University. As part of his 'Native Hosts' series, Heap of Birds will be placing a dozen signs around the university's campus calling attention to the Indigenous peoples of Michigan.
In addition to his public installation which will be up through the Fall, he will also be creating work with my class, 'Art as Social Justice,' as well as giving two public lectures and working with tribal youth. If around Mid-Michigan, send me an email.
Bronx Anarchist Fair
Posted April 3, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Justseeds will be tabling at the Bronx Anarchist Fair tomorrow, in the Bronx, NYC.
Here's the info:
Saturday April 4th
11am-6pm Brook Park
141st St. and Brook Ave.
Bronx, NY
NYC Anarchist Bookfair poster
Posted April 3, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Josh's poster design for this years NYC Anarchist Bookfair
DAM returns to NYC
Posted April 2, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
.....The Palestinian hip hop crew DAM is comin back to NYC!...and being
joined by REBEL DIAZ, INVINCIBLE, FINALE, and DJ OJA!
PEP (Palestine Education Project) presents....
HOMELAND HIP HOP: A Benefit Show for the Indigenous Youth Delegation to
Palestine
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Southpaw
125 5th Ave
Park Slope Brooklyn
8pm doors, 9pm show
$12 in advance, $15 at the door
All proceeds will go directly to support the delegation of indigenous
youth, artists, and youth organizers traveling to Palestine this coming
August.
The delegates are coming from the following organizations, check them out
and support their inspiring work!
The Last Days and Show for Paper Boat in Milwaukee
Posted April 2, 2009 by pete in Events
Just heard the news, the great store and gallery Paper Boat Boutique in Milwaukee WI will be closing its doors, if you are in Milwaukee or passing through be sure to stop by and see the last show and pick up some of the amazing hand made work they sell.
here's what the folks there have to say:
Dearest patrons of Paper Boat,As of May 31st Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery will be closing its doors after 4 great years of being open. The current economic climate is the main reason that led us to this very difficult decision.
We really hope you can join us for our last Gallery reception featuring work by Wisconsin artist Micaela O'Herlihy on Gallery Night, April 17th from 7-10pm.
There will also be a closing sale for the month of May to help us reduce our inventory. It will be a great time to pick up those items you've always been meaning to get. Also, don't forget to spend your gift certificates if you have been holding onto one!
We thank you so very much for your support over the past 4 years. Even though the Boat is closing, we are excited to seek out new opportunities and projects. We also want to stress the importance of supporting the remaining small businesses and galleries in Milwaukee. Those spaces are vital to keeping our city and our community unique and enjoyable.
We hope to see all of you during the last couple of months of being open!
Warm regards,
The ladies of the Boat-
Faythe Levine & Kim Kisiolek
Join us for our last show ever!
"Bullies"
New Work by Micaela O'Herlihy
April 17- May 31st, 2009
Opening reception Gallery Night 7-10pm
Contact Information:
414-483-8462
2375 S. Howell Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207
Justseeds Exhibit at Sewanee University
Posted March 31, 2009 by shaun in Events
Greg Pond at Sewanee University of the South put on a show at the rural school's art building which included a hefty selection of Justseeds prints this past month. Greg has been on the road with his own projects so we just recently got a couple of photos of the exhibit, which includes a wall of the Celebrate People's History posters.
Art of Protest Exhibit in Berkeley
Posted March 30, 2009 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
Join us for the opening reception of our two-person show in Berkeley this Friday!Friday, April 3rd at the Pueblo Nuevo Gallery in Berkeley, CA. This exhibit will feature some of the most recent work Melanie and Jesus have created in partnership with grassroots organizing efforts on issues such as ending State violence like ICE raids and police brutality, efforts for decolonizing education through access to Ethnic Studies and prints celebrating the ongoing resistance to Neoliberalism by the Zapatistas.
Dignidad Rebelde is a project created by activist-artists Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes. It acts as a space for collaboration and artistic skill-sharing that is grounded in a Xicana worldview and is fueled by a collective desire to support grassroots organizing and social justice. Working through a print collective in Oakland, Barraza and Cervantes are committed to producing and distributing screen printed political posters and fostering resurgence in the screen printing medium for social change.
Pueblo Nuevo Gallery
1828 San Pablo Ave. Suite 1 • Berkeley, CA 94702
Opening Reception:
Friday, April 3rd, 6pm-Midnight
Music, Food and Poster sale
Artist Talk and Closing Reception:
Sunday, April 26th, 2-5pm
2009 Indigenous People's Night of Resistance
Posted March 30, 2009 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
UC Berkeley will be hosting its third annual Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance this Thursday, April 2nd from 5:30 to 10:30 pm. For the the third year Jesus Barraza and I will be participating in the event. This year we will be tabling and continuing our support of Indigenous students at Berkeley.
Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance is a night to honor all people who walk with the earth to protect and defend it. Indigenous peoples from Africa, Asia, Native America, and the Pacific Islands are not of the past but continue to live with dignity and continue to hold a great responsibility in sharing the knowledge of our ancestors who resisted colonialism in order for us to be here today. We envision a world without borders and seek to unite all marginalized communities through the intellectual, cultural and spiritual resistance that runs in our veins. Through our music, dance, art and spoken word we will share our experiences in hopes of building a more inclusive world-view within this university and all social systems at large.
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009
Time: 5:30pm - 10:30pm
Location: Pauley Ballroom (MLK Student Center)
Street: corner of Bancroft & Telegraph
City/Town: Berkeley, CA
ALL AGES WELCOME!
THIS IS A COMMUNITY EVENT. ABSOLUTELY NO DRUGS OR ALCOHOL. NO COLORS - NO RED OR BLUE.
MCs (our very own xinaxtli guerilleras): Crissy Gallardo & Alison Dorantes-Garcia
opening prayer by:
Spirit Drum
Performing Live:
Danza In Xochitl In Cuicatl
Gaby Erandi Rico
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Los Poets del Norte
Olmeca
Sistahailstorm
Ise Lyfe
& many more to be announced!!
Speakers representing:
Indigenous Premaculture Project
Indigenous Identity & Muxeres from El Salvador documentary
Vendors:
Dignidad Rebelde
Chiapas Support Committee
Xinaxtli
Huaxtec
Inkza Crafts
Brown Berets
& many more!!
**t-shirts will be available for a small donation to complete the funding of this event, please be generous**
if you'd like to volunteer, please e-mail crissygallardo@berkeley.edu or j.cerritos831@gmail.com
Temporary Services in NYC
Posted March 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
If you're in NYC tomorrow night, roll on down to Bluestockings and check out Brett Bloom discussing the new Temporary Services book Public Phenomena:
Friday, March 27th @ 7PM - Free at Bluestockings Bookstore (172 Allen Street btw Stanton and Rivington)
Reading: Brett Bloom “Public Phenomena”
Temporary Services produces exhibitions, events, projects, and publications. Join Brett Bloom for a reading and discussion of Public Phenomena, a multi-city examination of informal modifications of every day public space and their implications for changing city use.
In addition to Public Phenomena, Brett Bloom will present four booklets in their Temporary Conversations interview series: Kawabata Makoto, Tim Kerr, The Dicks, and the latest: Jean Toche / Guerilla Art Action Group.
Temporary Services is Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer. We are based in Illinois and have existed since 1998. We produce exhibitions, events, projects, and publications, making no distinction between art practice and other creative human endeavors.
Temporary Services seeks to create and participate in ethical relationships that are not competitive and are mutually beneficial. We strive towards aesthetic experiences built upon trust and unlimited experimentation.
Up Against the Wall - Berkeley Posters from the 1960s
Posted March 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This show looks like it's going to be great, mark your calendars!:
Up Against the Wall - Berkeley Posters from the 1960s
Exhibition 4/19 through 9/26, 2009
the Berkeley Historical Society
1931 Center St.
Berkeley, California (510) 848-0181
Opening April 19, 3:00-5:00 PM
As 1950s America woke up from the deep chill of McCarthyism and the Cold War, a new genre of popular culture blossomed in the streets of Berkeley during the mid-1960s. Spurred by the success of local rock and counterculture posters, political posters were vibrant public documents that promoted a wide range of social issues. This exhibition documents Berkeley's unique role in the evolution of this medium, and includes examples of works on such diverse issues as gay liberation, people's health care, opposition to the Viet Nam war, support for political prisoners, demand for alternative educational models, and community control of police. The show covers the "long 1960s" (1964-1974) and explores the complex interaction between local activists, artists, publishers, and distributors that made this cultural explosion possible.
Curated by archivist and poster scholar Lincoln Cushing, this exhibition is drawn from a unique private Berkeley collection of over 25,000 political posters assembled by Free Speech Movement activist Michael Rossman.
Due Process: An educational exhibit about the many processes of printmaking
Posted March 25, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our friends at PEEL sent along this announcement for a cool looking show:
Due Process: An educational exhibit about the many processes of printmaking
Curated by: Kevin Orlosky
First Friday Opening Reception April 3rd 7-11pm
Exhibit runs through April 28th
Gallery5
200 West Marshall Street
Richmond, Virginia 23220
Printmaking is one of the most versatile forms of art making. It has been used by artists for thousands of years. It has had tremendous advancements over the years while the traditional techniques are still being used. Artists are usually drawn to its methodology, intimacy, and subtlety. One advantage to printmaking is that prints can be editioned so that multiples of the same image may be sold. Because of this, printmaking has been used in the reproduction market. Unfortunately outside of the fine art and collector world, a reproduction is what is generally thought of when someone mentions the word "print." This is mostly due to the size of the greedy art reproduction industry. "Due Process" aims to end this stigma that has hindered the reputation of fine art prints to the general public. Fine art prints are original artwork that has been produced by the artist's hand. Due Process will showcase not only the end result of the artist's works, but will exhibit and explain the steps, tools and materials involved in each print process.
Artists included in the show: Deberah Chaney, Robert brown, Beth Grabowski, Kevin Haas, Keith Howard, Martha Oatway, Andrea Olson, Kevin Orlosky, Judith O'Rourke, Justin Rice, Deepa Swanson, Dan Weldon, Team8 Press
Reading by Anarcho-surrealist Ron Sakolsky (Portland)
Posted March 24, 2009 by icky in Events
Reading Frenzy Hosts Book Release for Anarcho-surrealist Author Ron Sakolsky
At 7pm on Wednesday, March 25, Reading Frenzy will host a book release event for anarcho-surrealist author Ron Sakolsky's new book Swift Winds, published by Eberhardt Press of Portland.
Sakolsky's new book is a backpocket compendium of subversive texts, marvelous manifestos, mutinous rants, outrageous ideas, utopian dreams, impossible demands and incendiary broadsides strategically aimed at countering the pathos of miserablism with the uncontrollable laughter of the insurgent imagination.
Sakolsky will be at the event to read selections from Swift Winds and will sign copies of the book, his second anthology of essays and poetry.
Sakolsky is a widely-published author whose essays have appeared in an array of dissident publications such as Alternative Press Review, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, Fifth Estate, Green Anarchy, Black Sun, The Oystercatcher, and many others. Swift Winds is Sakolsky's sixth book. His previous books include Creating Anarchy (2005); Surrealist Subversions, which he edited for Autonomedia (2002); Sounding Off: Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, edited with Fred Wei-Han Ho (Autonomedia, 1996); and Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Drop-Out Culture, edited with James Koehline (AK Press, 1993). An active proponent of underground radio broadcasting, Sakolsky also edited Seizing the Airwaves: A Free Radio Handbook with Stephen Dunifer (AK Press, 1998).
Swift Winds features etched illustrations by renowned artist Anais LaRue. The book is being offset printed and bound at the Eberhardt Press print studio in Portland.
Reading Frenzy is located at 921 SW Oak Street. For more information on the event, call 503-347-1048, email info@eberhardtpress.org, or see www.eberhardtpress.org.
Exile Infoshop: Prison Justice Week
Posted March 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
I'm a little late to catch this, as the week is half over, but friends in Ottawa at the Exile Infoshop are hosting a great week of prison activist events, including an exhibition of our Voices from the Outside portfolio.
Prison Justice Week
March 20 to 27, 2009
Exile Infoshop
256 Bank St. (second floor), Ottawa, ON.
reg. hours: Wednesday-Saturday, noon-8pm; Sunday noon-5pm
Featuring the Justseeds art exhibit “Voices from Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex” and nightly events!
All Events @ 7PM,
Free, but regrettably not wheelchair accessible
* Friday March 20th - Kick-off Prison Justice Art exhibit w/DJ
* Saturday March 21st - Panel Discussion: From Prisons to Colonialism : Global Apartheid w/ Jaggi Singh, Abdullah Al-Malki, Yavar Hameed (representing Abousfian Abdelrazik). Abdullah Almalki is a Canadian citizen who was detained, interrogated and torture in Syria because of information that could have only originated from Canadian government agencies.Yavar Hameed is a lawyer representing Abousfian Abdelrazik. Mr. Abdelrazik was abducted, illegally detained and held in captivity by Sudanese authorities for approximately two years at the recommendation of CSIS. While in detention, Mr. Abdelrazik was subjected to coercive interrogation and torture by Sudanese officials with direct Canadian involvement. For the past five years, the Canadian government has been illegally blocking Mr. Abdelrazik’s right to return to Canada. Jaggi Singh is a no borders, anti-capitalist, migrant and indigenous solidarity organizer based in Montreal. He is currently active with No One Is Illegal-Montreal, Solidarity Across Borders and other groups.
* Sunday March 22nd - Prisoner Letter Writing and Crafts Night
* Monday March 23rd - Film Night - Life Inside Out, NFB production, a vérité-style documentary that takes us inside the walls of Grand Valley Institution for Women.
* Tuesday March 24th - Panel Discussion: Indigenous People and the Criminal Injustice System featuring: Kim Pate - Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies; Sheila Grantham - Researcher on The Aboriginal Women and Stigma Project
* Wednesday March 25th - Prisoner Letter Writing and Crafts Night
* Thursday March 26th - Speaker Event and Journal for Prisoners on Prisons Issue 17 Release w/ Sophie Harkat, Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee
* Friday March 27th - Fundraiser Costume Dance Party.
Of the Danger of Love, Refusal of Labor, and the Beauty of Autonomy
Posted March 24, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Of the Danger of Love, Refusal of Labor, and the Beauty of Autonomy
"Proliferating and losing oneself. This was the sense of the collective enterprise that the movement was attempting in Italy at the time." –Franco Berardi
Please join The Change You Want To See Gallery for a conversation with renowned philosopher, media activist and cultural agitator Franco Berardi (aka Bifo) and media theorist MacKenzie Wark, author of Game Theory and A Hacker's Manifesto.
The Change You Want To See Gallery
Monday, March 30th, 7:30pm (free)
84 Havemeyer St, at Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(L to Bedford; G to Metropolitan; J/M/Z to Marcy)
Bifo has been a pivotal figure in Italian social movements for that past 40 years. He co-founded the legendary Radio Alice (1977), the first pirate radio station in Italy, the magazine A/Traverso (1977-81), and Rekombinant (2000), an online network environment that focuses on radical philosophy, urban conflicts, media activism, networking art, knowledge economy, western psychopathology, autonomous universities, and institutions of the common. More recently he produced the autonomous street television network Orfeo TV (2002), which sparked a national network of pirate micro TV stations to counter the media monopoly of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
This event marks the long awaited publication of the first two Bifo’s books in English: Felix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography (Palgrave, 2008); and Ethereal Shadows: Communication and Power in Contemporary Italy (with Marco Jacquemet and Gianfranco Vitali, Autonomedia, 2009).
The evening will be moderated by Marco Deseriis, member of Not An Alternative and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU.
Stencilada
Posted March 23, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Stencil Archive and CELLspace present:
Opening Grill Out
Saturday, March 28
1 to 5 pm
2050 Bryant St.
b/t 18th and 19th Sts.
SF, CA 94110
FREE (one day only, inside if raining)
Food on the grill, bevs in the cooler, music on the boombox, and art on the walls
(some food and beverages will be provided while supplies last)
Featuring eight panels of art by:
Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza
Russell Howze with Hugh D’Andrade
John Koleszar (AZ)
James S.
Crystal Townsend
Scott Williams
Peat Wollaeger (MO)
with special stencils on paper by Tiago DeJerk (OR)
Bring your own cut out stencils to add to the ongoing collection of stencil art at CELLspace (some paint provided)
A New Way Forward-Organizing site to protest bank bailouts
Posted March 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
I came across a website today called A New Way Forward. Its a website set up to encourage folks in the USA to organize demonstrations in their cities on April 11th.
It’s time to stop giving huge handouts to banks and start creating systemic change that helps everyone. We demand a new way forward now.We are sick of bailouts that are enriching bankers without restructuring a broken industry. Join us on April 11, 2009 as we rally for systematic change based in fairness and intelligent economics. Nationalize, Reorganize, Decentralize.
The site looks like a good resource and tool for people who haven't been involved in activists campaigns.
A New Way Forward is made up of national protests that will take place all over the country in major cities on April 11, 2009. This site was set up to help people and groups organize around a progressive approach to economic recovery in a ground up, localized organizing effort. People from all backgrounds will come together to influence national policy and organize their own rallies in their own city on April 11.The site allows anyone to sign up their city for a rally and begin working out the details with other local protesters in designated forums. Though each rally will be executed differently by different groups of people, the website provides a national community that will help draw attention, support and resources to the local efforts.
I am unaware of how long this has been online, yet it will be an experiment in people taking leadership and organizing outside of their previous networks. That also depends on how well this site is distributed, with networks like Facebook, Twitter, and a host of other new trends, it could be interesting.
Solidarity with the People of Palestine-NYC
Posted March 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
I read an article a few days ago on the International Solidarity Movement's website about an old aquaintence of mine, Tristan, who was critically injured on Friday March 13th by Israeli troops during protests against against construction of the annexation wall through the West Bank village of Ni’lin. He was hit in the forehead by a new type of high velocity, extended range teargas projectile, and has been transferred to Tel Hashomer hospital, near Tel Aviv with severe head injuries. A resident from Ni’lin was shot in the leg with live ammunition.
There will be a demonstration in NYC
Friday, March 20, 4-6pm
Solidarity with Tristan Anderson and the People of Palestine
Vigil at the Israeli Consulate
800 2nd Ave (btn 42nd&43rd St)
Please join us in our vigil to show our solidarity with Tristan and the people of Palestine.
Tea: A performance. A discussion. Thoughts from a veteran’s return voyage to Iraq
Posted March 17, 2009 by molly_fair in Events
A friend of a friend, IVAW member Aaron Hughes will be performing in Tea, part of the benefit exhibition 2,191 Days and Counting at Powerhouse Arena for Iraq Veterans Against the War.
March 19, 2009 1-4 PM
Powerhouse Arena 37 Main St. Dumbo Brooklyn, NY
TEA - chai - الشايtea |tē| noun • a hot drink made by infusing the dried, crushed leaves of the tea plant in boiling water.
Tea: A performance. A discussion. Thoughts from a veteran’s return voyage to Iraq
243 detainees left in Guantánamo
243 Styrofoam flowers
Tea is an ongoing dialogue that traverses a variety of landscapes. From the tea sipped on in this instillation, to a quaint coffee shop in the Lower Eastside, to a cage in Guantanamo Bay, to a motor pool in Iraq; tea is not only a favored drink but a shared moment that transcends cultural divides and systems of oppression. That is not meant as a clichéd utopian statement, but as a reminder of a shared humanity that is so often overlooked.
The project consists of three parts the installation, the performance, and an ongoing growing dialog. The installation is composed of all the needed materials to make, sit, enjoy, and commune over strong black tea. The performances consist of a series of monologues/stories shared by activists, Iraqis, veterans, and myself that reflect on the traumas of war. These monologues and the ephemera of the installation are designed to foster and grow the dialogue the third element aspect of the project.
Aaron Hughes served in the Illinois Army National Guard and in 2003 he was involuntarily deployed to Kuwait and Iraq with the belief he would provide humanitarian relief for the Iraqi people. As a truck driver he traveled throughout much of Iraq and quickly came to the realization that he was not providing any type of humanitarian relief, but in stead was contributing to the oppression, destruction, and dehumanization of the Iraqi people. Following a fifteen-month deployment Aaron returned home guilt stricken and committed to end the occupation.
This March Aaron, as a representative for Iraq Veterans Against the War, returned to Iraq in an important step in focusing more attention on the rights and needs of the Iraqi people. Since the U.S. occupation began, Iraqi unions have resisted oppression by organizing for worker rights and the creation of new unions. But under occupation, Iraqi workers have been targeted in an attempt to suppress the population and control Iraq’s natural resources. Independent labor unions are banned; labor leaders have been killed, tortured, beaten, and imprisoned; worker’s wages have been suppressed and their rights have been routinely violated; and union bank accounts have been frozen. Iraqi labor unions and workers have been among the leading non-sectarian forces defending Iraqi sovereignty and democracy by exercising their collective power through strikes to increase wages, resist privatization of Iraq’s oil industry, and stand up to foreign contractors who threaten their livelihoods.
So please sit and have tea with me…
Rhizome Collective/Bikes Across Borders Benefit-Austin, TX
Posted March 13, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Sadly, because of a city of Austin enforced eviction, this weekend will be the last Rhizome Collective event for the forseeable future. Go say goodbye at a joint Rhizome Collective/Bikes Across Borders benefit
Saturday, March 14th, 8pm-2am
Rhizome Collective
300 Allen St.
Austin, TXbands performing include:
THE BLUE HIT
TIL WE'RE BLUE OR DESTROYTIL WE'RE BLUE OR DESTROY
BUSCANDO EL MONTE
WINO VINO
THE BIKE BANDFood by Ararat, Adult Beverages
Bike Art, Slideshow and Video Projections, DJs, dancing and more
$5-500.00
All residents of the Rhizome and it's 10,000sq. ft. of warehouses and gardens will be evicted. also evicted will be Bikes Across Borders, Food Not Bombs, Art and Revolution, KPWR.ORG, and the Inside Books Project.
Rhizome has existed since 2000 on Austin's eastside, has been host to dozens of benefits with thousands of people, and raised 10's of thousands of dollars for non-profits, independent musicians and radical groups in Austin and around the country.
the members of the Rhizome Collective are hoping to eventually raise enough money to make city-enforced repairs and purchase our building in the future. Your participation and donations will help us reach this goal !!!!!
Justseeds at the San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair this weekend
Posted March 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Roger and I will be tabling all day Saturday and Sunday at the San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair, so if you are in the Bay Area, come on down and say hello. We'll be tabling with the awesome San Francisco Print Collective. Here's the info:
14th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
March 14, 2009 (10am-6pm)
March 15, 2009 (11am-5pm)
SF County Fair Building
Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way
Golden Gate Park
Directions here.
In the main hall about 60 vendors (booksellers, distributors, independent presses and political groups, from the local area, the west coast and North America) will be displaying books, pamphlets, zines, t-shirts and other merchandise and information. Two local worker-owned co-ops will be food and beverage vendors this year: Arizmendi on Sat 3/15, Other Avenues on Sun 3/16.
Speakers: Judith Levine, Bruce Anderson, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Barry Pateman, Michael Flores, Mark Anquoe, Cheb i Sabba, Andrej Grubajic, Victoria Law, Diane DiPrima, Stevphen Shukaitis, Richard Kempton, Jen Angel, James Tracy, Diana Block, Crudo, Cris Carlsson, Summer Brenner, Robert Ovetz, Osha Neumann, Clif Ross, Iain Boal, David Kubrin Josh MacPhee, Fly, Sara Brodzinsky, Bo Brown, Audrey Goodfriend, and many others, including panel discussions, Sex Workers, and Surviving the Economic Meltdown, Defend the RNC 8, plus film screenings & more. Bios, descriptions and additional information posted on the Schedule page.
May ’68 in Paris and the Student Movement in Ljubljana, 1968–1972
Posted March 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
For our far flung friends in Eastern Europe, if you can, a trip out to Ljubljana for this exhibition seems well worth it!:
May ’68 in Paris and the Student Movement in Ljubljana, 1968–1972
Posters, Film, and Photographs
29 January – 22 March 2009
International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC)
Grad Tivoli, Pod turnom 3
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
The protests and strikes by students and workers in Paris and other French cities in May and June of 1968, which challenged the traditional values of society and destabilized the regime of Charles de Gaulle, left an indelible mark on the history of the second half of the twentieth century. The protests, which soon spread across the world, encompassed Yugoslavia as well, including Ljubljana. French artists, some inspired by Guy Debord, acted as a kind of propaganda machine for the uprising. They occupied universities, established people’s studios, became agitators and activists, and exhibited their work on the streets and in factories.
The exhibition will present around eighty posters, loaned by the Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée in La Louvière, Belgium. They were created for the events in Paris, and their image has become synonymous with the urban struggle. The student movement in Ljubljana, from 1968 to 1972, will be documented by a film by Majda Širca, as well as the student newspapers Tribuna and SP (standing for slovensko podzemlje – “the Slovene underground”), leaflets and announcements, and photographs by Tone Stojko, Edi Šelhaus, and Žare Veselič, from the Museum and Galleries of the City of Ljubljana and Slovenia’s National Museum of Contemporary History.
SILENT AUCTION FOR SWIMMING CITIES OF SERENISSIMA: Secret Project Robot
Posted March 12, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
March 14th, 2009
Secret Project Robot - 210 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (at Metropolitan)
March 14th - Benefit Silent Auction 7:30pm - 10pm, Dance Party 9pm - 3am
swimmingcities.org
secretprojectrobot.org
Secret Project Robot will host a silent auction to benefit SWOON's latest nautical art project Swimming Cities of Serenissima. The benefit will take place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on March 14th. The bidding begins at 7:30pm and ends promptly at 10pm. Dancing and Djing by The Paw and Dirty Finger will follow the silent auction. Here is a selection of the participating artists:
SWOON
Blek Le Rat
The London Police
Faile
David Ellis
Maya Hayuk
Monica Canilao
Chris Stain
D*Face
Gaia
Tony Bones
Elbow-Toe
Brad Downey
Martha Cooper
Imminent Disaster
C. Damage
Cyclops
Michelle Handelman
Santiago Mostyn
Mike Houston & Martin Mazzora- Cannonball Press
D-Dock & 5003 of Hobby Horse
Matt Small
Dennis McNett
The Hunker Down To Rise Above Cinema Show (Portland)
Posted March 10, 2009 by icky in Events
The Oregon Department of Kick Ass presents
The Hunker Down To Rise Above Cinema Show
A slew of shorts curated by Vanessa Renwick focusing on folks taking matters into their own hands, be it within bike culture, hobo culture, kitchen culture or just plain ol’ falling in love.
Go to this link for more info on each of the films.
http://www.odoka.org/the_work/hunker_down_to_rise_above/
Friday March 13th 2009 at 7 pm
$5 dollars admission
The Waypost
3120 N Williams Avenue
Portland, Oregon
503-367-3182
Tamms 10 Petition
Posted March 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This is not something we do here on the blog, but I wanted to post this up for the people who have been organizing their asses off fighting a control unit prison in Illinois. Tamms Year Ten is the culmination of years of organizing to fight the torture happening at the Tamms super maximum security prison in southern Illinois. Beginning as a project where artists and family members wrote letters containing poetry to all the prisoners held at Tamms. A good example of how art can start a process that leads to real change, the simple gesture of writing the letters has turned into a full-blown political campaign, with a bill introduced to stop human rights abuses at Tamms.
Please take a minute, click this simple link, and sign the online petition. It's simple, and the more people that click, the more backbone the Representative that introduced the bill might have to follow through! Click here:
Current Tendencies Opening March 12 at the Haggerty Museum of Art
Posted March 9, 2009 by colin_matthes in Justseeds Collective Projects
This Thursday at 5pm is the opening for Current Tendencies at the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, WI. I am working on a wall drawing called Winners Circle for the exhibit. So far so good, I am real happy with where it is at, and hope to finish it by tomorrow night. More information is below and you can check out images of the drawing as it progresses here
HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
presents
Current Tendencies: Ten Artists from Wisconsin
March 12 – June 14, 2009
Opening: Thursday, March 12 at 5:00 p.m. at the Haggerty Museum of Art
The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University presents the exhibition Current Tendencies Ten Artists from Wisconsin that features recent work and new installations by contemporary artists from Wisconsin. As these artists work in a variety of media and on disparate themes, each artist or pair of artists will have a dedicated space within the museum for their work. The art in the exhibition will range from paintings, drawings and photographs to mixed media.
Site specific works are being created by Jennifer Angus, Colin Matthes and the duo of Shana McCaw & Brent Budsberg specifically for this exhibition. In addition to these installations, one gallery will be dedicated to the work of the late Peter Bardy, a self-taught artist from Milwaukee who transformed his home into a private world. New work by photographer Sonja Thomsen and paper cuttings by Xiaohong Zhang will be featured in the exhibition along with variety of mixed-media works by Anne Kingsbury and paintings by T.L. Solien and George Williams, Jr.
Programs offered at the Haggerty in conjunction with the exhibition:
The State of Art –
Open forum about the visual arts in Wisconsin Thursday, March 26 7 p.m.
Panelists:
- George Tzougros, Executive Director, Wisconsin Arts Board
- Polly Morris, Director of Development, Marketing & Outreach at the University of
Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, Milwaukee Arts Board member
- Jane Simon, Curator of Exhibitions, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
- Deb Brehmer, arts writer, owner of Portrait Society Gallery and art history instructor at
the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Lunchtime Learning Sonja Thomsen (photography) Wednesday, April 8 11:30 a.m.
Gallery Talk T. L. Solien (painting) Wednesday, April 15 6 p.m.
Gallery Talk Anne Kingsbury (mixed media) Wednesday, April 22 6 p.m.
Gallery Talk George Williams, Jr. (painting) Wednesday, April 22 6 p.m.
Lunchtime Learning Jennifer Angus (installation) Wednesday, April 29 11:30 a.m.
For more information, call 414-288-1669 or visit www.marquette.edu/haggerty
Images of the African Diaspora in New York City Community Murals
Posted March 9, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
A great looking exhibit in NYC, with an opening tomorrow night:
Images of the African Diaspora in New York City Community Murals
OPENING RECEPTION
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Harlem Stage @ Aaron Davis Hall/
The City College of New York--Lobby
Convent Avenue at 135th Street
more info in the image below, or click here:
Swimming Cities of Serenissima Benefit
Posted March 5, 2009 by kristine_virsis in Events
Glowlab Benefit Exhibition for SWOON’s Swimming Cities of Serenissima at Fountain NY
VIP/Press Preview: Thursday March 05; 11am–7pm
General Admission: March 06-08; 11am–7pm
Reception for the Artists: Friday, March 06; 7pm–midnight
Location: Pier 66 at 26th St in Hudson River Park NYC
Admission: Suggested donation of $5 at the door for all-weekend access
Event Link: http://www.glowlab.com/glowlab/swimming-cities-benefit-glowla/
http://www.swimmingcities.org/
Glowlab is pleased to announce it will host benefit exhibition for a nautical art project pioneered by the artist SWOON. Swimming Cities of Serenissima is a fleet of three intricately hand crafted vessels that will navigate the Adriatic Sea from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy in May of 2009. Designed by the visual artist SWOON, the floating sculptures are descendants of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Miss Rockaway Armada (Mississippi River, 2006 and 2007).
The benefit will take place in New York City during Armory Show week, March 05-08, as part of Glowlab’s exhibit space at Fountain, the alternative art exhibition known for presenting cutting-edge and independent art galleries. Fountain will be located at Pier 66 at 26th St in Hudson River Park. Participating artists include Swoon, Maya Hayuk, The London Police, Martha Cooper, Monica Canilao, Dennis McNett, Imminent Disaster, Eric White, Tod Seelie, Molly Crabapple, C. Damage, Elbow Toe and many more.
Glowlab Director Christina notes, “We’re thrilled to host this benefit for our long-time collaborator SWOON’s latest project, the Swimming Cities of Serenissima. It’s an ambitious project with an incredible creative spirit that, in the most physical way possible, engages contemporary art in the development of culture and community. I believe it’s critical to support projects like this, especially now, and we’re excited to help launch these beautiful boats in the spring.”
Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance
Posted March 5, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance: An Urban R/evolution
Opening Friday, March 6, 2009
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Degraves St. underpass to Flinders St. Station
Melbourne, Australia
"No, painting is not done to decorate apartments it is an instrument of war".
-Pablo Picasso, 1945.
Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance features the works and collaborations of four contemporary arts-activists. Romantic illusions of freedom fighters aside, serious business meets tongue-in-cheek as survivalism and critical masses meet conscious
consumption, sign language and political awareness in this diverse and eye opening exhibition. . .
Tom Civil
Marc De Jong
Paul J. Kalemba
Van Rudd
till march 27th
Soul'd Roots
Posted March 3, 2009 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
Sisters of Color United for Education & Annie E. Casey Foundation Presents
SOUL'D ROOTS
Food & Media Justice Institute
Promoting Solidarity and Sustainability in Our Communities
March 12 - 15, 2009
Denver, CO
Jesus and I will be participating in this Institute next weekend so if you are in the Denver Area and interested sign up! Click through for contact info and more info.
Artists in the Struggle- Presentation by Melanie Cervantes & Jesus Barraza at UC Berkeley
Posted February 27, 2009 by Melanie_Cervantes in Events
Jesus and I have been invited to speak at UC Berkeley working as movement artists, working in collaboration with other community and artist activists as well as working in collaboration with grassroots organizing groups. We are both very excited about having the opportunity to do this presentation and talk as part of a Chicana/o Studies class MeXicana/o Art Thought and (Art)Practice. Jesus is excited about presenting at UC Berkeley because he emerged as a graphic designer/artist-activist during the 1999 twLF (third world Liberation Front) hunger strike and actions. I am particularly excited because my art practice also grew out of my experiences at Cal
Celia Herrera Rodriguez an incredibly talented and sage Xicana artist and bad ass professora encouraged and pushed me to create art even when I was afraid of the process of creating art because it told me so much about myself. Because Celia helped me become more grounded in my worldview my politics became that more clear.She brought in amazing artists to our classes in my eyes were celebrities because of their profund and prolific work. I had the luck of meeting amazing artists like Cherrie Moraga, Juana Alicia, Yolanda Lopez, Emmanuel Montoya and Consuelo Underwood Jimenez in her classes. And now...I am both proud of and humbled by what her mentorship has helped me to achieve and am happy to be invited to her classroom to share my practice and art.
House of Sound
Posted February 25, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This just in from Vanessa Renwick, one of my favorite film makers (with what I believe is an Alec 'Icky' Dunn original on the flyer!):
House of Sound
An installation by Vanessa Renwick
New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny St., Portland, OR
March 7-April 19, 2009
opening Sat. March 7th, 6-9pm
Meredith Stern Print Show Closing Party
Posted February 24, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
If you're in Pittsburgh this week, come to Morning Glory Coffeehouse to get a last look at the beautiful prints and print collages of Meredith Stern. A lot of this work is new, and it is colorful, loving, inspiring! Meredith will be here to play a reunion show with her old band The Accident. Other unusual and crucial live music and DJing, see below. FREE!
CLOSING PARTY! FREE FOOD + DRINK! SWEET JAMZ!
February 25, 2008 - 8pm at:
MORNING GLORY COFFEEHOUSE
1806 Chislett Street in Morningside, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
http://www.moglocoffee.com
live music for the closing party--
The Accident (Meredith + Deanna one-time reunion)
2 DRAGONS BLACK + RED (underage and all the rage)
Etta - solo accapella - yessir
DJ MARY MACK will make your squirrel tail go BUMP!
Tricks of the Eye
Posted February 23, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
If you're in Providence, or will be over the next month, stop by and check out this exhibit, which includes the Celebrate People's History posters:
Tricks of the Eye: History and Memory in a Shifting Social Landscape
Opening Night, Thursday March 5th , 6-8pm
RISD|Public Engagement, 2nd Floor
CIT Building, 169 Weybosset Street
Providence, RI
March 5 thru April 3, 2009.
RISD|Public Engagement is pleased to sponsor the upcoming exhibit Tricks of the Eye: History and Memory in a Shifting Social Landscape. The exhibition highlights the ways that local and national artists respond to the shifting landscapes that backdrop and underline our society’s actions and intentions. Viewed together, the documentation of these at projects foster a vibrant learning environment for the RISD and Providence communities to develop an expanded horizon of what it means to make socially- and publicly-engaged artwork.
Tricks of the Eye incorporates documentation of past and current projects that invite multiple methods of engagement from the viewer. Documentation strategies include web presentations, printed material, models, as well as ephemera from the original artwork.
Artists and projects in the exhibition include:
220 Glimpses of Utopia (John Malpede and the Los Angeles Poverty Department, Los Angeles, CA)
Arctic Listening Post (Jane D. Marsching, Boston, MA)
Armadillo FEMA Trailer Project (Jae Rhim Lee, MIT, Cambridge, MA)
Blue Hammer and ReMEMBERing Wilde (Leon Johnson, Portland, ME)
Celebrate Peoples' History Poster Project (Josh MacPhee, Brooklyn, NY)
Just Fish (Pam Hall, St. John’s, Newfoundland)
Navigating the Space between Home & Exile (Sheryl Mendez, New York City, NY and Iraq)
The NY Times Special Edition (Steve Lambert, New York City, NY)
Meyers Bitter Survey (National Bitter Melon Council, Boston, MA)
Voices and Visions (Holly Ewald, Warwick, RI)
Complementing the exhibition, RISD | Public Engagement has programmed a series of discussions throughout the month of March around emergent and interconnected themes, featuring presentations by exhibition artists, informal panels, and class visits. For updates on the schedule of events, artists’ bios and project descriptions, please visit: www.risdpublicengagement.net
Palestine film events in the metro Detroit area
Posted February 21, 2009 by bec_young in Film & Video
There are some really interesting films regarding Palestine coming up in Southeast Michigan. Tonight will be the second showing of a one-hour film called Once a Wall, a Ripple Remains by Tirtza Even, a University of Michigan professor originally from Jerusalem. I saw the first showing of this film in and was very moved. The film uses still photos Even took while in Palestine in 1998, and uses digital animation to make the images move and interact. Her work seems to play with the idea of the wall as a metaphor, as she undermines our idea of what is real or unreal - people that seem real become cardboard cutouts, or become transparent so that they are only outlines. The host for this event is a fabulous new gallery in Hamtramck, called 2739 Edwin. I also saw a really inspiring show of papercuts about Palestine at the same gallery last Fall, by Detroit area artist Toby Millman.
The Arab American National Museum in Dearborn is hosting a film series called Chronicles of a Refugee. Here is a description from their website: "Chronicles of a Refugee is a six-part documentary series created by Perla Issa, Aseel Mansour and Adam Shapiro looking at the global Palestinian refugee experience over the last 60 years. Filmed in over 15 countries, with more than 250 interviews of Palestinian refugees who have lived in over 25 countries, the series aims to provoke debate concerning strategy and asks: ‘What makes the most sense for a strategy to achieve Palestinian rights as part of a vibrant and viable Palestinian national movement?’" Today at 4 pm, Episode 3 of the series will be shown; Episode 4 will be shown March 11 at 6:30 pm.
Also on Wednesday, March 11 is the debut of the first ever Ann Arbor Palestine Film Fest! According to the organizers: "The Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival showcases films about Palestine and by Palestinian directors. Educating through the screen arts, the film festival amplifies the voice of the Palestinian people as a nation and a diaspora. The film festival is an independent and non-sectarian organization." The festival runs through Saturday, March 14.
'In the Name of Blood Shed': Art, Resistance, and Repression in México
Posted February 20, 2009 by dylanminer in Events
Alongside historians Jerry García and Benjamin Smith, I have been working on the curation of a small exhibition called 'In the Name of the Blood Shed.' Focusing on photographs, street art, and installation work from Oaxaca, the exhibition includes works by Lapiztola, Zzierra Rrezzia, Edith Morales Sánchez, and Antonio Turok.
If you happen to be in Three Fires Territory any time soon, stop by the show at LookOut! Gallery. Turok and Morales Sánchez will be at the opening, while the members of Lapiztola and Zzierra Rrezzia should be at the closing.
Opening Reception
02 March 2009
6:30-9:00 with a panel at 7:00
Closing Reception
27 March 2009
6:30-9:00 with workshops at 7:00
City from Below poster pt. 2
Posted February 20, 2009 by jmacphee in Posters & Prints
I don't think mine is as cool as Icky's, put here's my City from Below poster. Go to the conference!!!
Activist Print Open Studio at Signs of Change
Posted February 18, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Art & Politics
Images from Signs of Change Winter Harvest Reception, January 23, 2009
Join local printmakers and activists at a special Activist Print Open Studio, this Thursday, 5-8pm, at the Signs of Change exhibition at the Miller Gallery in Pittsburgh.
ACTIVIST PRINT OPEN STUDIO >>>
Thursday, Feb. 19, 5-8pm
@ Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh
Free and open to the public
Screenprinting open studio provided by Artists Image Resource + The Andy Warhol Museum. Observe printers in action, roll up your sleeves and print posters promoting local issues, or bring $5 and create a screenprint from images that you provide.
A Moment in Time: Bingham's Black Panthers
Posted February 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
When I was in LA I got over to the California African American Museum to see Howard L. Bingham's photographs of the Black Panther Party. The exhibit is made up of photographs from 1968 and ranges from the many different rallies and conferences to more casual encounters between the members. There are a few images of police repression, during an LA rally, and one of the bullet ridden headquarters in Oakland. Otherwise there is a different perspective, from the one I grew up with, in these photos of the Panthers. Absent were the, expected, "militants" with a guns imagery while portrayals of the organization and support being multi-generational and multi-racial. The Panthers did have their aesthetic and image down. A bunch of folks in black leather jackets with dark shades staring you down is super intimidating. The ability and seriousness of the party is conveyed in many of these images. There were also really incredible & beautiful "caught-in-the-moment" portraits of Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, and Stokely Carmichael. Its some Panther history worth checking out.
In 1968, under the auspices of Life magazine, photographer Howard L. Bingham and journalist Gilbert Moore began a journey to capture the activities of the Black Panther Party. From March through October, from Los Angeles to Oakland, and Berkeley to New York, Bingham's camera immortalized moments in time with Huey P. Newton, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver and his wife, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, David Hilliard, and the many initiates, believers and observers.
October 2, 2008 - May 31, 2009
California African American Museum
600 State Dr.
Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA 90037
If you go you can also check out the Black Chrome, Black motorcycle gangs and their customized choppers!
Hobos to Street People
Posted February 15, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Hobos to Street People:
Artists' Responses to Homelessness from the New Deal to the Present
February 19 - August 15, 2009
The California Historical Society
678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
Reception: February 19, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Hobos to Street People is a traveling exhibition organized by the California Exhibition Resources Alliance.
Curated by Art Hazelwood.
Charles Wollenberg advised on historical matters.
Paul Boden advised on contemporary issues.
A preview the exhibition can be seen at the Western Regional Advocacy Project website.
Come Celebrate the Five-Year Anniversary of Mess Hall in Chicago this Sunday
Posted February 13, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
If your in Chicago or close by, come celebrate Mess Hall’s 5-Yr. anniversary this Sunday, Feb. 15th!
Mess Hall is an experimental cultural space. Located in the Roger’s Park in Chicago, Mess Hall is a place for visual culture, creative urbanism, sustainable ecology, food democracy, radical politics, and cultural experimentation. Mess Hall runs on the generosity of those who use it. This allows us to provide everything for free - from food and drinks to workshops and events.
Over the past five years, hundreds of events have taken place from art shows, film screenings, discussions, meetings, potlucks, sewing rebellions, performances, and everything in between.
So join us Sunday, February 15, 2009, 7:00pm to celebrate the past 5 years and make your mark on the space for future events.
What you can expect:
-An exhibit of Mess Hall archives & proposals for our next 5 years.
-The Justseeds Prison Portfolio Project
-Art by Burtonwood and Holmes (http://www.burtonwoodandholmes.com)
-This Is Not A Truck (http://www.blocartiststudios.com/index.html)
-PHOTOBOOTH
-ART SWAP!
-talent share
-piñatas
-kick-ass music with Mess Hall’s own Aay Preston-Myint DJing.
Mess Hall links:
Mess Hall website:
http://www.messhall.org/
(BRAND NEW!) Mess Hall blog:
http://messhallarchive.wordpress.com/
Links to some recent press...
News Star article on Mess Hall
http://chicagojournal.com/main.asp?SectionID=49&SubSectionID=142&ArticleID=7015&TM=50481.14
Loyola Phoenix article on Mess Hall
Mess Hall's Ten-Point Statement:
Flight and Flurry
Posted February 12, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Continuing the travels of art on water, Swoon is hoping to create some crafts and travel into Venice. They need some help so there is a benefit for the project called the Swimming Cities of Serenissima.
Friday, February 13th
Flight and Flurry
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
an evening of songs and aerial performance featuring:
fall harbor
hannah marcus and tianna kennedy
trapeze performances by natalie agee & c. ryder cooley
The Sharpie Show at Grewest Gallery
Posted February 12, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
I'm trying to take in as much LA as I can before I head up to the bay. I made it over to the Crewest Gallery the other day to check out The Sharpie Show. Crewest is a real nice gallery and graffiti "boutique" in downtown LA. The show is packed with some talented sketches while the Mike Giant pieces had the largest impression on me.
The Sharpie Show, an exhibition curated by renown graffiti artist Man One, featuring original pieces created using Sharpies by some of the best known graffiti artists in the country (and beyond). Aside from graffiti artists, work by tattoo artists and known illustrators; Lalo Alcaraz and Overton Loyd will be on display. From stylized hand signatures, to throw ups, piecebooks, stickers, and any other possible object that can be marked upon, this exhibit will demonstrate the level of creativity that can be achieved between an artist and his/her most basic tool - The Sharpie.
The show will be on view until March 1st.
Visit the show at
Crewest
110 Winston St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Or check it out on the Crewest Flickr set
Our City Dreams
Posted February 11, 2009 by k_c_ in Film & Video
For those in NYC there is a documentary film called Our City Dreams, which profiles 5 women artists in NYC. One of which is Justseeds member Swoon.
Filmed over the course of two years, OUR CITY DREAMS is an invitation to visit the creative spaces of five women artists, each of whom possesses her own energy, drive and passion. These women, who span different decades and represent diverse cultures, have one thing in common beyond making art: the city to which they have journeyed and now call home - New York.
You can catch it at the Film Forum
February 4-18, 2009
209 W Houston St
New York, NY 10014
There are Q&A's with Chiara Clemente, the filmmaker, Thursday, February 12, 6:00 show and Tuesday, February 17, 6:00 show.
You can watch the trailer at First Run Features.
Potluck Chat: Erik Ruin
Posted February 10, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our very own Erik Ruin will be giving a fireside chat in Philly tonight about his work and Justseeds!
Potluck Tonight: Tuesday Feb 10th 2009, 6-8pm EST
basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia
Local Philadelphia artist and puppeteer Erik Ruin will speak about Justseeds Cooperative, a graphic art distributor which he co-founded.
He'll be giving an informal slideshow on the imagery and themes that inform his work as a printmaker/puppeteer/editor. This discussion will touch upon everything from his influences and interests in/from epic theater, the history of radical graphics and direct film to collective work as a member of the Justseeds Radical Artists' Cooperative, Upsidedownculture Collective and Barebones Productions.
Gouge: The Modern Woodcut
Posted February 9, 2009 by k_c_ in Reviews
Chris & I were fortunate enough to go check out an exhibit in LA on Saturday. It was called Gouge: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now, at the Hammer Museum. We noticed an ad for it in one of the local weeklies and snipped it hoping to catch it after the install. In a borrowed car we made it over to Westwood, an affluent area of LA, where the Hammer Museum resides, part of UCLA.
Gouge: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now examines the woodcut in terms of its diverse forms and uses in the modern era. A thematic survey, it invites parallels between the medium in countries as diverse and geographically distant Mexico, France and Korea. Woodblock printing is, in fact, one of the most common artistic practices throughout the world. Although the motivations of each artist and the circumstances in which the woodcuts were made may differ greatly, the visual character of the gouge cuts is a defining thread among the selected works in this exhibition
There were a handful of really inspiring prints and original woodblocks alongside the pieces. Chris became really stoked when he realized there were some Kathe Kollwitz prints in the show. He is a real big fan of her work, so he studied her self-portrait and the Woman in the Lap of Death, 1921, Woodcut for quite some time.
Along with the German Expressionist work that I enjoyed seeing in person was some Gaughin, Matisse, and Munch pieces that i found really inspiring. I wasn't entirely surprised but excited to see the familiar likeness of Zapata printed on grey paper. I immediately knew it was a print from one of the ASAR-O artists from Oaxaca. The print was made during the APPO uprising yet strangely made it into the Images in the Grain section and not the following room, The Voice of the Activist.
City From Below poster
Posted February 6, 2009 by icky in Events
It feels like all I do lately is work on some (anal) design-y shit on the computer or (anal) letterpress and typesetting in my basement. So it was really fun to sit down and just draw a big goofy image. This is for a conference focused around urban issues in social struggles called the City From Below, held in Baltimore in late March. We'll be posting more about this conference as it comes closer, but for now....
Credit is Alright show opening tonight
Posted February 5, 2009 by colin_matthes in Events
I'm pretty happy right now, today I was swimming in an outdoor pool in Southern Texas. 80 degrees in February, yeah I could get used to this.
I am working on an installation at the University of Texas Pan American. For all of you in Edinburg Texas, the show will open tonight, Thursday, February 5, 6-9pm. I will be talking about the work at 6:30. Here are a few preview picks.
Poster Critique + Discussion of Visual Strategies for Resisting the Prison Industrial Complex
Posted February 5, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Tamms Year Ten and Mess Hall are holding another event related to the Justseeds Prison Portfolio, a poster critique and discussion of aesthetic strategies! I wish I was in Chicago, because this is exactly what I'm into, trying to discuss and suss out how to improve the effectiveness of our visual propaganda. If you are in Chicago, check this out:
Poster Critique + Discussion of Visual Strategies for Resisting the Prison Industrial Complex with Dan S. Wang & Laurie Jo Reynolds
Saturday, February 7 at 6:30pm
Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60626
Tamms Year Ten is hosting an open discussion of the prints in the Justseeds poster portfolio — each which critiques the "prison industrial complex." Let's talk about which images are effective for you--and use this as a basis for considering the visual and rhetorical strategies in the movement. We want to learn from the decisions made by these artists, and then we want to work with you to consider the very real representational problems we face as a movement!
- How do we depict the experience of long-term isolation? Or communicate the experience of long-term incarceration?
- What visual language will help us to imagine the abolition of prisons? To urge rehabilitation over punishment?
- Can commonly used motifs—fists through prison bars/broken chains/doves/barbed wire/slave ships/prison stripes—still work? Are new metaphors required?
We'll be talking about prison-related issues, but we hope that this event will be of interest to all artist-activists bedeviled and/or charmed by the problem of producing movement art which translates our political passions into visual form, renders visible the (often unacknowledged) problems of the present, and/or serves as an irresistible invitation to join us in our efforts to get free. We also invite you to bring other anti-prison movement ephemera (t-shirts, posters, stickers) for discussion!
http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/visual-arts/node/19026
Paper Tiger TV Benefit
Posted February 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The awesome old school flyer says it all:
PAPER TIGER BENEFIT DANCE PARTY
Thaw out your dancing paws!!!
Saturday February 7th 7 PM at The Yippie Museum/Cafe
9 Bleecker Street (btn Bowery & Elizabeth), NYC
Sliding scale $5-$10
Photos from “TAMMS YEAR TEN CAMPAIGN / Justseeds Prison Portfolio” exhibition in Chicago
Posted February 2, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Above are photos from an important event that took place at Mess Hall in Chicago on Feb. 1, 2009. The TAMMS YEAR TEN CAMPAIGN organized a show of posters, flyers, letters, poetry, postcards, banners, photos, videos, and ephemera from their multifaceted campaign. Included in the show was the Justseeds Portfolio Project: Voices from Outside - Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex.
The event focused attention on the current campaign against TAMMS (a super max prison in southern Illinois) and urged more people in Illinois and beyond to get involved in speaking out and contacting legislators about the horrid conditions and the methods of psychological torture that take place at TAMMS.
If you are outraged by Guantánamo Bay and encouraged by the Obama Administration’s call to close it down, learn more about TAMMS and speak out against torture in Illinois prisons.
About TAMMS YEAR TEN CAMPAIGN:
In 1998, the first prisoners were transferred from prisons across the state to Tamms CMAX, in Southern Illinois. This new “supermax” prison, designed to keep men in permanent solitary confinement, was intended for short-term incarceration. The IDOC called it a one-year “shock treatment.” Now, ten years later, over one-third of the original prisoners have been there for a decade. They have lived in long-term isolation—no phone calls, no communal activity, no ocntact visits. They only leave the cell to exercise alone in a concrete box 2-5 times per week. They are fed through a slot in the door.
Year Ten is a coalition of prisoners, ex-prisoners, families, artists and other concerned citizens who have come together to protest the misguided and inhumane policies at Tamms C-MAX, and to call for an end to psychological torture. We have initiated a program of cultural, educational and political events to publicize Tamms after ten years of operation.
Up on the Roof Countin' Pigeons
Posted February 2, 2009 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects
Chris Stain & I are out in Los Angeles this week to build an installation for his solo show at the Carmichael Gallery. If you're around here or know anyone that is interested in hanging out with us on a NYC rooftop tell em to swing by the gallery. Maybe we can shoot the shit and drink 40's on the roof.
Here's the skinny:
A solo exhibition of new work by Chris Stain
Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art is proud to present "Up on the roof countin' pigeons", the first West Coast solo exhibition of work by Baltimore artist Chris Stain. Artwork featured in the exhibition will include stencil, spraypaint and mixed media on metal and found objects.For "Up on the roof countin' pigeons", Chris Stain will transform the gallery into a NYC rooftop scene, complete with pigeon coop and live jazz music. The enigmatic stencil portraits integrated into the large-scale installation pierce the gaze of viewers and offer a unique perspective of contemporary inner city life.
"My work explores the emotional and physical struggle of growing up in an urban environment. Through hand-cut stencils and installations made from found materials I hope to inspire compassion for the often overlooked individuals of society." - Chris Stain
Thursday, February 5th
7.00pm – 10.00pm
Carmichael Gallery
1257 N. La Brea Avenue
W. Hollywood CA 90038
Please RSVP to rsvp@carmichaelgallery.com
Open to the public February 6th – February 26th, 2009
1.00pm – 7.00pm
I hope to tickle your fancy wih some tastes as the install progresses so check back here
or on our Flickr
Paper Trail in Chicago
Posted February 2, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Just In:
Paper Trail
February 3 - March 7, 2009
Reception: Wednesday, February 4, 5-8pm
Gallery 400
College of Architecture and the Arts
University of Illinois at Chicago
400 S. Peoria Street (MC 034)
Chicago, IL 60607
Paper Trail is an exhibition of historical and contemporary ephemeral material originally produced by disparate communities using remarkably similar forms of rhetoric and graphic styles to visually articulate their collective revolutionary agendas and concerns.
The historical material was created, produced, and distributed in the late 1960s by Chicago's original Rainbow Coalition—an alliance between The Black Panther Party, the Young Lords Organization, Young Patriots, and Rising Up Angry. This material is presented "in conversation" with what can be considered its contemporary counterpart—visual reproductions of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, language of the newly formed Rainbow Coalition Council of Elders, and publications from other contemporary initiatives in Chicago and beyond that re-engage with the principal of grassroots political organizing and cross-cultural solidarity. The movements share a common idea that despite our dire collective circumstance a spirit of hope and optimism results and acts as a unifying, mobilizing force.
This exhibition is organized by curators Nancy Zastudil and Julia Hamilton, with the support and participation of Kathleen Cleaver, Michael James, Bill Jennings, Cha Cha Jimenez, Jaqueline Lazu, and countless others.
Photos from “Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex” exhibition in Madison
Posted February 1, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Above are photos from the “Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex” show that took place on January 30, 2009 at Project Lodge in Madison, Wisconsin. The exhibition was organized by Wisconsin Books to Prisoners (a project of Rainbow Bookstore) and over 70 works of art were on display (including the Justseeds portfolio project, other prison related images from Justseeds artists, art by prisoners, and art by local Madison artists. As well, spoken word artists from the First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community, including Sophia Snow and Alida Carlos Whaley performed and inspired us with their words.
The opening was packed with people from Madison, Milwaukee, and beyond and the organizers did an incredible job in bringing everyone together and using culture as a tool to combat the prison crisis.
The organizers from Wisconsin Books to Prisoners kept the focus of the evening on activism and reminded us that the State Government in Wisconsin bans used books from being mailed to Wisconsin prisoners and urged people to phone the Governor’s office at 608-266-1212; the WI DOC Administrator at 608-240-5104; and the WI DOC secretary at 608-240-5055 to voice their objections.
To learn more:
http://www.rainbowbookstore.org/b2p
To contact one of organizers of the show:
Camy Matthay: maha@chorus.net
Also check out Community Connections -- a volunteer organization that does a myriad of programming and prison/family support work with inmates at the Oakhill Correctional Institution (OCI) in Oregon, WI.
http://communityconnectionswi.org/index.php?option=com_simplefaq&Itemid=62
Upcoming Justseeds show/installation project in Milwaukee
Posted January 31, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Justseeds Collective Projects
In late February/early March 2009, upwards of fifteen Justseeds artists will converge in Milwaukee for a week to create a massive floor-to-ceiling installation at the Union Art Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that will combines elements of street art, stencils, sculpture and other mediums.
The installation is titled "Which Side Are You On?" and it will examine the use of walls as physical and mental barriers that create de-facto segregation, whether it is the walls that divide nation states, the streets that separate one side of town from the other, or the barriers that separate humans from the environment. "Which Side Are You On?" challenges these barriers while envisioning a more just and sustainable future.
During the install, we'll post photos on the Justseeds blog of the work in progress.
Upcoming dates:
Monday, March 2nd, 7:00pm, Union Fireside Lounge: talk by Josh MacPhee on the present and past political, social, and aesthetic development of activist printmaking from around the world.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 5pm, Union Art Gallery: stop in the Union Art Gallery for a chance to see the Justseeds installation in progress. During the walk through, meet and talk with the artists involved in the installation.
Thursday, March 5th, 5-8pm, Union Art Gallery: opening reception
Saturday, March 7th, 12:30-3:30, Union Studio Arts and Craft Centre: printmaking workshop with Josh MacPhee. Call the Craft Centre at 414-229-5535 to register.
The exhibition will run from March 5th - April 3rd
UWM Union Art Gallery is located at:
Campus Level, Room W199
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI 53211
414.229.6310
Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri & Sat 12-5pm; Thu 12-7pm
The exhibition "Which Side Are You On" is co-sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society at UWM
Justseeds Portfolio Project Opening & Party to celebrate Tamms Year Ten!
Posted January 29, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Join us this Sunday, February 1 @ 7:00pmin Chicago, at Mess Hall for the Opening of the Justseeds Portfolio Project in Celebration of the Tamms Year Ten Campaign!
In honor of Critical Resistance's 10 Year Anniversary, Justseeds created a limited edition portfolio of original prints that address the prison industrial complex &/or alternatives to incarceration. Twenty artists from the US, Canada & Mexico contributed prints to this portfolio now on exhibit at Mess Hall!
This event is also a celebration of the Tamms Year Ten Campaign! Justseeds donated over 50 portfolios to anti-prison movement groups including Chicago’s own Tamms Year Ten. Come celebrate the successes of the Tamms Year Ten campaign, or come to learn more about the conditions at Tamms super-max prison, the campaign, & how you can get involved! Together we can end torture in Illinois!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
7:00pm-11:00pm
Mess Hall
6932 N Glenwood, Chicago
just across from the Morse stop on the Red Line
(773) 465-4033
Our Flesh of Flames
Posted January 26, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Our Flesh of Flames
Featuring the work of Theodore A. Harris and Amiri Baraka
January 29th-February 26th, 2009
Opening Night reception January 29th 6- PM
@ the Brecht Forum, NYC
The Brecht Forum is proud to exhibit Our Flesh of Flames featuring the collages of Theodore A. Harris and the poetic captions of legendary writer and social activist Amiri Baraka.
Posed against an eerily iridescent orange sky, Harris' collaged landscapes are filled with urban dystopia. Upside down capitols, distorted bank notes pose the reality of a society fettered by the cash nexus. Images of John Coltrane, Muhammed Ali and Paul Robeson are juxtaposed with protest scenes showing the creative and transformative power of African American social movements.
Controversial critic and poet Amiri Baraka provides lyrical assault through his captions with his trademark humor and biting social commentary. First published as in 2008, Our Flesh of Flames is Harris and Baraka's stunning contribution to African American arts and letters
Media Assassin and Brecht Event-NYC
Posted January 25, 2009 by k_c_ in Inspiration
I was just sent an event listing called Biggie, Brooklyn and the World at the Brecht Forum. The title and description are intriguing, and posted below, and what I found immediately inspiring was Harry Allen's blog, Media Assassin. His bio in the email is as follows
Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin, writes about race, politics, and culture for VIBE, The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, and has been doing so for over twenty years.As an expert covering hip-hop culture, he has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, on National Public Radio, MTV, VH-1, CNN, the BBC, and other information channels. Others know him for his long-time association with the seminal band Public Enemy, and for his widely-heard "cameo" on their classic record, "Don't Believe the Hype."
It gave me a few chuckles and a lot more to search thru.
Have Our Weary Feet Come to the Place for Which Our Fathers Sighed?
The Year of Living Sexually is a post about Nonfiction a program on WBAI.
The New Blackface of Fashion is what it appears.
and the first post I saw
Super Zero a link to Marvel's new create your own superhero!
OK, I did mention there is an event at the Brecht Forum, its Wednesday, Jan 28th, read below:
Upcoming show in Madison: ARTISTS AGAINST THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Posted January 24, 2009 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Wisconsin Books to Prisoners a project of Rainbow Bookstore, is sponsoring an exhibit ARTISTS AGAINST THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. The show will run from Jan 30 – Feb 5th at Project Lodge, 817 E. Johnson in Madison. Opening reception is at 7 pm, Friday Jan 30th.
Over 70 drawings by prisoners that address the use of prisons, policing and punishment as a “solution” to social, political and economic problems will be on display.
The show was inspired by printmakers from the Justseeds Radical Artists’ Cooperative (www.justseeds.org) who created more than 20 posters in 2008 in honor of the 10th anniversary of Critical Resistance, a prison abolitionist movement. Twenty-five posters from Justseeds, which include Wisconsin artists Nicolas Lampert and Colin Matthes will be on display. Other political artists in Wisconsin have also contributed prints to the show.
Spoken word artists from the First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community, including Sophia Snow, Alida Carlos Whaley and others will perform pieces topical to the show. Again, please join us for the opening reception on Friday, January 30th, from 7 pm -10 pm.
Contributions to support the costs of shipping books to prisoners are appreciated. Those unable to attend the show are welcome to send donations to Wisconsin Books to Prisoners/Rainbow Books, 426 W. Gilman St.. Madison, WI 53703. Tax-deductible donations can be made out to our fiscal sponsor "PC Foundation” with "WI Books to
Prisoners" in the memo line.
Since the inception of Wisconsin Books to Prisoners in the fall of 2006, WBTP has sent over 12,000 books to prisoners nationwide. Although Wisconsin Books to Prisoners is still banned by the WI Department of Corrections from sending used books to prisoners in WI, it continues to send books to federal and state prisoners nationwide, including an outreach program for LGTB prisoners.
Wisconsin prisoners deserve the right to read and access to books from book to prisoner projects. Those concerned about the ban should phone the Governor’s office at 608-266-1212; the WI DOC Administrator at 608-240-5104; and the WI DOC secretary at 608-240-5055 to voice their objections.
Contact for the show:
Camy Matthay
maha@chorus.net
City from Below coming-up
Posted January 21, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Some great folks in Baltimore (Red Emmas, Indypendent Reader) and around the country are planning an exciting conference for March 27-29 called City from Below. If you are all interested in urbanism, public space, who controls cities, the right to city, and the future of urban activism, you might want to hitch a ride to Baltimore at the end of March! Check it out here.
Signs of Change Pittsburgh
Posted January 19, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The show Dara Greenwald and I curated is opening in Pittsburgh!!!
SIGNS OF CHANGE
Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now
curated by Dara Greenwald + Josh MacPhee
Jan. 23 – March 8, 2009
Programs:
Jan. 23, Fri. 4:30-6pm:
Curators’ Talk: Visualizing Social Movement Cultures
at McConomy Auditorium in University Center, Carnegie Mellon. Sponsored by
the University Lecture Series + School of Art Lecture Series.
6-8pm: Winter Harvest Reception at Miller Gallery at
Carnegie Mellon University. With DJ Baglady. Live screenprinting
provided by Artists Image Resource + the Andy Warhol Museum.
Feb. 12, Thurs. 8pm:
Film Screening: Finally Got The News (League of Revolutionary Black Workers with Newsreel) at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Melwood Screening Room.
Feb. 19, Thurs. 5-8pm:
Activist Print Open Studio at Miller Gallery. Live screenprinting provided by the Warhol + AIR.
Feb. 27, Fri. 5pm:
Critical Mass. View exhibition at Miller Gallery first, ride at 5:30pm from Carnegie Library two blocks West.
About the exhibition:
In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.
Signs of Change presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for civil rights and black power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women's rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis, as well as uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands; against airport construction in Japan; and for radical social transformation in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles, and social organizations.
Although histories of political groups and counter-cultures have been written, and political and activist shows have been held, this exhibition is a groundbreaking attempt to chronicle the artistic and cultural production of these movements. Signs of Change offers a chance to see relatively unknown or rarely seen works, and is intended to not only provide a historical framework for contemporary activism, but also to serve as an inspiration for the present and the future.
Colectivo Cordyceps/Taring Padi in DF
Posted January 19, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Another hot political graphics show in Mexico City, organized by our friends down their. Check it out:
Exposicion de Grafica Radical y de Protesta
Exponen:
COLECTIVO CORDYCEPS con obra grafica radical de denuncia, de Mexico DF.
TARING PADI un colectivo de grafica de protesta, desde Java Central
Indonesia.
Bandas Invitadas:
DE DON SON, grupo de Son Jarocho de Mexico DF.
Lugar:
LA CHINAMPA DE IXTACALCO,
Plaza de San Matias o Jardin Hidalgo #10
Barrio de la Asuncion, Pueblo de Iztacalco
A un costado del Kiosko.
Calzada de la Viga, esq. Avenida Hidalgo.
Peceras
Metro Xola o Metro Iztacalco.
Tel. 5633 2502
Fecha y Hora:
Viernes 23 de Enero 2009, a las 7:30pm
Para mas informacion:
chinampaixtacalco@gmail.com
cordyceps@riseup.net
shit_swimmer@riseup.net
"Izena duen guztia omen da"
http://espora.org/furia/
For A Completely Different Climate
Posted January 18, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Just got this announcement for a new show by Oliver Ressler, who consistently is making interesting work about international social movements. Unfortunately I'm not going to be in Milan by January 30th, but if you are, go see this and let us know how it was!:
FOR A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CLIMATE
An exhibition project by Oliver Ressler
Curated by Marco Scotini
Galleria Artra, Via Burlamacchi 1, 20135 Milan, Italy, artragalleria@tin.it
Till January 30, 2009, Tue to Sat, 15.00-19.00
The exhibition project “For A Completely Different Climate” deals with an emerging social movement that questions and selectively fights the response (or non-response) of states and corporations to climate change. This leftist movement has the potential to mobilize especially in Britain, where in August 2008 a Climate Camp was organized to close the Kingsnorth coal-fired power station east of London. Although the Kingsnorth station will be shut down, the energy corporation E.ON plans to build, at the same location, a new coal-fired power station that will assure profits for the next few decades. This project completely conflicts with the necessary goal of reducing CO2 emissions. Preventing a new coal-fired powerplant in Kingsnorth is of great symbolic value, since a successful resistance could mean the end of other planned projects for coal-fired powerplants elsewhere in Britain.
Some Word Pictures
Posted January 18, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds Pals Santiago Mostyn and Bill Daniels have an opening(at this moment) at Needles & Pens Gallery in San Francisco.
Expect photographic prints, writings, video, and ephemera of contemporary Americana - Early 90's SF street grafitti, river boats (MIss Rockaway), and imagery of wandering North America on freight trains.
Needles & Pens
3253 16th Street (btwn Guerrero & Dolores)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Santiago was just mentioned at this Woostercollective link.
They mention this collaboration and Santi's recent book All Most Heaven.
Im wicked proud of him and can't wait to see this piece when I'm out in California in the near future.
Gaza Vigil in Pittsburgh
Posted January 16, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March of the Dead- Gaza Vigil in Oakland
PITTSBURGH, PA: On Saturday, January 17, the newly formed Coalition for Peace & Justice in the Middle East (CPJME) will hold a rally and “March of the Dead” to symbolize the one thousand dead Palestinians in Gaza since Israel’s recent attack on the Gaza Strip.
The rally will begin at 3pm on the patio outside of the Pitt Student Union (Fifth Ave and Bigelow Blvd), and will include Muslim, Jewish, and Christian speakers, along with community and student activists from Pitt.
After the rally, activists, dressed in black, will march with white masks and carry coffins to CMU Software Engineering Institute at the corner of Fifth Ave and Craig St. The silent marchers will also carry the placards with the names of Palestinian civilians who were killed during Israel’s recent bombardment of Gaza.
Jan 18th Events in Solidarity with Gaza-NYC
Posted January 16, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
MLK Sunday - Evening of Speeches, Music, Dance, Art, and Resistance for Gaza
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
Multi-event evening:
Hands Off Gaza
5-7pm at Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver St, 4th Floor, NYC
$20
Subway Freedom March to Brooklyn (with music)
leaving Alwan for the Arts(to Williamsburg) at 7:30pm
"I *heart* Gaza" Benefit Hip Hop Concert, Dance, Art Show
Presented by PEP (Palestine/Israel Education Project)
9pm to 4am at
Sugarland
221 N 9th St (bt Driggs Ave & Roebling St)
Admission: $10 (Age 21+ only)
Featuring:
Sabreena Da Witch
Immortal Technique
G.O.D
M1 of Dead Prez
A-Alikes
Rebel Diaz
Remi Kanazi
Tahani Salah
Queen Godis
Khalil al Mustafa
DJs: Johnny Juice (Public Enemy), DJ Oja, K-Salaam
Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry
Posted January 16, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) has a new exhibition opening up at the Blaffer Gallery in the Art Museum of the University of Texas. Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry promises to reveal how oil has been instrumental to the development of the Gulf Coast region, and seems like it could be an extremely useful visual introduction to the development and maintenance of the oil industry in the U.S. The show opens on January 16th, and runs through March 29, 2009.
Milwaukee Art Shows
Posted January 16, 2009 by colin_matthes in Events
Greetings from frigid, frigid, Milwaukee. If you are also enjoying the lets call it brisk, -6 degrees F (-27 with wind chill) temperature in Milwaukee, why not plan to come check out a few art shows this weekend.
Opening Friday (January 16, 5-10pm) at the Armory Gallery is “Western States.” As part of this exhibition I made a new installation titled, “Everything is Fine.” While making it I did some wall drawing, climbed on a fire escape, and repeatedly hit a ceiling fan with a hammer. The show will also feature the work of Aili Schmeltz (Los Angeles), William Hundley (Austin), Colleen Sanders (San Francisco), Gavin Bunner (Los Angeles), and Adrianne Watson (San Francisco).
Armoury Gallery is at 1718 N First St 3N3, Milwaukee, WI, 53212
Last Chance! This weekend is also the last chance to see “War Fair: Occupation Games for Citizens and Non-Combatants,” one of my most ambitious installations to date. The show closes along with the rest of the Nohl Fellowship work on January 18, 09. The Nohl Fellows are Gary John Gresl, Mark Klassen and Dan Ollman (Established Artists), Annie Killelea, Faythe Levine, Colin Matthes and Kevin J. Miyazaki (Emerging Artists). You can also see images from the “War Fair” exhibition online.
Inova/Kenilworth, 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202 Gallery hours are Wednesday & Friday-Sunday, noon to 5 pm and Thursday, noon-8 pm.
Also, If you will be in Texas, stop by the University of Texas-Pan American (Edinburg,TX) to view my solo exhibit “Credit Is Alright” Opening February 5th, 6-9pm.
Delineations Art Opening at Ad-Hoc
Posted January 15, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Also opening at Ad Hoc on Friday January 16th is a drawing show called Delineations, "a collection of drawings and illustrations from a diverse group of international artists." In which I will have a piece hanging!
January 16th-February 15th 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, January 16th, 7-10pm
Ad-Hoc Art
49 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Participating artists include: Alley Cat, John Breiner, Adam William Carnes, Gigi Chen, Fernanda Cohen, Molly Crabapple, Adam Collison, Cycle, Deseo, Bonnie Durham, Ezra Li Eismont, Ewelina Ferruso, EZO, Nate Frizzel, Yoko Furuso, Bob Gibson (TLP), Mark Gibson, GROW, Joshua Hagler, Fred Harper, Peter Herpich, Thomas Herpich, Nevada Hill, Phil Hollenbeck, Mike Houston (Cannonball Press), isuel isuel, Kyung Jeon, Jeremyville, Katie Kaplan, Jane Kim, Hiro Kurata, Rafael Ladesma III, Laura Lee, Tim Hon Hung Lee, Tae Lee, Brian Life, Tommii Lim, Daniel Hyun Lim (Fawn Fruits), David MacDowell, Drew Maillard, Sara Antoinette Martin, Martin Mazorra (Cannonball Pres), MIHA, Melissa Murray, Gilbert Oh, Logik One, Pagan, Nathan Lee Pickett, Lady Pink, Lilly Piri, Anthony Pontius, Devin Powers, Carlos (MARE139) Rodriguez, Dorthy Royle, Martina Secondo Russo, Frank Russo, Allison Sommers, Robert Steel, Kevin Earl Taylor, TheDirtyFabulous, Elisabeth Timpone, TOOFLY, James Turek, Connie Wang, Jaeran Won, Pippi Zornoza plus Mikey & Doyle of the Black Label Bike Club
The Insecurities of Time
Posted January 14, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
This just in:
The Insecurities of Time
Know Hope
solo exhibition
January 16th through February 15th 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, January 16th 7pm-10pm
Ad Hoc Art
49 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
For the past 4 years, Know Hope has been showing his work in galleries and exhibitions worldwide, but most of his work has been on the streets, in their natural urban settings. Know Hope deals with the ephemeral aspect of street art not only as a genre in itself, but also as a subject, exploring the need of momentary connections in everyday reality, and the common denominator that is the human struggle.
Know Hope’s recent work has been revolving around the story of an unnamed figure, following it and creating some sort of lifeline through its observations, mishaps and eventually its commentary. The figure is the visual manifestation of the human vulnerability addressed in all the pieces. The use of cardboard makes the content of the pieces physical, underlining the urgency of creating temporary art for the street, and the liability and rough fragility of the struggle.
From the Streets of Brooklyn
Posted January 13, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Chris Stain, Swoon and I have work in a show that just opened in LA at the Thinkspace. The show is called From the Streets of Brooklyn and is chock full of New York street art types, including friends Imminent Disaster, Gaia, Peripheral Media Projects, Skewville, Abe Lincoln Jr., GRL, Michael De Feo and Dennis McNett.
on view Jan. 9th – Feb. 6th, 2009
thinkspace
4210 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Hoy Comienza Planeta Rock-Santiago, Chile
Posted January 8, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Hoy Jueves 8 de Enero Comienza Planeta Rock este Festival de HipHop que Celebra los 25 años de Nuestro Movimento
Cuatro dias de un Festival en Santiago, Chile
Mira la programa en Planeta Rock
Latin American Festival of Activist Hip Hop: 25 years of Hip Hop in Chile
Some firends in Chile will be streaming audio from the Hip-Hop festival on Saturday, Jan 10th. It will include music, workshops, and other presentations. You can hear it through the links below if you are curious. Its a good way to hear culture being produced well beyond the "borders" of the community that usually reads this blog. (I am making many presumptions and I do look at the the analytics of this site, we get one hit from Chile)
Si estaras fuera de Santiago o te encuentras en otro pais el Sabado 10 de Enero, dia en que se desarrollara la escuela talleres, no te preocupes, porque durante el dia transmitiremos via on-line lo que estara sucediendo, noticias, entrevistas, talleres, musica, conversacion y mucha mas en radio planeta rock.
*Saturday, January 10 of 2009*
Streaming Radio from Santiago of Chile (in spanish)
www.planetarock.cl.tc/
www.radioplanetarock.tk
Queer Rally in Pittsburgh 1/10
Posted January 8, 2009 by mary_tremonte in Events
photo by heather mull from rally in response to prop 8 on november 15, 2008
When: Saturday, January 10, 2009
Time: 2 PM – 4 PM
Where: Schenley Quad, Oakland (near the libraries – same place as last time)
What: This is a rally, not a march.
Who: Bring your friends, family, kids, grandmas, neighbors, queer and straight alike. Bring your banners and your signs.
Who is Speaking: Emcee Gab Bonesso, Reverend Janet Edwards, Sandra Telep from Pride at Work, LGBTQ ally John McIntire and more. We are looking for speakers who may want to talk about their experiences of discrimination in these areas. Email lance historycat101(at)aol.com if you would like to speak.
Why: Because there are several upcoming moments to get LGBTQ-positive legislation passed on both the County and State levels. This time, we aren't just protesting a negative situation – we are mobilizing to get a positive outcome for everyone.
This is the follow up event to the very successful November "Anti-Prop 8" rally organized in a complete grassroots way, this rally focuses on the national DOMA law which President-Elect Obama promised to repeat AND the upcoming vote by Allegheny County Council to expand civil rights protections in employment, housing, and public accommodations to residents of Allegheny County who are part of the LGBTQ community (sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression). This rally is really for the whole community – from marriage advocates to working class queers who worry about job security and being able to find a decent place to live without being harassed. This is about L-G-B-T and Q. And the entire heterosexual community who benefit from a more just and fair community.
Invasion 68 Prague
Posted January 4, 2009 by jmacphee in Events
Reposted from Brushfire blog:
Invasion 68 Prague, an exhibition of work by photographer Josef Koudelka, opened yesterday at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. The exhibition will run until December 28, 2008.
The exhibition features Koudelka’s singular photographic account of the week after August 21, 1968, when Warsaw Pact tanks led by Alexander Dubcek invaded communist Prague. Both moving and formally compelling, Koudelka’s photographs provide an unparalleled representation of the life and death of that week. New York Times art critic, Roberta Smith writes:
“None of these photographs are less than beautiful; some combination of emotional urgency and Mr. Koudelka’s instinctive artistry makes them so. His restless vigilance created a historic and historical document that is less a series of photographs than a slow-moving film that we absorb one still at a time. He was there, and to an extraordinary and anguishing degree, so are we.” (Full article)
Koudelka’s photographs that week represented a turning point in his life. After their anonymous publication in Western newspapers, Koudelka sought asylum, and eventually emigrated from Prague in 1970. He has worked since then in Western Europe as a highly regarded documentary and landscape photographer. His books include: Gypsies (1975), Exiles (1984), and Chaos (1999). A recent retrospective of his work, Koudelka, was published in 2006.
The exhibition at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center has been co-produced by Magnum Photos, and coincides with a book by the same title published by Aperture. A “Meet The Artist” reception will be held on Tuesday, November, 18 from 6-8PM; Czech Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Alexandr Vondra and Ambassador of the Czech Republic Petr Kolár will also be present.
The gallery is open from 11-4PM, Tuesday through Sunday.
NYC 4th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk
Posted January 2, 2009 by molly_fair in Events
Sunday Jan 4, 2009
Memorial Rides:
Bronx - 10:45am
Queens - 12:00pm
Brooklyn - 12:45pm
Memorial Walk:
Manhattan - 2:30pm
Convergence:
4pm- Manhattan, Delancey at Allen Street
Gathering of cyclists, pedestrians, families and friends:
5-7pm
St. Marks Church
131 East 10th Street at 2nd Ave.
read on for detailed ride/walk schedule and check ghostbikes.org for updates
More Justseeds in Japan
Posted December 30, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Kei and Ill Commonz have been spreading the Justseeds goods around Tokyo. In November and December they had a couple more events, a report back from their trip to NYC, and an Anti-War and Resistance Fest. Here are a bunch of photos of the events, including CPH posters, Reproduce & Revolt images being silkscreened, video showings, etc...
DEC. 30- Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner
Posted December 26, 2008 by erik_ruin in Events
I'm super-honored to be performing my shadow-show FLIGHT (a slightly edited version) at Great Small Works' Spaghetti Dinner on Dec. 30th, alongside a great lineup of amazing musicians & puppeteers. if you're around NYC, please come, as it will be the last-ever performance of what i consider my best work to date.
Spaghetti Dinner
December 30, 2008, 7:30-10pm
at Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Sq. South NYC
Including...
MICHAEL WINOGRAD'S INFECTION skeleton mambo with a twist!Michael Winograd, Jessica Lurie, Petr Cancura, Jeremy Udden - reeds; Joe Moffet, Frank London - trumpets; Dan Blacksberg - trombone; Patrick Farrell - accordion; Avi Fox-Rosen - guitar; Jorge Roeder - bass; Jon Singer - xylophone, percussion; Jason Nazary, Kenny Wollesen - percussion; Kristin Slipp -voxFLIGHT - a shadow theater piece depicting the journey of a person displaced;
shadows created & performed by Erik Ruin, with assistance from Leslie Rogers & live violin score by Katt HernandezA Great Small Works Chanukah Shadow Puppet Show
Special New Year sonic massages performed by WOLLESONIC
and, Bread & Puppet Theater DIRT CHEAP OPERA, after Bertolt Brecht
Brandon Bauer Exhibition Photos
Posted December 20, 2008 by colin_matthes in Events
Our friend (and contributor to the Justseeds Prison Portfolio project) Brandon Bauer had an exhibition in Milwaukee last month. Here are some photos from the show.
Brandons blog:
http://randomculture.wordpress.com/
End This War
Posted December 19, 2008 by jmacphee in Art & Politics
I just got an announcement for an upcoming show by Philadelphia artist Theodore Harris. I've been a fan of Harris' work for years, he did the cover of the All The Days After book back in the day, and has a couple images in Reproduce & Revolt. I really like the image he sent out with the announcement, "End This War...(after Shirley Chisholm)," which is above. The show is:
War is a Map of Wounds: The Art of Howardena Pindell and Theodore A. Harris
February 2 - March 5, 2009
New Jersey City University
Visual Arts Gallery
Stencil Your Own Fuck You to the War on Terror
Posted December 19, 2008 by icky in Events
SCREEN-PRINT OR STENCIL YOUR PERSONALIZED FUCK YOU TO THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR
Come by Friday evening for an event by Chris Arendt and Motorcycle Awesome, a collective of individuals dedicated to artistic expression against the war in Iraq.
Arendt is a former National Guard and Prison Guard at Guantanamo Bay. The collective Motorcycle Awesome aims to create a strong active community of civilians, soldiers, and Iraq Veterans Against the War united through artistic expression.
Screenprinting and artwork will be on display, and each person can leave with a hand-screened T-shirt, FREE, choosing from a couple designs.
Friday, Dec. 19, 6-10pm
IGLOO
325 NW 6th Ave #102
"Though Portland tends to shut down in the snow I hope that you might step out into our winter wonderland tomorrow evening to make your way down to Igloo, at 6pm, for an event my friend Chris Arendt is putting together through his collaborative, Motorcycle Awesome.
While still a guard at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Chris and two other guards started Motorcycle Awesome as an intra-military resistance group. Now back in the real world Chris has re-formed the group as a means to help connect veterans and citizens, and create a site in which both groups can talk and collaboratively create anti-war art together to distribute around the country.
Expect silk-screen, stencils, giant origami bird folding, beer, music, and more. Bring a t-shirt to have screened, and anything else you would like to have emboldened with amazing art work. Along with illustrations by Chris, Pete Yahnke, and Icky of Justseeds have created work to be reproduced, and Josh Berger and Thomas Bradley of Plazm have created some amazing logo stencils for M.A.
Hope to see you tomorrow!
Sam"
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(Sam's involved with Portland art group Red 76, by the way)
The House of Love and Dissent
Posted December 15, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Favianna, Dara and I are in Rome, preparing for our show at the House of Love and Dissent on Thursday. We're hanging prints, People's History posters, and images from Reproduce & Revolt. It's going to be fun! Here is the poster for the show. Thanks to Erik Ruin for the hands (from the Realizing the Impossible cover).
Special Screening of July War
Posted December 11, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Special Screening of July War
w/ Filmmakers Brandon Jourdan and Francisca Caporali
December 15, 2008 at 8PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
NYC, NY
$5-10 Admission
July War takes a raw and unflinching look at the devastating
first-hand effects of the 2006 Israeli military offensive in Lebanon.
This powerful documentary examines the broader impact of the global
war on terrorism, using the war in Lebanon as a specific case study,
and questions whether it has actually curbed, or perhaps increased,
Islamic militancy. It also reflects on the US and Iranian role in the
war and the failures of current policy in the Middle East by Western
governments and their allies.
AIR Show This Weekend
Posted December 11, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
Artists Image Resource (AIR) this years Staff & Volunteer Show this
Saturday, December 13, 7-11pm
Artists Image Resource
518 Foreland Street
Pittsburgh, PA
412-321-8664
Over 32 artists' current work will be on view ranging from print, sculpture, painting, photography, sound and video installation.
matt cummings * howard booth * andy english * ian short * kerry gaydos * katyana gradler * matt forrest * mary tremonte * hunter blackwell * meredith hertel * allison glancey * jenn pascoe * erin foley * ryan emmett * rachel maran * jamie adams * sabrina adams * josh troy * gene marsh * mike hegedus * carolyn kelly * budai * kristine synowka * amos levy nathan mould * julia kennedy * lizzy devita * tresa varner * bill rodgers * robert beckman * nick fredland * ashley brickman * shaun slifer
DJ Mary Mack, DJ Sean MC and the duo of Hoof & Beek will be spinning music throughout the evening - food and drink will be provided - admission is FREE. This event is not to be missed and we look forward to seeing you!
AIR is a not-for-profit art printmaking studio in Pittsburgh, PA. AIR hosts a very popular Open Studio night on Tuesdays and Thursdays 7-11pm, and Wednesdays for teens 5-9pm, where you can make silkscreen prints at a nominal cost. I have been volunteering there on and off for close to a decade, and do most of my own printing there. (The Winter in America tree on the right, which is four feet tall, was created at AIR by Josh MacPhee & Shaun Slifer) Their facilities are amazing!
Taring Padi show in Mexico City
Posted December 11, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Our friend Santiago is helping put on a show in Mexico City of prints by the Indonesian printmaking collective Taring Padi. Here's the info and flyer. Sorry, Spanish only....
Exposicion del colectivo de grafica radical Taring Padi de Yogyakarta, Java central, Indonesia. LEMBAGA BUDAYA KERAKYATAN TARING PADIOrganización de Cultura Popular "Colmillos de Arroz"
El Colectivo Taring Padi de Yogayakarta, en la isla de Java en Indonesia,
se forma en 1998 en medio del gran levantamiento social que obliga a la
disolución de la dictadura del presidente Suharto. Taring Padi utiliza la expresión artística como una herramienta cultural en un esfuerzo para educar, inspirar y compartir con sus comunidades en Indonesia y las comunidades del mundo de la necesidad de luchar contra la opresión capitalista e imperialista. Su arte se comunica directamente con sus comunidades pero también nos
habla a todxs nosotrxs.
Inauguración: Viernes 19 de Diciembre / 19:00 hrs.
Música en vivo: Xeneque
Proyección de Documental del Colectivo
Clausura: Viernes 26 de Diciembre / 18:00 hrs.
Bandas invitadas: Anti-Master
Proyección de Documental
Lugar: Escuela de Cultura Popular Mártires del 68
5 de Febrero 257 – D
(esq. 5 de Febrero Col. Obrera Metro San Antonio Abad.)
La Furia de las Calles
http://espora.org/furia/
"Izena duen guztia omen da"
Book 'Em Book Sale Dec 13 & 14
Posted December 10, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
Book 'Em, Pittsburgh's books - to - prisoners program, is holding a book sale this weekend. All proceeds directly benefit postage for mailing book packages to prisoners (which runs about $900 / month). Book sale! Sweet treats! Giftwrapping!
Saturday December 13 10:00-2:00
Sunday December 14 3:00-8:00
Thomas Merton Center
5125 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Feel free to visit our weekly book packing sessions on Sundays from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the basement of the Thomas Merton Center, in Pittsburgh's Garfield neighborhood. There is always great company and conversation, and often music and snacks.
For additional information, contact us at bookem(at)indypgh(dot)org.
(I designed and printed this poster, using a Beehive Collective image from Reproduce and Revolt! Josh MacPhee and Favianna Rodriguez's amazing book of copyright-free radical graphics. Quick-and-dirty and good-looking poster-making!)
Dinner and Storytelling with the Beehive & Photojournalist Allan Cedillo Lissner
Posted December 10, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
The Beehive Collective Presents...Dinner and Storytelling with the Bees and photojournalist Allan Cedillo Lissner with special guest, Tanzanian Investigative Journalist, Evans Rubara.
The Beehive will be presenting parts of their new work, about resistance to a mega-development plan in Latin America. Allan and Evans will present "Someone Else's Treasure" and "A Golden Opportunity?" a photo essay and short film about mining in Tanzania. Friday, Dec 12, 7pm Sixth Street Community Center 638 East 6th Street NYC, NY $10-20sliding scale
Dinner will be a four course meal: appetizers, salad, a couple of main courses, and a choice of desserts. Proceeds from the dinner will go directly to people displaced from the Mtakuja village to pave way for AngloGold Ashanti in Mwanza Region in Tanzania.
Digna Rabia flyer
Posted December 9, 2008 by jmacphee in Posters & Prints
Another flyer making use of Justseeds art, this one for the Digna Rabia events in Oaxaca Mexico, using the EZLN Celebrate People's History Poster!!
"Ice" screening in Portland
Posted December 7, 2008 by icky in Events
The 16mm movie "Ice" is showing this week in Portland. This is a great movie- kind of a science fiction radical how-to of revolution made in 1969 when it seemed, realistically, just around the corner.
If you haven't seen this and you're interested in experimental film or radical history or near future low budget sci-fi (or none of these things) you should come see this... it's fucking great!
ICE by ROBERT KRAMER
[1969, 134 MIN]
December 9&10, 7:30pm
11 N.W. 13th Ave (btn Burnside & Couch)
Portland, OR
$6
Doors open 30 minutes prior to scheduled start time. Elevator access is provided, please come to the door so we can accomodate. City Center parking is available for $7 on 14th street. For access to the space from the 3rd floor enter from the western stairwell
"Born in New York in 1939, Robert Kramer ranks as one of the most original directors of American underground cinema. A committed leftist who emerged radicalized from his studies in philosophy and Western European history at Swarthmore and Stanford, he worked as a reporter in Latin America and organized a community project in a black neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, before founding the Newsreel movement—an underground media collective which made some sixty documentaries and short films about radical political subjects and the antiwar movement between 1967 and 1971. His films constantly work at wearing away the impermeability of documentary and fiction forms, paying special attention to his characters. A pioneering work that blurred the boundaries between fictional and documentary styles, Ice was hailed by filmmaker and Village Voice critic Jonas Mekas as "the most original and most significant American narrative film" of the late sixties. An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife which threatens its security and stages urban guerrilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout the narrative are rhetorical sequences that explain the philosophy of radical action and serve to restrain the melodrama inherent in the "thriller" genre. " - Harvard Film Archive
Signs of Change Closing Today!
Posted December 6, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Today is the last day to see Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now in NYC!!! Over 1000 posters, flyers, photos, videos, audio and ephemera from social movements around the world. Come by today and check it out if you haven't seen it yet:
Exit Art
475 10th Ave. (10th Ave. & 36th St.)
New York, New York
(the 34th Ave stop on the A/C/E train is only a couple blocks away)
And we're gearing up for the show to travel to Pittsburgh. It opens on January 23rd at the Miller Gallery at Carnagie Mellon University.
(installation photos by Kevin Caplicki)
Bill Daniel Projection / Audio Performance
Posted December 5, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
From Justseeds buddy Bill Daniel, hobo filmmaker. You can still catch his installation "The Great Depression" for another month at Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
"Hello Friends,
I'm writing to you today to tell you about two musical projection performance deallies that I'm organizing at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. The first will be this Saturday, Dec 6th, and will feature an improvisional performance by Jim Lingo, Josh Tanzer and Jarret Fate, who will be sonically interacting with the audio from a big reel of 16mm post-industrial found film oddities. The show will transpire in the gallery space where I currently have a photo/video installation up, called The Great Depression.
The other performance will be Jan 10th at the Melwood Screening Room and will feature Centipede Eest performing a live score to a collection of film and video collected from the American Road."
Saturday December 6
Doors at 7:00, performance at 8:00
FREE all ages
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
477 Melwood Ave
412-681-5449
Check out this sweet, though slightly inaccurate, review of The Great Depression in Pittsburgh's City Paper here
A Good Time for the Good Time Bill
Posted December 5, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Support the Good Time Bill and Push for Change in the Federal Prison System!
Dinner, A Movie, (Hoot) and Conversation
Friday, December 5th, 7pm
6th St. Community Center
6th St. btwn Avenues B and C (F/V to 2nd Ave., exit 1st Ave.)
NYC
Three years ago, our dear friend Daniel McGowan was among the first people arrested as part of an FBI offensive against environmental activists and others, now known as the Green Scare. Daniel began serving his seven-year sentence in July 2007. In August 2008, Daniel was moved to the Communications Management Unit in Marion, IL, a facility that bypassed the usual review process and severely restricts inmates' communication with the outside world.
To mark the three-year anniversary of Daniel's arrest, please join us to learn more about Daniel's situation, the Communications Management Units, and our campaign to pass the Federal Prison Work Incentive Act (or "Good Time Bill") - A bill about to be re-introduced to Congress that would reduce the sentences of people in federal prisons by increasing the "good time" credit all federal prisoners receive. This would apply to all federal prisoners except the ones serving life sentences.
2 Justseeds Portfolio Events
Posted December 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
On Friday in Montreal:
Voices from Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex
at Ste-Emilie SkillShare * 3942 Ste. Emilie * metro Place St. Henri
Vernissage Friday December 5th, 7pm-midnight
Exhibit December 5th – 14th inclusive
In connection with the historic Critical Resistance 10th anniversary conference Justseeds Artists Cooperative has produced a print portfolio project that they are donating to prisoner justice organizations across North America. The portfolio consists of 20 prints, each by a different artist, that all either critique the prison-industrial complex or address alternatives to incarceration.
The vernissage will feature:
* a presentation on prison art
* letter-writing to political prisoners
* Certain Days 2009 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar available for purchase
Presented by the Certain Days collective
& the Ste-Emilie SkillShare – both working groups of QPIRG Concordia
--> how to get to St Emilie Skillshare:
www.mapquest.com/maps/3942+Ste.+Emilie+Montreal+qc
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On Saturday, December 6 in Toronto:
Let Freedom Ring
Calendar launch - book launch - panel discussion - art show
6pm - Panel discussion about prison organizing
9pm - Launch party, with bar, snacks, and local DJs
(art will be up all evening)
$5/$15 with calendar
Whippersnapper Gallery
587A College Street, Toronto, ON
Taller Tupac Amaru Holiday Open Studio
Posted December 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
If you are in the Bay Area, check out our new Justseeds members Taller Tupac Amaru at their Holiday Open Studio this weekend!!!
Taller Tupac Amaru Holiday Open Studios
(Melanie Cervantes, Jesus Barraza, & Favianna Rodriguez)
December 6 & 7, 2008
11 am - 6 pm
Taller Tupac Amaru Art Studio
1505 33rd Ave.
Oakland, CA
ARTE• TAMALES • BEER• LIVE PRINTMAKING DEMOS
Join us in Celebrating our 5 year Anniversary! 2008 has been a busy and exciting year and we would love to celebrate with good food, music, community and great art. Our Taller spent the year supporting grassroots organizing, traveling, teaching, building and participating in various collaborations, exhibitions and artist residencies.
Come check out our new work!
Prints! Radical Art! T-Shirts! Books! Printmaking Demos! Live Art and More!
Portland 3rd Annual Working Class Book Fair
Posted December 4, 2008 by icky in Events
Hey Northwesties! Justseeds will be tabling with a bunch of prints at the 3rd Radical Book Fair at Liberty Hall. I tabled last year and it was really nice, lots of good stuff, nice people.
Liberty Hall is at 311 N. Ivy in Portland,
right off of Vancouver, a block south of Fremont.
Saturday, December 6th, 12-4pm
"Join the Portland IWW, Laughing Horse Books, In Other Words, Tarantula Press, Eberhardt Press, Justseeds, Malkriad@s, Olin, Red Letter Press, Great Northwest Books, Decentra Collective, Black Rose Collective, and many more for this excellent event! A plethora of books, magazines, and organizing materials will be on sale. The IWW Working Class Book Fair is a Portland tradition that gets better with every year, and is an indispensable opportunity for those interested in social/economic/environmental justice to meet up with like-minded organizations.
Questions? Contact the Portland IWW at 503-231-5488, or, portland.iww (at) gmail.com, for more info."
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
Posted December 3, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
If you are in NYC, come out to our big Justseeds show at the Brecht Forum tomorrow night, Thursday Dec 4th! After our event, cruise over to The Change You Want to See in Williamsburg for this video program!:
IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
The Change You Want To See Gallery
Thursday, December 4, 8pm
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn NY 11211
Since its humble beginnings in 1994, subMedia has grown from a small group of determined filmmakers into a grassroots network of socially and politically engaged artists and individuals. subMedia scrutinizes popular culture and media through the production of film, performance art, video, music and zines.Equal parts performance and protest, an attitude of art following action defines subMedia’s productions. From the regularly released and highly produced video blog “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”, to the collaborative documentary Ground Noise & Static, their work injects a radical analysis into the culture in a most entertaining way.
Please join subMedia founder, director and producer Franklin López (aka The Stimulator) as he steps out from behind the talking boxes to tour us through a video montage of his latest works, mixing culture jamming, news, radical commentary, music and action.
Justseeds in Portland City Hall Thursday night
Posted December 3, 2008 by pete in Events
Oddly enough we were asked to partake in a show at city hall that opens this Thursday. It's not everyday that we get invited to hang some political art on the walls of command central so we agreed. The event is in our Mayor-Elect Sam Adams' office. Holiday shoppers come on down, and if you don't catch us here, be sure to come by Liberty Hall this Saturday, we'll be tabling the Portland Radical Book Fair (yep, we're hitting both ends of the spectrum)
Here's the details:
Portland Prints II
City Hall Art Holiday Gift and Art Sale
Thursday December 4th 5-7pm
City Hall 1221 SW 4th
City Hall will have great local print makers including: couture stationary, letterpress & silk screen prints, magazines, and much more! Get hand-crafted art pieces for your loved ones this holiday season! Buy Local!
featuring work by the following:
Print Arts Northwest
Lark Press
Paul A. Lanquist
Encanto Press
Flight 64
Stumptown Printers
PSU's Student Activities Leadership Program
Bitch Magazine
Pinball Publishing
Letterary Press
Justseeds
Temporary Services Celebrates 10 Years
Posted November 29, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Soon after I moved to Chicago in the late 90's, I decided that I loved life the most when making art, and that's what I wanted to do with as much of my time as possible. The anarchist scene in Chicago was strong, but art was far from central to it. There were some great artists and designers involved in projects like the A-Zone, but no one was really talking much about the role of art and culture in politics, or using it to reach outside of the small political and cultural communities that already existed.
It was in this context that I stumbled upon Temporary Services, and the beginnings of a whole world of alternative art practice in Chicago. I was interested in illustrations, printmaking and street art, forms of art that could easily be given political utility. Temporary Services helped introduce me to another world of political art, one not necessarily based in the production of art objects, but in experiences. Their early projects included creating a bunch of public distribution systems for ideas (signs, newspaper boxes, guerrilla library book placements), as well as having ever changing exhibition spaces which provided a location to launch free "temporary services": from a month of free haircuts, to a reading room, to free breakfast.
Temporary Services always provided a space to ponder the intersections of culture, politics and lived experience, which was a relief after feeling trapped by the often philistine and rote machinations of anarchist politics in Chicago in the early 2000's (meeting, meeting, writing long political text for a flyer no one will read, small protest, meeting, meeting). I didn't always understand all of Temporary Services' projects (turning your gallery into a month long homeless shelter seemed in many ways more cruel than generous), or agree with their theories (I'm in no way convinced that giving things away for free in any way subverts capitalism), but I was always inspired by the productivity and commitment of the collective, which has fluctuated in membership, but has settled for a number of years into a pretty sturdy tripod (Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, Marc Fischer). Each of them brings a unique perspective, history and skill set which makes for a varied and powerful practice that is hinged together with an overlap in interests regarding the nature of generosity, a general rejection of the commercial art world, a thing for collections of all sorts, and a commitment to the idea that art can and should engage, interfere with, and change both people's lives and the world.
That is an extremely long introduction to the fact that Temporary Services is having a 10 year anniversary party this coming Friday in Chicago, and if I could be in Chicago for it, I damn well would be!
TEN YEARS OF TEMPORARY SERVICES
A 10th anniversary celebration & the Chicago book release party for Public
Phenomena
Friday, December 5, 2008, 7:30 PM – 12:00 AM
At the Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan, Chicago
Justseeds at Art vs Craft on Saturday
Posted November 28, 2008 by colin_matthes in Events
Justseeds will be tabling at Art vs Craft in Milwaukee tomorrow. We will have books, zines, and tons of prints. Stop by and say hi.
Ephemeral
Posted November 26, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
My friend Mathew Curran has his first solo stencil show coming up. He's been involved in a number of projects I've organized, including the Paper Politics show and Reproduce & Revolt. Details for the show are on the flyer. Check it out!
Justseeds Print Show at the Brecht Forum
Posted November 24, 2008 by jmacphee in Justseeds Collective Projects
JUSTSEEDS
Political Print Show and Art Sale
December 4th, 6-9pm
The Brecht Forum
451 West St, NYC
(the West Side Highway, btw Bank & Bethune Sts.)
Directions
The show will be up from 12/04/08 to 01/23/09
Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of political artists who have banded together to support each other and social movements. We believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society.
This exhibition is an opportunity to view and purchase over 50 different handmade prints by more than a dozen artists. All art will be for sale, much of it for $25 and under. Perfect socially conscious holiday gifts for friends and family!
Many Yeses, One No: Confronting Corporate Globalization
Posted November 20, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Short Notice, this one is tomorrow in NYC:
Many Yeses, One No: Confronting Corporate Globalization
A Retrospective Film Screening and Panel Discussion
November 21st, 7pm
Labowitz Theater
715 Broadway, NYC
Free and open to the public.
As the anniversary of the Seattle protests against the WTO approaches,
the world economic system- a system whose logic and shape has been
defined by neoliberal economic theory- is in ruins, and the United
States has elected a new president that many people hope and expect
will bring about "real Change."
What does this mean for a movement that seems to have seen its
heyday, but whose critique of the problem- neoliberalism run amok-
now seems more salient, and more urgently needed, than ever? If we
were to look at the Global Justice Movement, or Alter-Globalization
Movement, as historians, what lessons might we learn from this
history? How can these lessons be applied to the current moment?
Films to be Excerpted:
Breaking the Bank (2000)
Showdown in Seattle (1999)
Fourth World War (2003)
It's A Riot (1989)
The Debt Game (1992)
A Cry for Freedom and Democracy (1994)
Total screening time will be approximately 45 minutes, to be followed
by panelist remarks, and audience Q and A.
The Panel:
Sameer Dosssani, Brooke Lehman, Ritty Lukose, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, Rick Rowley,
David Solnit.
Moderated by Stephen Duncombe.
Wisconsin Books to Prisoners upcoming artshow in Madison - call for entries
Posted November 20, 2008 by nicolas_lampert in Calls for Art
Wisconsin Books to Prisoners is organizing an artshow on the prison industrial complex and will pair the Justseeds portfolio project with artwork that is done by prisoners. The exhibition will be in late January and I will post more information on the specifics in the coming weeks on the Justseeds blog. Below is their call for entries:
Wisconsin Books to Prisoners was the recipient of a powerful set of posters created by 20 printmakers from the JUSTSEEDS Visual Resistance art collective. These posters were created in anticipation of the 10th anniversary of Critical Resistance, a prison abolitionist movement, and call attention to the human rights catastrophe in U.S. jails and prisons, and the use of policing, prisons and punishment as a “solution” to social, political and economic problems.
The posters and artwork by prisoners will be displayed at a gallery in Madison at the end of January 2009. Art that addresses the condition of prisons and the daily drudgery and cruelties of prison life would be particularly appreciated.
Please do not send anything that you want returned or is not copyright free. Also, please let us know how you wish to be (or not be) identified. Submission are welcome throughout the years to come, but for this show the due date is: January 1st, 2009.
Many thanks in advance to those who make contributions to this event.
Please send artwork to:
Wisconsin Books to Prisoners
Rainbow Bookstore
426 W. Gilman St.
Madison, WI 537033
for more information contact: Camy Matthay: maha@chorus.net
Book Release Party for Cristy Road's Bad Habits: A Love Story
Posted November 20, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Saturday,November 22 2008
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Death by Audio
49 South 2nd Street (between Wythe & Kent)
Brooklyn, NY
Readings by Cristy Road -from her new illustrated novel Bad Habits: A Love Story- and by Fly
Music by The Measure, Cheeky, Love or Perish, Each Other's Mothers, and Homewreckers (Pop Punk from NYC. Feat. members of Party Line, The Unlovables, Girlcrush and Cristy Road sings)
DJ Sets by Sir Loins and Tommy Hottpants
Bad Habits: A Love Story
Moving to New York City for Carmencita Gutierrez Alonzo, otherwise known as Car, dictated the beginning of a self-imposed mental cleansing, denoting an era of destruction and change. THIS BOOK IS ABOUT OVERCOMING THE EFFECTS OF AN ABUSIVE AND MANIPULATIVE RELATIONSHIP, and Car's quest for rebirth. Consequently, rebirth was untamed and measured by shitty news, occasional breakdowns, destructive splurges, and life altering orgasms. Geographically escaping the past's trauma in order to get over the past, proves to be worthless without the additional, internal redemption. The route to heal earnestly is always winding in a world where healing without a steady paycheck, health insurance, a mainstream identity, or mental stability can often times seem impossible. That is, at least, without harsh self-doubt or unfortunate addictions. This journey of getting over trundles through wild living situations, drunks, punks, awkward mornings, semi-revelatory acid trips, complex definitins of love, complex embraces of lust, complex laws on sexual violence, and a decaying Brooklyn where every glass condo swells the cost of living for a minimum wage society. Finding solace in things like Coney Island, hair metal, and her circle of friends; Carmencita transforms her bad habits into some rendition of living, and somewhat, achieving.
Food Not Bombs Pittsburgh Benefit
Posted November 20, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
Food Not Bombs Pittsburgh is having a benefit to raise funds for a second bike cart, so they can haul those pots of stew without fossil fuels! Like many punk activists, FNB was the first activist project I participated in steadily as a fresh-faced 18 year old, when I moved to Pittsburgh in 1996. We used to cook at the original Peach Pitt in Shadyside (pgh punx will recall the more well-known peach pitt on blvd of the allies in oakland, 1998-2007r.i.p.). It's great that new generations of kids keep cookin', and that several folks have continued to be involved with this project for years. I'm stoked to be able to lend support with my DJ styles!
Food Not Bombs Benefit
Friday, November 21st, 8pm-2am
at Your Inner Vagabond
Pittsburgh, PA
Featuring:
Bowlegged Gorrilla (one man band with beatboxing from b-more) (on his b-day!)
Breakaway Marching Band (pgh's rad marchin band)
Troop Jazzercize Radical Pittsburgh (sexy aerobic glampunk neon spandex dance routines---see photo!)
Sean & Jen (accordion and trumpet)
Mary Mack (you know the deal)
Door at 8pm
$5 - $10 recommended donation
BYOB + Some Free Brews (bring yer ID)
Food Not Bombs collects surplus food and cooks it into tasty meals that are served to anyone that's hungry every Friday and Sunday in Market Square. More info at http://pgh-fnb.activeresistance.org/
"Our url is harder than yours."
Paper Politics in Syracuse!
Posted November 19, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
The Paper Politics show is still tearing up upstate New York! It open at the Redhouse Gallery in Syracuse tomorrow night. If you're in the area, check it out! Almost 200 political prints from around the world, with work from all the Justseeds artists, as well as tons of other great printmakers like BSAS Stencil, Christopher Cardinale, Tom Civil, Sue Coe, Amos Kennedy Jr., Jesse Purcell, Favianna Rodriguez and Nicole Schulman.
Paper Politics
Opening Reception: November 20th 5-8pm
Redhouse Arts Center
201 South West St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
Support Renata Hill of the NJ4 Thursday! Queer Docs Friday!
Posted November 19, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
One of the NJ4 defendants, Renata Hill is having a hearing tomorrow and FIERCE! is mobilizing a support crew:
Thursday November 20, 10AM
Meet outside 100 Centre Street, NYC
(Part 91 - 15th Floor)
Judge McLaughlin
On August 18, 2006, seven young African American lesbian women from Newark, New Jersey came to Manhattan’s West Village for a night out. A man named Dwayne Buckle harassed and assaulted the young women, making sexist and homophobic comments to them as well as lewd advances and telling one of the women that he would “F—k her straight.” A physical altercation ensued, and two men came to the aid of the women. One of the men stabbed Buckle, and then left the scene. The women continued on their way and were arrested shortly after. The trial that took place was a farce, the judge was condescending and offensive, the media demonized the women as a "lesbian wolf-pack", there was never a search for the two men who stabbed Buckle, requests for forensic testing on the supposed weapon were ignored as was footage from a surveillance camera that clearly showed Buckle was the perpetrator. After a year-long trip through the legal system, three women of the women- Chenese Loyal, Khymesha Coates, Lania Daniels took plea bargains and the other four were convicted of crimes and given shocking prison sentences in April 2007. Terrain Dandridge was sentenced to three and a half years behind bars; Venice Brown, five years; Renata Hill, eight years; and Patreese Johnson, was sentenced to an unbelievable 11 years. Terrain Dandridge’s case was overturned, all her charges were dropped and she was released on June 21st, 2008. She has recently been speaking out with her family and with supporters such as Angela Davis in San Francisco and in NY.
For more info, there is an excellent article Re-Thinking "The Norm" In Police/Prison Violence & Gender Violence: Critical Lessons from the New Jersey 7 in the most recent issue of Left Turn Magazine by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence & FIERCE! that addresses issues of violence and bias against queer youth of color and the struggle to make these issues visible.
To find out how you can support the NJ4 and for future updates check out:
FIERCE!, Justice 4 New Jersey 4, Free the NJ4
There is a screening of documentaries about the lives of LGBTQ youth in the West Village:
Friday November 21, 7pm
Maysles Films
343 Lenox Ave/Malcom X Blvd.
NYC
Panel 8pm, reception to follow
Fenced Out dir. FIERCE! with Paper Tiger TV & The Neutral Zone (2001)
Fenced Out documents the fight for the Christopher St. pier, a long-established hangout and safe haven for New York City’s youth of color and lower-income, homeless, lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, questioning and two-spirited youth. In the summer of 2000, development for a state park began “fencing out” the kids, with support from residents of nearby waterfront properties. “You are lowering the property value,” notes one police officer bluntly. The video examines the clash between the groups that claim ownership of the pier, from the perspective of the youths who feel it is the only place where they belong. The documentary includes interviews with “pierets” about how important the pier is in their lives, and with LGBTQ activists about the history of the piers and their connection to the gay liberation movement of the 60’s. It explores how the struggle to save the pier connects to a larger historical and social movement, and develops a plan of action to save them.
Life on Christopher Street dir. Maria Clara, 2002
Through the eyes of these urban male youth, known as "Homolife on Christopher St. Thugs", we see gay rappers, "Blood" gang members, pimps, and sex workers in their struggle to maintain dignity. The film is an exposé of a rising subculture of Black and Latino gay youth born in the late 70's to early 80's, representing the Hip-Hop generation. These urban gay youth living on the most popular gay strip in the world maintain the aggressive hyper masculine image and attitude represented in the Hip-Hop culture, contradicting the stereotypical image of homosexuals.
Life on Christopher Street Director & Producer Maria Clara and Kimberly Gray, FIERCE!, RJ Supa and Steven Gordon of The Ali Forney Center (housing for homeless LGBTQ youth)
reception to follow
Other's Stolen Land show
Posted November 19, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
In another "wish I was in San Francisco" moment, one of my fave street artists Other is having a show at Needles & Pens that opens this Friday:
Opening reception
Friday, November 21st, 6-9 PM
~ STOLEN LAND ~
an exhibition of paintings, linoleum block prints, photography, and installation by
OTHER a.k.a. Troy Lovegates
Needles & Pens, 3253 16th Street, San Francisco, CA
Wander-lust ridden graffiti artist, Other, has scrawled, spray-painted, and pasted his beautiful, highly detailed, and often solemn-faced characters on the walls and doorways of buildings around the world. His work has mysteriously appeared in galleries and the streets of such distant places (far from his native Canada), as, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Bucharest, Fez, and Lima, Peru. However, it is on the elusive freight trains of the extensive North American railroad system that the majority of his imagery is on display. It is a rare treat to have a large collection of the artist's work assembled in one location.
Eye to Eye
Posted November 19, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
For those in NYC, stencil artist Logan Hicks has curated a show called Eye to Eye.
I'm excited to see Ephameron in NY, and have appreciated C215's additions to the streets of NYC. These are some hard working folks that have inspired me recently.
Check it out
Eye to Eye Opening Reception: November 20, 2008, 7pm November 20 – December 20, 2008 Artists: EPHAMERON (Belgium) C215 (France) JOAD (Greece) Invisible NYC 148 Orchard Street
Ill and Ira Report Back
Posted November 18, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Japanese comrades Ill Commonz and Kei will be giving a report back from their trip to NYC on November 23rd in Tokyo, and they'll be hanging a show of my silkscreen prints at the university they're speaking at. They sent me this great flyer for the event!
El Tercer Feria Anarchista del DF/Mexico City's 3rd Anarchist Bookfair!
Posted November 15, 2008 by k_c_ in Books & Zines
Esta tercera feria se realizara en la cd de México los días 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 y 16 de noviembre de 2008.
Habra venta de Venta de libros, periódicos, videos, fanzines, comida y más...
I found out about Mexico City's Anarchist Bookfair smack in the middle of its events, and felt the need to tell yins about it!
Wish I was there.
A Not Too Distant Past film screenings in the midwest
Posted November 13, 2008 by icky in Events
My friend Marc Moscato is showing a collection of films about Chicago area activism and resistance.
Sunday, November 16, 7PM
Screening at The Select Media Festival
The Co Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St
Chicago, IL
Wednesday, November 19 (tentative)
Screening & lecture at North Central College
Naperville, IL
Wednesday, December 3, 7PM
Screening & lecture at
The Project Lodge (Co presented by The Media Embassy)
817 E Johnson St
Madison, WI
Thursday, December 4, 7PM
Screening at Darling Hall
601 SW 6th St
Milwaukee, WI
Friday, December 5, 8PM
Screening at The Art of This
3506 Nicollet Ave
Minneapolis, MN
Speak Out: Art, Design + Politics
Posted November 13, 2008 by dylanminer in Events
Abby Goldstein, professor at Fordham University in NYC, curated this dope exhibition which includes my work alongside fellow Justseed compañeras/os Favianna, Jesús, and Melanie. It's also got the Guerrilla Girls, Laurie Anderson, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Sue Coe, Milton Glaser, and countless other rad artists. Scope it out if in New Mexico.
Speak Out: Art, Design & Politics
November 1–December 20, 2008
516 Arts
Albuquerque, NM
Download the postcard in PDF format.
Documenting the Struggle: Three Radical NYC Archives
Posted November 11, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
This just in!
Tonight!
Tues. Nov. 11, 7pm
Free Workshop - Documenting the Struggle: Three Radical NYC Archives
Brecht Forum
451 West St (between Bank & Bethune Sts)
NYC
$5-$15 suggested donation to support Radical Reference
free food/cash bar
Join Radical Reference for a look at some of the ways libraries and
other institutions are preserving the people's history!
Archivists and activists from ABC No Rio, OutHistory.org and the
Tamiment Library will present parts of their collections and discuss
how their work keeps the struggle alive.
Presented as part of the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition "make this netWORK" series,
seeking to strengthen the fight for media justice by connecting local
activists and media makers.
Keep it Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with the Yes Men
Posted November 11, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
The Yes Men will be in Pittsburgh this week with a lecture and survey exhibition!
Keep an eye out for future activist art exhibitions at the Miller Gallery.
FRI. NOV. 14
KEEP IT SLICK:
Infiltrating Capitalism
with The Yes Men
Curated by Astria Suparak >>>
Nov. 14, 2008–Feb. 15, 2009
EVENTS
Nov. 14, 5pm:
How To Be A Yes Man Workshop + Film clips from their upcoming movie. Miller Gallery, 2nd floor.
Sponsored by the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry + School of Art Lecture Series.
6–8pm:
Business Casual Reception. Miller Gallery, 3rd floor.
Please bring offerings for the dearly departed Reggie the Janitor.
Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University
Purnell Center for the Arts
5000 Forbes Ave.
SubRosa opening
Posted November 7, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
A new anarchist community space, SubRosa, just opened in Santa Cruz, CA. And they used one of Kristine's prints for their flyer!
Benefit for Political Prisoner Ojore Lutalo
Posted November 6, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
November 8 at 7:30pm
Sixth Street Community Center
638 E 6th St, between Avenues B and C, in Manhattan
Suggested Donation $8-10, refreshments will be served
Longtime New Afrikan Anarchist Prisoner of War, Ojore Lutalo, is set to be released after 26 years of confinement in the New Jersey State Prison, having completed the maximum amount of time the State of New Jersey could hold him. While his exact release date is not finalized, it will most likely be late November or December. Money is being raised to help Ojore secure housing, food and clothing to help with this transition.
Ojore Lutalo is locked down in Trenton, New Jersey for actions carried out in the fight for Black Liberation. According to Lutalo, he is serving a parole violation sentence stemming from a 1977 conviction for expropriating monies from a state bank and engaging police in a gun battle which took place in 1975.
Kazembe Balagun, writer, activist, teacher, and biographer of the late New Afrikan Anarchist freedom fighter Kuwasi Balagoon will be in attendance to talk about New Afrikan Anarchism of the past and future.
There will be a screening of the film Frame Up! The Imprisonment of Martin Sostre (1973)
Frame Up! follows the story of Afro-Puerto Rican political activist Martin Sostre who served time in Attica prison during the early 1960s. He was arrested in 1967, at his Afro-Asian bookstore in Buffalo for sale and possession of narcotics, riot, arson, and assault- charges later proven to be fabricated by COINTELPRO. He was convicted and sentenced to serve forty-one years and thirty days. Sostre became a jailhouse lawyer and regularly acted as legal counsel to other inmates, and won two landmark legal cases for the advancement of prisoner rights- Sostre v. Rockefeller and Sostre v. Otis.
Soft Scraps, a show for scrappers
Posted November 5, 2008 by bec_young in Events
Soft Scrap is a show of scrap-inspired art which opens this Saturday in Detroit.
The artists are seamsters, fiber artists, sculptors, painters, printmakers, performers, and musicians. They hoard scraps that are piled on shelves, stashed in boxes, or stowed away in basements. These scraps are sometimes ridiculous, embarrassing and untidy, but sometimes they inspire. Artists include Julio Dominguez, Mary Carolan, Sarah Lapinski, Abigail Newbold, Sarah Burger, Connie Shea, Bec Young, Leah Retherford, Emily Linn, and Megan Heeres.
This show includes my series "stitches stories," which tells the story of my travels through Guatemala three years ago. The stories are embroidered into the clothes that were worn on the trip.
The show runs for five weeks with three special events. All events are open to the public.
The show is located at 1401 Bagley, one block South of Michigan Avenue, and one block East of Trumbull.
Nov. 7 Opening reception including performance by Kathy Leisen of SOFT LOCATION 7-10pm
Nov. 14 Regular viewing 5-8pm
Nov. 21 Regular viewing 5-8pm
Nov. 29 Scrap exchange party 7-10pm
Dec. 5 Regular viewing 5-8pm
Dec. 12 Closing with scrap food potluck 7-10pm
Desplazamientos – Bajo y Suavecito
Posted November 5, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
This just in from my friend Fernando Martí:
Desplazamientos – Bajo y Suavecito: A show about Low Riders, a skate park, and the Mission then and now...
Photographs, oral histories and installations by Amanda Lopez & Fernando Martí, in collaboration with El Tecolote
November 8 - December 8, 2008 at Mission Skateboards storefront
Reception: Saturday, Nov. 8, 7-9 pm, with Low-Rider oldies by D.J. Chango Julius
Mission Skateboards
3045 24th Street (at Treat)
Desplazamientos is an ongoing series of installations and publications created by Amanda Lopez, Fernando Martí, and El Tecolote, tracing the shifts and resistances of Mission District history.
Sedition
Posted November 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
A new political art show has just opened in NYC. Haven't had a chance to check it out yet, but it looks promising, almost all the artists involved have done engaging and compelling intersections of art and politics in the past.
SEDITION
October 29th – Nov 24th, 2008
Special Election Night Party November 4th, starting at 7pm
Featuring work by: Melanie Baker, Wafaa Bilal, Sandow Birk, Emory Douglas,
Hasan Elahi, Mounir Fatmi, Jon Hendricks, Arnold Mesches, Naeem Mohaiemen,
Sheryl Oring, Jenny Polak, Martha Rosler, Jackie Salloum, Hank Willis Thomas
and Raphael Zollinger
Curated by Dread Scott, Kyle Goen and Hajarah Abdus-Sabur
White Box (Bowery)
329 Broome Street New York, NY 10002 (NEW ADDRESS)
www.whiteboxny.org
Tokyo Book Fair Report
Posted November 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
I just got an email from Kei (Irregular Rhythm Asylum) with some links to photos and video of the recent Tokyo Bookfair. Here is a cool video that shows the fair, including a bunch of our posters and even people silkscreening with Reproduce & Revolt images!
Print & Zine Show in Pittsburgh
Posted November 4, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
Mary (Mack) Tremonte and Heidi Tucker have a show of new prints that just opened this weekend at Morning Glory Coffeehouse in Pittsburgh. Mary's prints were all created over the past year, mostly from time at recent residencies at AS220 in Providence, RI and the Anchor Archive Halifax, NS. She released a split zine with Simone Roughouser that they created at the Anchor Archive: Chick Pea #4/ Risk-Oblivious Youth # 1/2.
The show also marks the grand opening of Morning Glory, which is run by former Providencer Jeffrey Alexander. The spot features fair trade organic coffee, vegan baked goods by My Goodies bakery, occasional live music, babies that look like gnomes and more.
The work will be up all month. You can buy prints and zines on the spot. Stop on by...
A People in the Shadows
Posted November 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
My friend Bani Khoshnoudi is doing a sneak preview of her new film A People in the Shadows next Friday in New York City. I'm really excited about the film, but unfortunately all of us Justseeders will be at our annual retreat in Milwaukee. Some of you will have to go and tell us how it was!
A PEOPLE IN THE SHADOWS (2008, 90 min.)
Friday, November 7, 7pm
at DCTV
87 Lafayette Street (south of Canal Street), 3rd Floor
NYC
(subways: N,R,W,Q,6 to Canal)
Almost thirty years after the revolution, and twenty since the end of the long Iran-Iraq war, A People in the Shadows takes us on a voyage into the heart of Tehran, a megalopolis of 14 million people. The city is still recovering from its past, as talk of sanctions and a possible American attack resonate. Using cinema direct methods, the film takes an intimate look at the way people live in this immense city today- caught up in the paradoxes and contradictions of their society, surrounded by images of past and future death, yet finding ways to juggle state propaganda and foreign threat on a daily basis.
Portland Events
Posted November 2, 2008 by icky in Events
Two great Events in Portland this week!
The Films of Helen Hill
Monday Nov 3rd, 2008
Hollywood Theater, Portland OR
7 pm
As part of the Siren Nation festival here, there will be a screening of 10 short films by Helen Hill. Helen was a friend of mine who was killed in New orleans almost two years ago. Her films are scrappy beautiful things, truly DIY, warm, political and playful. Excellent stuff!
And also:
Beehive Collective Swarming Portland
Please join this empowering graphics collective on the eve of the election for a powerful and interactive story about empire, corporate globalization, resistance and sustainability.
The Beehive Collective and their "Dismantling Monoculture" graphics campaign will make a variety of free appearance around portland. The events will take place as follows:
Oct. 31st @ 3pm - PSU Smith Building, 1825 SW Broadway St. Hosted by Students for Unity and MECha
Nov. 2nd @ 7pm - Reed College Student Union. Hosted by Blue Heron Infoshop
Nov. 3rd @ 6pm - ILWU Local 5, 917 SW Oak Suite #206. Hosted by the ILWU Local 5, Independent Publishing Resource Center and Free School Portland
Nov. 4th @ 7pm - Red and Black Cafe, 400 SE 12th avenue (at Oak). Hosted by the Red and Black and Free School Portland
The Beehive Collective presents their three part narrative: Dismantling Monoculture - Mesoamerica Resiste: a visual exploration of the impacts of militarism, free trade, and corporate globalization in Latin America. The group's mission is to "cross pollinate the grassroots" through the creation of images as an effective medium for deconstructing and educating the public about complex geopolitical issues.
Prints Gone Wild this weekend!
Posted October 31, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Just a reminder that we'll be at the Prints Gone Wild print fair this weekend! So come by and say howdy and look at the art, or even buy some if you are so inclined. It's cheap.
Sat Nov. 1st 6pm-12am Opening reception/party
Sun Nov. 2nd 12-6pm Fair is open all day
Supreme Trading
213 n 8th St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
1968 Exhibit at Labadie Collection in Ann Arbor
Posted October 25, 2008 by shaun in Events
In her dream job as curator of the Labadie Collection of Social Protest Literature at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Julie Herrada has curated a timely new exhibit. The Whole World Was Watching: Protest and Revolution in 1968, Selections from the Labadie Collection provides a snapshot of a complex and pivotal year in American history, highlighting protests against the Vietnam War and the draft, the highly fractured Presidential election and the violence that erupted outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago against anti-war demonstrators, and the activities of student and other protest groups such as the Ann Arbor-founded Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, the White Panthers, and the Yippies. The exhibit notes the women's movement and international matters such as Prague Spring and the May Paris uprisings.
The exhibit is on view in the Gallery (Room 100) at the Hatcher Graduate Library. A related display of original record albums and political buttons from the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library is also exhibited in the Special Collections Exhibit Room located on the seventh floor (same building). Julie has also launched an online exhibit guestbook that visitors can write their 1968 memories in. An afternoon panel discussion featuring activists from the era and a live performance in the evening by Country Joe McDonald will take place in The Gallery on November 13. The exhibit runs until December 19.
The Ann Arbor Chronicle ran an article about the show on Wednesday.
Iraq Vet Trampled
Posted October 24, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Since the weekend I've been wanting to write a post about heading up to the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) protest outside the final presidential debate last week at Hofstra University (about an hour outside NYC). I took the train out their with my friend Emily in order to show support for IVAW, who I think have been doing some of the most interesting and innovative protesting against the Iraq War, and in general, since the war started. One of their main tactics has been using their uniforms and status as veterans as a tool, to be able to enter certain spaces, speak to certain audiences that would otherwise be closed off, etc.
At the protest, we saw the beginnings of the limitations of this tool. Not only where six IVAW members arrested, but one was trampled by a horse and sent to the hospital. No media was there to cover the event. I couldn't quite come up with the right words to describe the experience, but Emily has just sent out a really clear and well written email that describes what happened, so I'm going to just repost it here. Please, Please, Please, check out the video here.
Her message:
Hello All-I just wanted to draw your attention to this video, particularly these video stills, that i shot during the Iraq Veterans Against the War protest at the final U.S. presidential debates, last Wednesday, in Long Island, NY. The video is extremely disturbing and clearly shows Iraq War Veteran Nick Morgan at the moment when his head was crushed to the sidewalk under a police horse. This story has been completely ignored in the media. He was legally, peacefully and standing on the sidewalk when the event occurred.
The still images speak volumes to this moment in history, please look at them and please get them to people (journalists, activists, veterans) who can use them! - http://www.flickr.com/multiplefronts
The video is on Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlI7tQCqwbU (watch in high quality)
Video links and more information are posted at - http://www.iwitnessvideo.info
Last Wednesday October 15th 2008, former Army Sergeant Nick Morgan, a 24 year old veteran of the US war in Iraq, was nearly killed by riot police, his face crushed under a police horse, during a peaceful protest outside the final US presidential debates.Morgan is a native of Annapolis, MD who spent four-years the US Army and one year in Iraq. He was a participant in the Winter Soldier hearings and is an active member of the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), a national organization of 'Global War On Terror' veterans who had come to the Presidential debates in Long Island, demanding that veterans' concerns be heard during these nationally televised dialogues.
The IVAW had previously announced, sending a letter to CBS, that two veterans had prepared one question each for Obama and McCain, to be asked during the televised debate. They had also announced that if they didn't receive a response by 7pm on the night of the debates, that those veterans would enter the debates anyway, in an attempt to be seen, if not actually have their voices heard.
On Wednesday, as the sun was going down, the veterans waited for a response with a crowd of civilian supporters. When no response came from CBS, Obama, or McCain by 7pm, they led a march peacefully to the gate of the debates. Seven veterans were arrested while attempting to enter the gate of the national debates.
Nassau county police immediately began pushing the crowd of media, veterans and supporters backwards and across the street, charging riot cops and horses into the tightly packed crowd. One officer, Officer Quagliano was seen by many witnesses to be driving his horse backwards, in circles and out of control, repeatedly antagonizing Nick Morgan and a group of Iraq War vets who were peacefully holding the front of the line. The IVAW veterans are committed to non-violence and committed to protecting 'civilians' that come out to support them. Video shows him swiping Morgan and veteran Carlos Harris with the head of his horse just a few minutes before trampling them on the ground.
Provo & White Bikes
Posted October 24, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Tonight is our Provo event at the Signs of Change exhibition here in NYC (see announcement here), and Arthur Magazine was nice enough to post an announcement for it...but they also included a short video pieces about the history of the Provo White Bicycle Plan which I hadn't seen before, and attach here for y'all:
Prints Gone Wild Nov 1st & 2nd
Posted October 24, 2008 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects
Im super stoked to announce that Justseeds will be participating in the 4th annual Prints Gone Wild event organized by the folks from Cannonball Press. 
Here's the skinny:
Cannonball Press and Supreme Trading proudly present the 2008 version:
PRINTS GONE WILD 4!!The fourth ever annual vernacular printacular mega-hairy Brooklyn affordable print fair. (OK, we did one in St. Louis too)
The ORIGINAL AND ONLY 50 bucks and under American print fair.Sat Nov. 1st 6pm-12am Opening reception/party
Sun Nov. 2nd 12-6pm Fair is open all day
Supreme Trading
213 n 8th St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211FEATURING:
The Amazing Hancock Brothers McGregor, TX
Yeehaw Industries Knoxville, TN
Howling Print Studios Brooklyn, NY
Tugboat Press Pittsburgh, PA
Bikini Press Minneapolis, MN
Justseeds Brooklyn, NY
Sean Star Wars Laurel, MS
Kayrock Screenprinting Brooklyn, NY
Space 1026 Philadelphia, PA
Purgatory Pie Press New York, NY
Drive By Press Madison, WI
Isle of Printing Nashville, TN
Cannonball Press Brooklyn, NYAfter last year’s incredibly successful fair, Brooklyn’s own Cannonball Press has again assembled an extraordinary menagerie of graphic artists under one roof, who will be present, displaying their prints, and selling them for $50 or less for two days only.
Long-time champions of the affordable art cause, Cannonball Press has brought together these great artists as part of New York Fine Art Print Week so that New York can have a chance to see first-hand the incredible resurgence in affordable fine art printing that is happening across the country.
An entertaining sideshow will take place during the fair, featuring traditional Mexican music from Grupo Diamante Norteno, “deathgrass” titans the Black Death All-stars, a print-o-centric fashion show, emcee David Rees (of Get Your War On fame), a performance by the Amazing Hancock Brothers, and on-the-spot printing with Drive-By Press, which operates a mobile press out of the back of their van.
The best affordable art in town, guaranteed.
Poster show at the Tokyo Bookfair
Posted October 23, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Dara and I were excited to have Kei and Illcommonz from Tokyo visit us in late September for the opening of the Signs of Change exhibition here in NYC. They have both been involved in actions and movements included in the show, most recently the organization against the G8 summit in Japan. Kei is also connected to the Japanese anarchist archive CIRA Japan, who lent us a handful of Japanese anarchist posters from the 60s-80s for the the exhibition.
While they were here we weighed them down with posters and propaganda from the US, much of it for Tokyo's infoshop Irregular Rhythm Asylum, which is largely run by Kei. I'm excited that Kei has created a small exhibition of my posters, which is being held at the 3rd annual Tokyo Bookfair, which is put together by a handful of DIY, punk and anarchist shops, zines and distros. They are also showing Dara's video Tactical Tourist, a 15-minute look at the Barcelona squatting scene in 2006.
The Great Depression
Posted October 23, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Our friend Bill Daniel has a new show opening tomorrow night in Pittsburgh. Check it out:
Images from Paper Politics in Cortland
Posted October 21, 2008 by jmacphee in Art & Politics
The Paper Politics show is currently hanging at the Dowd Gallery at SUNY-Cortland in Upstate New York. Andrew Mount, the director at the Dowd sent me these great photos of the show installed. Seems like it's made some ripples up there, upsetting some students who actually asked the administration to remove some of the prints! I'm heading up to Cortland to do a curator's talk on October 28th. Info and directions will be on their website.
Signs of Change Dutch Provo Event!
Posted October 21, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Signs of Change Dutch Provo Event!
Friday, October 24, 2008, 6-8pm
at Exit Art, 475 10th Ave, NY, NY
PREMIERE SCREENING of Dutch Provo Footage
Premiere screening of newly subtitled short films and footage of the 1960s Dutch Provo movement, and book release of Richard Kempton’s Provo: Amsterdam’s Anarchist Revolt (in collaboration with Autonomedia Press).
Speakers include: Jordan Zinovich, Lindsay Caplan, and Janna Schoenberger
About the Book:
Provo staged political and cultural interventions into the symbolic
and everyday spaces of Holland from 1962-1967. In this first
book-length English-language study of their history, Richard Kempton
narrates the rise and fall of Provo from early Dutch "happenings"
staged in 1962 to the "Death of Provo" in 1967. This is the fourth
book Autonomedia has done on Dutch social movements.
About the Video:
This compilation of Provo footage, newly translated and subtitled by
Janna Schoenberger and Dennis de Lange, includes scenes from the early
happenings, Dutch political life, and interviews by key members of
Provo - including an interview held with Robert Jasper Grootveld on
his houseboat in Amsterdam.
Speakers:
Jordan Zinovich has been associated with Autonomedia since 1986, and
is currently a senior editor. He has been working on Provo for years,
and since 1997 has been going repeatedly to Amsterdam to meet with
members of Provo. He will discuss the renaissance of Provo going on
today.
Lindsay Caplan is a member of the Autonomedia editorial collective,
and a doctoral student at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research
focuses on the intersection between art, aesthetics, and social action
- an arena in which Provo is an essential and exciting example.
Janna Schoenberger is a doctoral student at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
She received her master's degree in Art History from Utrecht
University in the Netherlands where she lived for three years. She is
currently working as a translator for the upcoming exhibition "In and
Out of Amsterdam 1960-1975" at the Museum of Modern Art.
About Autonomedia:
Autonomedia is a small non-profit publisher of books and digital
material that investigate the liberatory impulse by way of radical
politics, philosophy, arts, history, and other categories of thought
and action. We have operated as an all-volunteer editorial collective
since 1983, and are based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. With more than
100 titles in active distribution, and 6-8 new books each year,
Autonomedia provides an autonomous media zone for radical art and politics, and seeks to transcend party lines, bottom lines and straight lines. We also
maintain the Interactivist Info Exchange (info.interactivist.net), an
online forum for discourse and debate on themes relevant to the books
we publish. www.autonomedia.org
CALL FOR SUBMISSION/PARTICIPATION: Parks for People Draw-a-Thon
Posted October 19, 2008 by dara_g in Calls for Art
http://www.mucketymuck.org/b_1_exhibitions/campaigns/2008_US_ParksForPeople.htm
Due Oct 21 (by email or mail) - see below for full submission information
Union Square Park's historic Pavilion is threatened by plans for a privately run, upscale restaurant. We believe that our precious public resources should stay in the hands of the people and that the pavilion should be committed to public use. We invite artists to participate in imagine public uses for the pavilion by making a black and white 11 x 17 illustration either in advance of or at our Oct 23rd rally at Union Square celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Pavilion's designation as a National Historic Landmark. For more context please see: Union Square, Then and Now
PARTICIPATING COMMISSIONED ARTISTS
Artwork by the following artists are producing commissioned illustrations:
Steve Lambert, Carolyn Ryder Cooley, Chris Rubino, Steve Marcus, Joan Linder
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The general public is invited to submit drawings will be selected by a jury that consists of:
Martha Wilson - Executive Director of Franklin Furnace
Dara Greenwald - artist, activist, and co-curator of Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures from the 1960s to Now currently on view at Exit Art
All drawings produced at the Oct 23rd at the temporary Drawing Station in Union Squares south end from 4-6 pm will be made into hand held signs to be carried at the rally at 6 pm.
Up to 6 drawings will be used in a calendar entitled Parks for People 24/7 that illustrates year-round alternate uses of the parks pavilion. Our goal is to invite citizens to consider alternate year-round uses of the park and let the BID know that the general public will not accept a compromise on their right to public space the public wants PARKS FOR PEOPLE 24/7. This calendar will be published at the end of November. At that time, it will be hand delivered to those corporations, the judge who issued the temporary injunction on the pavilions reconstruction, and elected officials (including Mayor Bloomberg) currently in charge of Union Squares privatization. The calendar will also be sold at a low-cost, the proceeds of which contribute to the ongoing campaign to save Union Square Park.
Selected drawing will also be featured on various groups websites involved as organizers such as Pond: art, activism, and ideas (www.mucketymuck.org), Reverend Billy & The Church of Stopshopping
Submission Information
Participants who prefer to send drawings in advance should send work so that it is received by Oct 21st, 12 pm in one of the following formats:
By email: hello@marisajahn.com File formats: outlined PDF with images embedded, hi resolution JPEG, TIFF, BMP, etc. Digital files should be no more than 4 Mb.By snail mail:
The Immediate Life, Box 1556, New York, NY 10013In person:
from 4-6 pm at the Drawing Station that will be temporarily set up at the South End of Union Square Park
Craftivism: Reclaiming Craft & Creating Community
Posted October 17, 2008 by colin_matthes in Events
October 9-30, 2008
Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
A group exhibition guest curated by Faythe Levine featuring artists working at the intersection of craft, activism, feminism, enviromentalism, DIY ,street culture and creative reclamation in order to build communities capable of intervening in the world around us.
Work featured by: Kate Bingaman-Burt, AMy Carlton, Cinnamon Cooper, Betsy Greer, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Jennifer Marsh (International Fiber Collective), Cat Mazza, Handmade Nation, Lisa S olomon, Stephanie Syjuco and melissa Vogley Woods.
CUNY Social Forum
Posted October 16, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
For those in New York City, the CUNY (City University of New York) Social Forum is happening this weekend. You can check it out here. There's a ton of activities around education and social movements.
Benefit Auction for ABC No Rio
Posted October 15, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
ABC No Rio, long time NYC art space, punk venue, Food Not Bombs kitchen, zine library and all around Lower East Side community center is trying to raise money to build a new ABC No Rio!!! At the end of high school I used to come down NYC and go to hardcore shows in the basement of ABC, checking out bands like Born Against, Rorshach, Go!, Bad Trip, etc., trading zines, buying records from Neal Squat or Rot, getting big aluminum tins of rice and beans from across the street, ABC seemed like the epicenter of early 90s NY punk scene. Only years later did I learn more about it's history, coming out of the political art scene in the late 70s/early 80s, connected to art groups like Colab, Political Art Documentation/Distribution, Group Material, and World War 3 Illustrated. As long as I remember the front of the building has been adorned with murals by Seth Tobocman, Sabrina Jones, Fly and Christopher Cardinale.
On Wednesday October 22 they'll be holding a gala and benefit auction at The Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts (172 Norfolk Street). The event will include a benefit auction of works by artists such as Lady Pink, Seth Tobocman, Anton Van Dalen, CRASH, Claes Oldenburg, Andres Serrano, Kiki Smith, Bullet Space, Chris Stain, Swoon and many others. You can see the works being auctioned here.
Fundraising Push for ABC No Rio’s Building Fund
at The Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts
Wednesday October 22, 2008, 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Ticket prices begin at $75
Hurricane Season
Posted October 14, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Our friends Alixa and Naima (Climbing PoeTree) will be coming to Portland, OR tomorrow (Wednesday, Oct. 15th) with their 2-womyn show Hurricane Season: The Hidden Messages In Water, as part off a 50-city national tour.
Hurricane Season:
Pacific Northwest College of Art
1241 NW Johnson St., Portland, OR
Wednesday, October 15, 2008.
doors open at 6:30 pm,
doors CLOSE/show starts at 7:00 pm!
THIS IS A FREE EVENT!!!
AIR Annual Benefit Oct 18
Posted October 14, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
Artists Image Resource
Seventh Annual Benefit
Open House Celebration
Saturday, October 18
noon-midnight
518 Foreland Street Northside
$10 donation for all-day activities
If you are in Pittsburgh this weekend, check out this amazing print resource. AIR has directly supported Justseeds artists and Pittsburgh activists over the years, including Josh MacPhee and myself. Their weekly Open Studio program has facilitated hundreds of folks in learning to print. I have been volunteering and printing there for almost a decade! These all-day benefit parties are always lots of fun.
For this all-day, all ages event, AIR will open its studios, workshops, galleries and archives to offer:
* Hands-on demonstrations of print-making processes;
* An exhibition of works produced by established and emerging national and regional artists;
* raffles of the exhibiting artist's work;
* original print editions for sale;
* food & drink from area restaurants
* music, performance & dancing!
Hands-on activities include papermaking, monoprinting, letterpress printing, screenprinting, digital portraits and more.
War Fair: Occupation Games for Citizens and Non-Combatants
Posted October 8, 2008 by colin_matthes in Justseeds Collective Projects
I am installing a show in Milwaukee called "War Fair: Occupation Games for Citizens and Non-Combatants" at the INOVA/Kenilworth gallery. The opening is from 6-9 pm this Friday (October 10th).
Posted below are a few images from the install, a statement about the project, and details about the opening. Also, you can check out more images from the install on my new flickr account.
Statement
"War Fair: Occupation Games for Citizens and Non-Combatants"
Over the past 16 years, I have worked with my father as an electrician at the county fair in my hometown of Jefferson, Wisconsin. My relationship to the fair and its motley assortment of demolition derbies, farm animals, carnival barkers, the God Mobile trailer, and cricket spitting contests is complicated, ranging from fondness to repulsion.
I am drawn to the chaos and the scrappy order of the fair-especially the signs and carnival games hand-crafted from common materials. But I am disturbed by the increasing military presence, with Army recruitment tents and displays of child-sized Hummer vehicles presented as lighthearted county fair entertainment.
My experiences at the fair have influenced me to create a carnival game and series of drawings that comment on war as spectacle and war as participatory game. War Fair transforms the viewer into a game player and asks, “How real does something have to become before you will not play (pay) anymore?”
Press Release
The Institute of Visual Arts (Inova) at the UWM Peck School of the Arts opens an exhibition of work by the seven artists who received Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists in 2007.
When: Friday, October 10, 2008; reception 6-9 pm; gallery talk at 6:30 pm
Where: Inova/Kenilworth, 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53202
Who: Gary John Gresl, Mark Klassen and Dan Ollman (Established Artists)
Annie Killelea, Faythe Levine, Colin Matthes and Kevin J. Miyazaki (Emerging Artists)
Inova will host an opening and reception to honor the Nohl Fellows on Friday, October 10, from 6-9 pm. Inova curator Nicholas Frank will give a gallery talk at 6:30 pm.
Ten additional events have been scheduled in conjunction with the Nohl exhibition, including artist talks and presentations, screenings, a game night and other events orchestrated by each of the seven participating artists. All of these events are free; while most are in the Inova/Kenilworth gallery, some events occur offsite.
An exhibition catalogue will be available for purchase in the gallery during the opening and throughout the exhibition.
Inova/Kenilworth will be open on Gallery Night and Day, October 17 and 18. Gallery hours are Wednesday & Friday-Sunday, noon to 5 pm and Thursday, noon-8 pm.
Click for complete information on the artists and their events.
Flood Screening & artist talk w/ Swoon Ann Messner & Kiki Smith
Posted October 8, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Over at the Swoon installation there will be an artist conversation preceded by selections from our buddy Todd Chandler's film Flood. Todd shot a bunch of footage aboard the recent Swoon junk-raft collaboration, Swimming CIties of the Switchback Sea.
Conversation with Ann Messner, Kiki Smith, and Swoon, moderated by Carlo McCormick.
Thursday, October 9th, 7-9pm
Deitch Studios
4-40 44th Dr (on the East River)
L.I.C., Queens
Justseeds at the Baltimore Book Festival
Posted October 1, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
We went, it rained, we tabled, people went home with bad-ass radical art (good job Microcosm). Was hosted by Gaia and had my first experience with the BPD at a college party (which makes one really feel their age-30!) Eric had some respiratory thing then got pink eye, he gave a presentation of Realize the Impossible, sold some stuff, then we went to our respective homes, and hope to do it again next year. Thanks Baltimore!
Guillermo Gómez-Peña (and me)
Posted September 29, 2008 by bec_young in Events
This weekend, writer and performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his troupe were in Detroit. I joined perhaps fifty other people for a fairly intimate interactive performance of Gómez-Peña's Mapa Corpo at the Detroit Institute of Arts. This is the the first time I've been to one of his performances, but I'm told that it's par for the course that the event was visual overwhelming and emotionally challenging. I was forewarned by one of the maintenance guys at the museum that the Mapa Corpo was a naked woman's body stuck with acupuncture needles with many, many tiny flags of the U.S. and Britain (and one or two of Israel), which the audience was invited to help pull out at the end. He wasn't too impressed, but most of the audience seemed entranced by the visual and mental connections. The performance also involved video, music, poetry, and other simulations, rituals, and installations on the subjects of identity, power, and immigration. The event had the feeling of a dangerous but necessary ritual that we all somehow survived, together. This fall, Gómez-Peña's troup will be in San Francisco, Albequerque, Toronto, Alaska, and Arizona. Check his website for more specific information.
On a totally different note, I've just returned from a voyage to Buenos Aires to seek information for a project that I hope to do next year about art collectives in Argentina. Especially considering I was only there for two weeks, I learned about an amazing amount of artistic, radical, and collective projects, and had the opportunity to meet with people from a few of those projects. I'll be writing about some of the projects that I learned about in the coming weeks. Here I am in the Museo Municipal de Arte Hispanoamericano before the guard yelled at someone else for taking pictures inside the museum.
Miss Rockaway Benefit in NYC Tonight
Posted September 26, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Tonight the Miss Rockaway Armada is having a benefit show in Brooklyn.
Why?-Since the termination of the Miss Rockaway Armada in St. Louis last summer, former crew members have been collaborating on new creative projects that have grown out of the energy of the Mississippi river. After an installation at MassMOCA last April, the crew was invited to create an installation in Amsterdam for Program Heartland. Now we need the cash to get there and buy materials!
Get out and listen to:
DARK DARK DARK
The Gamut
Vampire Hands
U.S. Girls
Trillions of Gallons of Gas
Brownbird Rudy Relic
Tunes upstairs to shake the rest of you: DJ DIRTY FINGER;
live silkscreening to make you look good while doing it;
cheap tacos & beer.[SURREAL ESTATE]
15 Thames St. | East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L-Morgan | 9pm |$5-$7 Suggested | All Ages
Groundswell Panel Discussion at Brooklyn Museum
Posted September 25, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
The mural group that VR folks worked with last summer on the "Not One More Death"
mural, will be holding a handful of panels and events, starting this weekend, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Groundswell Community Mural Project Voices Her'd
Saturday, September 27, 2-4 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
4th Floor, Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Young women from the Voices Her'd program, part of Groundswell Community Mural Project, speak about the mural they created in Brooklyn this past summer that addresses the life of women in the military.
As the war in Iraq continues in its fifth year, youth in NYC schools continue to come under pressure to enlist by military recruiters. To address the pressure that teens face and to get the facts out about life for women in the military, a group of young Brooklyn women, who are part of Groundswell's Voices Her'd program, interviewed veterans, researched the statistics and this summer created a powerful work of public art. The three-story mural, entitled 'Informed, Empowered', is located on 23rd Street and 3rd Ave in Sunset Park and is visible from the BQE.
Youth muralist Elizabeth Maroney states that, "Our mural is a creative tool that we are using to capture the attention of New Yorkers, and is intended to present that women and teens have a variety of options for their future aside from joining the military." Elizabeth will present on the panel at the Brooklyn Museum along with fellow team members Erica Gil, Sophia Dang and artist Katie Yamasaki. Completed in August, 'Informed, Empowered' received extensive coverage in the New York Times and features in the Village Voice, Park Slope Courier and on New York 1 News.
Groundswell is a New York based nonprofit organization dedicated to using art as a tool for social change by bringing together professional artists, community organizations, and youth to collaboratively create over 100 public art projects in communities across NYC. Over the last 12 years Groundswell has developed complex partnerships with community-based and educational institutions, serving thousands of youth and community members with whom we have worked to visually transform New York's urban landscape.
Protest Wall Street, 9/25
Posted September 24, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
When poor and homeless people ask the government for help, they're
told that low-income housing and living wage jobs are not a government
priority because this country is built on "personal responsibility"
and people need to "make better decisions."When giant banking corporations are on the brink of total collapse
because they have made a systematic series of bad business decisions -
because they can - the government gives them a trillion dollars. The
Administration even wants to include multi-million dollar "golden
parachutes" for the corporate executives who MADE those bad decisions.When a homeless mother and her children seek shelter from the City and
are they turned away because "they have other housing resources" but
have to sleep in the emergency room at Lincoln Hospital because they
really don't, the City and the media paint her as abusing the system
and their tough stance is spun as encouraging self-sufficiency.Where is the "personal responsibility" for the rich? Why is democracy
and freedom confused with the free market when we talk about the poor
but the rich get State sponsored corporate bail outs and tax breaks?Why is it that when WE demand health care, education, housing, and
real jobs, the government is too cash-strapped to help out - but
they've got trillions of dollars for unjust wars and corporate
communism?On Thursday, September 25, at 4pm, Picture the Homeless will be
joining a giant protest in the Financial District alongside what we
hope to be the thousands of you reading this, against the trillion
dollar buyout of the banking barons. Meet us in the plaza at the
southern end of Bowling Green Park, which is the small triangular park
that has the Wall Street bull at the northern tip.
When: 4pm – ? Thursday, September 25.
Where: Southern end of Bowling Green Park, in the plaza area
What to bring: Banners, noisemakers, signs, leaflets, etc.
Why: To say we won't pay for the Wall Street bailout
Who: Everyone
Hope to see you there!
http://september252008.wordpress.com/
Justseeds at this Weekends Baltimore Book Festival
Posted September 23, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds members Eric Ruin and Kevin Caplicki will be tabling at the Baltimore Book Festival, this weekend.
September 26-28, 2008
11-7pm
Mount Vernon Place
600 Block N Charles St
Baltimore, MD
There is an incredible schedule of events in every category of literature. On top of a ton of authors like Dr. Cornel West, Naomi Wolf, Amy Goodman, and Seth Tobocman, our own Eric Ruin will be presenting!
Erik Ruin, Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority
Sept 27, 2-3pm
Radical Bookfair PavilionThere has always been a close relationship between aesthetics and politics in anti-authoritarian social movements. And those movements have in turn influenced many of the last century's most important art movements, including cubism, Dada, post-impressionism, abstract expressionism, surrealism, Fluxus, Situationism, and punk. Erik Ruin, author, artist, and member of the JustSeeds collective discusses the relationship between aesthetics and politics, with examples drawn from France, Indonesia, Chicago, Denmark, and even Baltimore!
There's also a handful of other stuff happening in the Radical Bookfair Pavilion, check the schedule for info!
Dennis Mcnett Show opens Friday Sept 19th
Posted September 18, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Dennis Mcnett's exhibit "The Old Horned Deity" will open this
Friday, Sept 19th, 7pm
at The Stanton Chapter
176 Stanton St. NYC
Dennis is a really incredible printmaker and an all around nice guy. I'll be upstate setting up our Justseeds print show, so I won't be at the opening. I definitely intend to check it out!
Signs of Change opens Saturday!!!
Posted September 17, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Dara Greenwald and I have spent a good chunk of the last 2 years putting together this large-scale exhibition of the art and culture of social movements. With over 600 posters, 100 photos, hundreds of other pieces of ephemera, and 50 films and videos from over 40 countries, Signs of Change is likely the biggest project I've ever been involved in!
If you are in or around New York City, please come celebrate the opening with us on Saturday night!!!
SIGNS OF CHANGE: SOCIAL MOVEMENT CULTURES 1960s TO NOW
at Exit Art, 475 10th Ave, NY, NY, September 20 - December 6, 2008
1. Opening/About: Saturday September 20, 7-10pm
2. Symposium: Thursday September 25, 6pm-10pm
3. Film/Video Weekend: October 11-13
4. Weekly Video Screenings (Tue-Thurs 3:30, Fri-Sat 5:30) and Live Screen Printing
5. Provo: October 24, 6pm
6. Lenders, Support, Thanks, & Credits
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1. The opening will include live screen printing and a visit by the Tactical Ice Cream Unit.
ABOUT: In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee as part of Exit Art's Curatorial Incubator, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.
Organized thematically, the exhibition presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for Civil Rights and Black Power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women's rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis, as well as uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands; against airport construction in Japan; and student and worker revolution in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles, and social organization.
Although histories of political groups and counter-cultures have been written, and political and activist shows have been held, this exhibition is a groundbreaking attempt to chronicle the artistic and cultural production of these movements. Signs of Change offers a chance to see relatively unknown or rarely seen works, and is intended to not only provide a historical framework for contemporary activism, but also to serve as an inspiration for the present and the future.
During the exhibition, there will be ongoing screenprinting workshops with guest artists and activists in collaboration with the Lower East Side Printshop as well as the following programs and events.
Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue, corner of 36th Street. Exit Art is open each Tuesday through Thursday, 10 am – 6 pm; Friday, 10 am – 8 pm; Saturday, noon – 8 pm. Closed Sunday and Monday. There is a suggested donation of $5.
For more information please call 212-966-7745 or check out http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/index.html
Justseeds Print Show Opens Friday the 19th, Warwick, NY
Posted September 15, 2008 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects
I grew up in a small town in the lower Hudson Valley. Aside from the small crew of skaters and punks that I hung out with, there was very little "alternative" culture and even less radical politics. I'm super stoked to be bringing the Justseeds Cooperative's artwork to a cafe, run by some friends from high school, in Warwick, NY. It feels good to bring something back to where I used to feel the most sense of "place".
The show will open 7pm, September 19th
at the
Tuscan Café
5 South St .
Warwick, NY 10990
We are hoping to have some live music from Laura Stevenson during the opening. Come check us out if you're in Orange County, NY.
Taring Padi / Justseeds / ASARO art opening!
Posted September 11, 2008 by icky in Events
This Friday September 12, Justseeds is part of a one night art show at Liberty Hall in Portland. This show should be good, the walls will be filled with the block prints and stencils of ASARO, Taring Padi, and Justseeds artists. This show is part of the opening of Portland Grassroots Media Camp.
ASARO is:
Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca: ASARO is a collective of young artists who came together during the widespread popular movement in response to political turmoil in Oaxaca. They have dedicated themselves to making accessible popular art, plastering the walls of Oaxaca’s capital city with prints, posters, graffiti and stencils that reflect the demands and vision of the popular movement.
TARING PADI: Taring Padi, translated as Fangs of Rice, is self-described as an “independent non-profit cultural community based on the concept of peoples’ culture.” Squatting an abandoned art school campus, they arose in the midst of major social uprising and political reformation in Indonesia in 1998 when the corrupt dictator President Surharto was forced out of office.
Paper Politics Cortland opens 9/09
Posted September 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
The Paper Politics show I've organized and have been touring around is heading for a couple dates in Upstate New York. The show is an international collection of over 175 handmade political prints by as many artists. Almost the entire Justseeds crew is represented, as well as tons of other awesome printmakers! If you are in or around central upstate NY, check it out!!!!
Paper Politics
Dowd Fine Art Gallery
September 9th-November 6th, 2008
Opening Reception: September 9th 4:30-7:30pm
Artists’ talk:
Paper Politics - Josh MacPhee: October 28th, time TBA
All exhibitions and events are free and open to the Public.
Dissident Art, Montreal
Posted September 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
This just in from friends in Montreal:
DISSIDENT ART
September 5 - 28, 2008
Opening: Friday, Sept. 5, 5 - 9 PM
55 Notre-Dame West (Metro Place D'Armes)
Diana Arce, Mathieu Beauséjour, Caro Caron, Howard Chackowicz, Kathryn
Delaney, Ronen Eidelman, Freda Guttman, Gord Hill, Dayna McLeod, Jesse
Purcell, Michael Rakowitz, The Shining Mantis, Jackie Sumell / Herman
Wallace, Rick Trembles, Tania Willard
The Art + Anarchy Montreal 2008 collective is pleased to invite you to the
opening of a new exhibition in Montreal, Dissident Art, on September 5th
from 5 pm - 9 pm at 55 Notre-Dame West (in Old Montreal, metro Place
d'Armes). The vernissage will feature performances by Diana Arce (Berlin),
showcasing her political speech karaoke Politaoke in Montreal for this first
time, and The Shining Mantis (New York), engaging in a spontanteous
chalk-on-black-wall drawing war between the collective's two members.
Returning after the success of the Art + Anarchy exhibition in 2007, which
saw 230 local and international artists exhibit their work, this year's
exhibition represents a more curated turn with fifteen artists. From Caro
Caron's (Montreal) excellent artistic musings on the gentrification of
Montreal's artist neighbourhoods to the pairing up of artist Jackie Sumell
(Brooklyn) and Herman Wallace, a Black Panther member whose life sentence is
currently up for review, the exhibition offers variety in concept, style and
contribution to the meaning of dissidence in art. In addition to the fifteen
chosen artists, the exhibition will be offering a room in which unsolicited
artists are invited to come hang their own political work.
They Live
Posted September 1, 2008 by molly_fair in Film & Video
at BAM, Wednesday, Sept. 3
I gotta say that They Live is one of my favorite movies and I'm not gonna miss my chance to see it on the big screen. I mean come on- an entertaining critique of capitalism starring "Rowdy" Roddy Piper of the WWF as our fearless blue collar hero leading the rev- what could be better? Also it has one of the most drawn-out, ridiculous fist fight scenes ever.
Part science fiction thriller and part black comedy, the film echoed contemporary fears of a declining economy, within a culture of greed and conspicuous consumption common among Americans in the 1980s. In They Live, the ruling class within the monied elite are in fact aliens managing human social affairs through the use of subliminal media advertising and the control of economic opportunity.
Kristine Virsis at Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR
Posted September 1, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds member Kristine VIrsis is having an art show:
Thursday, Sept 4th at
Reading Frenzy
921 SW Oak St
Portland, OR
She'll be in attendance with new work and old work, and prints are cheap as always. From Reading Frenzy's site:
We're pleased to present a talented artist and printmaker all the way from New York City at Reading Frenzy this month! Kristine Virsis is a member of the Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative, a group of artists and activists involved in socially engaged political printmaking.Kristine's silkscreen prints, which begin their lives as intricate paper cuts and stencils, deal with the personal end of the political spectrum -- creativity, self-sufficiency, strength, play, nostalgia and the freedom that a wheel or two can afford you, as well as depression, isolation and resiliency.
Virsis' handpulled prints are produced in large or unlimited editions, in order to keep them affordable.
Art of Democracy San Francisco
Posted August 29, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
ART OF DEMOCRACY:
WAR & EMPIRE
Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
September 4 - November 4 2008
reception - Thursday September 4th, 6-9 PM
Meridian Gallery
(415) 398-7229
info@meridiangallery.org
Image: Juan Fuentes. See more images here.
NYC Critical Mass Tonight Friday Aug 29
Posted August 29, 2008 by k_c_ in In the News
Its the last Friday of the month, which means another Critical Mass for many cities. This months ride is the 4 year anniversary of our historic Republican National Convention (RNC) ride, where many thousands of folks took to the streets. (image by Fly)
The NYC Metro seemed to remember this too.
Arrests set course for protests in city
by Amy Zimmer / metro new york
AUG 29, 2008Friday night’s Critical Mass marks a seminal event in the ride’s history: Four years ago the police arrested more than 250 people during the monthly ride that attracted thousands during the Republic National Convention.
Hundreds of protesters were arrested during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. Excluding costs associated with the RNC, the NYPD and courts have spent more than $2.3 million on Critical Mass according to numbers compiled by Times Up!
Otepemisiwak | The People Without Bosses
Posted August 24, 2008 by dylanminer in Events
Otepemisiwak | The People Without Bosses
Prints + Installation by Dylan A.T. Miner
01 September - 30 November
Opening | 05 September | 6:00-8:00 pm
At the Nokomis Center | A Native American Cultural Center
5153 Marsh Road
Okemos, MI 48864-1198
nokomis.org
Erick Lyle & Josh MacPhee at 123 Community Space
Posted August 24, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Erick Lyle/Josh MacPhee
Thursday, August 28th
8:30 PM
123 Community Space
123 Tompkins, Brooklyn, NY
Erick and Josh will talk about their new books, tell stories and show pictures for you to look at. Erick recently released On the Lower Frequencies, a remix of the very best of his SCAM zine. Josh put together Reproduce & Revolt, a collection of over 500 public domain political graphics from 100 plus artists from around the big old world.
At least one of them will likely make you laugh, and hell, it's free!
Justseeds at Portland Zine Symposium
Posted August 22, 2008 by icky in Books & Zines
If you are in Portland Oregon this weekend be sure to stop by the Portland Zine Symposium. Icky and Pete from Justseeds will be tabling both Saturday and Sunday.
The 8th Annual Portland Zine Symposium is on August 23rd & 24th, 2008 in Portland, Oregon in the Smith Memorial Ballroom on the Portland State University Campus.
hours are:
- Saturday from 10:00AM until 5:00PM
- Sunday from 10:00AM until 4:00PM
Erik Ruin/Katt Hernandez/Roby Newton Perform In Baltimore this Saturday!
Posted August 13, 2008 by erik_ruin in Events
FLIGHT:the mythic journey of a person displaced
Saturday Aug 16, 8PM @ 2640 (2640 St. Paul St.)
I'm really excited about this event as 2640 is one of my favorite venues on the East Coast! Plus Roby Newton was one of the first people I ever heard of doing puppetshows in the punk rock context and inspired the people who inspired me to start doing this kind of work!
Flight is a brand new 30-minute shadow theater piece from radical graphic artist and Justseeds collective member Erik Ruin, depicting the picaresque journey of a displaced person attempting to escape/ transcend persecution. This show will feature overhead projectors, scrolling landscapes, intricately cut scenes of shipwrecks, refugee camps & burning houses, and a hair-raisingly beautiful improvised score by violinist Katt Hernandez
Also on the bill for the evening is a special treat: "Interference," a puppet show about a stranger in a strange land, a newcomer to the city who finds the experience of living within its confines overwhelming, in a most peculiar way. robot neutron (aka roby newton) uses hand puppets and shadows to tell this tale of "interference". she lives in baltimore and has been making puppets and puppet shows since before the turn of the century.
Plus special musical guests tba. $5-$10 sliding scale.
Celebrate With Just Foods
Posted August 12, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
International Food and Film Festival
Saturday, Aug. 16th
2-10pm (films begin at 8pm)
5pm canning workshop
Location: Hattie Carthan Community Garden, Marcy and Lafayette Aves, Brooklyn
Just Foods is an amazing organization in NYC that is working to build a healthy sustainable food system. They work to address the needs of regional, rural family farms, NYC community gardeners, and NYC communities.
Come groove to the sounds of live African percussion and experience the fresh tastes and cultures of Brooklyn. All foods are prepared by the garden members. Learn techniques to preserve your harvest all year long! Use mason jars, a hot water bath and your delicious home grown vegetables to make irresistible foods you can eat in the colder months, or that you can give as tasty and beautiful gifts. When the sun goes down, the films will begin!
Directions: Take the G train to Bedford Nostrand. Walk one block to Marcy. Or take the B38 to Marcy & Lafayette
And while I'm at it, here are some pictures of what's growing in my own garden in Brooklyn.
we built a hoop house for growing plants from seed and starters, and three beds with several varieties of tomatoes, basil, beets, garlic, radishes, mustard greens, kale, broccoli, potatoes, cucumbers, nasturtium, sage, and cilantro, mint, and rodiccio
green zebra heirloom tomato
sungold tomatoes
one of the amazing thing about having a compost bin is seeing what pops up! All my cucumber plants and a whole lot of tomato plants grew out of the bin. I ended up giving away many plants
FREE RIDE Summer Party 8/8/08
Posted August 6, 2008 by mary_tremonte
If you are in Pittsburgh this Friday, come on down to Free Ride, our Recycle-a-Bike project, for a good old-fashioned Summer Party. Proceeds benefit the Youth Earn-a-Bike program. It is also the going-away party for Justseeds buddy Andalusia Knoll, who is moving to Philly to work with Prometheus Radio Project. Andalu (DJ Baglady) & Justseeds member Mary Tremonte (DJ Mary Mack) will be spinning some sweet beats for you to dance to, along with DJ Pandemic Pete. Here are details:::
Free Screening: "Trouble the Water"
Posted August 4, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
There is a free outdoor screening of the film "Trouble the
Water" in Central Park
Wednesday, August 6th, 8:30pm
at the Reel Harlem Film Fest
Two weeks after Katrina made landfall, New York filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal flew to Louisiana to make a film about soldiers returning from Iraq who were now homeless. But the National Guard closed off access. Just when the filmmakers were ready to disband their crew, Kim and Scott Roberts, streetwise and indomitable, introduced themselves. Kim had bought a camcorder the day before the hurricane, and using it for the first time, she captured the devastation and its pathetic aftermath, including the selfless rescue of neighbors and the appalling failure of government. The strong center of Trouble The Water, though, are the Roberts themselves who, says Deal, "survived all the storms of their lives not because they were lucky, but because they had intelligence, guts, and the kind of hope that is based in will rather than experience."
"Trouble the Water" will be in theaters starting the weekend of Aug.
22nd (in NYC at the IFC Center). Check out the distributor's website for more dates and cities.
Havana: The Revolutionary Moment
Posted August 3, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Although I'm deeply critical of the Cuban Revolution, this upcoming exhibition looks like it could be inciteful and interesting. I'm hoping once you get passed the photos of Fidel and Che, there might be some images of the Cuban people at large struggling against Batista, and particularly representations of the urban struggle, which although far more democratic and mass-based, is always eclipsed (if not erased) by the supposedly more "heroic" fight in the mountains.
Havana: The Revolutionary Moment
Photographs by Burt Glinn
Umbrage Gallery
111 Front St., Suite 208
Brooklyn, NY 11201
September 10-October 31, 2008
Opening, 6-8pm, September 10.
Havana: The Revolutionary Moment presents a unique collection of never-before-seen photographs by veteran Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, recording Fidel Castro’s historic entry into Havana. In the introductory memoir, Glinn describes the combination of chutzpah and journalistic prescience that led him to leave a New York party and hop a plane to Havana on New Year’s Eve, 1959. The photographs he returned with—of Fidel thronged by his countrymen and women as he stopped to encourage them along the road to Havana, of troops embracing, and of fierce men and women alike taking up arms in the streets—are full of the revolutionary fervor and idealistic anticipation that characterized that moment in Cuban history. The show opened to acclaim at the Fototeca de Cuba in Havana in January 2001 and will travel to Madrid, London, Paris, Milan, and other venues, before returning to the United States. The domestic tour is organized in association with the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona, Florida.
NoG8 Report Back
Posted August 1, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
For those in NYC, come by this report back on the recent organizing and activism in Japan against the G8:
2008 NoG8! Report Back
Monday August 4, 7:30-9:30 pm
at The Change You Want To See Gallery
84 Havemeyer Street, storefront
at Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn 11211
L to Bedford, J/M/Z to Marcy, G to Lorimer
Did you go to this year's G-8 mobilization in Japan or do you want to know more about what went on? Come to an event this Monday, August 4th to hear, see, and share information.
Participants include:
Jim Fleming (Autonomedia)
Abraham Greenhouse (Palestine Freedom Project)
Brandon Jourdan (Filmmaker and Independent Journalist)
Diane Krauthamer (IWW and Indymedia)
and you!
Key questions framing the discussion will be:
- How to navigate new forms of authoritarian repression in global justice movements
- The benefit or disadvantage of summit hopping for non-locals in mass mobilizations
- How lessons learned at this year and preceding mass mobilizations can help us in upcoming demonstrations (e.g., Olympics, RNC/DNC, future G-8s, local campaigns, etc.)
- Pray tell, the Japanese had such kick-ass graphics and how can we reform the design aesthetic of the Left
+ Whatever questions you want to voice!
Other relevant NoG8! links:
http://www.ainumosir2008.com/en
http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Multilanguage
Cackle, Cackle, Rackle
Posted July 31, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Justseeds fellow-traveler Vanessa Renwick has a show opening up tomorrow! If you are in SF, check it out:
Friday, August 1st
"Cackle, Cackle, Rackle"
An exhibition of drawings, photos, neon, video and live musical performance by
Tara Jane O'Neil & Vanessa Renwick
Reception from 6-10pm
in the gallery at
Needles + Pens
3253 16th Street
San Francisco, Ca. 94103
Open daily 12-7pm
RUST Update: Closing Friday August 1
Posted July 28, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
R.U.S.T. (Radical Urban Silkscreen Team), A Summer Project of The Andy Warhol Museum, Artists Image Resource, and Justseeds, is entering its final week of working with Pittsburgh youth to create prints on themes of sustainability and social justice. Students have completed projects on Pittsburgh People's History, Local Food, Bike Advocacy, and are currently completing a project on Prisons.
Images from RUST Local Food activities: visiting Mildred's Daughters Farm and the Market Square Thursday Farmer's Market, Onion Gang, and our inspiration: the KALE SMOOTHIE!
This week, Justseeds member Erik Ruin is our visiting artist, demonstrating rubylith techniques and working alongside the teens.
RUST is hosting two special events this week: a final installment of Youth Open Studio with a special Movie Night, and a Closing Exhibition & Party on Friday, August 1. Come visit!
Check out the rest of this entry for details and more images
Tras Barrikadazz
Posted July 25, 2008 by dylanminer in Events
I am in Oaxaca teaching a course about art + social justice. Some of the folks I am working with have an opening tonight for a show called 'Tras Barrikadazz.' The arts community is super rad here, although it reminds of Santa Fe in many ways. Once I get back, I'll upload some of the flicks of street art here in Oaxaca.
TRAS BARRIKADAZZ/ BEHIND BARRICADES
July 25th, 8pm,at the former “Azomalli” Gallery (A. Gurrion #110, next to Sto. Domingo)
Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca.
This project has been created by three artistic destruction troops: LA PIZTOLA, ZZIERRARREZZIA, and ZAPE. These three agitators will release their most recent visual strategy, consisting in the use of conventional media, and also developing the concept of ¨STRUGGLE¨ on different materials and substrates. (screen-printing)
Traces of the confrontation with this gallery will be shown, ¨Keeping a cool mind and an overflown heart¨/ ¨Manteniendo la mente fría y el corazón desbordado. (Intervention art and graffiti in the three rooms).
For more information visit the following links :
http://trasbarrikadazz.blogspot.com
http://lapiztola.blogspot.com
http://colectivozape.blogspot.com
http://zzrrzz.blogspot.com
Film Screening in the Mission
Posted July 23, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
For Justseeds readers in the San Francisco area, I came across this event on the FecalFace site!
An outdoor screening of The Last Zapatistas, Forgotten Heroes a documentary by Sarah Perrig & Francesco Taboada Tabone will presented by Artists' Television Access and Workers International League
Thursday, July 24, 7pm
ar Carlos Club
3278 Mission St(& 24th)
Free
barbecue and drinks, 8:30 pm showtime, free
The film is
is the chilling testimony of the soldiers who fought beside their General Emiliano Zapata in the 1910 Mexican Revolution.Almost one hundred years later, these survivors of the legendary Liberation Army of the South reveal a truth not to be found in any book. They speak of the failure of the Revolution and of today's neoliberal governments, of the agrarian and ecological disaster threatening their country and of imminent civil war if the Zapatista ideals they represent continue to be ignored.
These men and women are chapters of unjust history, abandoned wisdom, banners for Mexico's underprivileged .... they are the Forgotten Heroes.
You can see the trailer over at the films website
NYC Benefit for Earth First Roadblock
Posted July 22, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
The In Our Hearts folks have been having a bunch of events at John Bosch, a house in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
In Our Hearts is a New York City based anarchist network made up of autonomous collectives, groups and individuals who share the goal of building a culture of resistance in the City and beyond.
Their Wednesday, July 26th event is "An Anarcho-Punk benefit for Roadlock Earth First! and their efforts to stop I-69 (the NAFTA Super Highway) in Indiana."
Bands include:
Revolutionary Youth(from Georgia)
Whack
(A) Truth
Mutual Assured Destruction
Kulturkampf
Expendable Youth (Chicago)
Moral Degradation
At John Bosch
744 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn
Last Chance to See Out of the Shell Of The Old!- Music @ 1026
Posted July 21, 2008 by erik_ruin in Justseeds Collective Projects
OUT OF THE SHELL OF THE OLD MUSIC NIGHT & CLOSING PARTY!
Friday, July 25th 7pm
SPACE 1026
1026 Arch St, Philadelphia
Donations will benefit our friends at the Shoe Shop to help them deal with the lingering repercussions of their harassment by the police dept. and L&I. For more info on their case look at PhillyIMC.
This will be the last chance to see the Justseeds exhibit and purchase cheap art as the show comes down the next day. SO please come on down, support some good people and listen to some fine music by-
DAN BLACKSBERG is a trombonist who is working to expand the range of the trombone in jazz and improvised music. A native and resident of Philadelphia, he has been seen all around town with such local musicians as Jack Wright, Toshi Makihara, Sonic Liberation Front and with Bobby Zankel's Warriors of the Wonderful Sound. He has appeared in concerts produced by Bowerbird and the Ars Nova Workshop. In addition, Dan has performed with Anthony Braxton (the premiere of Composition 19 for 100 tubas), Taylor Ho Bynum, Joe Morris, Mike Pride, Nate Wooley, Katt Hernandez, Daniel Levin and Joe Maneri in many venues in New York and Boston.
ASHLEY DEEKUS is a percussionist and composer who holds a dynamic approach to her marimba playing. A career beginning with Canadian rock artists, to a place in the NY/PA improvising community, to the local “anything goes” scene. Beautician by day, musician by night, she currently pursues her studies in various traditional folk musics without excluding jazz, classical, or contemporary dance. Some artists she has worked with are; Pauline Oliveros, Neil Feather, Matthew Welch, Katt Hernendez, Jack Wright, Evan Lipson, Dustin Hurt, Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Gina Fererra, Nicole Bindler, and Susie Ibarra. Performs with: Alokli (West African ewe drumming ensemble) West Philadelphia Orchestra (traditional Balkan explosions) The Old Goats (traditional Brazilian).
JOSHUA MARCUS is a singer/songwriter/banjo-player who lives in Philadelphia, PA and has produced nine recordings under different bands and monikers in the last nine years, including Fan of Friends. This spring Marcus released his newest recording, Reverse the Charges, on Chicago's Contraphonic and Philadelphia's High Two record labels. Joshua is currently working on a collaborative project to produce a folk recording dealing with current U.S. social and environmental justice struggles.
Hope to see you there! Thanks to all the wonderful folks who've helped out & participated in the exhibition and events!
Handmade Nation Silent Art Auction Fundraiser: July 19th
Posted July 17, 2008 by icky in Events
Faythe Levine owner of Paper Boat Botique in Milwaukee WI is having a Silent Auction to raise money to complete her film Handmade Nation.
Silent Art Auction Fundraiser: July 19th
Poketo Headquarters
510 S Hewitt #506 Los Angeles, CA 90013 (5th floor)
You can check out some of the work here.
Pete from justseeds has some work available as do familiar names such as: Mike Brodie, Jill Bliss, Lisa Congdon, Nikki McClure and the Sumi Ink Club to name a few.
here's a little about the Documentary:
About Handmade Nation:
"Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY Art, Craft & Design" is a independently produced and financed documentary about the indie craft community, slated for a 2009 festival release. Over the course of it's production Handmade Nation has received national press including multiple mentions in the New York Times, American Craft Magazine and was a "blog of note" on Blogger.com.
In addition to to the documentary, Handmade Nation the book will be released by Princeton Architectural Press, in November 2008. Written by director Faythe Levine and co-author Cortney Heimerl, the book features 24 makers as well as 5 essays from community members. Pre-ordering information will be available at the event.
This Sunday at Space 1026- Radical Art Discussion Night
Posted July 14, 2008 by erik_ruin
Please join us in Philly this sunday for our 3rd event in conjunction with the Out of the Shell of the Old exhibit at Space 1026! 
SUNDAY JULY 20
7 PM
DISCUSSION NIGHT
SPACE 1026
1026 ARCH ST.
FREE!
We'll be using short presentations by 3 local artists as a jumping-off point for a room-wide discussion around the whats, whys and hows of radical art.
THEODORE A. HARRIS is a poet, muralist and collagist born in New York City and currently residing in Philadelphia, PA. As a muralist he has been painting with the Mural Arts program of Philadelphia since 1983. In addition to being exhibited in one-man and group shows from coast to coast, Harris's work has appeared in numerous publications, including Long Shot, The Hammer, Unity & Struggle, AAR, and the important anthologies Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature and Art and In Defense of Mumia.
NAIMA LOWE writes, performs, directs, studies, makes movies, teaches, lives and loves in Philadelphia, PA. She’s currently working on creative and curatorial projects that focus on her favorite things: Queers, people of color, the art they make, and the worlds they devise. For more detailed information visit her website
BETH NIXON builds puppets, masks, piñatas, parades, pageants, magical lands and other spectaculah, on her own, and in collaboration with other humans of all ages. She comes from Rhode Island, lives in West Philly, and travels frequently to places where building, performing or
facilitating opportunities arise. Mostly she uses cardboard, "science", and the imagination. She specializes in beasts and is investigating The Utopian Performative… Beth believes in the power of bike helmets, cornstarch, tide pools, emacipatory pedagogy, and snacks. She is the creator of 'So Many Dynamos' a calendar of illustrated palindromes for 2008.
Forthcoming- a Music Night and Closing Party on Friday uly 25- a music show benefitting the folks at the Shoe Shop, whose home was taken away by L&I , with Dan Blacksberg and Joshua Marcus, and Ashley Deekus.
Slow Dancing to Slayer
Posted July 10, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Tod Seelie, a friend of Justseeds and a Miss Rockaway Armadian, is having a Brooklyn exhibition of his photos in Brooklyn that opens next week. Tod takes photos of just about everything, from street art to street life, parties to political demonstrations, so who knows what'll show up here:
Slow Dancing to Slayer
Photographs by Tod Seelie
July 17th-August 9th, 2008
Opening Thursday July 17th, 7-10pm
Cinders Gallery
103 Havermeyer St.
(Btw. Hope & Grand St.)
718.388.2311
Show Photos - Out of the Shell of the Old
Posted July 9, 2008 by colin_matthes in Justseeds Collective Projects
I am sitting in the airport in Pittsburgh after a workshop with RUST - the Radical Urban Silkscreen Team. RUST is a rad goup of teens making prints in Pittsburgh and they were a blast to work with.
My plane is delayed and I have a few minutes to sort through some photos of the completed Justseeds exhibition at Space 1026 in Philadelphia. Here they are.
Thanks and Come Again! Event this Friday at Space 1026
Posted July 8, 2008 by erik_ruin in Justseeds Collective Projects
Well, Out of the Shell of The Old opened last friday at Space 1026 here in Philadelphia. After an exhausting week of building, it all paid off- as an enthusiastic crowd filled the space on a rainy 4th of July evening. Thanks to everyone who came out and made it such a wonderful event and to DJs Merry Def and Mary Mack for the bumpin' tunes...
If you couldn't make it out to the opening, never fear- you have at least three more chances! In conjunction with the exhibit, Justseeds Philadelphia (ok, that's just me) has organized a series of radical art-themed events. The first is a night of performances this Friday-
Puppet Uprising & Justseeds Present
3 MUSICAL NARRATIVES
Friday, July 11, 7pm, Space 1026
1026 Arch Street, Chinatown, Philadelphia
Suggested donation: $5 or less
More info: 267-909-2633 or www.puppetuprising.org.
Featuring FLIGHT by Erik Ruin & Katt Hernandez, Shadows & Violin
THE SOLDIER & THE PHOENIX: a Toy Theater by Shoddy Puppet Company
THE EXCREMENTAL CONTEXT: A Parody of Satire by Reid Books
PLus CHEAP ART from All the Justseeds Artists!
Puppet Uprising teams up with the Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative to bring 3 MUSICAL NARRATIVES to Space 1026 Gallery in Philadelphia. REID BOOKS (author/composer of "The Nothing Factory") debuts a new one-man-band performance “The Excremental Context,” in which Reid plays prepared guitar, bugle and truck horns while unraveling a satirical yarn. SHODDY PUPPET COMPANY (Leslie Rogers, Lucy Schneider, Michelle Posadas and Morgan F.P. Andrews) premieres “The Soldier & The Phoenix,” a toy theater fable with accordion accompaniment about a soldier’s memories of boyhood, a boy’s quest for chicken hearts, and a chicken’s desire for flight. ERIK RUIN gives an encore performance of “Flight: The Mythic Journey of a Person Displaced,” a wordless and cinematic shadow puppet play featuring a haunting violin and vocal score by KATT HERNANDEZ.
Future events will be a DISCUSSION NIGHT (5/20) with presentations by local artists Naima Lowe, Theodore Harris & Beth Nixon; and a MUSIC NIGHT (5/25) with trombonist Dan Blacksberg, percussionist Ashley Deekus and banjo-player Joshua Marcus, benefitting our friends at the Shoe Shop.
All events at Space 1026, all will have cheap art from Justseedsters available.
INOPERAbLE in Nü York
Posted July 8, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
The folks from Overspray Magazine are having a party at a new graffiti supply shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, this Thursday. Here's the info:
„INOPERAbLE in Nü York"
July 10th, 6pm-1am,
Alphabeta, 70 Greenpoint ave. Brooklyn
(Greenpoint Stop on G, or Short walk from Bedford Stop on L)
What you can expect:
* An art show and installation of work by street and graffiti artists you've never seen on this side of the pond.
* Live painting in the huge outdoor back area 6pm to 11pm, featuring Nychos, Maggot, Knochen, Holy Sin, DNM, I Love Ally, & Franke (- 'who?'. follow the link).
* Ultra cheap hot dogs (til Midnight) and BEER (forever), like we promised.
* GRL (yes, graffiti research lab has an Austrian contingent) killin it live with their 'Drip Sessions' at 11:30pm.
* DJ Stereotyp and Boundless' own Tes Uno on the decks, ALL NIGHT LONG.
* Room to dance if you wanna, because you will.
* A silent auction on the artwork.
* Photos by the infamous Texas from the New Pop.
* The flyer image was made into hand screenprinted, numbered posters by Atzgerei, and you can buy one at the party for cheap if the art is too spensi for you.
* It's walking distance from Bedford, really..
All you gotta do is RSVP here and show up. There is a $5 suggested donation.
Graphic Work in SF this week
Posted July 6, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Graphic Work: Imaging Today's Labor Movement is an exhibition of new labor posters I curated with my friend Zoeann Murphy last year, and it has traveled to San Francisco to be part of Labor Fest 2008!
Here's the details:
Opening Reception for Graphic Work: Imaging Today’s Labor Movement
Monday, July 7, 5:30 PM (Free)
SEIU 1021 Hall
350 Rhode Island, Suite 100
San Francisco
The American labor movement has an amazing history of graphic production, creating some of the most effective political images in the history of this country. However, work and workers, along with the labor movement, are often depicted as experiences of the American past: paintings of Joe Hill, photographs from the early1900s of children working in factories, historic strikes and Rosie the Riveter.
Today’s workforce looks dramatically different from the majority of images used to depict labor. To address this issue we asked innovative artists to create posters that depict contemporary jobs, the people that do them and the issues workers now face.
What we found was startling. Most young politically engaged people don’t realize the American labor movement still exists and if they do they have little or no relationship to it. We found that now more than ever it is important to create new images of labor. The posters here are the beautiful beginning of a new wave of labor art.
Graphic work curated by Josh MacPhee and Zoeann Murphy
Sponsored by the Workforce Development Institute, Bread and Roses Cultural Project of ll99SEIU, and Justseeds.org
Write & Revolt!
Posted July 5, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Favianna has been completely outdoing herself, and has set up an amazing Reproduce & Revolt release party and show in Los Angeles!:
Write & Revolt!
Exhibit, Art Jam, Book Release Party & Talk
July 10th-August 10, 2008
exhibition and all events at:
Crewest
110 Winston St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
JULY 10 THURS:
DOWNTOWN ARTWALK
Live Painting & Screenprinting by:
Unification Theory, Favianna Rodriguez and the Yo! What Happened to Peace Crew
6 - 9 PM
JULY 12 SAT:
ARTIST RECEPTION & BOOK RELEASE PARTY
Reproduce & Revolt
A new book by Josh MacPhee & Favianna Rodriguez
6 PM - Book Talk w/Co-Editor, Favianna Rodriguez
7 - 10 PM - Reception
AUG 9 SAT:
CLOSING. 6 - 9 PM
Mike the Poet
Live Painting by Mear
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Archer
Auks
Aybon
John Carr
Edward Colver
Ekundayo
Fear
Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca
Mear
Nuke
Plek
Favianna Rodriguez
Siner
Winston Smith
Street Phantom
Thanx
Ween
YO! What Happened to Peace Crew
Seth Tobocman: Disaster & Resistance Release Events
Posted July 3, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
AK Press is putting out Seth Tobocman's (You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive and War in the Neighborhood) new book Disaster & Resistance!!
He has 2 release events planned in NYC:
July 10th
10pm
Bowery Poetry Club
398 Bowery
with music by: Mischief Brew, Actual Facts, Shit Lovin’ Angels, Steve Wishnia and Eric Blitz
admission is $10 or free if you buy a book
AND
July 18th
7pm
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
with Peter Kuper and Fly
music by Steve Wishnia and Eric Blitz
admission is free
Space 1026 Install in Progress!
Posted July 1, 2008 by colin_matthes in Justseeds Collective Projects
Here are some photos of of the first couple days installing at Space 1026 for Out of the Shell of the Old, which opens Friday, July 4th (7-10pm).
A quick preview before I get back to drinking beer and painting over bad decisions.
Activist Video Art 2004!
Posted June 30, 2008 by dara_g in Events
Half of the People Are Stoned and the Other Half Are Waiting for the Next
Election*
at
Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org
Curated by Nick Hallett
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 8pm
55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY
*A line written by Paul Simon for Leonard Bernstein's Mass (1971).
A screening of activism-oriented video, performance documentation, and new
media from 2004.
Out of the Shell of the Old-Justseeds at Space 1026
Posted June 30, 2008 by erik_ruin in Justseeds Collective Projects
Throughout the month of July, Justseeds will be exhibiting a brand-new collaborative exhibition at Space 1026 in Philadelphia. As a part of the exhibit, a variety of exciting radical art-themed events will also be taking place.
Out of the Shell of the Old is a unique collaborative installation/exhibition from members of the radical artists’ cooperative Justseeds. Based on the theme of “a new world rising out of the shell of the old”, this show will incorporate built environments, video installation, and printed work to explore both the dark and troubling times we now live in, as well as our hopes for a better, brighter world. Over 10 members of Justseeds will be traveling to Philadelphia from as far as Portland OR and Providence RI to collaboratively create a unique and exciting body of work
WHEN: Throughout July 2008. The opening reception will be on Friday July 4, with DJs and coop members Mary Mack (Pittsburgh) and Merry Def (Providence) from 7-10 pm.
Other events throughout the month will include-
july 11- performance night with "Flight", a shadow puppet performance by Justseeds member Erik Ruin (w/ Katt Hernandez on violin), Shoddy Puppet Company's toy theater performance "the Soldier and the Phoenix" and "the Excremental Context: a parody of satire" performed by Reid Books.
july 20- a discussion night with presentations by local radical artists - filmmaker/performer Naima Lowe, collage artist Theodore Harris, and puppeteer Beth Nixon.
july 25- a music show benefitting the folks at the Shoe Shop, whose home was taken away by L&I , with Dan Blacksberg and Joshua Marcus, more acts TBA.
All events start at 7 pm.
WHERE:Space 1026, 1026 Arch St., Philadelphia PA. www.space1026.org
For further information/interview requests, please contact Erik Ruin-
215.387.0356. rustriot@yahoo.com. www.justseeds.org
Declaration of Immigration
Posted June 28, 2008 by dylanminer in Events
Just Seed artist Dylan Miner will have work included in the upcoming exhibition Declaration of Immigration.
A Declaration of Immigration is an exhibition that depicts many of the experiences and viewpoints within U.S. immigrant communities. The works of over 70 artists will help visitors increase their understanding of this complex issue by providing
immigrant perspectives that are seldom included in the national debate. As a vital part of the democratic process, artists and community-based institutions play a critical role in any civic dialogue and struggle for social justice. Immigration is indisputably the foundation upon which this country was built. The National Museum of Mexican Art has a responsibility to take a proactive stance, and provide a platform from which many immigrants can speak out – especially at a time in our history, when once again, countless immigrants are being scapegoated and blamed for many of the nation’s problems. This exhibition will launch the Museum’s three-year commitment to immigrant centered programs.
Reproduce & Revolt release party in NYC
Posted June 27, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Come celebrate the release of Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce y Rebélate!
Monday, June 30th, 7-10pm
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen St.
NYC
(One block south of Houston, a block from the 2nd Ave. F train)
A collection of over 500 political graphics, Reproduce & Revolt/Reproduce Y Rebélate contains original art granted by the creators to the public domain, to be freely used on political posters, flyers, and campaigns. A bilingual (English & Spanish) book, it also includes a history of the reproducible political graphic and a design how-to for anyone interested in using the images in this book to help change the world. A powerful collection of graphic work by some of the world’s most active and interesting political propagandists, street artists and socially conscious graphic designers. Over 100 artists from over 25 countries are included!
Many of the NYC based artists will be present, and Josh MacPhee be giving a short presentation about the book.
The Great Rebel Raft Regatta
Posted June 27, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
John Jordan (mover and shaker in Reclaim the Streets, We Are Everywhere and the Climate Camp UK) is helping put together an amazing looking new event/project called The Great Rebel Raft Regatta. It looks and sounds like a more political and decentralized Miss Rockaway Armada, with an invite for anyone and everyone to build a raft and join:
A strange fusion of futuristic flotilla, activist armada and charity raft race floats down the river Medway. Hundreds of rebel rafts of every shape and size are swarming towards Kingsnorth power station, like a giant shoal of disobedient fish with a single aim, to shut down the climate criminals.Launched from the Climate Camp on the 9th of August, as part of the mass day of Action to stop the construction of the UK's first coal fired power station in 30 years. The GRRR will be made up of a multitude of rebel rafts constructed out of flotsam and jetsam of this overheating world.... There will be pirate ship rafts, musical rafts, desert Island rafts, migration rafts, polar bears floating on ice-berg rafts, apocalyptic rafts, yellow submarine rafts, car wreck rafts, Robinson Crusoe rafts, battle ship Potemkin rafts, Viking rafts, Kontiki rafts, life rafts and love rafts, dark rafts and hope rafts.
9th August, high tide, RIver Medway, Kingsnorth Power Station, Kent
Get a team together < Build a raft of your dreams < Come to the Climate Camp August 3-11th > GRRR Launch >>> August 9th
RUST::: pittsburgh radical youth printshop update
Posted June 25, 2008 by mary_tremonte
RUST (Radical Urban Silkscreen Team), pittsburgh's radical youth print collective, is in full swing!
young artist-activists completed their first project, celebrate pittsburgh people's history posters, and have begun a bike poster project, just in time for bikefest. one RUST member created an amazing RUSTy the shark mascot costume!
justseeds member pete yahnke is in town this week as a visiting artist, teaching students the fine art of marmoleum cutting & printing. pete's work can be seen in the windows of RUST for one-week only. this is a great location as it's right behind a bus stop on the main drag downtown, and the work is visible 24-7.
RUST is open to the public tuesday-friday 1-5pm.
wednesday night 5-9pm is youth open studio, open to ages 13-18. print what you want! free!
RUST is a project of the andy warhol museum and artists image resource
www.warhol.org
www.artistsimageresource.org
http://bike-pgh.org/events/bikefest/
Asif Rahman Memorial Ride update courtesy of NYC Street Memorial Project
Posted June 24, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Memorial bike ride for Asif Rahman on Monday June 23, 2008
Join fellow riders and Asif's family and friends on to remember him and demand a bike lane on Queens Boulevard. Bring flowers and candles.
From GhostBikes.org
On February 28, 2008, Asif Rahman, was doing what he loved to do -- riding his bike on his way back home from work -- when he was crushed to death by a reckless truck driver on Queens Boulevard. He died instantly from internal injuries. The truck driver was not charged or ticketed. Asif's mother said:
"Asif was on his way home after a hard day of work. I was waiting for him to come home. He will never come home. I still wait everyday to hear his voice. But he doesn't come home and say 'hi mom'. He will not say it anymore. He was brutally killed by a reckless truck driver."
Allied Media Conference report back
Posted June 24, 2008 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Five Justseeds members were at this years Allied Media Conference in Detroit that took place from June 20-22 and it is safe to say that this conference never fails to be anything short of amazing. If you missed the conference this year, the AMC website will have extensive documentation that will be updated over the next few weeks. Independent media is the focal point of the conference, but radical art, street art and art collectives where well represented, including the Howling Mob Society, Pocho Research Society, and the Bee Hive Collective. The photo below is of two incredible Detroit organizers Jenny Lee and Grace Lee Boggs and the other photos are of Justseeds members and friends tabling and acting goofy, as usual.
Anticorporate Film Fest
Posted June 20, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
If you are in Chicago Saturday night, check out this anticorporate film fest. Anne Elizabeth Moore and Vancouver-based activist and filmmaker Franklin Lopez have organized I’m Doing This To Win Your Heart, film festival and a benefit for the AAAFFF and Submedia.TV
Here's the details:
Saturday, June 21, 8 pm.
the Hideout (1354 W. Wabansia)
$7
Charming and radical films about corporate malfeasance and the triumph of autonomous culture from Jo Dery, Conrad Schmidt, Franklin Lopez, Sami Muillenberg, and the Graffiti Research Lab.
Waste to Work
Posted June 20, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
My friend and collaborator Olivia Robinson (from the Spectres of Liberty Ghost Church project) has a new project she's working on with another friend, Daniela Kostova. It's called Waste to Work, and they've been collecting sweat and turning it into batteries! Here's the press release for the opening of the project in Schenectady, NY:
Have you ever thought of sweat as a renewable energy source? New media artists Daniela Kostova and Olivia Robinson will do just that when they perform Waste to Work at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 28 at the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium.Inspired by the significant labor and electric industry histories of upstate New York, Waste to Work explores the transformation of labor into electric power, using sweat as the link. Sweat is the perfect medium: it is an electrolyte that can be used to make galvanic batteries--"waste" that can be harvested from our labors--and remains an extremely personal commodity that holds our scent, essential salts, fats, pheromones.
Kostova and Robinson will use video and an installed cabinet of batteries to illustrate how they developed batteries powered by their own and others' sweat. The power produced by the sweat batteries will illuminate a world map of LED shapes that designate centers of manufacturing and labor.
To create the sweat-powered batteries, the artists combined the practices of scientists and artists. Working with researchers a the Center for Biotechnology at Rensselaer, the artists developed batteries that are powered using sweat they collect in specially designed costumes they wear when participating in different kinds of physical labor.
The sweat-powered batteries are based on galvanic cells, which require two sources of electrolyte medium separated by a thin porous wall to create a chemical reaction with zinc and carbon to produce power. Human sweat is an electrolyte medium and will be used to power the battery.
Directions
Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium
15 Nott Terrace Hts
Schenectady, NY 12308
(518) 382-7890Websites:
http://www.iamwhateveryouwantmetobe.com/site/content/waste-work
http://oliviarobinson.com
http://dani.cult.bg
Pittsburgh Photo Exhibit of Palestine
Posted June 17, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
A Photo Exhibit Hope Under Siege: Pittsburghers in Palestine
Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 19, 2008 6-9PM
at the Shadow Lounge,
5972 Baum Blvd
Pittsburgh, PA
With performances by hip hop artist Rashad Jamaal, folk music by Leslie Addis, slam poetry by local artists, food by Allegro Hearth Bakery, and much, much more!
May 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of what Palestinians call the “Nakba.” It is a date engrained into the minds of every Palestinian, everywhere. The translation means the “Catastrophe,” because three quarters of a million Palestinian women, men, and children were expelled from their homes, massacred ensued, and 531 Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed for what was to become the state of Israel.For the 60 years of Israel’s existence, Palestinians have been refused the right to return to their homes. Palestinians remain the largest refugee population in the world. Many continue to see the uprooting of their trees, the demolition of their homes, the building of apartheid walls, confiscation of their farmland, and the murder of their family members and friends by the Israeli army.
Over the years, many Pittsburghers have traveled to Palestine to witness and document what is happening on the ground in order to amplify the voices of the marginalized Palestinians and spread the truth through eyewitness accounts of life under occupation, of a hope that is under siege.
Please join the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee as they reveal their photographs from Occupied Palestine. Hear eyewitness accounts from Palestinians and Pittsburghers who have seen and experienced life under the gun. View the scenes of hope and the images of despair. Share the truth with the world about 60 years of dispossession and a hope that refuses to perish.
Prison Nation Opens
Posted June 16, 2008 by jmacphee in Posters & Prints
Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex opened this past weekend in Los Angeles. A show of prison-related posters collected and organized by the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, it contains dozens of posters created around many prison-related issues, from overcrowding to women in prison, political prisoners to racism in the justice system. I've even got a couple posters in the show!
Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex
William Grant Still Arts Center
2520 West View St.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Open Daily: 12-5pm
323.734.1164
Even though the opening has past, they have a huge schedule of events planned, if you are in LA, check some of this out:
Windowblogging in Brooklyn
Posted June 14, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
June 14-21, 2008
My longtime friend and collaborator Sunita Prasad will be participating in a show called Windows Brooklyn. The gist of it is that a bunch of artists are paired with a bunch of shopkeepers in the neighborhood and the shopkeepers give their store window to the artist to do an installation for 10 days.
Sunita's window will be transformed into an interactive LIVE (as in her in the window with a dry-erase marker and some tape) "BLOG". It's called Windowblog, and she will be updating it every weekday at 6pm and every weekend-day at 3pm. The previous days' entries will also be shown on a monitor in the window during store hours, and the text will use the language of the blogosphere to interact in real time with the actual public sphere. The idea is to adapt the mode of personal diary perfected by blogging into a physical performance and topical dialogue in public space. The first entry of the blog explores the word "peace" and peace slogans, in an attempt to reinvigorate the urgent content of a somewhat diluted or disheartened word. I am excited to be taking part as one of her videographers. So get off the internet and come on down to Home Court Furniture at 286 Court Street!
Opening Reception: June 14, Sam's Restaurant 238 Court St, Brooklyn , 3-5pm, cash bar
Art Walk: June 21, 3-5pm, Talk to the artists at their installation locations
Closing Reception: June 21, 6pm, Carroll Park, closing performance by Maya Pindyck and Fletcher Boote
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Posted June 13, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
New York, June 13–26, 2008
Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, upper level
(between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.)
In recognition of the power of film to educate and galvanize a broad constituency of concerned citizens, Human Rights Watch decided to create the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Human Rights Watch's International Film Festival has become a leading venue for distinguished fiction, documentary and animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme.
The films in this year’s edition of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival reflect struggles throughout the world—the buying and selling of children in China; the continuing animosity between Pakistan and India; the story behind the murder of a courageous Russian journalist—as well as those right here at home. While many films raise questions, these begin to provide answers as brave filmmakers work on the front lines of international crises to show us the toll of war, the horrors of ongoing conflicts, and the human faces at the heart of it all (including the residents of a Palestinian senior citizens’ home).
Within many of these works is a quest: A filmmaker traces her ancestors’ involvement in the slave trade, human rights activists spend their lives trying to bring dictators to justice, and others bear witness to their crimes. Finally, there are the children: we get a glimpse of the overwhelmed juvenile justice system in Brazil, while from around the world, young people armed with cameras are asking questions and, perhaps, showing us the way to a better future.
Towards Carfree Cities VIII
Posted June 11, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
June 16-20, 2008
Some of the amazing people involved in the NYC Street Memorials Project honoring pedestrians and cyclists, will be heading to Portland for the carfree conference to do a panel discussion-so check it out!
June 19, 2008 4-5:30 pm
Advocacy, Media, and Direct Action: Street Memorials and Successful Collaborative Strategies for Making Change on NYC Streets Moderator: Brooke DuBose, Planner, Fehr & Peers, San Francisco
* Nat Meysenburg, Web Coordinator & Volunteer, NYC Street Memorial Project
* Elizabeth Press, videographer, Streetfilms
* Caroline Samponaro, Bicycle Campaign Coordinator, Transportation Alternatives
* Leah Todd, Press Coordinator & Volunteer, NYC Street Memorial Project
* Peter Meitzler, transportation activist, New York
Milwaukee Zine Fest
Posted June 8, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Looks like Milwaukee is gearing up for their inaugural Milwaukee Zine Fest from Friday, July 18 to Sunday, July 20, 2008 at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
They're still looking to find people to table and propose activities, showcase zines and related projects. Table registration is now open. Visit www.midwestzines.org for more information and to register your table. Lead a workshop, serve on a panel, read from your zine, or start a discussion. You can get in touch with the organizers here.
Pittsburgh Summer: Youth Radical Print Collective
Posted June 6, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Justseeds Collective Projects
The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa is working with 14 to 20 year old artist-activists to form a Radical Print Collective.
This Collective will work with Pittsburgh’s social justice and environmental community to create print materials that illustrate social, cultural and civic achievement milestones in Pittsburgh. The Collective will learn printmaking and design techniques and will use these skills to document Pittsburgh’s activist past and present in an effort to effect progressive social change.
Local and national activist artists from the Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative will be in residence throughout the summer to work with the youth involved in this project and to create an installation.
For more information, contact Mary Tremonte at tremontem(at)warhol.org, 412-237-8356
Lesbians of Color-Women Against Violence
Posted June 6, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Brecht Forum Gallery
451 West Street
NY, NY 10014
June 6th - July 6th, 2008
Opening:
June 6th 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
This exhibit focuses on violence against lesbians of color and the lesbian love that empowers them. The artists are sending the healing energy of their art to lesbians of color here and around the world who are being stigmitized, rejected, imprisioned and killed. Besides the daily stress of racism and colonialism, lesbians of color have to deal with homophobia, like verbal abuse, hostility, being labeled sinful by religious leaders, lack of marriage rights and partner benefits, not being represented in many women's organizations, community ostracism, sexual harassment, partner violence, discrimination in jobs and housing, families trying to take away children or withdraw support, incarceration in mental hospitals or jails, being trafficked, raped, tortured, or murdered..The exhibit seeks to expose examples of violence against lesbians of color from African, Asian/Pacific Islands, Latino/Carribean. Native American, and Near/Middle Eastern ancestry and assert the right of lesbians of color to a life with dignity and acceptance without fear of attacks on their spirits and bodies.
At the opening reception there will be loc poets, singers and musicians celebrating loc love and resistance to all forms of violence.
Reproduce & Revolt SF release party!
Posted June 6, 2008 by jmacphee in Books & Zines
San Francisco artists celebrate the release of Reproduce & Revolt, an extensive collection of contemporary political graphics collected from around the world, featuring today's most exciting street artists, poster makers and graphic designers.
WHAT: An art jam and book release party featuring live printmaking, music, and refreshments.
WHEN: Wednesday, June 11, 6-10 pm
WHERE: CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission St. (near 9th), San Francisco, CA 94103
WHO: Reproduce & Revolt Co-Editor, Favianna Rodriguez, Taller Tupac Amaru (Oakland), San Francisco Print Collective (SF), Political Gridlock (Alameda), and Chaman Visions (Los Angeles)
On the evening of Wednesday, June 11th, artists, activists, and art lovers will gather to celebrate the release of the new book, Reproduce & Revolt. Activism depends on design to capture imaginations and spread a message. Reproduce and Revolt not only documents some of the best activist design work of the past few years, it shows readers how to do it themselves. Political artists from the Bay Area will host an evening of live poster printing, political art displays, and other art making to promote a message of social justice.
Reproduce and Revolt features the work of artists from over a dozen countries. The collection contains hundreds of high-quality illustrations and graphics about social justice and political activism for use on flyers, posters, t-shirts, brochures, stencils, and any other graphic elements of social causes. The graphics are bold, easy to reproduce, and available to reproduce without permission. The book offers clear instructions on how to utilize the images to improve the effectiveness of visual campaigns. It also contains a short history of political graphics, highlighting the vital and powerful role that graphics have played in social movements all over the world – serving as tools to inspire, mobilize, and transform communities.
Print Art Show- Portland
Posted June 5, 2008 by icky in Events
Hey we're having a print art show this sunday (one night only) in honor of some friends being in town from Mexico City. We'll slowly be putting some of their work up in the justseeds store as well, so if you live elsewhere keep your eyes peeled.
Hola! Este domingo(unica noche) estamos organizando una exposicion de
grabado en honor a algunxs amigxs que nos visitan desde Mexico DF. Tambien
pronto pondremos algunas de sus obras en la tienda de justseeds, y si no
vives cerca de Portland y no podras asistir mantente conectadx y checa la
pagina.
The show is as 5205 NE 19th in Portland OR
Sunday June 8th starting at 7PM
near bus-lines #8 & #72
we'll have some refreshments, not sure what else
see you there!
Climate Camp UK Workshop
Posted June 5, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
This just in:
THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE - A weekend of Creative Construction for the Camp for Climate Action Caravan - East London 14th-15th June.
From Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th June, we are holding a weekend workshop to begin the process of building the creative elements of the Camp for Climate Action's Caravan. The Caravan (27th July - 3rd August) is part of of the build up to this years Climate Camp and will be traveling by foot, sea and bike from Heathrow Airport to Kingsnorth power station where the Camp will be set up.
The workshop builds on a creative brainstorm held in May, where 30 people began the process of developing ideas for what the Caravan might look, feel, sound like as it crosses London. Many ideas came from this event and this coming weekend workshop aims to narrow down these and begin to work on the practical application of a few of them.
The event is not just for those who attended the May event, but open to all who have time to dedicate to turning the caravan into a beautiful inspiring radical journey across London in search for climate justice. The workshop will be focused on practical project, making, planning and plotting. We are asking participants to work up proposals for projects that they might want to work on or build affinity groups around. These should be brought to the event and/or sent to the caravan organising e-list. Please bring any materials/tools that might be needed to begin working. Please bring food to share on both days
Saturday the workshop begins at 10am (sharp) til 6pm. There may be evening activities organised, such as film night etc....On Sunday the workshop continues from 10am to 5pm
Venue address: 22 Smeed Road, Hackney Wick, London E3 2NG
Reclaiming the "F" Word
Posted June 5, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
The Center for the Study of Political Graphics, a great archive and resource for studying political posters, has just put together a new show:
Reclaiming the “F” Word: Posters on International Feminisms
June 3 - July 3, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday June 7, 2008 2-5 pm
Panel Discussion: 3 pm
Panel will include some of the exhibition’s artists and curatorial team.
Special Film Showing:
Monday, June 16th, 2008 at 2 pm
I was a Teenage Feminist, a film by Therese Shechter
(see description of film below)
California State University
Northridge Art Galleries
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330
Summer gallery hours are Mon – Fri 12-4 pm
There is no admission charge.
Parking is $5.00.
For further information call 818.677.2156.
Reclaiming the “F” Word refers to women’s movements in the plural—to feminismS—to acknowledge and honor our similarities and differences. The national and international posters in this exhibition reflect a deepening awareness that women’s struggles, women’s leadership and women’s activ¬ism throughout the world challenge oppressive conditions in diverse and creative ways.
Posters from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America explore class, race and gender as they show women at the forefront of struggles for human rights and social change. Powerful graphics depict diverse feminist issues from the suffragettes to the activism of the 1970s to today. The family unit, childcare, labor, ecology, trafficking and violence are just some of the topics covered. Posters show women organizing against the Viet Nam War and against Apartheid in South Africa. They decry the ongoing murders of women in Juarez, Mexico and use of rape as a military weapon in Darfur, Sudan. Reclaiming the “F” Word will broaden the definition of feminism, and inspire women and men, of all ages, to be proud to call themselves feminists.
Stencil Nation release parties
Posted June 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Russell Howze, long time maintainer of the site StencilArchive.org has just released a new book on street stenciling called Stencil Nation. He's having a couple release parties this weekend in the Bay Area, if you're there, check them out:
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Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art
Book Release Party and Stencil Art Exhibit
Friday, June 6
7 PM to Midnight
Revolution Cafe
3248 22nd St. (at Bartlett)
SF, CA 94110
(415) 642-0474
Free
Artwork on the walls until June 30
Confirmed participating artists:
Adam5100 (San Francisco, CA)
Amy Rice (Minneapolis, MN)
Chris Stain (NY, NY)
Janet "Bikegirl" Attard (Toronto, ONT)
John Fekner (Bayside, NY)
Josh MacPhee (Troy, NY)
Klutch (Portland, OR)
PaperMonster (Madison, NJ)
Scott Williams (San Francisco, CA)
Peat Wollaeger (St. Louis, MO)
Tiago Denczuk (Portland, OR)
and Street Art Workers (SAW)
Come celebrate the Manic D Press release of Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art by Russell Howze. Autographed copies of the book will be for sale by the author at the night of the exhibit opening. The author will also feature slide shows of the Stencil Archives, with over 10,000 photographs of international stencil art. Stencil-making materials will also be available upon request. Proceeds of the art sales will benefit the artists as well as help fund the upcoming Stencil Nation book tour.
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Stencil Nation Budget Gallery
Cheap art that anyone can afford!
Saturday, June 7
Noon to 4 PM
The sidewalk in front of Al's Comics
1803 Market St. (at Octavia)
SF, CA 94103
415-861-1220
Free
Celebrate the Manic D Press release Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community, and Art by stopping by author Russell Howze's TAG (Temporary Autonomous Gallery) on the sidewalk in front of Al's Comics. Munch on crackers and cheese while choosing a cheap piece of hand-made stencil art to take home and hang on your wall. Autographed copies of Stencil Nation will be available for sale too.
Proceeds of the art sales supports the Stencil Nation Book Tour and the Budget Gallery Project.
Continental Drift Midwest
Posted June 1, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Friends in the Midwest have been busy preparing a great tour up and down what they have been calling the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor. Starting this coming week they will be traveling from Champaign Urbana, IL to Chicago to Milwaukee to Western Wisconsin. The tour stops at farmers' markets, libraries, art exhibitions, community centers, farmer coops, swimming holes and film screenings! This tour is part of an ongoing project organized by Brian Holmes and many others called Continental Drift. Brian just released a great book of essays called Unleashing the Collective Phantoms on Autonomedia Press.
Continental Drift Through the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor
A CALL TO FARMS!
June 4-14, 2008
CONTINENTAL DRIFT is an invitation to look at our collective existence
on all the relevant scales: the intimate, the local, the national, the
continental, and the global. Continental Drift is a mobile assemblage of
people presenting their projects, observations, experiments, discoveries
and questions, and producing value through social exchange. Continental
Drift through the MRCC is a self-educating tour through our concrete
world and its abstract representations, discovering distant lives in
familiar situations, and embracing the interdependency that links what
is usually treated as separate. Continental Drift is intended for anyone
seeking to locate global forces in daily life and to reorient aesthetic
invention in response to an ethics of equality.
Threat of Chance closing party
Posted May 31, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
We're having a little closing party for the Threat of Chance show in Brooklyn on Sunday night. If you're around, stop on by!
Threat of Chance (Josh MacPhee/Billy Mode/Chris Stain)
Closing Party
Sunday, June 1st, 7pm - 10pm
Ad-Hoc Art
49 Bogart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
(Morgan stop on the L train)
Graffiti Research Lab at BAM
Posted May 30, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Saturday, May 31
9:30 pm L.A.S.E.R. TAG
midnight screening of GRL: The Complete 1st Season
BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Av., Brooklyn, NY
FREE!!!
If you love the mad geniuses of the Graffiti Research Lab, you don't want to miss this. L.A.S.E.R. TAG is a Weapon of Mass Defacement (WMD) that gives individuals the power to communicate their thoughts on buildings, using a 60-milliwatt laser and a big-ass projector. They will be using it to scribble on BAM's Peter Jay Sharp Building in Brooklyn.
Then stick around for a free midnight screening of GRL: The Complete 1st Season- the only movie to officially be put on the Dept. of Homeland Security no-fly-list.
From their origins in the trash room of a non-profit in Manhattan to their emergence as the instigators of an international art movement, Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season documents the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit their day jobs to develop high-tech tools for the art underground. The film follows the GRL and their network of graffiti artist collaborators (and commercial imitators) across four continents as they write on skyscrapers with lasers, mock advertisers with homemade tools, get in trouble with The Department of Homeland Security and make activism fun again. Primarily using video footage from point-and-shoot digital cameras (“The Pocket School”) and found-content on the web, the movie’s visual style draws as much from the art of the power point presentation and viral media as conventional documentary cinema. Narrated by GRL co-founders, Roth and Powderly, The Complete First Season makes a humorous and insightful argument for free speech in public, open source in pop culture, the hacker spirit in graffiti and not asking for permission in general. The film was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. Available 24/7 on The Pirate Bay.
NYC Critical Mass and Al Sharpton!
Posted May 30, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
I'm so pleased to hear about the alliance of Al Sharpton, Nicole Paulttre Bell, and NYC Critical Mass!
Todays ride will be a ride and rally against the murder of Sean Bell by the NYPD, and the recent acquittal of all criminal charges against the officers.
I am super critical of Sharpton's past behavior and statements, yet I'm intrigued by the potential that this relationship can raise awareness about police repression and brutality. I'd pontificate about it more right now, but I got to put new bar tape on my handlebars and get ready for tonights ride!
Kiss ups and Dumbwon show
Posted May 30, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
A quick mention. My really incredible and fun friends Michael and Paul are having a reunion show for their always entertaining "power-pop" band The Kiss Ups tomorrow.
Saturday May 31st, 9pm
Keegan Ales,
20 St. James Street,
Kingston, NY
Also performing:
Dead Unicorn
Guthrie Lord & Keith Abrams
It is the closing party for Paul's art exhibit at Keegan Ales. And a benefit for the co-op rehearsal space, "The Bomb Shelter" If you are in the Hudson Valley (NY) or surfing the web, check them out, they are really wonderful people that I've been hyping and supporting for years!
Portrait of Sylvia Elena
Posted May 30, 2008 by k_c_ in Justseeds Collective Projects
Portrait of Sylvia Elena
by Swoon and Tennessee Jane Watson
May 30 - July 5, 2008
Opening reception: Friday, May 30, 6-8pm
Honey Space
148 11th Ave. btw 21st & 22nd St
New York, New York
Justseeds Collective member Swoon is installing a piece she collaborated on with Tennessee Jane Watson, regarding the Femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and that occur all along the borders of Central America. This piece is also, currently, in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Spectres of Liberty
Posted May 28, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Myself, Dara and our friend Olivia have been busting our humps getting ready to realize a giant project we've been working on for over a year, Spectres of Liberty. On this Friday, May 30th, in Troy, NY, we'll be inflating a life size ghost replica of the Liberty Street Church, an important movement center for the Underground Railroad in the 19th century, and one of the first African American churches in Troy. If you are anywhere near the Troy/Albany/Schenectady area on Friday, you should come by, it'll be a once in a lifetime experience!!
Spectres of Liberty
a collaborative project by Olivia Robinson, Josh MacPhee, and Dara Greenwald
May 30th, 2008, 8:30 PM
Liberty Street between 3rd and 4th Streets, Troy, NY
Skewville's Factory Fresh
Posted May 28, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
I've been a fan of Skewville's wooden shoes (thrown over power lines) for years now, and also continually enjoy their inventiveness in turning everyday urban objects like air-conditioner grates and milk crates into messaging systems. Their work is just fun and enjoyable.
FACTORY FRESH direct from SKEWVILLE
Grand Opening Party
Friday, June 6th 6-9pm
Limited show only till
Saturday, June 7th 1-9pm
Factory Fresh
1053 Flushing Avenue (between Morgan and Knickerbocker)
off the L train Morgan Stop
Skewville will transform this former Brooklyn bodega into a Pop-Art Market for the gallery's grand opening. Skewville has been making great advancements in the experimentation of street stamping technology along with revamping city materials to communicate phrases like “FRESH” and “FAME GAME”.
Factory Fresh is the newest space brought to you by Ali Ha and Ad Devillle formerly of Orchard Street Art Gallery in Manhatten's Lower East Side. SInce 2002 Ali and Ad have shown the art of themselves and the art of fellow artist they met in the global street art scene and in the NYC Community.
Bicycle Film Festival in NYC
Posted May 28, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
May 28-June 1
Bike lovers and cinephiles rejoice- the Bicycle Film Festival begins in NYC tonight! As always the festival features a wide range of international films, shorts, documentaries, music, art, and street parties, and contests. I am super excited that bike advocates and filmmakers Elizabeth Press and Clarence Eckerson Jr. of Street Films are presenting their work and there are films on local activist projects and people such as bike advocate Mary Beth Kelly (wife of Dr. Carl Henry Nacht), ghost bike memorial rides, saving pedicabs, recycle-a-bicycle, and the response to the distasteful DKNY orange bike campaign. Tonight is the event i am most looking forward to- Impossible Hour (1974) by renowned experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth is screening with a live score by Simone Pace of Blonde Redhead. See you at the movies!
Carnival Mecanique
Posted May 22, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
My fellow "Armadan" Paul Cesewski over in California is an artist in residence at San Francisco Recycling & Disposal Inc. He'll be presenting new mechanical sculptures and game creations.
May 23rd (5-9pm) & 24th (1-5pm)
503 Tunnel Ave. San Francisco
Sensory learning through motion is one the most significant phases of our early development. Physical presence in our environment brings us close to how we develop. The excitement of motion reminds us of learning to move ourselves as we experience our environment for the first time.
WABA Bike Prom
Posted May 22, 2008 by mary_tremonte
If you're in the DC area this weekend, join Justseeds member Mary Tremonte (DJ Mary Mack) at WABA's (Washington Area Bicycling Association) 1st Annual Bike Prom Dance Party!
DC's first ever Bike Prom will be held at the Black Cat. The Bike Prom is a chance for everyone in DC's cycling community to come together and celebrate their love of cycling. Come early, stay late, and bring a date. Formal wear is not required, but we strongly encourage costumes.
Where: The Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW, Washington, DC 20009
When: May 23, 2008. 9:30 pm
Cost: $5
Dance all night to the music of DJ's MaryMack(Pittsburgh), Jennder (WABA Staff & Riff Raff) and Vinni Von Blotto (Riff Raff)
YES! there wil be FREE prom photos, so show up early if you want your picture taken.
WABA will also be providing extra bike racks in front of the Black Cat.
Everyone gets a chance to win our raffle prizes donated by R.E.Load Bags, Fabric Horse, Chrome Bags, Microcosm Publishing..
Discounted membership packages will be available that include a free WABA t-shirt and other goodies.
Event: I Shall Create-Death Row Art
Posted May 22, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
I've long been a fan of the art of Zolo Agonia Azania (as well as strongly believing he shouldn't be on death row in Indiana!), which at it's best is a Black Power trip through neo-psychedelia. A bunch of his paintings are going up in a show in Chicago, if you can, check it out:
"I Shall Create": Death Row Art
at Treat Restaurant
Opening Reception on SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 5-7PM
1616 N. Kedzie Ave. in Humboldt Park, Chicago
Celebrate the resistance of death row prisoners -- Renaldo Hudson in Illinois, Kevin Cooper in California and Zolo Azania in Indiana -- who dare to express their humanity on canvas one brush stroke at a time. Select paintings of their work will be on display at Treat Restaurant through mid-July.
Join us at this opening reception to honor the work of these three talented artists. A multi-media presentation will feature:
** a video recording of greetings by Zolo Azania from his cell on Indiana's death row
** readings of essays by Kevin Cooper and Renaldo Hudson
** poetry by prisoners LIVE from their cells via telephone hook-up
hosted by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, No Death Penalty for Zolo Committee and Treat Restaurant
all are welcome -- donations will be accepted!
Travel Stories and Pretty Pictures
Posted May 20, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Its that time of the month again. Tomorrow will be the May installment of Jeff Stark's "Where Have You Been?". 
If you missed Justseeds member, Swoon, last month, you can check out the images of her Ciudad Juarez trip. Unfortunately not the discussion, for that you must attend.
This month Jeff will interview Jonathan Lamberton on climbing Kilimanjaro, Jessie Reilly on parades in Taiwan, and Ben Mortimer on Russia in Winter.
Wednesday, May 21, 7-8:30pm
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street, Manhattan
$5 suggested donation
A Discussion of Social Relations and Social Struggle
Posted May 20, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
A Discussion to Release 'In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements.'
Speakers:
Alex Samets fromThe Icarus Project
Esteban Kelly from Philly Stands Up
Harmony Goldberg-Right to the City Alliance Resource Person
Ben Shepard (NYC Activist and Writer)
Malav Kanuga fromBluestockings Books
Friday, May 23rd / 7pm
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen St
NYC
On May 25th, Team Colors Collective, in collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, will launch a one-off online journal entitled 'In the Middle of a Whirlwind: 2008 Convention Protests, Movement and Movements.' To release the journal and contribute to discussions about movement building we are organizing events around the country. In New York City the release event will focus on issues of social relations and social struggle.Through a discussion of organizing experiences and
analysis of current organizing projects, speakers will
address the following questions:*What is the capacity of our resistance as it is
currently constituted?
*What role are contemporary social struggles playing
in resistance that is simultaneously creative and
critical of everyday social relations?
*How are contemporary social struggles building power
or using tactics that relate to, and intertwine with,
people's everyday lives?
*How might we further explore and explode these
everyday relations in order to unlock the limitless
potentialities of new social modalities that
reorganize power?
Great Small Works International Festival of Toy Theater
Posted May 19, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
The Great Small Works folks will be having a week full of scheduled events beginning Friday May 23rd. The exhibit portion of the event will include a brand-new collaboration between Justseeds artist Erik
Ruin and sculptor Amy Walsh, a tabletop sculpture depicting urbanism gone awry.
GREAT SMALL WORKS was founded in 1995 as a collective of artists who keep theater at the heart of social life...Drawing on folk, avant-garde, and popular theater traditions to address contemporary issues...[their] productions consistently reinvent ancient, popular theater techniques: Toy Theater, mask and object theater, circus, sideshow, and picture-show (cantastoria)...and seek to renew, cultivate, and strengthen the spirits of their audiences, promoting theater as a model for reanimating the public sphere and participating in democratic life.
Great Small Works will transform St. Ann's Warehouse with its colossal event of miniature proportions. Come see: Six different programs for adult audiences, a program for family audiences, a late-night cabaret for developing work, two symposia, two public workshops for all ages, and an extensive exhibition of both historic and brand-new examples of that elaborate, provocative, arcane and charming form called Toy Theater. Find the full schedule here
Tickets can be found at
St. Ann’s Warehouse
38 Water St.
DUMBO, Brooklyn
Where all events will be held!
Event: World War 3 Illustrated artist's reading
Posted May 14, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Tonight!!
The Cup and Pen Small Press Reading Series
World War 3 Illustrated Artists
May 14th, from 8-10 pm at Think Coffee in Manhattan, 248 Mercer Street
There will be a fabulous reading featuring slide shows and multimedia by:
Rebecca Migdal
James Romberger
Sabrina Jones
Tom Keough
Fly
Mac McGill
Also featuring: our hostess the lovely Rebecca Alvarez; the vocal stylings
of Breeze; and the accompaniment of Andy Laties on saxaphone, flute,
harmonica and the garden hose!
Here's you chance to pick up an autographed copy of WW3, and be vastly
entertained while sipping java and nibbling cake.
Event: On The Lower Frequencies Book Release
Posted May 14, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Tonight in San Francisco!!!
Come celebrate the release of
On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City
by Erick Lyle
out now from Soft Skull Press
On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City, from the editor of Scam Zine, looks back at the past ten years of fighting the war and gentrification in San Francisco. 272 pages of squatting the ruins of the Dot Com era, illegal punk shows in the streets and shutting down the city in anti-war protests!
Wednesday May 14 at Counterpulse (1310 Mission St. AT 9TH)
San Francisco
Featuring reading and slide show by Erick Lyle
Guest Speakers:
Paul Boden (SF Coalition on Homelessness)
Mary Howe (SF Needle Exchange)
Antonio Roman-Alcala (Alemany Farm)
Art by Zara Thustra and Ivy Jeanne
Photos by Heather Renee Russ (Cutter photozine)
and music by
Shotwell
Black Rainbow
The Judy Experience
A free vegan dinner will be available, as prepared by Leif Hebendal
Dineer/Speakers/Art at 6:00 PM
Bands at 9:00
This event is FREE, FREE, FREE!
Books will be on sale for $15 each.
The new issue of Scam Zine will be available for $3
Chris Marker's Grin Without a Cat Screening
Posted May 13, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater
May 13, 8:15pm & May 14, 2pm
As part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the tumultuous month of May '68 there has been a month long film series of international films that are revolutionary both in form and content- very much a reflection of the time. One of my favorite films by Chris Marker, Grin Without a Cat is finishing up the festival, and is by far considered to be one of the most epic.
Chris Marker's magnum opus Grin Without a Cat is a profoundly challenging meditation on the period from the mid-60s to the mid-70s. Described by Marker as "scenes of the third world war,as the film weaves together images, sounds and themes of protest, defiance, solidarity and mourning to describe a moment when suddenly all seemed possible" and then, just as suddenly, closed. The film begins with the Vietnam War and the various international movements to support the Vietnamese in their struggle. Then it examines the causes of and reactions to May '68 in France before heading to Latin America and the birth (and subsequent death) of Allende's Chile. Essayistic in form, Grin invites dialogue and comparisons between and among the various situations depicted while pointing out those factors that also made each unique.
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair
Posted May 12, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
A couple of us here at Justseeds will be traveling up to Montreal next weekend for the 2008 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair. It's always a really fun event, and one of the few radical/left/anarchist events I've been to that has a lot of other people doing art that show up to table, so I always get to pick up other cool political prints and posters from Montreal artists, French anarchists and Indigenous solidarity activists! Stop by and say hello to us (we'll be up on stage in the back of the event, most likely with the Beehive Design Collective).
Bookfair:
Saturday, May 17th, 10am-5pm
With over 100 vendors plus, films, art, kids activities. introductory workshops and more!
Conference:
Sunday, May 18th, 10am-5pm
A Day of Anarchist Workshops and Presentations!
both at: CEDA, 2515 rue Delisle, Montreal (Métro Lionel-Groulx)
fierce pussy show at Printed Matter Inc.
Posted May 10, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Printed Matter Inc.
195 Tenth Avenue, NYC
April 5–May 24, 2008
fierce pussy was a New York–based collective of queer women that emerged in 1991 from the ferment spawned by ACT UP. Promoting lesbian visibility and self-defined identity, fierce pussy helped politicize the urban landscape by wheat-pasting posters, distributing stickers and T-shirts, and "renaming" a number of New York streets after lesbian heroines.Their low-tech aesthetic is exemplified by photocopied posters, which have been reissued in a book published by Printed Matter and are exhibited there above vitrines of related ephemera. Members' childhood snapshots are emblazoned with words like MUFFDIVER and DYKE; the phrase LESBIAN CHIC MY ASS is illustrated with a bathroom-stall-worthy rendering of an ass followed by the words FUCK 15 MINUTES OF FAME. WE DEMAND OUR CIVIL RIGHTS. NOW. Contemporaneous groups such as Queer Nation, Dyke Action Machine, and the aforementioned ACT UP pioneered an activist appropriation of the slick language of advertising, taking a cue from Situationist détournement and the work of Barbara Kruger. fierce pussy's posters share aesthetic kinship with the more punkish 1979 publication Durhing Durhing by Joseph Wolman (founder, with Guy Debord, of the Letterist International), in which random faces are overprinted with Marxist-inflected words.
This kind of contextualization, however, distances the work from the queer bodies that made it, and queer bodies are still not visible enough. Riding that wave of lesbian chic, The L Word now epitomizes self-defined lesbian (with little mention of gender-queer or trans) identity. fierce pussy's book, the most vital part of the exhibition, opens with reprints of three nearly twenty-year-old posters comprising a more diverse spectrum of identities, among them dyke, butch, pervert, femme, feminist, and queer. The pages are detachable and reconfigurable. Just add wheat paste. —Amoreen Armetta
"Shawn Brant is No Criminal" Fundraiser Art Show
Posted May 8, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Punchclock Printing in Canada is having a fundraiser art show called "Shawn Brant Is No Criminal" in support of Political Prisoner Shawn Brant.
MAY 16-18 at Whippersnapper Gallery
It will feature art by indigenous, and anti-colonial artists including:
Branko, Rocky Dobey, David Morriseau Agata Mrozoski, Michael Comeau, Stefan Pilipa, Fancy Gordon Zero, Riel Manywounds, AJ Withers, Xtofer Cooke, Simone Schmidt, Shannon Muegge, Schuster Gindin, and many more! There will also be a live music show.
Money from the door will go to Shawn's Legal Fund and money from the art sales will go to Shawn or the artist.
Shawn Brant is an activist and spokesperson for the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte in Canada. He faces numerous charges in relation to two instances of rail and highway blockades erected by the Tyendinaga community on June 29, 2007- the Aboriginal Day of Action and in April, 2007. He was recently acquitted of 3 charges of mischief, but still faces charges that could result in serving a minimum of 12 years in a federal penitentiary and will stand trial in 2009. Shawn is being made an example of in an effort to crush the resistance of the Mohawk community.
Read the rest of this entry for an update on Shawn's current incarceration:
Prisons Affect All of Us!
Posted May 6, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Critical Resistance NYC is putting on an exhibition of prisoner art:
Prisons Affect All of Us
May 17th, 1-8pm
Critical Resistance Office
976 Longwood (corner of Beck St.)
South Bronx
The art will also be up until May 31st, and can be seen by appointment by calling Critical Resistance at 718.676.1660.
Bill Daniel's "Mostly True" Book Release and Film Screening
Posted May 5, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Tuesday, May 6, 7:30 PM
Maysles Cinema
347 Lenox Ave./Malcolm X Blvd. between 127th &128th st.
Bill Daniel will be releasing his brand new book Mostly True, a collection of enigmatic railroad folklore and screening his freight hopping movie Who is Bozo Texino? as well as a grab bag of train subculture shorts.
Many of you may know and love Bill Daniel's amazing film Who Is Bozo Texino?, which chronicles the search for the source of a ubiquitous and mythic rail graffiti sketch of a character with an infinity-shaped hat and the scrawled moniker, "Bozo Texino"- a drawing seen on railcars for 80 years. The film was shot over a period of 20 years and features interviews with hobo graffiti legends Colossus of the Roads, The Rambler, Herby (RIP) and others.
Mostly True is the book companion to Who is Bozo Texino? Styled like a 1930's pulp magazine, the book is an enigmatic compilation of railroad ephemera, a ticket for time travel back to the roots of American rail folklore. The book is a direct product of 25 years of asystematically collecting any scrap of material relating to the ideas of tramping trains, hobo life, and depression-era culture and graffiti (with a small g).
Concrete Alchemy Tour
Posted May 5, 2008 by jmacphee in Street Art & Graffiti
We recently got a note from the Albus Cavus Crew, who are about to embark on their Concrete Alchemy Tour, from May 16-23. 15 graffiti and street artists are heading out on a 5 city tour to show off their skills, but also talk about graffiti and its roles and potentials in communities. What seems to set this tour apart from other graffiti-type events is it's not simply a permission wall, or a gallery show, but a mix of mural painting on the sides of community centers, exhibitions, panel discussions and wall painting. The tour hits NYC, Princeton NJ, Philly, DC and National Harbor MD. Check 'em out.
Crime Against Humanity
Posted May 5, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
My old Chicago roommate David Thibault-Rodriguez is helping organize a series of showings of a new play about Puerto Rican political prisoners, Crime Against Humanity. It is showing in both New York City and Leominster, MA (not far from where I grew up). Info is below:
New York City:
Saturday, May 10, 7:00PM
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk St., NYC
A play by poet and activist Michael Anthony Reyes Benavides and former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Luis Rosa, Crime Against Humanity is based on the real life experience of fourteen Puerto Rican political prisoners who spent more than two decades in prison - two of whom are still incarcerated.
Presented by Chicago's Cafe Teatro Batey Urbano
seating is limited so be sure to RSVP
Suggested Donation of $10.00
Leominster, MA:
Monday, May 12, 6:00PM
National Boricua Human Rights Network
First Church Unitarian Universalist
15 West Street, Leominster, MA 01453
"Imagine 27 years of your life living in a space 6 feet by 9 feet. Imagine being confined in isolation with no human contact. Imagine the shakedowns, the strip searches and the complete disregard for your humanity.
Crime Against Humanity brings us into the U.S. prison system in a way no other play has, focusing on the politically motivated use of isolation, selective punishment, sensory deprivation and disproportionate sentances.
By using theater as a tool for resistance, we hope to reach out to those sectors of the population that are often ignored by activists outreach. We want our families, our brothers and sisters and our community to come out and see what these prisoners have endured. We hope to see you there!"
Seating is limited so please be sure to RSVP
Admission: $5-10 Suggested Donation, includes meal
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
For more information, please contact David: 508 404 4365
Chris Stain photos update
Posted May 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Chris has updated his site with a bunch of good photos from our Threat of Chance show.
Exhibition: Rocky Dobey in Hamilton, ON
Posted May 4, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Long time political artist Rocky Dobey has an opening coming up in Hamilton, ON Canada. Many of you will recognize his style from many of the alter-globalization protest posters from earlier this decade, including one of the main posters for the FTAA protests in Quebec City in 2001. I've corresponded with Rocky for years, and have been excited to see his work show up on dozens of political posters coming out of Canada over the past decade. He's also part of the great Punchclock Collective, which everyone should check out. His style is completely unique, especially for the political poster, and I really wish I could make it up north for this show!
All That is Solid...Melts into Air
Rocky Dobey
May 9-June 7
The Print Studio
173 James Street North
Hamilton, ON L8R 2K9
Exhibition: The Audacity of Desperation
Posted May 3, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Dara Greenwald and I (as the Samaras Project) are in an exhibition called The Audacity of Desperation opening in Urbana, IL on May 7th and then in LA in October.
The Audacity of Desperation is an art exhibition, political action, and on-going dialog. This show confronts, expresses and unravels states of desperation. Artworks by activists, artists, enthusiasts, and very concerned people, are made in editions of 100 with the intention of free distribution to audiences. In this way, these artworks will be activated outside of the exhibition space and in domestic spaces, on bodies, clothes, bags, and in public spaces.
First stop: The Urbana- Champaign Independent Media Center
May 7th - June 15
202 S. Broadway Suite 100
Urbana, IL 61801
Urbana Opening Party: May 7, at 7pm with a screening of video shorts
Urbana Closing Party: June 4, at 7pm, with the kick off of Continental Drift an itinerant discussion on Neoliberal policies and cracks in global power. Continental Drift will be traveling though the Radical Midwest Cultural Corridor, starting at the IMC with conversations about the Audacity of Desperation and presentations by Kevin Hamilton, Brain Holmes, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri. For more information see:
http://radicalmidwest.blogspot.com/
Next stop: Sea and Space, Los Angeles, CA,
October 23- November 16
(more details this summer - watch election results with us there)
to whet the whistle
Posted April 30, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Another taste of Threat of Chance-opening at Ad-Hoc Art Friday
You can look over at Ad-Hoc for art by Chris Stain, Josh Macphee, Billy Mode, or the Polaroid Kidd.
Photos above taken by Kevin Caplicki.
And when you come, you'll understand
Posted April 29, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
The Threat Of Chance at Ad-Hoc Art
Photos by Kevin Caplicki
The Threat of Chance
Posted April 27, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds members Josh Macphee and Chris Stain are having a show that opens this coming Friday. Its a collaboration with Billy Mode, and pictures by Mike Brodie. We've been building since last Wednesday and hope to have a kick ass installation for you to poke your fingers on, so get your tetanus shot before you enter.
The threat of chance art exposition is based on the temptation of possibility. The possibility of change in the face of stagnation, the possibility of hope in desperate times, the possibility of alternative thought and lifestyle in the doldrums of complacency.For this installation a railroad shanty town has been recreated to further emphasis the struggle between hope and despair. Amidst a gallery filled of shacks made with found material and walls decorated with freight trains and decaying industry you will find photographs by boxcar culture enthusiast the Polaroid Kidd. Proletarian signs, flags, prints, and banners from author/activist Josh Macphee. Interactive sculptures, drawings, paintings and stencils, from graffiti artist Billy Mode, and the sociological display of hand cut stencils by Chris Stain. The Threat of Chance art exposition is pure socialist propaganda , (at least that's how the mainstream will see it) , so stop by opening night and they'll tear you a new asshole.
-pollock johnny
Opening Reception:
Friday, May 2nd, 7pm - 10pm
Ad-Hoc Art
49 Bogart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
Afterparty from 10pm until 4am at the Wreck Room Bar
940 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY
On view from May 2-June 1, 2008
RALLY AGAINST THE VERDICT IN SEAN BELL CASE
Posted April 25, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
TODAY, FRIDAY, APRIL 25th at 5:30 pm
All three cops who murdered Sean Bell were found NOT GUILTY this morning by Judge Arthur Cooperman. Join us in protesting this outrageous verdict! Demand justice for Sean Bell and an end to police violence now! People's Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability is calling for a rally and community speak-out in front of the Queens DA's office TODAY.
Rally will include performers & speakers who have been directly affected by police brutality.
In Nov. 2006, Sean Bell was murdered by the NYPD in a hail of 50 bullets. His friends - Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman - were seriously injured. After a two-month-long trial of his killer, three detectives, the judge has announced his verdict of NOT GUILTY on all charges. The NYPD's murder of Bell and attempted murders of Benefield and Guzman are NOT isolated or random events. They represent the continued targeting of communities of color by the police and the lack of accountability for police misconduct and abuse.
NYC Memorial Ride: Wednesday, April 23
Posted April 22, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Alvaro Olson and Jian-Lan Zhang were both tragically killed by trucks on April 16, 2008.
Come out to a memorial ride in honor of them tomorrow, Wednesday, April 23
Wednesday, April 23.
7 pm, meet at Union Square South
7:30 pm, ride to Alvaro Olson's memorial, 36th st. and Broadway
8:00 pm, ride arrives
8:20 pm, ride to at Jian-Lan Zhang's memorial, Allen and Hester
8:50 pm, ride arrives
all times are approximate
check ghostbikes.org for more updates
Meet the Resistance: a speaking tour of affected indigenous communities
Posted April 22, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
This April and May, hear voices of communities directly affected by the operations of Barrick Gold. "Meet the Resistance" brings together community voices from Australia, Papua New Guinea, the U.S., and Chile to share their experiences in going up against the world's largest gold miner.
New York Events:
Thursday, April 24, 7:30pm
"Indigenous Resistance to Gold Mining"-Guests, Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone (Nevada, USA), Neville 'Chappy' Williams, Wiradjuri (Australia), Jethro Tulin, Executive Officer Akali Tange Association Ipili (Papua New Guinea) will make presentations, show short films and answer questions about gold mining on their lands.
American Indian Community Center
11 Broadway, 2nd Fl, NYC
Sunday, April 27, 7pm
Indigenous Voices-Films and Speakers-Neville 'Chappy' Williams, Wiradjuri (Australia) Jethro Tulin, Executive Officer Akali Tange Association, Ipili (Papua New Guinea)
Bluestocking's BookStore
172 Allen Street, NYCWednesday, April 30, 7pm
Meet the Resistance: Indigenous struggles from Australia and Papua New Guinea
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington St, NYC
for more info, go to Protest Barrick.
Gangs of the South Bronx Documentary Double Feature
Posted April 21, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
If you are in NYC you should come out these rare screenings of the 70's documentaries Ain't Gonna Eat My Mind (dir. Tony Batten, 1972) and 80 Blocks from Tiffany's (dir. Gary Weiss, 1979) depicting the Ghetto Brothers and Savage Skulls- legendary gangs that originated in the South Bronx.
The Ghetto Brothers were founded around 1967 by Benjamin "Yellow Benjy" Melendez and his brothers. They were infamous for transforming from a gang into a an organization that lead community service initiatives and helped organize the pivotal 1971 Bronx truce among all other prominent gangs following the murder of their peacekeeper Black Benjie. The Savage Skulls were one of the most notorious gangs at the time, and headed by Filipe "Blackie" Mercado. Despite their scorn for revolutionary politics, they once fought alongside neighbors and members of the Young Lords in an epic street battle against the Fort Apache cops in retaliation for beating a Savage Skull member.
Friday, April 25th, 7:30pm: Special Guest Benjy Melendez, founder of the Ghetto Brothers presents Ain't Gonna East My Mind & 80 Blocks from Tiffany'sSaturday, April 26th:
The 51st State, 7pm
Original TV program featuring Ain't Gonna East My Mind and studio debate with Benjy Melendez and filmmaker Tony Batten
80 Blocks from Tiffany's, 8:30pmSunday, April 27th, 7:30:
Special Guest Filipe "Blackie" Mercado, former president of the Savage Skulls presents 80 Blocks from Tiffany's & Benjy Melendez presents Ain't Gonna Eat My Mind
Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Ave./Malcolm X Blvd.
Between 127th and 128th Streets
$7 Suggested Admission (Limited Seating Available)
Box office opens 1 hour before showtime
Groundswell Mural Tours, Summer Jobs, and Angela Davis!
Posted April 19, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
TODAY, Saturday, April 19th, Groundswell Community Mural Project is giving guided bus tours to see a selection of their murals celebrating immigrant communities in Brooklyn. Tours are offered from 11am-1:30pm and 2pm-4:30pm. Open to all ages, suggested donation $10.
Tours begin at their studio, contact ryan@groundswellmural.org to RSVP.
Wed. April 23, Groundswell Executive Director Amy Sananman will particpate in a panel moderated by Angela Davis "Urban Artists and the Politics of Visibility: A Conversation with Angela Davis". Panelists include Dread Scott, Alan Ket, and Hank Willis Thomas and will explore making the invisible, visible. Pratt Institute, Main Campus, Memorial Hall 12:30-2:30pm. FREE. No ticket necessary.
If you know a NY teen that wants a summer job making radical socially consicous murals, tell them about Groundswell's Summer Leadership Institute.
Job Details:
For teens 14 and 21 years old
Monday-Thursday 9am-4pm
$7.15 hourly pay for 175 hours
Begins Tuesday, July 1st
call Ryan at 718-254-9782 or contact summerjobs@groundswellmural.org to set up a time to visit the studio and fill out the SYEP application. Applications must be submitted by May 18th
Being Here Is Better Than Wishing We'd Stayed
Posted April 17, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Hey folks! Since finishing the last collaboration piece at ABC No Rio, I've been up at the Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA working on another one. Its been a really intense experience. Collective process, group & individual dynamics, and just plain old opinion and not liking someone's idea or aesthetic has given me a lot to think about.
North Adams has given me the break that I've been needing, from NYC. I have no cellphone service, its quiet here, and I'm surrounded by the Berkshire Mountains. And I have something to focus on, the installation.
The Miss Rockaway Armada (for Aquatic Glee) was invited to MassMoCA to design an installation related to the journey that lasted over two summers. The small number of crew members that gathered for this opportunity decided that would be a bad idea. Instead we have brought the intentions, ingenuity, and impractical ideas of the project to New England. There have been some outrageous ideas, some scrapped, others manifested with the instruction of those with experience. All very much like the building of the initial rafts in 2006.
We've gotten thru three weeks of process and are coming down to the wire. Our installation "Being Here is Better Than Wishing We'd Stayed" will have its opening Friday April 18th! And remain up for almost a year.
99 percent of the lumber and materials used was scavenged, scrapped, or found at MassMoCA or discarded in the surrounding area. Hardware is another issue, that's where our small budget went. I find it disconcerting, yet unsurprising, when I hear about the new trend that funding and philanthropy are going towards, "green" art projects. I'd like to hear about discussions or writings on the art markets response to the current interest in Capitalism's newest trend.
I'm highly critical of any industry that uses the same infrastructure and inefficiency to produce a product that "appears" to have a conscious or address ecological issues. What are the means being used to express the message, and where does the funding come from?
Flight — Northeast Shadow Tour
Posted April 14, 2008 by erik_ruin in Events
FLIGHT:the mythic journey of a persons displaced - a brand new shadow theater show with imagery by Erik Ruin, a live score by violinist Katt Hernandez, and the capable puppeteering assistance of Megan Gibes, may very well be coming to a venue near you!(if you
live in the Northeast U.S., that is)...
About the show:
FLIGHT is the picaresque journey of a displaced person attempting to escape/transcend persecution. Erik Ruin's signature papercut style is animated with scrolling vistas of shipwrecks, refugee camps and burning houses and many fine shadow puppet tricks set to a hair-raisingly beautiful violin score by virtuoso/improviser Katt Hernandez. Erik's prints and Katt's music will be available for sale at their shows.
About the performers:
ERIK RUIN is a Michigan-raised, Philly-based printmaker, shadow-puppeteer, and co-editor of the anthology Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (with Josh MacPhee, AK Press, 2007). Ongoing theatrical work includes the epic musical shadow theater extravaganza The Nothing Factory, and various improvisational groupings of overhead projectors and musical instruments. Check out some of his print work here.
KATT HERNANDEZ has collaborated with a magnificently variated sea of musicians, dancers, and others, and performed in a vast slew of of subway passages, urban grottos, and troglyditical performace places, as well as other experimental and life-making spaces throughout the East Coast Metropolii.
MEGAN GIBES is both puppeteer and musican. She's manipulated objects with Ben Matchstick and RPM Puppet Conspiracy around the U.S. and Thailand, and played bass, trombone and drums (all at the same time) in International Anthems for Irrational Numbers and most recently with Uke of Spaces Corners.
THE DATES-
4/16- PROVIDENCE,RI- with Joshua Marcus/"NO MORE TIME TO LISTEN INSIDE" compositions and contraptions by
lyndon cordey lopez.,performed by THE WHAT DREAR?
SEXTET/puppet short from Beth Nixon- at Building 16 (call Dan- 401.787.3236- for directions)- potluck dinner! beginning at 8.
4/17- LOWELL, MA- with Amalgam trio (Video Artist and Modular Synth player Walter Wright, Dancer Joe Burgio, and Katt Hernandez on violin)- at Gallery 119- 119 Chelmsford Street- 8 pm
4/18- PORTLAND, ME- w/ Joshua Marcus/ Brown Bird/ The Gargoylez. MEG PERRY CENTER - 8 pm
4/19- BIDDEFORD, ME- w/ Joshua Marcus/ Brown Bird/ The Gargoylez. The Franklin Arts Center
- 8 pm
4/20- BELFAST, ME- w/ Joshua Marcus/ Brown Bird/ The Gargoylez(w/ Special Guest Dave Noyes & Vinz Nez & Brian Arlet)/ Uke of Spaces Corners -WATERFALL ARTS- 256 High Street Belfast Me 04915 - 7 pm
4/22- MONTPELIER, VT- Langdon Street Cafe- 4 Langdon Street Montpelier, VT 05602 - 7 pm
4/23- BRATTLEBORO, VT- more acts TBA- the Tinderbox-17 Elliot St. - 7ish pm
4/24- AMHERST, MA- Food For Thought Books- 106 N.Pleasant Street - 7 pm
4/25- BOSTON, MA- more acts TBA- Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Avenue - 7 pm.
4/26- NEW YORK CITY- more acts TBA- Space Space- 390 Seneca Ave -(L train to dekalb ave exit front of train at stanhope st walk against traffic on stanhope 3 blocks last door on left before seneca ave)-Ridgewood! - 8 pm
*note- ALL SHOWS ARE CHEAP! if not a pass-the-hat donations type thing, it's a 5-bucks-at-the-door type thing.
**note even more so- at most shows, where there's not a zillion other performers, Katt will also be doing a solo improvised violin performance- not to be missed!
PLEASE FORWARD/POST THIS AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE!
THANKS!
Seeing Green art show project: Surveillance Camera Birdhouses
Posted April 11, 2008 by nicolas_lampert in Events
Justseeds member Colin Matthes created a gem of a project for the Seeing Green show -- surveillance camera birdhouses! He researched and designed a birdhouse suitable for birds in Wisconsin, constructed it out of wood, and placed it in the Riverwest woods, a river corridor in Milwaukee. For birds, it serves as a perfect home for finches. For people who stumble upon it while walking down the path through the woods, the sight of the surveillance camera mounted to a tree is completely unexpected and raises a myriad of questions about the priorities people place on property, competition and issues of fear and security that dominate city living. The fact that the menacing form of the surveillance camera is humbled and made into a home for finches only serves to further subvert the camera's original connotation and adds to the surprise of encountering Matthes' public intervention.
http://seeinggreenartshow.wordpress.com/
Check Us Out in New Orleans!
Posted April 11, 2008 by dara_g in Events
Josh and I (Dara) will be doing a screening and presentation at the Iron Rail Infoshop in New Orleans this Thursday April 17, 2008 at 8 pm. The Iron Rail is at 511 Marigny St.
Creative Disruptions: A talk and screening of radical art
and media with Josh MacPhee and Dara Greenwald.
Josh will present a talk and slide show about radical art
past and present.
Dara will make you laugh and cry with her revolving and
evolving collection of short videos.
Josh MacPhee is founder of JustSeeds and the author of
Stencil Pirates. A brand new book edited by Favianna Rodriguez and Josh MacPhee, Reproduce and Revolt will be available!!!
Dara Greenwald is a media artist.
Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth)
Posted April 10, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth)
Screening in Portland Oregon April 11th
7:00pm
at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd.
In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century.
But it was the people's use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca.
A 90-minute documentary, A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.
(link to a trailer for the film)
PM Press Salon/NYC
Posted April 10, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
PM Press and Bluestockings Bookstore are hosting a salon the night of the NYC Anarchist Bookfair. I'll be at it, and be presenting a little bit about my new book Reproduce & Revolt. Here's all the data:
Saturday, April 12th @ 7PM - Free
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington)
Come out for the release of a stack of books and celebrate with their authors. Friends, groupies, nay-sayers and strangers are all invited. Food, drinks and mingling are nice, yes? In the crowd will be crime fiction writer Rick Dakan (Geek Mafia author, I read this one, and it was really enjoyable, a great radical crime novel!), artist Josh MacPhee (that's me!), unstoppable Melody Berger (F-Word Zine), squatter artist Fly (You Don't Need a Brain to Fight the System!
32 Postcards by Fly, some of Fly's best images collected in one place), punk author Sascha Dubrul (The Secret Life Of White People, an expanded version of this zine Sascha wrote awhile back, he's really been struggling to think through a lot of race/class issues, I look forward to reading this when it comes out...), Hothead Paisan creator Diane DiMassa (Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist: 32 Postcards by Diane DiMassa), and visionary Jennifer Silverman (My Kid Rides The Short Bus).
NYC Anarchist Bookfair
Posted April 9, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
This Saturday, April 12th, is the New York City Anarchist Bookfair! This is the second annual bookfair, and last year's was great. Justseeds will be tabling: Kevin, Kristine, Erik, Dara and I will be taking turns selling radical art. There's going to be over 40 publishers, bookstores and political projects tabling, as well as meetings, presentations and an art show. Here's the info:
NYC Anarchist Bookfair
April 12th, 2008
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Sq. South
Manhattan
Directions: Judson Memorial Church is located on the south side of Washington Square Park between Thompson and Sullivan Streets. Take the A, C, E, F trains to West 4th Street station; the R to 8th Street-NYU; or the 1 train to Christopher Street-Sheridan Square. The M1, M2, M3, M5, M6 and M8 bus lines also serve the area.
Kevin and I are the resident bookfair poster designers, and this year's poster features a photo of Emma Goldman giving a speech in Union Square, NYC. 2 color silkscreen prints of the design will be for sale at the bookfair!
Help fund this Immigrant Rights Poster Project
Posted April 8, 2008 by dylanminer in Events
April 5, 2008
We need strong and pro-immigrant art to confront the multitude of images of disempowerment given to us by our daily media - and I need your help to do this.
I am asking for your support in the production and distribution of FIVE empowering posters. This support is crucial in order to place them into the hands of hundreds immigrant right activists around the globe, and the thousands of people they help organize. I am coordinating this project and reaching to you as an individual.
“Seeing Green: Art, Ecology and Activism in Milwaukee” opens April 12th
Posted April 5, 2008 by nicolas_lampert in Events
image by Max Estes, "Your Bicycle Misses You"
Guest curator Nicolas Lampert invited over 40 local artists to work on a project for the duration of eight months. During the month of April, 2008 the show will be exhibited at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the gallery will serve as a hub space, informing the viewer and the public of the many environmental projects taking place throughout Milwaukee, exhibiting visual work and books, screening films and holding discussions and events based around the exhibition.
Familiar names in the show to Justseeds readers include Colin Matthes who diverged from his 2-D work and created surveillance camera birdhouses! Also, Susan Simensky Bietila (the co-organizer of Drawing Resistance) created a mural “28 Years of People Power” that celebrated the grassroots campaign that defeated the proposed Crandon mine on Wisconsin’s Wolf River. This alliance won an historic victory against one the most powerful mining corporations in the world.
During the next few weeks, I will post more details on the Justseeds blog about specific work in the show including posters, stencil projects and more.
Seeing Green opens at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI.) on Saturday, April 12, 2008, 5:00-9:00pm
Save the Date: Critical Resistance 10th Anniversary, Sept 26-28
Posted April 4, 2008 by nicolas_lampert in Events
The 10th Anniversary of Critical Resistance will be held in Oakland, California this fall, September 26-28, 2008. For more information, check out: www.criticalresistance.org
Paper Politics in Corpus Christi, TX
Posted April 3, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Paper Politics, the political print show I've been traveling around the continent has made it's way to Texas! K Space Contemporary opens Paper Politics on Saturday, April 5th.
The exhibit showcases print art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. All the Justseeds artists are in the show, as well as 175 other artists from the US and around the world. An eclectic collection of work by artists who are primarily activists, as well as artists, whose work may not always be politically motivated, but who wanted to respond to the monumental trends and events of our times.
Opening: Saturday April 5th, 6-8 PM
Free Admission, Food & Drinks
On view April 5th-May 11th
Also:
Woodcut Printmaking Workshop with Paper Politics artist Mike Stephens
Saturday, April 12th, 10Am-1PM
$65 materials fee, call to reserve a space.
Points of Interest in Braddock, Pa
Posted April 3, 2008 by mary_tremonte in Events
Points of Interest is a public art project instigated by Justseeds member Swoon & her cohorts in Braddock Active Arts in Braddock, Pa (a steel town just outside of Pittsburgh). Justseeds artists Swoon & Mary Tremonte, as well as 10 others, are making site-specific out-stallations at sites selected by Braddock youth.
Public events over the next week include a Swoon lecture at Carnegie Mellon University and Shake Your Money Maker, an all-ages danceparty. Read on for event details.
Indykids
Posted April 3, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Indykids is a project I got really excited about a few years ago, when I was teaching at an after-school program. It can be a really good tool to use in classrooms to discuss current events, general media literacy, and a platform for alternative media.
IndyKids is a free newspaper and teaching tool that aims to inform children on current news and world events from a progressive perspective and to inspire a passion for social justice and learning. It is geared toward kids in grades 4 to 8 and high school English Language Learners. IndyKids is produced five times during the school year.
All the issues are available for download and there are some upcoming events in NYC to note.
Saturday, April 5: Tabling at the “Creating Balance in an Unjust World” math conference in Brooklyn. We’ll talk with educators at the conference and hand out copies of IndyKids.
Monday, April 14: IndyKids brainstorming for the summer ’08 issue at the NYC Incymedia Office, 4 W 43rd St, rm 311
Wednesday, April 23: IndyKids editing meeting 7-9pm at the Indymedia office
Saturday, April 26: Tabling at the Brooklyn Peace Fair in downtown Brooklyn. We’ll talk with fair-goers and hand out copies of IndyKids.
If you're interested in getting involved with any of the above events write to indykids@indymedia.org
Clothesline Benefit Art Sale & Closing at ABC No Rio
Posted April 2, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
The Clothesline Benefit Art Sale & Ides of March Closing
Affordable works on paper, $25 - $50. Much of the work by artists participating in
the current Ides of March Exhibit, including some Justseeds members. Proceeds from this benefit art sale will go towards ABC No Rio's Building Fund.
Friday, April 4th, 7-10pm ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street (btn Clinton & Suffolk)
Viewing hours for the show will be extended that evening to 10:00pm,
so it will be a good opportunity (and the last) to check out the exhibition. If you get the chance head up to the computer center on the third floor and check out our hastily produced installation. It was the first opportunity that "we" as a collective have taken at working together, yet definately not the last. Some folks will be busy this Spring. Chris Stain and Josh Macphee will be collaborating in May, with Billy Mode and the Polaroid Kidd. Justseeds will also be busy this Summer in Pittsburgh, with the Warhol Museum and Philly at Space 1026. we'll keep you posted!
Some photos from Hand Prints show
Posted April 1, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
I just got these photos from the Hand Prints show I was in in Richmond, VA with Klutch, Matthew Adamson and Barrett Gordon. Enjoy!
LA vs. WAR
Posted March 31, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
LA vs. WAR is a huge anti-war show going up in LA next week! It looks to be amazing, so if you are in the area, definitely check it out!
LA vs. WAR
April 10-13 2008
12 noon to 11pm
The Firehouse
710 S. Santa Fe Avenue
Los Angeles CA 90021
Downtown LA
LA vs WAR schedule:
Thursday, April 10, 2008: 12:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Friday, April 11, 2008: 12:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 12, 2008: 12:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 13, 2008: 12:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
LA vs WAR highlights the travesty of a senseless war now going into its 6th year, giving LA artists a platform to exercise their freedom of speech. Hundreds of artists representing our diverse communities unite in delivering a universal message of peace and understanding, and offering resistance and opposition to the US government's war policies.
LA vs WAR highlights:
- Yo! What Happened to Peace?: posters on display from the international touring peace poster exhibition; live anti-war poster screen-printing demos
- Hit+Run: live t-shirt printing featuring custom artwork from the Hit+Run artist network
- Mark of the Beast: display of corporate-jammed logo spoofs
- Crewest Graffiti & Stencil Art Garden: graffiti artist network doing live graffiti and stencil painting
- Center for the Study of Political Graphics: anti-war themed display from America's premier political poster archives
- Artwork Exhibition: handmade creations by independent local artists
- Universal Peace Altar: a memorial to lives lost in the war created by Ofelia Esparza and Shrine
- Peace in Iraq Photo Project by Azul 213: audience participation photo project to promote peace
- Dublab: music selections created by DJs from the web radio collective
- Lost Film Fest hosted by VJ Scott Beibin: film and video celebration of culture jamming and illegal art
- Light installations and projections: interactive entertainment provided by Todd Lazer
AND MORE...
All ages are welcome and admission is free.
EXPRESSION = LIFE: ACT UP, Video and the AIDS Crisis
Posted March 30, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
EXPRESSION = LIFE: ACT UP, Video and the AIDS Crisis
Friday, April 18, 7pm
New York University Cantor Film Center
A rare gathering of veteran members of ACT UP, filmmakers, and media theorists will dissect the history of grass-roots media coordination in America and its role in advancing AIDS activism from the 1980s until today.
A screening of rare news and independent film footage will be the centerpiece of a panel discussion. Speakers will examine the origins of media activism and explore the myriad opportunities for new and alternative communication strategies in a world now dominated by corporate-owned media. Panelists will revisit the early days of ACT UP activism and how the resulting coverage and media strategies contributed to the creation of an underground communications network still in operation today.
The Panelists for the program include:
-John Greyson, award-winning director of numerous films, include Patient Zero. He currently teaches film at York University in Canada.
-Jean Carlomusto, award-winning filmmaker and video artist who co-curated the interactive AIDS archive project AIDS: A Living Archive, for the Museum of the City of New York. She currently teaches film making at Long Island University.
-Jay Blotcher served as media coordinator for the founding chapters of ACT UP and Queer Nation and was co-founder of Public Impact Media Consultants, which provided guerilla publicity for leading progressive, grass-roots organizations.
-Ben Shepard is professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, and the co-editor of From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization.
-Stephen Duncombe is professor of Media Studies at New York University, the editor of Cultural Resistance Reader and Dream: Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy.
Heroes Show
Posted March 27, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
I'm excited to have been invited to be part of a show opening April 4th in Raleigh, NC called Heroes. In many ways the show has a similar form and aspirations to my Celebrate People's History poster series, with dozens of artists representing their "heroes," mostly people that are under-represented in the mainstream, or completely invisible. I've been on a Sacco & Vanzetti kick lately (Italian anarchists given the death penalty by the state of Massachusetts in 1927), so I made a set of stencil and spraypaint assemblages of them with old Boston Red Sox baseball cards.
Here's the info on the show:
Heroes at Lump Gallery
505 S. Blount
Raleigh, NC
Opening Friday April 4th 7-11 pm
on display through April 26
Justseeds Print Show in Troy, NY
Posted March 25, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
For all you upstate NY rockers:
Justseeds Print Show
Kismet Gallery
71 4th St., Troy
Opening Friday, March 28
5-9PM
show runs 3/28-4/22
We'll be hanging 3 or 4 prints by each Justseeds artists, some new work, some oldies and some classics. The last Friday each month in Troy is "Troy Night Out," a weird but fun scene, with lots of local spots having small art events and late hours. Come on down!
Zapatismo In NYC
Posted March 25, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
This week is full of events on Zapatismo.
The Forum on Urban Zapatismo where Movement for Justice in El Barrio will present the NYC film premiere of “NYC Encuentro for Dignity and Against Gentrification”
In October of 2007, people from 26 social justice groups from around the region gathered in the first-ever historic “NYC Encuentro for Dignity and Against Gentrification.” We invited groups from around the city who are fighting against gentrification from the ground up to come share who they are, what problems they face, who or what is their enemy and what are their dream. This film tells the story of what was said.
The event will be held
Wednesday, March 26th 7pm
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
And will also feature Gloria Muñoz Ramírez author of El Fuego y La Palabra, just recently published in English "The Fire and the Word". Gloria lived in Zapatista communities for 7 years, and will speak about the Zapatista resistance and history. Movement for Justice in El Barrio will share some of the ways in which they are inspired by this resistance and organize to achieve autonomy and self-determination by implementing urban Zapatismo here in NYC.
Trouble the Water screening in April
Posted March 22, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
A friend of mine was working on this documentary, on what seemed like forever. Im proud to report that its done and screeningin NYC, in April. Trouble the Water will be screened as part of the programming at the New Directors/New Films Festival a
This astonishingly powerful documentary, at once horrifying and exhilarating, won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at this year's Sundance. Two weeks after Katrina made landfall, New York filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal flew to Louisiana to make a film about soldiers returning from Iraq who were now homeless. But the National Guard closed off access. Just when the filmmakers were ready to disband their crew, Kim and Scott Roberts, streetwise and indomitable, introduced themselves. Kim had bought a camcorder the day before the hurricane, and using it for the first time, she captured the devastation and its pathetic aftermath, including the selfless rescue of neighbors and the appalling failure of government. The strong center of Trouble The Water, though, are the Roberts themselves who, says Deal, "survived all the storms of their lives not because they were lucky, but because they had intelligence, guts, and the kind of hope that is based in will rather than experience."
Tickets are on sale at MoMA and the Walter Reade Theater box office as well as at the Film Society's Website.
Trouble the Water
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, US, 2007; 90m
Thu Apr 3: 6:15pm (MoMA)
Sun Apr 6: 4:30pm (WRT)
Justseeds at SF Anarchist Bookfair
Posted March 21, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Roger, Mary and Josh will be tabling for Justseeds at the San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair this weekend. If you are in the area, come by and say "Hello!"
13th Annual San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair
Saturday, March 22nd, 10am -6pm
Sunday, March 23rd, 11am - 5pm
SF County Fair Building
Golden Gate Park, 9th Avenue & Lincoln Way, San Francisco, CA
The event is free
presented by Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore
artwork by Hugh D'Andrade
"Feral" Installation Opens Friday 3-21
Posted March 20, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds member Swoon has been working in San Francisco with Monica Canilao on an installation titled "Feral"
“Feral,” a new installation at the luggage store, the collaborative team of Canilao and Swoon, use their practice of portraiture and building immersive environments to stitch together a scene populated by wicked women and feral girls.
“the baba yaga waits for you at the center of the wood. the two from which they fell. the edges come apart. the center goes astray. the safety and routine of domesticity are no longer able to confine or describe a fitting existence, and sometimes one just walks out of this life and into another.” (Swoon)
Using wood, paper, paint and found materials, Canilao and Swoon will create a map of a world that builds itself --just that side of the fringes.
The Luggage Store, 1007 Market Street (nr. 6th St.)
San Francisco, CA
The show opens Friday, March 21, 6-8pm
and runs thru April 26
The gallery is open for viewing Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5pm
Where Have You Been?
Posted March 18, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
This months installment of Jeff Stark's "Where Have You Been?" is happening tomorrow night, Wednesday March 19th, in NYC.
Stories about travel and far-away places. New Yorkers go all over the world but the city has a way of swallowing their homecomings. Orbit the earth and your friends just ask if you missed the pizza.This homespun live talk show offers a chance for travelers to tell
stories, to bring the world home and share it with the rest of us
travelers as well as those of us who don't get out much.
This month features interviews with three intrepids, Bluestockings Collective member Brooke Lehman on Panama, Arone Dyer of Bikeworks on building bikes in Ghana, and Kevin Caplicki and Todd Chandler on hard traveling in the midwest.
Yup, Justseeds member, kevin, will hopefully intrigue the crowd with the typical and always talked about topics of most travel punks, hitchiking, hoppin frieghts, and the ups and downs of traveling when you fly by the seat of your pants. Come out to,
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street, Manhattan
7-8:30p
and check out my favorite NYC event!
Oaxaca Resiste!: Print show in Madison, WI. March 27-April 6
Posted March 16, 2008 by nicolas_lampert in Posters & Prints
If your in Madison, Wisconsin in late March, check out a show at the Common Wealth Gallery on the Oaxaca teachers strike uprising. The show features woodcut prints, stencil art posters, photos, and comics.
MARCH 27-APRIL 6, 2008
ASARO (Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca)
& Local Artists Ana Nimos • Steve Chapell • Lester Doré- Michael Duffy • Eric Hagstrom • Miguel Peña & Others
Sunday March 30 • 7-9 PM: Opening Reception
Music by Son Madunza
Tuesday April 1 • 7 PM : Mexican Revolutionary Graphic Art from Posada to the present Gallery Talk by Melanie Herzog, Professor of Art History, Edgewood College
Thursday April 3 • 7PM: New Jill Friedberg documentary Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A little bit of so much truth) on people’s takeover of Oaxacan media
Common Wealth Gallery • 100 S. Baldwin St. • Madison, Wisconsin
Ides of March exhibit at ABC No Rio
Posted March 11, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
ABC No Rio holds its 5th biannual Ides of March, building-wide exhibit. Work is contributed by collectives and artists collaborating. Some justseeds artists got together the last two days to install some work in ABC's computer center.
Opens Friday March 14 at 7:00pm
artcodex; Broadthinking; Collective Gesture; Endless Love Crew;
E.Y.E. (Erase Your Ego); Flux Factory; The G-77; Genefree; it/EQ;
JustSeeds/Visual Resistance; Mail/Art Global Collaborative; Perfect8;
Ridge Street Gallery; Subject To Change; Three Wise Goats;
Bartolomeu, Catbagan, Dunne, Ksel & Horton; Berenbaum, Ciarleglio &
Haske; Cueva & Wells; Fernando, Tiscareno & Doskow; Hair & Illjes;
Harrah & Kipp; Kokoronis, Heller & Weeks; Kretschmar, Brown & Mayton;
Liz-N-Val; Matles & Baracz; Mcgill & Harrington; Mcternan &
Goldstine; Porter, Bautista & Suma; Shepperson, Stein & Radford.
VIDEO: Shit TV; Dara Greenwald, et al.
PERFORMANCE:
March 14: The Friendly Falcons (10:00pm)
March 21: Zuvuya Collective (8:00pm & 10:00pm)
RSVP for either 8:00 or 10:00pm performance to zcollective@gmail.com
ABC No Rio 156 Rivington Street NYC 10002
Experiencing the War in Iraq Show Opens! in Providence, RI
Posted March 6, 2008 by meredith_stern in Events
Mar 6: 6:00 to 8:00pm: Private Viewing for Patrons at Machines With Magnets
Mar 7: 6:00 to 9:00pm: Opening night reception at Pawtucket venues, with music performances from 9 to midnight at Machines with Magnets, Featuring: Black Pus, Baba Yaba, and Riders Against the Storm
Mar 9: 3:30 to 5:00pm: Panel Discussion with artists Krista Caballero, Alan Tracy, and Dan Wood. AS220
Mar 19: 5:00 to 7:00pm: Anniversary of start of the War reception with music at MWM & Arts Exchange
7pm candlelight procession to Visitors Center plaza for actions
7:30 in Slater Mill Theatre: performance by Kenny Carnes. WORD! leads off with Phil Kaye, Franny Choi, Sarah Kay & Amina Massey
Mar 20 : Trolleys from Providence Gallery Night
Mar 27: 7:00pm: Closing reception with presentation by spoken word artists and Scott Ewing in Slater Mill Theatre
Mar 30: Last day in Pawtucket
Mar 31: 9:30 pm: Video screening at Cable Car Cinema
Apr 5: Show installed at the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River
Apr 10: Opening reception with performance by Haale
May 3: Last day in Fall River
Hand Prints Opening
Posted March 6, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
For anyone in or around Richmond, VA, I'm in a show opening this weekend at the Ghostprint Gallery. Here's the info:
Hand Prints
Matthew Adamson, Barrett Gordon, Klutch, and Josh MacPhee
Opening March 7th (through 3/29)
Ghostprint Gallery
220 West Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23220
The Dirt Palace at PS1
Posted March 6, 2008 by meredith_stern in Events
Hey Everybody! If you happen to be in New York Friday March 14 come over to P.S.1!
The Dirt Palace will be performing a play as a part of a program called "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution."
The after party will be featuring DJs Mery-Def, Ivanna b, and Jazzy Jexxx.
Check the link here:
P.S.1 MoMA
talk20: Philadelphia
Posted March 5, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
If you are in Philadelphia Thursday night (tomorrow), then check out talk20, with Justseeds' very own Erik Ruin! talk20 is a giant dialogue/discussion/hang out with a dozen Philadelphia artists and educators who will all do short presentations, there will be food, and DJs.
Other than Erik, these folks will also be presenting: Theodore Harris, Aaron Levy, Fence Kitchen, Gary Yucker, Justin Staller (from Space 1026), Matthias Hollwich & Marc Kushner, Andy Schlatter, Mark Yim, Steve Tucker, Walter Palmer, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, and Lindsay Bremner.
Seems like a good time.
March 6th, 6pm
Philly ICA, 118 South 36th St.
Peaceline Panorama
Posted March 3, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
This just in:
Peaceline Panorama: Recent Photographs by Frankie Quinn
March 5 – 29th, 2008
Opening Reception, Wednesday, March 5, 6:30 – 8:00PM
The Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10041
www.brechtforum.org
The Brecht Forum are pleased to present this exhibition of recent photos by Belfast photographer Frankie Quinn. Taken over the last five years, these photographs document life along the 48 walls and barriers, known as 'Peacelines', that divide the city of Belfast in the north of Ireland. The walls, many of which were constructed at the height of the recent conflict by the British Government, were initially conceived of as a temporary measure to separate communities divided along political and religious lines and to control mobility within the insurgent nationalist community. Far from being a temporary measure, the walls have increased in number and in height over the years, forming a network of enclaves, ghettos and deeply divided communities across the city. This exhibition of photos testifies that despite the developments of the recent peace process, the continued presence of these fault-lines ensure that Belfast remains a divided and segregated city.
Frankie Quinn has been a photographer for the past 25 years. His interest in documentary photography developed as a result of his involvement with the MacAirt Camera Club in East Belfast. Since 1983 his work has been exhibited extensively both at home and abroad. His work has also appeared in numerous local publications including 'Falls in Focus' published by the Falls Community Center (1987) and 'Shoot Belfast' (1986), a guide for amateur photographers which was funded by the Northern Ireland Arts Council. His work has also appeared n the book 'Garvaghy Road: A Community Under Siege' (1999). He was a founding member of the Belfast Exposed Community Photography Resource Center. He lives and works in Belfast, Ireland.
Wear Orange Day
Posted March 3, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Tuesday March 11th is Wear Orange Day in San Francisco, where the art group Plain Human is inviting anyone concerned with the conditions in jails and prisons to wear orange in order to publicly represent incarceration (prisoners are often made to wear orange jumpsuits...). This is an activity which is part of the Prison Project of Intersection for the Arts, a socially-conscious and community -based gallery in SF.
Here's the schedule for the day:
-Public Art & Gathering Events: 11am - 2pm at various in SF [Locations of activities for this day will be available in this website and at The Intersection for the Arts]
-Participatory Performance-Physical Exercise: 3:30 – 4:30pm at the Civic Center lawn, San Francisco
-Reception: 5 - 6pm at Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia Street, San Francisco CA 94103
Outside/Inside Stencil Show
Posted February 27, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Justseeds member Chris Stain, as well as old time friends and acquaintances Amy Rice and Logan Hicks, are in a show opening up in LA on Saturday. Here's the data:
OUTSIDE/INSIDE
Stencil art from around the world featuring Adam5100, Adam Koukoudakis, Amy Rice, Brian Jones, C215, Chris Stain, Dotmasters, HaHa, Hush, Jef Aerosol, Kaleb, Logan Hicks, M-City, Mantis, Martin Whatson, Pam Glew, Rene Gagnon, Skran and a few special guests!
March 1 - March 16, 2008
Opening: Saturday, March 1, 2008, 8 pm - 12 am
Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
1257 N. La Brea Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90038
(SW corner of La Brea and Fountain)
For more information about the artists view the press release.
The gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday 2pm to 7pm
Contact Carmichael by email or call 323.969.0600 for more information.
A World Beyond Capitalism
Posted February 23, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
This is not until the fall, but looks like it might be promising. A World Beyond Capitalism Conference in Olympia, WA in October 2008. It looks like this year will be their fourth year of running the conference, might be cool for folks in the Pacific Northwest to check out. They also have a blog with some interesting info.
Free Culture Camp
Posted February 22, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Our friends Rum46 in Denmark are putting on a Free Culture Camp in a week on February 28th-March 1st. The event looks like it'll be a great weekend, and includes the following artists and groups: Sine Bang (DK), Kayle Brandon (UK), Kristine Briede (Let), Adams og Itso (S), Field Work (DK), Groupwork / studerende fra Det Jyske Kunstakademi (DK), Andreas Wegner (D/AUS), Henrik Moltke (DK), Amy Balkin (US), YNKB (DK). More information is on the Rum46 website, and here is a great quote about the Camp:
The culture that we all create should not be owned or privatized by corporations. We will produce with lust for life and dance on the graves of the bloodsuckers of the creative class and the experience economy. Free Culture is a 3 day camp in Rum46 followed by an exhibition. Events and talks will be mixed with performance, production and group works. It will be a live-in environment for cultural production, and exchange between academics, artists, social movements and a participating audience. Welcome!
YNKB, who hosted Icky and I when we were in Copenhagen, are doing a workshop at the camp:
YNKB Repair Workshop
Do you have anything to repair? A chair with loose joints? A bike in need of care? Clothes that can be changed into something else? A broken vase that can be glued? Or furniture, a baby carriage that can easily be repaired?
Through reuse and repair, commodities that we are fond of can be renewed. This is a way of giving mass-produced commodities value, another meaning and a new aesthetic, which did not exist before they are worked on anew as individual objects. At the same time an alternative economic structure is created, which differs from (the buy-and-throw-away culture (?) that consumerism advocates.
Come and repair your broken items and spend a nice day together with others. You are also welcome even if you have nothing to repair. You can stay and help others make reparations. The repaired items will be photographed for documentation. You can also make reparations at home, of things or places that are not movable. If you take a photo and send it to us, it can be part of the archive.
Have a look at website: www.ynkb.dk under activities 2007 and "reparation workshops."
PhD Fellowship in Anarchist Studies
Posted February 20, 2008 by dylanminer in Events
The Department of Politics, International Relations & European Studies at
Loughborough University (GB) invites applications for a fully-funded
Faculty Studentship to undertake doctoral research from October 2008 in
any area related to the Department's research interests.
Dr Ruth Kinna and Dr Dave Berry would like to hear from anyone interested
in studying for a PhD in any area related to anarchist history, politics
or theory.
Ruth Kinna is a Senior Lecturer in Politics. She has published notably on
William Morris and Peter Kropotkin, and is the author of 'Anarchism: A
Beginner's Guide' (Oneworld, 2005); she is the editor of the journal
'Anarchist Studies' and is a founder member and convenor of the Anarchist
Studies Network (Specialist Group for the Study of Anarchism within the
Political Studies Association - http://www.sgsa.org.uk/HomePage).
Dave Berry is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary European History. He has
published primarily on the French anarchist movement, the contemporary
alternative left in France and on Daniel Guérin. He is the author of 'A
History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917-1945' (Greenwood Press,
2002); he is an associate editor and reviews editor of 'Anarchist Studies'
and is also a founder member of the Anarchist Studies Network.
There are currently four PhD students in the Dept. working on aspects of
anarchism: Alex Prichard (secretary of the ASN/SGSA) working on
'Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's International Politics'; Saku Pinta, who is
working on 'Convergences and Divergences between Anarchism and Marxism';
Sureyyya Turkeli (treasurer of the ASN/SGSA) working on histories of
anarchism and post anarchism; and Matt Wilson working on anarchist ethics.
If you would like to discuss a possible research project informally,
please e-mail Ruth (r.e.kinna@lboro.ac.uk) or Dave
(d.g.berry@lboro.ac.uk).
The Department is a multidisciplinary one, and relatively small, with
about 15 academic staff and 20-25 PhD students. We pride ourselves on the
friendly, informal atmosphere in the department and on the facilities
provided for postgrads, all of whom at present have office space and a PC.
The studentships include (i) a maintenance grant of approx. £10,500 per
annum for three years; and (ii) fees at the EU/UK rate for three years.
Unfortunately, the Faculty Studentship is only open to UK/EU citizens.
Please note that the criteria for determining your fee status are not
based simply on nationality, but also involve residency - for details
please see
here:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/ar/funding/international/status/index.htm
For further information about the Department see:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eu/studying/research/index.html
For more general information about postgraduate research at LU, how to
apply, etc, see the Research Student Office web pages here:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/ar/rso/index.htm
Dr David Berry,
Department of Politics, International Relations & European Studies,
Loughborough University, LE113TU, GB
+44-(0)1509-222988
Co-ordinator, Postgraduate Research
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/eu/studying/research/index.html
University & College Union, Loughborough University Branch
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/orgs/laut/index.html
Association des Amis de Daniel Guérin
http://www.danielguerin.info/tiki-index.php
Reviews Editor, Anarchist Studies
http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/anarchiststudies/contents.html
Anarchist Studies Network
http://www.anarchist-studies-network.org.uk/SGSA
Protest, Pink Bloque, Feminist Art at PS1
Posted February 20, 2008 by dara_g in Events
This Sunday February 24, 2008 at PS 1 there will be a panel called Protest and Survive at 2pm and a workshop that I will be part of called Pink Bloque Revisited at 4pm
PINK BLOQUE MEMBERS RE-UNITE TO PRESENT AT WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution AT PS1 MOMA
Please join members of the Pink Bloque this Sunday at 4pm as they reflect on their booty-shaking tactics, celebrate the histories of feminist street performance and creative resistance, and look toward the future of engaged feminist cultures! Presentation followed by interactive discussion.
Sunday February 24
2pm Protest and Survive: The Legacy of Collective Action with panelists Marlene McCarty & John Lindell (Gran Fury), Joyce Kozloff (Artists Against the War), Doug Ashford (Group Material), Eugenie Tsai (Godzilla). Moderated by Carey Lovelace. Co-presented by P.S.1 and The Museum of Modern Art's Feminist Future Series, made possible by The Modern Women's Fund.
4pm Pink Bloque Revisited, an interactive workshop with re-united members of the radical Chicago street dance troupe.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
T: 718.784.2084
All Presentations on the 3rd Floor
Where Have You Been?
Posted February 18, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
My favorite event in NYC is coming up this Wednesday!
Its not a art-theme party of ridiculous proportions, not a yearly shopping cart race, nor a dumpstered meal cooked by friendly folks and served for donations.
When I was a kid all I wanted to do was travel when I finished High School. I became very successful. I would circulate around the continent aevery few months in a seasonal cycle for years. Now even though I tell myself im settled, I've had 4 apartments in the first 2 years of living in Brooklyn. (I'm on number 5) I never found the best way to share my experiences with other people. No slick zine, slideshow, or lecture to share with my friends. Now there is Where Have you Been?
Where Have You Been is an event hosted by Jeff Stark, creator of the NonsenseNYC events list, he interviews three people about "travel, adventure, and activism in front of a curious audience." The travel stories have varied from freighthopping adventures across the USA to direct actions at the base camp of Mt Everest.
I started the show in 2006 because I wanted a place to share stories about what happens in the rest of the world. New York has a way of swallowing homecomings. We are a notoriously self-interested city; circle the globe and your friends just tell you what you missed. This show is a forum for intrepids to bring the world home and share it with the rest of us — travelers as well as those of us who don’t get out much.
Whenever I'm in town for this monthly event I'm always entertained. Most presentations are humorous and all that I've attended have exposed me to perspectives. How else am I going to know what the Hajj is like for a queer muslim from the States, or that there is a program in the UN to map natural disaster areas?
One of my favorites was learning about Ethnobotany, the study of the relationship between plants and people, from Nat Bletters. He recounted a trip to Peru where he researched local herbs and created an audio book to preserve the indigenous knowledge.
I have always found opportunities to engage more with the presenters in Q&A and potential future exchanges. Nat pointed me in the direction of some good books about the histories of vegetables, and Leonardo may post photographs of Venezuelan Murals here on the Justseeds blog!
The next Where Have You Been? is this Wednesday, February 20th 7-8:30pm
It will feature interviews with three intrepids: Jef Wolfy Scharf
investigates the toilets of Europe, Ida Benedetto and Tim Kantz team up with fair trade coffee farmers in Western Guatemala, and Anastasia Andino palled around Thailand with a monkey. Bonus: slides from a pauper’s cemetery in New Orleans.
Bluestockings Bookstore
172 Allen Street, Manhattan
$5 sug donation
Some of the presentations have been audio-recorded, and available online. this is an aspect I wish would continue. I wish I could check out the ones I missed.
Drown Your Boats
Posted February 14, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
Justseeds member Swoon has an opening Saturday, Feb 16th (7 - 10pm) in Los Angeles at New Image Art.
New Image Art is pleased to announce the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by SWOON, "Drown Your Boats." Partially inspired by Angela Carter's "Burning Your Boats," this show, and much of SWOON's work is not only a momentary glimpse in contemporary life; her work speaks of tales, legends, and variations on mythic themes, sparked by great vitality, inventiveness, and a deeply macabre imagination. For this exhibition SWOON will be executing a canoe as her central installation piece that will later become part of a Deitch Projects show this Fall.
New Image Art
7908 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
(323) 654-2192
New Image Art
Photo taken by Ashira
Art from Inside: Paintings by Political Prisoner Tom Manning
Posted February 12, 2008 by erik_ruin in Art & Politics
Just got this email from the Foglight Collective (formerly known as the People's Free Space) in Portland, ME. They're holding an online auction of original paintings by political prisoner Tom Manning.
Check it out-
The Portland Victory Gardens Project and Foglight Collective are holding a silent auction for Art from Inside to benefit four groups: the Jericho Movement (National), Foglight Collective (Portland, ME), Blackbird Legal Collective (Portland, ME), and Kellogg St. Girls Medicinal Herb Class (Portland, ME). Some paintings sales also benefit the Rosenberg Fund for Children.
For a complete listing of paintings go to: www.cantjailthespirit.org
For more information about Art from Inside visit: http://cantjailthespirit.org/about/art-from-the-inside.html
To bid on a painting send your maximum bid amount, address, phone number and email to artfrominside@yahoo.com
Feature Event for Art From Inside: SCAR's Legacy: Art and Activism in Portland 1972-2008. Feb 15, 7PM (doors open at 6PM) with speakers Ray Luc Levasseur and Daniel Chard, and music by Mark Otim and Chris Teret at the Meg Perry Center at 644 Congress St. in Portland, Maine
The auction will end on February 15th at 8pm EST. We are also conducting an in-person auction at the Meg Perry Center at 644 Congress St. in Portland, ME.. The highest bidder (either online or in person) will win the auction.
Movement for Justice in El Barrio Presents: a Forum and Movie Premiere
Posted February 12, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Movement for Justice in El Barrio invites you to learn more about the escalating low intesity warfare being waged by the Mexican government against the Zapatista communities: the brutal displacement, death threats and incarceration. Currently there are 79 military bases in Chiapas and paramilitary groups are threatening Zapatista families.Our Special guest Ernesto Ledesma from the Chiapas based Center of Political Analysis and Social Economic Investigation (CAPISE) will share with us how the main three Mexican political parties (PAN, PRD, and PRI) attempt to displace the Zapatistas from their land.
We will also present the New York premiere of "One Big Train Called The Other Campaign", a new documentary filmed by the Zapatista communities on the the Zapatista initiated Mexican movement.
Monday, February 18th @ 7 pm
New York University's KJC Center
53 Washington Square South, Suite 201
Manhattan, NY
Beehive Collective is Searching for New Worker Bees
Posted February 11, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Just got this in the inbox, the Beehive Collective is looking for people to join their new campaigns:
In anticipation of our most exciting and busy year to date, featuring the launch of two new graphics campaigns, our swarm of eleven is in need of five more workers. We are currently seeking a few passionate and committed organizers, educators, and artists to join us full-time in Maine, at satellite Hive locations, and on the road, beginning as soon as possible.
Please pass this note on to others who might be interested!
Current Positions Available:
- Archivist/Documentarian (Mountaintop Removal Mining campaign)
- Graphics Campaign Coordinator (Mesoamerica Resiste)
- Education Coordinator (Mountaintop Removal Mining campaign)
- Illustration Collaborator (pen & ink, Mountaintop Removal Mining campaign)
- Distribution, Networking & “Pollination” Coordinator (core Hive position)
Detailed descriptions at www.beehivecollective.org
Activity book benefit at teen center in Ann Arbor
Posted February 10, 2008 by bec_young in Events
Last week I did a short shadow puppet show at The Neutral Zone as part of a benefit for the Mott Active Book, an activity book for hospitalized teens. According to their website, the Neutral Zone is "a diverse, youth-driven teen center dedicated to promoting personal growth through artistic expression, community leadership and the exchange of ideas."
I was really impressed with, and a bit jealous of, this haven for young people in liberal Ann Arbor. In addition to a cafe and computer lab where teens are invited to come and chill at any time, there is an amazing range of programs offered. The two most developed programs filled the rooms on either side of the huge room that serves as a concert hall, complete with stage, sound system, and of course, pool tables. Those rooms contained a fully functional recording studio and a silkscreen lab.
In addition to the puppet show, folks were entertained by music from LS Banjo and Ghostly DJ's Michael Dykehouse and Tadd Mullinex. There was also a reading by Davy Rothbart of Found Magazine, which orginates in Ann Arbor. Found is a neat magazine full of reprints of items found on the ground by strangers, a motly collection of passive voyeurism. I was pleased to perform in the same show as Davy, who by sheer coincidence was my high school basketball coach.
Profits from the event benfitted the Mott Active Book, a project of Anne Phillips of Mott Hospital. Anne told me, "The Mott Active Book was created with hopes to inspire hospitalized teens and give them a creative outlet to cope with their hospitalization. The book provides a variety of different activities that stretch the imagination, teach, and introduce funky-fresh ideas."
The puppet show was a last minute collaboration and a visual representation of the Kate Bush song Sat in Your Lap: "I see the people working and see it working for them and so I want to join in but then I find it hurts me. Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap, some say that knowledge is something that you never have. I see the people happy so can it happen for me? 'Cos when I have no energy there's nothing that can move me." I guess it's fitting that these are themes I've been exploring ever since I, too, was a teen in Ann Arbor with big ideas.
People and Buildings: Food Groups with Amy Franceschini and Michael Hurwitz
Posted February 9, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
An interesting event for those in NYC area. The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) consistently puts on interesting events and does interesting projects:
People and Buildings: Food Groups with Amy Franceschini and Michael Hurwitz
The Center for Urban Pedagogy is pleased to present two major food groups in a conversation about urban agriculture. The live talk show will feature Amy Franceschini, founder of the San Francisco-based design collective Futurefarmers, and Michael Hurwitz, director of New York's Greenmarket program and co-founder of Added Value. Moderated by Habana Outpost's Kate Zidar, the program will address the challenges of sowing vegetables in the urban fabric.
Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator who works with notions of community, sustainability, and the perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her websites, installations, open-access laboratories, and educational formats collectively question or challenge the social, political and economic systems we live in. Michael Hurwitz is the Executive Director of New York City's Greenmarket program. Greenmarket has organized and managed open-air farmers markets in New York City since 1976. He is also a co-founder of Added Value, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting ecological awareness in New York City youth through urban farming. Kate Zidar is an environmental planner and master composter. In addition to working for Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice in the Bronx and teaching at the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment at Pratt Institute, she is a gardener and designer for Habana Outpost, New York City's first "eco-eatery."
Food Groups
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 7 pm
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street (between Prince and Houston)
R/W to Prince Street, B/D/F/V to Broadway-Lafayette, 6 to Bleecker Street
New York, NY
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, please RSVP to info@anothercupdevelopment.org
Reclaiming Equality and the Possibility of Political Action
Posted February 8, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
Reclaiming Equality and the Possibility of Political Action
with Todd May
Saturday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m.
New Community Church, 614 S St. NW Washington, DC
(directly across from the Howard University exit of the Shaw/Howard Metro, green line)
Co-hosted by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the National Conference on Organized Resistance
How might we think about politics and political action in this period of political despair? One way is to consider political action--at least democratic political action--as collective action out of the presupposition of equality. We'll discuss what this means, how it works, and where we find it in our world.
For those unfamiliar with him, Todd is probably best known (in our circles) for his text The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism, but is also widely known for works on the philosophy of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and more recently Jaques Ranciere. This weekend's discussion will be focused on what Ranciere offers in the way of reclaiming equality from the liberal tradition, in favor of a more radical application in collective political action, and what that might look like on the ground, in ongoing social movements.
Free, but donations are welcome!
This talk celebrates a second year of IAS collaboration on the NCOR Radical Theory Track. Bring your friends, lovers, family, and fellow workers to support the work of the IAS and NCOR.
For more info, e-mail: joshua@anarchiststudies.org
PICK UP THE MIC, BREAK DOWN THE WALLS!
Posted February 8, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
I'm full of events for y'all lately!
There is an incredible Hip-Hop show as the closing event for the Israeli Apartheid Week,
Sunday, February 10th
at Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St.
8:30 Poetry--Remi Kanazi, Climbing Poetree
9:30 Live Hip Hop-Sabreena Da Witch (Abeer),Invincible, Rebel Diaz
With DJ OJA spinning against apartheid all night!
Invincible is a really amazing artist/activist out of Detroit.
She is a politically conscious hip hop artist that organizes with Detroit Summer, doing youth organizing, and helps put together the Allied Media Conference. I was fortunate enough to see her perform at the 2007 AMC and encourage you to check her out, at the show or online.
The other folks I wanted to highlight are two people that I've wanted to write about for years. Alixa & Naima of Climbing Poetree have given some of the most intense performances and poetry I have experienced. They have made me cry and sent tingles down my spine with the words they use and the themes they write about. Their work ranges in topic from Neoliberal Policies to incarceration in the USA to love, all over an umbrella of struggle. These girls inspire me fully and I hope you too. They are embarking on a tour called Hurricane Season, that will kick off on the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, later this year. They are looking for help in organizing events and financial support. If you are interested and capable check out their website Climbing Poetree or watch their promo video to find out the details!
"Dolores" Las lagrimas y las rosas
Posted February 7, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
I was just pointing out recently there's a really incredible Chilean artist, Basco-Vasco that I am really inspired by. I just realized after looking at his blog that he has an opening in
Portland,
TONIGHT, Feb 7th. At
524PDX Gallery
23NW 5th Ave
6-9:30pm
His characters are very unique which makes him stand out amidst the aerosol pieces and stencils all around Santiago. His ink drawings and collage are really accessible and interesting and make me reach for my pen. I wish I were in the PNW so I could drop by, but hopefully have encouraged my Justseeds collaborators to check out the show.
Israeli Apartheid Week
Posted February 6, 2008 by k_c_ in Events
A week of events kicked off on Monday, around the world, calling attention to the 60th anniversary of Al Nakba, or "disaster". Known as the "disaster", to Palestinians, because the civil war and declaration of Israel's statehood began an enormous exodus of Palestinians from their homes. This weeks events hope to be a reminder of the struggle against the Israeli state.
Israeli Apartheid Week(IAW) is an international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe. IAW will be running for the fourth consecutive year in 2008, with events taking place between the 3rd and 11th of February in the USA, Canada and Palestine. The aim of IAW is to contribute to the of international opposition to Israeli apartheid and to bolster support for the BDS(sanctions on Israel) campaign in accordance with the demands outlined in the July 2005 Statement: full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, an end to the occupation and colonization of all Arab lands – including the Golan Heights, the Occupied West Bank with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip – and dismantling the Wall, and the protection of Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in U.N. resolution 194.
In most cities there are films, lectures, discussions, musical events, teach-ins, and demos planned. You can take a look at the schedule for NYC here..
Allied Media Conference
Posted February 1, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
It seems early, but the crew at Allied Media in Detroit are already gearing up for their 10th annual conference. It's going to be June 20-22, and a bunch of the Justseeds coop will be there. They've launched a new website, and if you have any interest in independent media, check it out. Here's what they have to say:
The 10th annual Allied Media Conference is a milestone for independent media. Over the last ten years, we've broken silence and built movements. We've become the media and built our own communications tools. Now we want to use this gathering to project ourselves another ten years into the future.Amidst the threats we face as indivuduals and organizations, our survival is cause for celebration. The AMC provides the opportunity for us to celebrate and strategize as a community around common problems: how can we sustain ourselves and our organizations financially without getting caught up in commercialism or the nonprofit industry? How will ensure there are people to do this work well into the future? What kind of future are we working towards and what role will our media play in shaping it?
Now rooted in Detroit, we continue to look to sustainability strategies growing from within the current disaster caused by militarism, systematic oppression, failing schools, and the growing planetary emergency. That is where we find people, out of necessity, using media as part of solutions to the problems many more of us will soon face. The AMC is a laboratory and a showcase for these innovations.
Since 1999, the AMC has brought together students, journalists, artists, educators and activists to push the boundaries of participatory media. We are intergenerational with a focus on youth. We all share in the teaching and learning of practical skills for making media and using media to organize for change. This June, we'll come together to share tactics for living in the world that is and for shaping the world that we want. Please join us.
Gustave Courbet retrospective at the Met
Posted January 31, 2008 by ryan in Events
Next month the Metropolitan Museum in New York will present the first American retrospective on the art of Gustave Courbet in over 30 years. Courbet was a quintessential 19th century rebel who pioneered Realism in painting. He often made France's poor and working class citizens his subjects, and his frank depictions of sexuality shocked the genteel art world -- the Emperor physically attacked one such painting with his riding crop.
He was also an avid participant in the Paris Commune, helping topple the Place Vendôme Column and its statue of Napoleon, saying:
Inasmuch as the Vendôme column is a monument devoid of all artistic value, tending to perpetuate by its expression the ideas of war and conquest of the past imperial dynasty, which are reproved by a republican nation's sentiment, citizen Courbet expresses the wish that the National Defense government will authorise him to disassemble this column.
Alan Antliff discusses Courbet's revolutionary politics in his book Anarchy and Art. Proudhon called Courbet's The Stone Breakers (pictured above) the world's first socialist painting. A few years before the Commune, Courbet wrote:
I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty.'
Courbet was arrested shortly after the fall of the Commune, and spent his final years in exile. Anyone interested in the origins of radical art should try to check out the Met's retrospective: it opens February 27, and runs through May 18. See also the New York Review of Books recent review of the exhibition catalog, The Born Rebel Artist.
Stencil Art Show
Posted January 30, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
My old friend Mathew Curran is having a stencil art show down in Raleigh, NC on Feb. 1st. I haven't heard from him in awhile, but last I checked, his stencil skills were quite impressive. If you're in the neighborhood, check it out!
Swoon/Stain/Poloroid Kid Video
Posted January 10, 2008 by jmacphee in Events
A very cool little video about these kids recent show in Paris, check it out here.
Paper Politics at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Posted January 7, 2008 by colin_matthes in Events
Here are a few images from the Paper Politics exhibit in Whitewater, WI (October 18- November 17, 07). I have been working there part time and was consistently blown away by how many people were at the show, taking notes, and spending a lot of time with the work.
I would stop in the gallery a few times a week and there were at least 10-15 people viewing the show at all times.
Paper Politics had such a dramatic impact on a number of the students I spoke with.
3rd Annual Memorial RIde & Walk for People Killed by Cars
Posted January 4, 2008 by k_c_
This Sunday, January 5th, will be the 3rd Annual Memorial Ride & Walk for people that have been killed by cars on the streets of NYC. Many pedestrians and cyclists pass away each year in NYC without any acknowledgment, the ride is to honor the deaths of the people who have died in the last year as a result of accidents with automobiles.
This year's annual memorial ride has three starting locations in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn. If you can't make it to a starting location, please feel free to join us at any stop along the route posted below. If you don't want to ride a bike, there will also be a march across the Brooklyn Bridge to honor all pedestrians killed in 2007. All rides will converge in Williamsburg and then meet the Memorial Walk at City Hall to participate in a 5:00 rally and press conference. See Ghost Bikes for more details.
The tentative schedule is as follows:
New Years Eve in Providence, RI
Posted December 26, 2007 by meredith_stern in Events
(Skull image by Xander Marro)
Merrydef will be a DJ among others this New Years Eve at the Dirt Palace, arts studio space in Providence, Rhode Island. Also come for the Theatre! "The Theatre of the Circle! Starring the Story of the Center!" The debauchery! The artistry! The Dance Competition! The Love!
The Nothing Factory Goes to Baltimore!
Posted December 10, 2007 by erik_ruin in Events
If you're in the Baltimore area this weekend, please come and check out the Nothing Factory, an epic musical shadow theater experience by Erik Ruin, Reid Books, & co., this saturday December 15th at St. John's Church.
Also performing will be Tacky Masks, an all-new configuration of Baltimore improvising veterans, & Wham City comedian Ed Schrader, perfroming "Grad Libs".
The Nothing Factory uses shadow-puppetry, projections, hand-altered slides, giant cardboard puppets, painted banners, dramatic narration & a live avant-punk soundtrack to tell a dystopian allegory, the tale of a fictional world where everybody wanted everything,and noone was happy having nothing.
Story & songs by Reid Books, formerly of West Philly ensembles Greetings from Urbania & International Anthems for Irrational Numbers.
Shadows & sets by Erik Ruin, puppeteer, printmaker & editor of the zine Trouble In Mind & the anthology Realizing the Impossible:Art Against Authority.
Narrative performance by Anissa Weinraub, of Liberty Cabbage Theater's Olive on the Seder Plate.
Live rock soundtrack provided by the unlikely named Aetherial Underpants Orchestra- members of Red Devil and International Anthems for Irrational Numbers banging away subtly on drums, bass, percussive guitar,trumpet & bass clarinet.
Dramatic consultance courtesy of Sarah Lowry of the Missoula Oblongata.
Rachel Budde opening in Brooklyn
Posted December 10, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
Our friend Rachel Budde (formerly one of the most unique street artists in NYC who shall remain unnamed) has a show of new work opening up in Brooklyn on December 16th! If you are in the area, definitely check it out!
Sunday, Dec 16th 7pm
Tillies of Brooklyn
248 DeKalb Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205-4101
Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History
Posted December 4, 2007 by meredith_stern in Events
Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History
Traveling Exhibit! Arriving in New York at CUNY Graduate Center
Opens: December 10th, 6:30 - Recital Hall
To read the article in it's entirety: http://www.friendlyagitate.net/category/art/
This text lifted directly from their website:
The SDS Comic Show, a traveling exhibit drawing upon the book Students for a Democratic Society: a Graphic History, will be open at the CUNY Graduate Center in December. Come see the exhibit and join us for a book signing and panel discussion for Students for a Democratic Society: a Graphic History, scripted by Harvey Pekar and others and edited by Paul Buhle, editor of the 1960s SDS magazine Radical America. Harvey Pekar, real-life star of the award-winning film and the book series American Splendor (and sometime Letterman Show guest), will deliver a talk on comics and politics, followed by a panel including Buhle, former SDS-NY regional officer, Weatherman Jeff Jones, and members of the New SDS.
Release Party for World War 3 Illustrated
Posted December 4, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
One of my all time favorite political art publications, World War 3 Illustrated, is coming out with a new issue! Started in 1981 as a response to Ronald Reagan's aggressive free market ideology and the US' swing to the right, WW3 is a one of a kind publication. For 26 years they've been publishing some of the most compelling political comics and art, and have published some of the most interesting graphic artists at work in world, including Christopher Cardinale (one page of his new comic in WW3 is shown here), Sue Coe, Scott Cunningham, Eric Drooker, Fly, Sabrina Jones, Peter Kuper (who did the cover of the new issue shown here), Mac McGill, Kevin Pyle, Joe Sacco, Nicole Schulman, Chuck Sperry, Seth Tobocman and Anton Van Dalen. When I was in high school I stumbled upon WW3 and it really helped me understand the first gulf war, pulling together great art and radical politics. To this day I think it still think it is one of the few places to regularly see visual artists grapple with the most important political issues in the world. Last issue included some amazing work by Christopher Cardinale and Seth Tobocman on the New Orleans.
Anyway, I'm blabbling and here's the info on the release paty:
World War 3 Illustrated #38
the ‘Facts on the Ground’ issue
Release Party
Friday December 14th, 7:30 pm
at the Time’s Up! space
49 West Houston Street, NYC
Featuring multi-media presentations by:
Fly
Seth Tobocman
Mac McGill
Peter Kuper
Christopher Cardinale
Rebecca Migdal
Penny Allen
with music by the I.E.D.s
admission is free
More info here and here.
Portland Events
Posted December 1, 2007 by icky in Events
Justseeds will be tabling at the Portland Radical Book Fair this Sunday December 2nd, alongside many radical publishers from the Northwest. Portland locals come on down please! It's at Liberty Hall (311 N. Ivy.... near the intersection of Vancouver and Fremont). Also there will be a bunch of Justseeds stuff at Reading Frenzy's Cheap Art Show, Thursday December 6th. Reading Frenzy is at 921 SW Oak, downtown near Burnside and 10th, opens in the evening and the show is up all month.
Behind the Seen
Posted December 1, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
Michael De Feo and Ad Hoc Art (both of whom have been extremely supportive of Justseeds over the past couple years) have put together what looks to be a kick ass street art related show opening Dec. 13th in Bushwick, Brooklyn. If you're in NY, check it out!
Behind the Seen
a group exhibition curated by Michael De Feo
December 13th, 2007 through January 20th, 2008
Opening Reception: December 13th, 7pm-9pm
Assembling a group of well known street artists from around the world, De Feo invited the participants to showcase work they're not typically recognized for. Behind the Seen includes personal projects, works in different mediums or styles and pieces not necessarily intended for view on the streets. The mediums include paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and audio art from 39 artists.
Street artists develop a level of notoriety for their originality, talent and frequency of a style or visual vocabulary. Like most successful artists, they don't limit their creative endeavors to what they're known for.
Behind the Seen goes beyond the familiar to build upon what we already know... providing connections, challenges, and insights to other facets of the artist's oeuvre.
Participating artists include:
Aiko, Blek le Rat, Martha Cooper, Michael De Feo, Elbow Toe, ELC, Shepard Fairey, Ellis G., Eltono, Ron English, Jean Faucheur, John Fekner, Flying Fortress, G, Richard Hambleton, Keith Haring, Maya Hayuk, Jace, Mark Jenkins, Lady Pink, L'Atlas, Don Leicht, Lister, Momo, Caleb Neelon, Nuria, PMP, Lee Quinones, Leon Reid, RIPO, JM Rizzi, She Kills He, Skewville, Ian Stevenson, Judith Supine, Swoon, Thundercut, Tofer and Dan Witz.
Hunting the Now/Cazando el Momento
Posted November 28, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
I just got this announcement, and found out that some really kick-ass artist and thinker friends of mine have formed a group in San Francisco called The Counter Narrative Society (TCNS). Mabel Negrete, Fernando Marti, Fiona Glas and Chris Carlsson are working together as TCNS to collect and divulge stories and histories in innovative and interesting ways. There next project starts December 1st in San Francisco:
As part of the 1st Public Art/Urban Interventions Day called "GROUNDED?" (organized by Southern Exposure and Intersection for the Arts), TCNS are making a public art project on the theme of “Hunting the Now/Cazando el Momento.” It is a bilingual treasure hunt game, intended to divulge unique features of the present social-urban development of Mission and Valencia Streets between Cesar Chavez and Duboce Street. For more than two centuries these two streets have had a long history of various developments contributing to the cultural mixing, segregation, and iniquities exhibiting today. From the Mexican, Central, Latin American to the European, Asian and African American experience, all of these communities have had a major role in shaping the cultural face of both Mission and Valencia streets. In every instance urban developers, landowners and occupants are contributors to their transformations and vestiges of the past, present and future. In search of this epoch, Hunting the Now creates an unusual foundation or ground into how we look at these two streets as we playfully gaze over them in a Saturday Afternoon. The game will launch on Saturday December 1st, 2007 and be distributed through various venues over the month of December.
Defend the SF8
Posted November 26, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
This friday in New York City there is a benefit event in support of the San Francisco 8. The SF8 are eight former Black Panther Party members and active supporters (now ages 56 to 72) who were arrested last January on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. Some of these men faced virtually identical charges almost 35 years ago—charges that were dropped after it was revealed that police torture had extracted the “confessions” used to justify the case.
Now the case is back on, based on the same flawed evidence. The judge has released the 6 bail-eligible defendants on bond, and I was able to see them speak in San Francisco a couple months ago at a benefit event put on for them by Freedom Archives and the San Francisco Print Collective that was also a book release event for Emory Douglas. The SF8 were incredibly humorous, humble, thoughtful and moving to a man, I was very impressed.
Of course I was not able to meet the 2 defendants who are not eligible for bail. They are political prisoners Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim. Both have already served more than 34 years in New York state prisons. This new case charges them again with actions for which they are already serving time.
Former Black Panther Minister of Information and propagandist Emory Douglas is one of many cultural workers that has done a lot to support the SF8. He has created a special poster to raise funds for them, it is intense (and it is the top image in this post). You can buy a silkscreened or offset printed version here and support the struggle.
An Atlas Exhibit & Book Launch
Posted November 24, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
Good friends Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat have been hard at work on a really great project called An Atlas of Radical Cartography. A collection of maps and essays illustrating the intersections of geography, mapping, politics and activism, it is finally coming out! Beyond being politically engaging, it is an amazing book object, a slip case that contains a book of essays and 10 actual full-size fold-out maps dealing with such issues as extraordinary rendition/torture planes, garbage and waste removal, water pathways, borders and surveillance cameras.
Here's a couple shots of the maps:
They will be on display in Chicago starting this weekend:
An Atlas
November 27 2007 – January 19, 2008
Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
OPENING RECEPTION and book launch: Wednesday, November 28, 5-8pm
Gallery talk @ 6:30pm
An Architektur
the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Ashley Hunt
Institute for Applied Autonomy with Site-R
Invisible-5
Pedro Lasch
Lize Mogel
Trevor Paglen & John Emerson
Brooke Singer
the Speculators of AREA Chicago
Jane Tsong
Unnayan
Organized by Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat
An Atlas is a traveling exhibition of artists working with “radical cartography”—a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change. The participating artists, architects, and collectives take on issues from globalization to garbage and explore the map’s role as a political agent. The exhibition and accompanying publication contribute to a growing cultural movement that cuts across boundaries of art, cartography, geography, and activism.
The companion publication, An Atlas of Radical Cartography (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2007) will be available for purchase at the gallery, and available online as of December 1.
Click here for more information and Chicago-area lecture schedule.
And finally there will a New York City book launch at Bluestockings Books on 172 Allen St. on December 6th.
The Production Unit's The Long Distance Runner
Posted November 19, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
The Celebrate People's History posters are included in a new exhibition organized by The Production Unit called The Long Distance Runner. The show is at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning in Copenhagen, Denmark. If you are in Denmark, definitely check it out, they are deeply influenced by one of my favorite filmmakers, Peter Watkins.
Here's some info on the show from the curators:
The Production Unit is a network of artists from Sweden and Denmark working with narrative experiments, the construction of history and media critique. The exhibition at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning will be the first public presentation of their archive THE The Long Distance Runner, which includes both collaborative and individual projects as well as works by a number of other international artists. The show is part of Den Frie Udstillingsbygning’s focus on self-organisation and collectivism and gives an example of how a group of younger artists works collaboratively across languages and nationalities. The artists of The Production Unit are Petra Bauer, Nanna Debois Buhl, Kajsa Dahlberg, Sara Jordenö, Conny Karlsson, Runo Lagomarsino and Ditte Lyngkjær Pedersen.
The Long Distance Runner is comprised of projects, which in various ways discuss current political and cultural questions as well as historical events. The different parts constitute a series of discussions related to communities and publics with emphasis on questions concerning nationality, identity and language. The material varies in form covering video installations, poster projects, sound-based work, photography and various publications produced by the members of the group and artists as Josh MacPhee, Carlos Motta, Jenny Perlin, Hito Steyerl and Ylva Westerlund.
A central part of the presentation of The Long Distance Runner is Peter Watkins film La Commune from 1999. Through its’ controversial form the film challenges prevailing notions of documentary film experimenting with an unconventional way of discussing the historical event of the Paris Commune in 1871 and the relationship between subject, community and revolutionary action.
The exhibition is open daily from 10am to 5pm Thursday 10am to 9pm
Free guided tours Saturday and Sunday at 3pm
Den Frie Udstillingsbygning
Oslo Plads
DK-2100 København Ø
Tlf. +45 3312 2803
www.denfrie.dk
Unmarketable
Posted November 13, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
For everyone in New York City:
I've been invited to give a short presentation along with trouble-making artist extraordinare Steve Lambert as part of Anne Elizabeth Moore's Unmarketable book release event. Here's the details:
Sponsorships got you down? Lackluster branding no longer giving you the thrill it once did? Psyched to join the revolution . . . the shopping revolution? Did the murky stench of corporate advertising upset the partygoers at your last soiree? Confused about which big business best correlates with your lifestyle? Can't get rid of those greasy stains since that last meeting with the major label A&R rep? Want to sell out, but not quite sure where to turn?
Well, the good people behind Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity can help: Just attend this focus group now forming in your area. Also, be sure not to miss our exciting co-promotional opportunities listed below.
7 p.m. November 14
Brooklyn, NY
Ad Hoc Arts
49 Bogart Street Unit 1G, Buzzer 22
http://adhocart.org)
Slide talk with guest presenters Steve Lambert, Josh MacPhee
Swoon/Chris Stain/The Polaroid Kidd exposition
Posted November 8, 2007 by k_c_ in Events
Two Justseeds members, Swoon and Stain, have an opening this weekend in Paris, France. They are building an installation of their work with photographer Mike Brodie at the Galerie LJ Beaubourg. Chris explains the installation as "based on the decay of industry, its effect on the individual and the environment."
Construction is under way in the gallery, while the streets have seen some activity in recent days, thanks to Paris' new bicycle program.
If we have any French viewers or folks in the area the opening will be November 10th at 7pm. The exhibit will run until December 8th.
London Anarchist Bookfair
Posted October 26, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
Tomorrow (Saturday October 27th) is the 23rd annual London Anarchist Bookfair, and Justseeds will be tabling. The longest running and one of the largest anarchist bookfairs in the world, we are excited to be getting some Justseeds art and ideas out across the ocean. Over 100 other tablers will be there as well, plus there is a full day of speakers, presentations and films.
There's a full list of all the scheduled events, plus detailed directions to get there on the bookfair website. Come out and visit us!
The Graphic Imperative
Posted October 23, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
For anyone in Los Angeles or planning to visit over the next couple months, it's well worth a trip to check out this political graphics exhibit:
THE GRAPHIC IMPERATIVE: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice & the Environment, 1965 to 2005
at the Luckman Gallery at Cal State L.A., October 27 – December 15, 2007
I got to see the show at Mass Art in Boston, and there is a lot of really great work that would otherwise be difficult to see, including posters by Tom Ungerer, Klaus Staeck, Ester Hernandez, the Guerilla Girls, Gran Fury, Felix Beltran and Lex Drewinski. I was excited to see all of the material together and think about half of the work is extremely strong. I was disappointed by the lack of context for the work, as much it comes from very specific political contexts but little of that is explained in the exhibition. By stripping the work from it's context, the exhibition sometimes feels simply like a shopping mall for designers to pick up the next hip, "authentic" style. It seems like some of that might be corrected with the discussion series they've planned to go along with the exhibit.
Paper Politics
Posted October 18, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
October 18 – November 17
Crossman Gallery
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Opening remarks by exhibiting artist Colin Matthes and reception: October 18th from 5-7 pm
Here's what the gallery has to say about the show:
This exhibit has been organized by Josh MacPhee and will showcase print art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. The exhibit has been displayed in other venues across the country, but will be augmented by regional artists for the exhibit here. Because of its accessibility and reproducibility, activists have long used print art as a communication tool in struggles for freedom and social equality. The bold graphic qualities made possible by printmaking techniques are used to communicate with and educate broad audiences all over the world.
The hand-printed works in the show speak of matters that are vital to understanding the world today. Some of the subjects include opposition to war, solidarity with struggles around the world, destruction of the environment, corporate control, police brutality, homelessness, and gender inequalities.
Printing Against the Grain
Posted October 9, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
Icky and Josh from Justseeds are heading to Europe, and have some events planned...If you happen to be in Copenhagen:
presentation in YNKB
LØRDAG 13 OKTOBER KL. 15/Saturday October 13, 2007, 3 pm:
Josh MacPhee
PRINTING AGAINST THE GRAIN
Activist printmaking from 1960s to now
In 1960’s, just as Andy Warhol was reinventing silkscreening as a fine art tool, printmaking was also being reinvented elsewhere for very different purposes. Activists, organizers, revolutionaries and political artists were using silkscreening, stencils, and block prints to create cheap, eye catching and easy to distribute political posters.
From French students and workers in 1968 to Chicano community workshops in the late 60’s to Italian and German Autonomists in the 70’s to Act Up in the 80’s, printmaking has taken a sweeping democratic turn in the last 40 years. This presentation shows over a hundred images and follows the political, social and aesthetic development of this activist printmaking.
Over There
Posted October 8, 2007 by jmacphee in Events
A new installation exhibition by Justseeds artist Colin Matthes and fellow-traveler Brandon Bauer:
Over There
Brandon Bauer & Colin Matthes
Brooks Barrow Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
October 1 through October 27th, 2007
Artist Reception: Saturday, October 13, 2007
This exhibition brings together the work of Colin Matthes and Brandon Bauer, two artists engaged in work dealing with topical subjects for over a decade. The work on display comes from Matthes’ ongoing series Everyday Transactions, and Bauer’s Soldier series. The exhibition also features a series of collaborative paintings and drawings.
I think...
Posted September 13, 2007 by icky in Events
"I think therefore I am..." group art show at the Goodfoot Lounge featuring a lot of art from the Justseeds group as well as plenty of local Portland-area artists. Opening Thursday Sept.27th at 2845 SE Stark. 10% of sales will go to the Community Alliance of Tenants (www.oregoncat.org), Oregon's only tenants rights organization.
Chris Stain, Billy Mode & Josh MacPhee in Brooklyn 5/11/07
Posted May 6, 2007 by in Events
Chris Stain, Billy Mode & Josh MacPhee
Opening: Friday, May 11, 6-10pm
Show runs May 11 --- June 3, 2007
49 Bogart St, Bushwick, Brooklyn
ASAR-O Street Art Exhibit
Posted April 25, 2007 by in Art & Politics
The opening of Resistencia Visual is this Thursday at ABC No Rio. The exhibit features street art by the collective ASAR-O from the Popular Movement in Oaxaca, Mexico.
This exhibit is made up of woodblock prints and stencils made by
ASAR-O (Oaxacan Assembly of Revolutionary Artists), a collective
involved in the popular movement APPO in Oaxaca, Mexico. ASAR-O
formed in October of 2006, respinding to the call of the APPO
(Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca) a diverse movement of
civil society in Southern Mexico. With the goal that "all sectors
will organize themselves to resist and unite in the struggle
against the tyranny of a government that represents the interests
of the wealthy..."
Come out to see an exciting glimpse of the work that has been
produced for "mega-marches" and painting on the walls of Oaxaca
City. Its an inspiring body of work that makes the demands of the
movement visually.
For some background info read k. see's previous post about ASARO and Oaxaca.
The exhibit will run April 26th-May 24th
Sundays 1-3pm
Wednesday & Thursdays 5-7pm
Thursday May 3rd 7pm
Proyecto Autogestion will screen “el machete: la lucha por el poder popular”
a documnentary filmed and edited by indigenous people of
CODEP(Committee Organized in Defense of the People’s Rights) in
Oaxaca.
http://elenemigocomun.net/878
Thursday May 10th 7pm
Discussion with James Wechsler on Mexican Art and Politics of
1920's & 30's. Possibility of other speakers. James is an
independant scholar based in NYC who worked with the Philadelphia
Museum of Art on the exhibit Mexico & Modern Printmaking.
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/special/103.html
The exhibit can be seen in the near future at The Phoenix Art
Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. From June 29–September 16, 2007
For more info about ASAR-O and their work check out
http://web.mac.com/dfteitel/iWeb/ASAR-O/Home%20-%20Inicio.html
This exhibit has been brought to you by:
Visual Resistance
www.visualresistance.org
CASA
http://www.chiapaspeacehouse.org/
Exhibition Funded in part by the NYS Council on the Arts
and Dedalus Foundation
The Insurection Internationale Is In Full Swing
Posted April 23, 2007 by in Art & Politics
Version Fest Hits Chicago Once Again...
:: VERSION>07 THE INSURECTION INTERNATIONALE ::An unconventional network of creators, workers, musicians, organizations, artists, activists, producers and organizers are collectively waging asymmetrical warfare on the established systems of control in our cultural, political and art worlds.
The Insurrection Intenationale is a moment. It is a point of confluence between various networks and subcultures that believe in the solidarity of our multitudes. Together we are waging a revolt against established systems and authority to create new worlds to inhabit. We are creating alternate realities, independent economies, developing alliances and infrastructures to support our beliefs. We are engaging in a culture war against the establishments in all their guises.
This year Version will explore the various networks undermining the forces of stagnation, decay and business as usual. Individuals and groups involved in creating alternative modes of operations, communications and networks of cooperation are gathering at our annual convergence this spring to discover the plausible worlds we can create together.
We hope you can join us in enjoying the confluence of now and planning the community of future.
“ This is the final struggle/Let us join together and tomorrow/ The International/Will be the human race”
Check out the Flickr page of opening night photos...
Tuesday: Activist Culture & The State of Radical Art
Posted April 23, 2007 by in Events
The Center for the Humanities
CUNY Graduate Center presents:
Activist Culture and the State of Radical Art
What is the role of radical art and cultural resistance in a city full of expensive galleries and sleepy politics?
A panel discussion with:
--- Stephen Duncombe, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Gallatin School, NYU, and author of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy
--- Hugo Martinez, gallerist and founder of the ‘United Graffiti Artists’
--- Nato Thompson, Curator/Producer at Creative Time
--- SKUF, graffiti writer and filmmaker
--- Nicole Schulman, New York based artists and editor of World War III Illustrated and Wobblies: a Graphic History
Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Martin E. Segal Theater
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (btwn 34th & 35th)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No Registration. Please arrive early for a seat. 212-817-2005 / ch@gc.cuny.edu
Paradise Remixed
Posted April 21, 2007 by in Art & Politics
Paradise Remixed- a neighborhood wide art event opened this weekend in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee. Ten different arts spaces and local businesses in the neighborhood are showing work and participating in the event. Collectively there are over 50 artists participating using a wide range of media and approaches- from installation and video, to book arts, painting and drawing, and recycled or detourned work.
As stated by the organizers:
"Paradise Remixed" asks local artists and curators to reinterpret popular visions of paradise. Visions of paradise have always found bizarre & beautiful representations in our everyday pop culture objects and experiences. Reworking mass-produced objects, recycled materials, & popular conceptions, artists will present us with everything from sanguine utopias to portentous dystopias. "Paradise Remixed" weaves together a diversity of artists, curators, and art spaces in the Riverwest neighborhood, which, on some bright days can feel like our own little earthly paradise.
The idea for the show came from Mark Lawson, gallery director at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. When a tenant left him 20 pieces of mass-produced art, Lawson didn't have the heart to throw them away. "I thought the show would be a good use for them," he said.Adding the neighborhood to the mix was born out of a conversation with Polina Malikin. "We have some of the most cutting-edge art in the whole city . . . but we never do anything together. . . . our main goal was that everyone acquainted with each other would get to work together."
Participating spaces include:
Cream City Collectives, Neighbors Gallery, Hot Cakes Gallery, Green Gallery, Riverwest Film & Video, Feed Shop, Vision Eye Center, Woodland Pattern, Art Bar, and the Riverwest Food Co-op
Participating Artists include:
Archaeology of the recent Future Association, Sam Augustine, Brandon Bauer, Anne Bisone, Jeff Bogartte, Noah Brehmer, Jessie Brown, Ray Chi, Santiago Cucullu, Mary DiBiasio, Matt Fink, John Gatti, Peggy Haubert, Steve Hough, Oluwabukola Harrison Idowu, Juliet Jaeger, Darryl Jensen, Jeremiah Ketner, Paul Kjelland, Laura Klein, Caroline Knueppel, Sue Kriofsky, Nicolas Lampert, Mark Lawson, Xav Leplae, Kathryn Martin, Chris Miller, Darota Biczel Nelson, Keith Nelson, Josie Osborne, Annuska Peck, Melissa Dorn Richards, Michael Roberts, Naomi Shersty, Jeana Sohn, The Sparkle Dancers, and Merle Wind
"Business Day" by Brandon Bauer
Big week of anarchist book events
Posted April 13, 2007 by in Events
New York City Anarchist Bookfair
Saturday April 14th, 11am-7PM
Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
The 1st Annual, 1st Ever NYC Anarchist Book Fair, will host a one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide, on Sat., Apr. 14, 2007 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan. The 1st Annual, 1st Ever NYC Anarchist Book Fair will feature over 40 tables as well as an art gallery. Panels, presentations, workshops, and skill shares will provide further opportunities to learn more and share your own experience and creativity.
Realizing the Impossible Book Release
My new book finally came out! Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority was just released on AK Press and my co-editor Erik Reuland and I are celebrating at Bluestockings Books. The book is a huge sprawling collection of 23 essays on the intersection of art and anarchism and has something for anyone even the slightest bit interested in art and politics.
Book Release Party/Event
Sunday April 15th, 7PM
172 Allen St. (just below Houston)
Erik and I will be using the book as a jump off point to discuss the role of art and culture in radical social movements, and a number of contributors will talk about their work. Should be really fun and a nice collection of voices and images. Come check it out, hang out, and celebrate with us!!!
Monday April 16th -- Art and Anarchism Roundtable Discussion
Roundtable Discussion on Anarchist Aesthetics
16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor, Manhattan
7:30pm -- Free and open to all
Roundtable Discussion with Contributors to Realizing the Impossible.
Erika Biddle, Dara Greenwald, Josh MacPhee, Cindy Milstein
We would like to start the Roundtable promptly at 7:30, so please come early if possible, and bring your questions.
This event will be a dovetail to the 1st Annual New York Anarchist Bookfair. We are really hoping that this event together people that maybe haven’t been in dialogue yet but should be. And so, this is not a panel discussion in anyway, but an open forum.
Presenter Bios:
Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator and activist currently living in Troy, NY, usa. His work often revolves around themes of radical politics, privatization and public space. His second book Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (AK Press, co-edited with Erik Reuland) was just published. He also organizes the Celebrate People's History Poster Series and is part of the political art collective www.justseeds.org.
Cindy Milstein is co-organizer of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference and a board member with the Institute for Anarchist Studies. [ www.anarchiststudies.org] She's also a member of the Free Society Collective and Black Sheep Books Collective in Vermont. Her written work appears in periodicals and several recent anthologies, including Globalize Liberation (City Lights), Confronting Capitalism (Soft Skull), and Only a Beginning (Arsenal Pulp).
Erika Biddle is a founding member of the collective Artists in Dialogue. She can often be found tweaking text for Autonomedia and for Perspectives, the biannual journal of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. She is also on the board of the IAS. One of these days she's going to lose her mind, remember how to write, and become a full-time poet.
Dara Greenwald has participated in collaborative and collective cultural production and activism for many years. Participation includes the Pink Bloque, Ladyfest Midwest Chicago, Version>03, Pilot TV Chicago, and other groupings that resist being named. She worked as the distribution manager at the Video Data Bank from 1998-2005, where she distributed independent media and experimental video art and worked on the preservation of the Videofreex collection. She also writes, curates, and makes art. Her videos have screened widely, including at Images Festival(Toronto), New York Underground, Yerba Buena Center (SF), and Ocularis(NY). She is currently studying Electronic Arts at RPI in Troy, NY.
It's never too early to start making plans...
Posted April 11, 2007 by in Art & Politics
The 2008 RNC Welcoming Committee has put out a call inviting anarchists, anti-authoritarians, radical artists, and activists from all over the country to converge on the Twin Cites this fall- August 31st through September 3rd. This Pre-RNC convergence will give activists a chance to get to know the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, and give them the opportunity to begin some serious planning to confront the RNC in 2008.
Questions to be asked and answered include:
What do you want to see happen in 2008?
How do you think we can get there?
What resources do you have to contribute?
What will you need?
The Pre-RNC weekend will kick off with Critical Mass on Friday August 31st, and continues for the next three days with tours, workshops, skillshares, games, strategizing sessions and L(A)bor Day activities. There'll be a lot to do- everything from brunch to street medic training to capture the flag- the activities are intend to be as diverse and accessible as possible.
The organizing committee has also made a specific call for volunteers: they are looking for people to run skillshares and workshops of all sorts- if you have skills, knowledge or experience that you want to impart, you are encouraged to let them know.
RNC Welcoming Committee Website: http://www.rncwelcomingcommittee.org/
To receive updates from the Welcoming Committee email: rnc08-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
Or you can become a myspace friend: http://www.myspace.com/rnc2008welcomingcommittee
Questions? Email us: pReNC@riseup.net
Benefits for Oaxacan Street Art Collective
Posted April 7, 2007 by in Events
On June 14th of 2006, the governor of Oaxaca, a state in southern Mexico, ordered the removal of striking teachers from the city plaza. The authorities, which ranged from Federal police, Municipal forces to firefighters, were unsuccessful in removing the teachers despite battling them with tear gas and live ammunition. The teachers, with the support of the surrounding community, erected barricades to prevent the police from regaining control of downtown Oaxaca City. Three days later the APPO (Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Oaxaca) was convened which called upon people in Oaxaca to organize themselves into popular assemblies. People organized by street blocks, neighborhoods and municipalities to work cooperatively and govern themselves while demanding the resignation of the Ruiz administration.
Growing from this momentum a group of artists began to utilize their skills to communicate the demands of the APPO. The collective, now known as ASARO, created stencils, woodblock prints, and posters that began to appear on walls all over Oaxaca. Following the traditions of Mexican popular art and printmaking, ASARO offers the movement new images that communicate some of the values and demands being made in Oaxaca.
The Visual Resistance Collective, CASA, and Carlito's Cafe are proud to present the artwork of ASARO in NYC this Wednesday, April 11th.
¡Resistencia Visual!
Images from the people's struggle in Oaxaca
Prints and stencils from ASARO (Oaxacan Assembly of Revolutionary Artists)
Live musical performances by DooWop Moderno, and videos from the Mal de Ojo TV media collective
Wednesday, April 11
7-10pm
@ Carlito's Café y Galería
1701 Lexington Ave (bet 106 & 107 st)
New York, NY
$5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
All proceeds will be used to further the work of the collective.
ASARO is a collective of artists from Oaxaca who are dedicated to creating accessible art to communicate the vision and demands of the popular movement. For more information visit ASARO
¡Resistencia Visual!
Imagenes de la lucha popular en Oaxaca
grabados y stenciles de ASARO (Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca)
Música en vivo (DooWop Moderno) y videos del colectivo Mal de Ojo TV
Miércoles, 11 de Abril
7-11pm
Carlito's Café y Galería
1701 Lexington Ave (entre 106 y 107 st)
New York, NY
7-11pm
donación: $5, nadie será negado la entrada por falta de fondos
ASARO es un colectivo de artistas oaxaqueños que se dedican a producir arte popular para expresar la visión y las demandas del movimiento popular en Oaxaca. para mayor información sobre
ASARO: http://web.mac.com/dfteitel/iWeb/ASAR-O
organizado por CASA, Carlito's Cafe y Visual Resistance
There will also be a three week exhibit of ASARO's work at ABC No Rio running April 26th-May 17th, with concurrent events. Check here for updates!
Graphic Work: Imaging Today's Labor Movement
Posted April 2, 2007 by in Events
Graphic Work: Imaging Today’s Labor Movement
April 5 to April 30
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 12
6pm to 9pm
Gallery 1199
Open M-F: 9-5
310 W 43rd Street New York, NY 10036
For more information contact Zoeann Murphy: zoeann@wdiny.org
The US labor movement has created some of the most effective political graphics and images in history. However, work and workers, along with the labor movement are often depicted as experiences of the American past: photographs of children in factories in the early 1900s, paintings of historic strikes and Rosie the Riveter. Now the labor movement needs new images of the issues confronting workers today. Graphic Work, curated by Josh MacPhee and Zoeann Murphy is a collection of 40 posters aimed at representing the new fact of labor.
Graphic Work is a project of the Workforce Development Institute, the Bread & Roses Cultural Project of 1199SEIU, and JustSeeds.org
Miss Rockaway fundraiser, Thursday 3/29
Posted March 26, 2007 by in Events
Everyone's favorite freshwater pirates, The Miss Rockaway Armada, are holding a benefit art show to raise funds for their second annual voyage down the Mississippi. Won't you please attend?
Background at MissRockaway.org -- location and directions at AdHocArt.org.
Benefit show for Justseeds
Posted January 26, 2007 by in Events
Regular readers will know that Justseeds is one of our favorite projects, and a major inspiration. Last month, Justseeds faced near-collapse when its fulfillment company suddenly went bankrupt. A month later, VR members have joined with over a dozen artists around the country to transform the pioneering radical art distro into a nation, artist-owned cooperative. We think the potential of such a project is unlimited. We're organizing a benefit gallery show on February 8th to help raise funds to build the infrastructure for this new radical art service:
Thursday, February 8, 2007, 6-10pm
Ad Hoc Art (www.adhocart.org)
49 Bogart St., Brooklyn NY 11206
Justseeds.org and Visual Resistance present a one-night benefit art show and sale at Ad Hoc Art, Thursday February 8, 2007.
There will be an exhibition of artists supporting the transformation of Justseeds into an artist owned and run collective. Art by Justseeds artists and friends will also be on the sale, with prices starting at $4. The show will also be the NYC release of the Street Art Workers (SAW) poster project.
The show will feature over 30 artists from NYC and around the country, including: Swoon, Chris Stain, Josh MacPhee, RB827, Christopher Cardinale, Michael De Feo, Kristine Virsis, Elbow-Toe, GoreB, Imminent Disaster, k.see, Nicolas Lampert, Meredith Stern, Cristy Road, Pete Yahnke, and many more.
Along with the exhibition of the above artists will be the NYC release of the Street Art Workers’ Land and Globalization poster project, a collection of 25 posters representing artists from 10 different countries and over 20 different cities.
All proceeds from the show will go toward getting the Justseeds Artists Cooperative off the ground. Posters, books, and zines start at $4, with most Artwork priced between $10 – 30.
About Justseeds
Justseeds was founded as a radical art distribution service by Josh MacPhee in 1997. In nearly 10 years of operations, Justseeds became a crucial resource for radical artists and activists throughout the US.
In December 2006, the company that was filling Justseeds’ online orders (including hosting the website, processing payments, and shipping products), unexpectedly went out of business, immediately shutting down its online store. On top of shutting down distribution, the fulfillment house owed Justseeds upwards of $10,000 (most of that money in turn was owed directly to artists and writers who sold items on the site).
Now, like the proverbial phoenix, Justseeds is rising: a national network of artists are banding together to create a self-managed cooperative that will help spread radical art around the world.
Shadow Theater Tour- Going Nowhere
Posted January 6, 2007 by in Events
Radical Artists Eric Ruin and Morgan Andrews come to NYC to perform their latest shadow puppet creations on January 9th, at Bluestockings Bookstore 172 Allen St and 10th at ABC No Rio 156 Rivington St where they will perform with Alixa & Naima of Climbing Poetree and Beth Nixon of Ramshackle Enterprises.
GOING NOWHERE, the debut shadow puppet collaboration between Erik Ruin and Morgan F.P. Andrews, journeys through a dozen short scenes framed within a question: "If you had to give up all of your senses, except one, which would you keep?" Things are not as they seem to be, with dissolving architecture, elusive mushrooms and spray-paint landscapes that refuse to stay still. A song from Three Penny Opera and stories by John Cage offer glimpses at the lives of undercover pirates, daydreaming butterflies, flag-burning patriots, and the linguistically tortured wife of a former New England mayor. Lovely soundtrack by Minneapolis duo Dreamland Faces, plus live music by local improvisers.
Erik and Morgan have been politically and creatively active in the various communities they have lived in over the years. I met erik when I stayed at his house in New Orleans during Mardi Gras years ago. I was inspired by his work and was glad to submit my own stencils to his zine Trouble in Mind. He has been active in every city he has lived in, as a member of the TrumbellPlex in Detroit, an organizer and contributor to so many projects like the Street Art Workers (SAW) poster project, and the upcoming Prison Poster Project. He's been the director of shadow puppetry for Barebones Productions' annual Halloween Extravaganza in St. Paul for the past two years, and is infamous for his papercut projections in Liberty Cabbage Theater's “An Olive on the Seder Plate.” Erik has performed at the Puppetropolis, Black Sheep Puppet Festival, and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals, and last year he pulled his show “How Can You Own?” around Europe in a bicycle cart. He recently co-edited the forthcoming book Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (AK Press, 2007).
Morgan F.P. Andrews is a Philadelphia-based, Massachusetts-raised printmaker, puppeteer and electronic folk musician. He recently collaborated on a shadow puppet project with world-class juggler Sara Felder, and has toured dozens of puppet shows around North America and Brazil with his own Shoddy Puppet Company. Morgan curates an ongoing series of events called “Puppet Uprisings” in Philadelphia, and in 2006 co-organized the RadiCakaLacky Puppetry Convergence in North Carolina, and the Black Sheep Puppet Festival in Pittsburgh. Much of Morgan’s current dream-like puppet work dissolves the boundaries between performer and spectator, and employs random elements in its execution. Every year he takes a few weeks off to work with the Bread & Puppet Theater.
If you aren't in NYC you can catch these two "travelling via chinatown bus & regional transit lines- to a city near you?"
JANUARY PUPPET TOUR DATES
6th & 7th- Philadelphia - Puppet Uprising with the Missoula Oblongata at the Rotunda,
4012 Walnut St. 8pm
11th- Troy, NY - Teddy Bear Picnic, 51 3rd St. 7pm
13th- Montpelier,VT - Langdon Street Café, 4 Langdon St. 7pm
14th- Amherst, MA - Food For Thought Books, 105 N. Pleasant St. 5pm
15th- Providence, RI - with B. Shur at Building 16, 39 Manton Ave, 8pm
18th- Boston, MA- Infrasound, 7 Sherman St. #2X (at Sullivan Sq.)
19th & 20th- Portland, ME- Casco Bay Cabaret at Space, 538 Congress St. 7:30pm on the
19th. 1pm-on the 20th
23- 28 BALTIMORE/DC/RICHMOND/CHAPEL HILL- T.B.A.
Memorial Ride, Sunday 1/7/07
Posted January 4, 2007 by in Events
Visual Resistance has been working hard with Time's Up on the second annual memorial ride for cyclists killed in 2006. The rides are moving and powerful. Please come out for at least part of it if you're in town:
Last year hundreds of cyclists gathered as a group on the first Sunday of the year to mourn for all those who perished while riding a bike on the streets of NYC in 2005. On this day bikers rode in from the far reaches of every borough, stopping and paying respect at every crash site.
Inspired by the Visual Resistance ghost bike project which uses memorial installations as reminders of tragedies that took place on otherwise anonymous street corners and as a quiet statement in support of a biker's right to safe travel, the Memorial Ride seeks to bring bikers together to honor our fellow cyclists while bringing attention to the fact that all NYC bikers travel the same unsafe streets and face the same risks every day. And not all of us make it home...
Join us this year as we ride in honor of all the cyclists who were killed on the streets of NYC in 2006. We ride together in love and respect for our friends and loved ones, our grandfathers, husbands, and brothers, our sons and daughters, our wives, sisters, cousins, neighbors, co-workers, teammates, and classmates who were all needlessly struck down. We ride together in outrage and anger, sharing their stories--those that made the papers and those that didn't-- recognizing the fact that none of these deaths had to happen.
Ride with us. Please bring flowers, love, and rage.
Come to one memorial or ride with us all day. Check back on 1/6 and early morning 1/7 for weather updates, cancellations, and rescheduling.
Ride Schedule
Queens/Brooklyn/Manhattan Route
09:45-Meet @ Jamaica Center stop on the E or J trains.
Group will ride to Simpson Memorial together.
10:00-Frank C. Simpson, 174th St & Linden Blvd, Queens.
11:30-Jose Mora, North Conduit & McKinley, East New York
12:00-Shamar Porter, Linden Blvd & Williams, Brownsville
12:30-Keith Powell, Ave L & 93rd, Canarsie
01:00-Donna Goodson, Rockaway Pkway & Ave. D, New Lots
02:00-Bronx Jon, South 4th Street & Roebling,Williamsburg
02:45-Derek Lake, Houston Street & LaGuardia, West Village
Bronx/ Upper Manhattan Route
09:00-Meet @ Pelham Bay Subway stop. Last stop on the 6.
Group will ride to City Island Memorial together.
10:00-Ivan Morales, City Island, Bronx
12:30-Uptown Meet-up: 145th and 8th Ave, Harlem
12:45-Jamel Lewis, 145th St & 8th Ave, Harlem
01:30-Memorial for Pedestrians killed on the streets, E 96th and Park Ave.
02:00-Memorial for anonymous woman, 66th Central Park Traverse
02:45-Derek Lake, Houston Street & LaGuardia, West Village
The two group rides will converge @ the Derek Lake memorial.
02:45-Derek Lake, Houston Street & LaGuardia, West Village
03:15-Reginald Chan, 3rd ave & 17th street
03:45-Darren Lewis, 29th & 9th ave.
04:15-Dr. Carl Henry Nacht, Greenway & 38th street
04:45-Eric Ng, Greenway @ West & Clarkson
Ride will finish @ 5:15 at the Memorial for Unnamed Cyclists
(northwest corner of Lafayette and Houston Streets)
Propaganda III World Tour
Posted January 4, 2007 by in Art & Politics
Start Soma a gallery based in San Francisco is calling for work for the first global, peer-to-peer, open source art show- PROPAGANDA III. They are inviting artists from around the world to create political artwork for the third installment of the PROPAGANDA art show that began in 2003.
This year Start Soma launches PROPAGANDA III, a political poster art show that will tour the world through 2008 with dozens of one day art shows worldwide - the current schedule includes stops throughout North America, South America, Australia, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. There will be no censorship of any sort. Expressed political viewpoints, be they left, right, or center, will be displayed side-by-side, both online AND in the traveling show.
Submission Guidelines:
• 18 x 24 inch posters (45.72 cm x 60.96 cm)
• All posters must have overt political content. The nature of this content is up to the individual artist.
• Submitted posters must be produced in multiples - this includes stencils + digital prints, as well as offset, silkscreen, linocut, woodcut, and photocopies.
• Include artist name, country, and URL in the bottom right-hand corner of every poster.
• Submit three copies of each poster - one for the traveling exhibition, one for permanent archiving, and one spare in case the traveling poster is lost or damaged. Unfortunately, none of the posters can be returned.
• The final collection will be donated to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles which houses the largest collection of Post World War II political graphics in the United States.
Send your posters to the START SOMA GALLERY by March 15, 2007:
START SOMA
672 South Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94110
Send digital versions of artwork to info@startsoma.com with the subject header PROPAGANDA III SUBMISSION - they will be creating an online gallery of all the work included in the traveling exhibition.
Start Soma will also continue to add galleries and venues worldwide to the traveling schedule. If you run a space and are interested in hosting the show contact Start Soma for details.
If you have any questions, please contact John Doffing via john@startsoma.com.
Eric Ng: Love & Rage
Posted December 4, 2006 by in Events
I wish to God I didn't have to write this: On Friday, December 1, Eric Ng was riding his bike up the West Side bike path. He was on his way from a show to a party -- that was Eric, always busy, always seeing people -- when a fucking drunk driver ran him down. The driver had traveled at speed for over a mile on the bike path, ignoring dozens of exits, literally dozens of chances to return to the road. Dozens of choices. The car hit Eric with such force that his bike was crushed, he was thrown into the air, his tire and shoe landing fifty feet away. The horrific details are in the news, if you want them.
Eric. What can I even say? If you knew him, you know. I met Eric at NYU, four years ago. He was three years younger than me. Straight outta Jersey, a beautiful punk rock kid with a constant smile on a direct line from a big heart. A staccato laugh like a snare drum in a string section. A teddy bear with muscles. I remember his guitar, taped together & with a few screws missing, the one time we played music together: "Dude. I think we should play it faster."
And now a phone call and a shock. Not Eric. I feel old too soon; Eric was 22 perfectly. A body full of honest energy and a face like contagious hope.
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I've been making ghost bikes for strangers for a year and a half. Eric's is not the first that made me cry, but it's the first that made me hurt. A big group of Eric's friends spent the weekend mourning, talking, and, finally, making. We made a ghost bike for him on Saturday and sunflowers on Sunday. Eric's memorial plaque reads "Love & Rage" -- no resting in peace for this rock star.
We are planning for a memorial ride this Saturday, December 9th, meeting at 1pm in Washington Square Park and then proceeding to the site of Eric's death. Non-bikers can head straight to the site, on the West Side bike path near Clarkson St. Please bring flowers (especially sunflowers), sidewalk chalk, paint, whatever you want. There will also be a memorial service after the ride at 2:30pm at St. Mark's Church with music and a slideshow, and a party at 8pm at Time's Up, at 49 E. Houston St.
Thank you to everyone who has been e-mailing and to those strangers who have already placed signs and flowers at the site. Thank you for your kindness and your anger both. A lot of people have been talking about pressing for physical barriers against cars on the bike path and other infrastructure improvements to help prevent future deaths. This is a great idea, and people should not hesitate to contact local elected officials, and get in touch with Time's Up and Transportation Alternatives, who I know already are working along those lines.
Eric's loss is a collective one; the sheer number of people who cared deeply for him is amazing. The depth of their pain is a mirror of the joy he brought to this world. That joy remains, pushed under but still there. If you ever had it, hold it.
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I know my words are ever inadequate to express all this. Please feel free to use the comments section for memories and messages.
Update: Information on funeral services and ideas for contacting elected officials are in the comments.
Update 2:We've finally confirmed a full set of events for Saturday:
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9
1PM: Memorial bike ride. Meet up in Washington Square Park at 1pm. We will ride together to the site of Eric's death at 1:30 SHARP. Non-bikers can go directly to the West Side Greenway, near Clarkson St. By train: take the 1 to Houston St.
2:30PM: Memorial service at St. Mark's Church. Friends & family will share stories, show photos, and play music. St. Mark's Church is at the corner of 2nd Ave and 11th St. By train: 6 to Astor Place, R/W to 8th St, or F train to Houston St.
8PM: Memorial dance party. Do not go gently into that good night. DJs & live punk rock. At Time's Up, 49 E. Houston St. By train: 6 or B/D/F/V to Bleecker-Lafayette.
Week of solidarity with targets of the Green Scare
Posted December 1, 2006 by in Events
Next Thursday, December 7th, is the first anniversary of the beginning of the Green Scare came . It's the first anniversary of the day federal marshals came for our friend Daniel McGowan. Of the launching of Operation Backfire, in which 15 people would be indicted, facing multiple life sentences for acts of eco-sabotage which hurt no one.
Last December 7th the New York activist community was in thrown into shock and confusion. This year, folks here and around the world have been busy planning events to show solidarity with the targets of the Green Scare. In New York, GreenScare.org and Family & Friends of Daniel McGowan are hosting a series of events from December 2-8, including a rally across from the Federal Courthouse on Friday, December 7th from 12-2pm. A full list of New York City events is below, and an expanding list of almost 40 events from Eugene to Athens and everywhere in between is available on GreenScare.org.
December 2, 2006: Release party for World War 3 Illustrated #37 "Unnatural Disasters" Featuring art by Seth Tobocman, Art Spiegelman, James Romberger, Jennifer Camper & Nicole Schulman. At MOCCA - the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, 594 Broadway (between Houston & Prince), Suite 401. 7PM. We are very excited there is a five page comic on Daniel in this issue.
December 2, 2006: Benefit show for Daniel. CANCELLED.
December 7th, 2006: We will be participating in the December 7th International Day of Solidarity with Green Scare Indictees and Political Prisoners. There will be a 12 - 2 PM rally in downtown Manhattan and a 6:30 PM dinner and movies at Times Up, 49 East Houston Street. We will be screening The Lorax and Pom Poko [Raccoon War]. For full event information as well as raffle info, click here. Download flyer 1 and flyer 2.
December 7, 2006: Join us for a tea party (seriously!) complete with homemade vegan desserts, finger sandwiches provided by Foodswings and of course, tea. Wear your daintiest tea party attire, or don't. 7PM. $5-10 sliding scale - all proceeds go to Daniel McGowan's legal fund. The Barracks Jukehouse, 107 Magnolia Ave, Jersey City. Download flyer
December 8, 2006: Benefit show for targets of the Green Scare. Featuring Indaculture!- Rockaway's reggae, rock and jamband sensation, Brownbird Rudy Relic (acoustic holla' blues), Casa De Chihauhua (old-timey punk), Hungry March Band and Darren Deicide! - (bluesy punk roots music). At DUMBA Arts Collective, 57 Jay Street, Brooklyn, F to York, walk down the hill towards the water 2 blocks. Doors at 8:30pm, bands at 9pm, DJ after. $5 at the door (suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds). Cheap beer, wine, hot cider and vegan treats! Learn about the Green Scare and the individuals targeted by this new effort to criminalize dissent. There will be information tables and you can write to prisoners at a letter writing station! Proceeds from the show go to benefit Daniel McGowan and Andy Stepanian. For more directions, email dec8benefit@yahoo.com or call (718) 858-4886. Download flyer.
LOWAVE : RESISTANCE(S)
Posted December 1, 2006 by in Art & Politics
Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris 12/10/06
The Resistance(s) program to be held during the Festival des Cinema Differents in Paris was inspired by a DVD of the same name presenting films and videos by artists from North Africa and the Middle East. The Resistance(s) DVD was published by Lowave in April 2006.
The Resistance(s) program at the Festival des Cinema Differents also includes films by American artists who are also resisting through their art.
Work Included in the Program:
Transit- Taysir Batniji (Palestine) 2004
Dieu Me Pardonne- Mounir Fatmi (Morocco/France) 2001-2004
Untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends- Jayce Salloum (Lebanon/Canada) 2003
Allah Akbar- Usama Alshaibi (Iraq/USA) 2003
1991 Next Hundred Years- Abu Ali (Spain) 1991-2004
W- Michael Betancourt (USA) 2005
Short/Cuts- Brandon Bauer (USA) 2006
Word War 3 Illustrated release party 12/2
Posted November 22, 2006 by in Events
Pioneering political comix journal World War 3 Illustrated is back with their 37th issue, titled Unnatrual Disasters:
What do New Orleans and Baghdad have in common? One, a victim of Hurricane Katrina; a ”natural disaster” caused by Global Warming and governmental neglect. The other a city ravaged by an unnecessary war fueled by corporate greed and our addiction to oil. The radical artists of World War 3 Illustrated take on these issues of man-made disasters, and what hope we have to stop the cycles of violence and environmental destruction. With contributions by: James Romberger, Art Speigelman, Sabrina Jones, Seth Tobocman, Penny Allen, Mac McGill and many more. Cover art by Nicole Schulman.
The WW3 crew is hosting a release party for the new issue Saturday, December 2nd at MOCCA:
You are invited to a book party for the release of the newest issue of the political comic zine World War 3 Illustrated #37- The Unnatural Disasters issue. The artists of World War 3 Illustrated take on the issues of man-made disasters, and what hope we have to stop the cycles of violence and environmental destruction from Baghdad to New Orleans. This is not your average comic book.
MULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCES BY WW3 ARTISTS,A puppet show by Rebecca Migdal, slideshows of comics by Seth Tobocman, Christopher Cardinale, Fly, Mac McGill, and Tom Keough with music by Eric Blitz, Steve Wishnia and Zef Noise.
Saturday, December 2, 7 PM
MOCCA, Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art
594 Broadway, Suite 401, between Prince and Houston
212 254 3511
FREE ADMISSION
Memorial & convergence for Brad Will this weekend
Posted November 10, 2006 by in Events
For the past two weeks, friends of slain activist and Indymedia journalist Brad Will have been doing an immense amount of organizing to carry on his memory and in solidarity with the struggle in Oaxaca that he died documenting. The outporing of activity and creative resistance brought on by this tragedy has been inspiring and a worthy tribute to Brad's spirit. The October 30 protest at the New York Mexican consulate in particular combined the spirit of militant direct action with a series of beautiful artwork, and a memorial bike ride saw a ghost bike ridden by a likeness of Brad, camera in hand.
This weekend there are a number of events honoring Brad and developing solidarity with the struggle in Oaxaca and Mexico:
November 11th-12th, 2006, New York City.A weekend of gatherings, memorials, concerts and conversations will take place over the weekend of November 11th and 12th, in New York City, to remember our dear friend and fallen comrade Brad Will. A memorial will take place in St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery from 1:00pm-5:00pm on Saturday the 11th. Other events are also being planned. See the calendar of events below for details on concerts and teachins that will be taking place over the weekend. By all means come to New York City to be a part of the gathering. If you need housing, please write to bradmemorialhousing@gmail.com. If you would like to participate in the planning, please sign up to the discussion list from this site, and send a message to the list server.
If you cannot come to St Mark’s on the Bowery, a live audio webstream will be available and a recording eventually posted to http://radio.indymedia.org. In addition, a memorial sound-box for people to share thoughts, voices, etc. can be found at http://radio.socialtechnology.net
On the calendar, thus far:
Sat, Nov 11th, 1-5PM, Memorial Gathering, St Mark’s Church on the Bowery
Sat, Nov 11th, 8:00pm-2:00am, 49 East Houston St. Hosted by musican friends of Brad Will.
Sun, Nov 12, Teach-in on Oaxaca and Solidarity Workshop.
Sun, Nov 12, 11am-sunset, Gathering and Celebration at Nueva Esperanza Encampment
Check NYC Indymedia and Friends of Brad Will for full event listings and information.
Image at top: Stencil for Brad by Nicole Schulman. Download a full-size PDF or low-res JPG.
Really Free Market 10/14
Posted October 10, 2006 by in Events
This Saturday will mark the third annual Really Free Market, an opn-air, freewheeling day of skillshares, free exchange, and fun. Visual Resistance will be hosting a free workshop on screenprinting --- bring your own screens and extra t-shirts and we'll make help you print!
The full description for this year's event is available on NYC Indymedia. Email inourhearts[at]gmail.com for more infomation. About the Really Free Market:
The Really Free Market is an open-air bazaar and celebration, where we discard capitalist notions of interaction and have fun trying new models of exchange.This will only be as great as you make it. We will provide the framework; you supply the material. Bringing free stuff and planning skill-shares are great ways to get involved.
If you have a skill to share, stuff to give away, a crazy art thing to do, music to play, an idea for entertainment or a topic to discuss; email us soon and let us know what you are planning! Otherwise, plan on bringing your own table or blanket and coming and going as you please, and if you want contact us, just e-mail: inourhearts@gmail.com
Show up to St. Mark's Church with something to share, and let this be another step in our movement towards a really, really free world. Bring friends and gifts, leave your wallet at home.
WHY REALLY REALLY FREE MARKETS?
Because there is enough for everyone.
Because sharing is more fulfilling than owning.
Because corporations would rather the landfills overflow than anyone get anything for free.
Because scarcity is a myth constructed to keep us at the mercy of the economy.
Because a sunny day outside is better than anything money could buy.
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Stuff to consider bringing, services you many consider providing:
music (bands/musicians --acoustic), food (pretty much anything), clothes, books, movies (vhs/dvd), recorded music (tapes, cds), computer software, kitchen supplies, electronics, plants, instruments, picture frames, office supplies, candles, knick knacks, toys, jewelry, skillshares (hands-on stuff like how-to change a bike tire, make sushi, make a stencil, get social services, etc. etc.), and skills (massage, haircuts, reiki, etc. etc.)
Chris Stain, Billy Mode & Josh MacPhee in NYC 10/10
Posted October 9, 2006 by in Events
Art of Resistance
October 10, 2006, 6:30pm-9pm
The Culture Project: 45 Bleecker Street @ Lafayette in NYC
$5 Suggested donation, Free Beer
Info: www.impactfestival.com
On October 10, UnfinishedWorks @ Culture Project will offer a night of music, poetry, and visual art honoring the struggle of working class people. The evening will include Broadcast Live, a musical project born in Albany, NY's activist community.
Broadcast Live promotes social change through music, and speaks truth to power. Taína Asili will also perform weaving resistance, anti-colonialist struggle, love, identity, reclamation of the body, ancestral remembrance, and more into a unique story-telling style of poetry.
Chris Stain, Josh MacPhee, and Billy Mode will share their street art depicting the history of radical movements while directly reflecting the people, neighborhoods, and struggles, that are swept along with the every day lives of the common American.
UnfinishedWorks is the Culture Project's monthly salon series, featuring the work of emerging artists across disciplines. In September and October, in concert with the IMPACT festival, is curated by Zoeann Murphy.
Vomito Attack in Brooklyn, Friday 6/23
Posted June 22, 2006 by in Events
The phenomenal Argentinean street art collective Vomito Attack is putting together a show in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn this weekend:
Attack to the State EmpireVomito Attack
June 23, Friday, 7-10 PM
724 Myrtle Ave
Myrtle-Willoughby stop on the G
Vomito Attack is a condition. At the violent threshold of a recognizable world, the well fed delights of gluttony, there meet two
strangers. One has an easy going smile and knows the time on his wrist, the other has lost control of her intestines, prostrate street.
Come and buy Vomito's work. He has been sick all over this fucking city. Now make him better with neglect. This Argentinean artist will exhibit on 3 walls, an installation, aerosol, and a sculpture across the street on the fence of the abandoned lot.
For more on Vomito Attack, see their website. See especially the Vote PCM and the extensive stencil gallery.
Visual Art and Social Change at the Midwest Social Forum
Posted June 7, 2006 by in Art & Politics
The Midwest Social Forum is an annual gathering of grassroots organizations, community activists, workers, educators, students, and others committed to making a better, more just world possible. The Midwest Social Forum provides an open space for exchanging experiences and information, strengthening alliances and networks, and developing effective strategies for progressive social, economic, and political change. This year the Midwest Social Forum will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from July 6th-9th.
There will be a number of sessions relating to visual art and social change at this year's Midwest Social Forum. So far the confirmed sessions include:
•Images Matter: Lessons from the Art and the Graphic Campaign of the Abolitionist Movement
Hosted by Nicolas Lampert, co-editor of Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated.
•Graffiti Art Workshop
Hosted by T.R.U.E. Skool, Inc., a group promoting hip-hop culture and positive social change based in Milwaukee.
•Ants and Economics in the Americas: The Beehives Popular Education Graphics Campaigns
A workshop hosted by the Beehive Design Collective.
Along with these offerings the Midwest Social Forum will have workshops, panel discussions, presentations, and strategy sessions relating to a wide variety of topics involving social change and activism. Please visit the website for more information.
Stain / Scout / Mode / MacPhee
Posted May 31, 2006 by in Events
Fresh from their joint Winter in America show in Albany, Chris Stain, Scout, Billy Mode, and Josh MacPhee are coming to Brooklyn :
The show is at 49 Bogart St., the Bushwick art space previously known as Antimart. 49 Bogart is run by Garrison & Ray from Peripheral Media Projects. Details:
When: Friday, June 9th, 6-10pm
Where: 49 Bogart Street, Buzzer 22, Unit 1G Brooklyn, NY 11206
Directions: Take the "L" train to Morgan Avenue. If you exit the back of the train (coming from Manhattan), come out of the station and turn right. You will already be on Bogart St., so just walk a short 1/2 block to 49 Bogart, you can't miss the loading dock entrance!
War & Peace show this Saturday
Posted May 26, 2006 by in Events
Sorry for the last-minute event announcement, but I just found this via Graphonic:
WAR and PEACEA group art show of photographs, drawings, paintings, posters and more from a celebrated collective of artists interpreting the themes of "war" and "peace". Each artist offers a unique perspective that reflects the diversities and complexities of converging cultures and backgrounds.
Featured Artists: Aiko (AKA Faile), Bast, Leola Bermanzohn, Boogie, Samantha Casolari, Robbie Conal, J. Mikal Davis, Graphonic, Dylan Maddux, Mear, Kyle Goen, Brent Rollins, Oscar Riquelme, Jackie Salloum, Junko Shimizu, Lenny Silverberg, and more.
Curated by: Sophie Landres and Santi Suthinithet
Opening reception: Saturday, May 27, 2006
8PM - Midnight
213 N 8th St.
(Between Roebling Street and Driggs Ave)
Brooklyn
For more info: 718-218-6538
Image courtesy Graphonic.com.
Knit Washington Square Park
Posted May 21, 2006 by in Events
Massive Knit is holding a "knitting mob" dedicated to the memory of pionerring activist-writer Jane Jacobs. Bring your knitting needles to Washington Square Park at 5:30 on Tuesday, May 23, toparticipate in this excellent collective project:
We would like to provide a collective, connected, community of individuals to honor the late Jane Jacobs who passed away on April 25, 2006. Jane Jacobs was an activist, a community leader, a writer, an urban planner, and a hero to many people. One of her great feats was as the chairman of the Joint Committee to Stop the Lower Manhattan Expressway. This expressway would have run through Washington Square Park. We plan to gather in this park on the 23rd of May to memorialize her and her ideas. We want to convene as a community in a loving and subtle way, honoring the park as well as her memory. We plan to do this by knitting the park together.Knitting is a solitary art form, often resulting in gifts for others. A knitting circle allows one to be social with this solitary art. A city, likewise, is a solitary place to live. There is so much crowding and destination in daily life that one often gets lost in their own world. Parks allow people to come together and be alone peacefully in their solitary life and form temporary and permanent communities. Parks and knitting circles are both public and accessible: but private enough that one can have meaningful communication and a community within their confines.
Using individual sensibilities. We plan to create an open structure in the park. Connecting various elements of the park together such as trees, benches and other structures, we will connect a community and a memory. As people enter the park (the meeting spot is under the arch) they will be directed to a spot in the park to start knitting. People can arrive anytime starting at 5.30 p.m. and stay as long as they like. They should tie, knit, string together long thin pieces of material, and before leaving, tie the material off to a piece of the park, or another individuals yarn. By the end of the evening we should have a string of material connecting the park together. We will have connected to the park and to the other individuals as a community.
Check out their blog at massiveknit.blogspot.com for more information and good discussion of Jane Jacobs' ideas and the city's ugly proposed remodelling of Washington Square Park. I wouldn't miss this one for anything.
Roving Garden Party - Saturday, May 13
Posted May 10, 2006 by in Events
Roving Garden Party
Date: Saturday, May 13th, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Center of Tompkins Square Park
Summary: A musical, dancing parade to celebrate our gardens -- followed by a barbeque-party.
Details: Come dance down the streets to celebrate community gardens and camaraderie. We'll visit some gardens, unleash some surprises, partake in a ritual, stand up against some slimy developers and end with an after-party and barbeque.
We all need places to play, to dream, to connect with each other and the world. For NYC, community gardens are some of those places. So are the streets. Unfortunately, all things wildincluding gardens, forests and people who defend the Earthare under attack. Lets revel in the places that are still untamed with people who are still untamed.
Bring drums and instruments! Dress as the garden creature of your dreams!
Special Guests:
Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir / Rude Mechanical Orchestra / 100 Flowered Kazoos Collective / Radical Cheerleaders & Faerie Drummers / Jugglers, Puppets & Tap Dancers / More Gardens! Coalition / Times Up /You & Your Crew
Image at top from the 2004 Street Art Workers campaign: Whose Media?
Paper Politics in Portland
Posted April 28, 2006 by in Art & Politics
Paper Politics makes its next stop in Portland. Over 175 political prints by artists from around the world. The work will be on display May 3rd-June 16th, 2006 at the Food For Thought Gallery at the Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR. Opening event will be May 11th, 7-11 PM.
Version>06 Parallel Cities
Posted April 28, 2006 by in Art & Politics
Version fest held annually in Chicago focuses on emerging discourses and practices evolving between art, technology, social critique and activism. Version Fest examines local systems and external networks that use visual and conceptual art strategies, innovative social practices, creative uses of new technologies, effective organizing structures, emerging activist/artist initiatives, campaigns, public interventions and DIY projects. This year Version Fest runs from April 20th through May 7th.
The Version Festival presents a diverse program of activities featuring an experimental art exposition, artistic disturbances, exhibitions, networked urban events, screenings, interactive applications, performances, street art, presentations, talks, workshops, an art rendezvous and action. Alternative spaces will be open for staging actions. Public spaces and corporate places will be terrains of intervention. Version is a seventeen-day open laboratory to activate our communities and amplify ideas and practices.
For more information on the projects, program, artists, and venues involved in this year's Version fest visit their website. http://versionfest.com/version06/festival/
El Otro Lado: People of Color in the U.S, the Zapatista Movement and Collective Struggles
Posted April 13, 2006 by in Posters & Prints
In 1994, the dawn of the North American Free Trade Agreement, indigenous peasants in Chiapas, Mexico took the world by storm by rising up in revolution. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional) emerged from the mountains and jungles to say NO to corporate globalization, neo-liberal colonialism, and the exploitation of indigenous people, women, the poor, and the oppressed. In 12 years, the EZLN has become a major voice in the international struggle against capitalism and neo-liberalism, and an inspiration and hope to struggles throughout the world.
Estacion Libre, a US based collective of People of Color, has been building with the Zapatista movement for over eight years. Through delegations to Zapatista communities, and a continued presence of a peoples space in Chiapas, hundreds of U.S. based community activists andorganizers from communities of color have visited, shared with, and learned from the Zapatista movement. These lessons are brought home - back to community struggles against gentrification, police brutality, incarceration, racism, sexism, homophobia, and economic exploition. By sharing tactics and dialogues with the Zapatistas, we strive to create sustainability throughout communities of resistance here in the U.S., with hopes that we can defeat the monster of capitalism and corporate globalization here, in the brain of the beast.
General Program
- Discussion on the Liberation Struggles of People of Color and intersections with the Zapatista Movement (Ashanti Alston)
- Reflections on the Zapatista Movement, the Sixth Declaration, and What Solidarity Means for US Estacion Libre (Mixpe, Olmeca, etc.)
- Arts and Activism workshops (Spiritchild, Olmeca, Mixpe, etc.)
- Performance by Mental Notes and Olmeca
Tour Calendar
Tuesday, April 18th: Ashanti at Rethinking Solidarity, NYC, Brecht Forum, 7:30pm.
Thursday, April 20th: UMASS, Amherst.
Saturday, April 22nd: Philadelphia, LAVA (4134 Lancaster Ave.), 12 noon.
Saturday, April 22nd: Estacion Libre fundraiser in East Harlem, 9:30 pm.
Monday, April 24th: Smith College. Workshops at noon and 4pm. Performance at night.
Wednesday, April 26th: Rethinking Solidarity, NYC, Blue Stockings Bookstore, 7pm.
Thursday, April 27th: Brown University, Third World Center, Informal Lounge (68 Brown St.), 9pm -12am.
The first image above was created by Gina Szeto. The second image was created by Canek Pena-Vargas. Both are available to download and edit as needed to promote the tour.
Bios for Event Participants:
Ashanti
Ashanti Alston has devoted his life to struggling against racism and
oppression, and to building and participating in multigenerational,
multiracial, grassroots movements of resistance. Born in Plainfield, NJ in
1954, Ashanti saw and experienced what most black youth did then and still
see today: poor-quality housing, unemployment and lack of job
opportunities, and schools that squelched students desire to learn. He
became politicized at an early age and was one of the founding members of
the Plainfield, NJ chapter of the Black Panther Party. He was also a
member of the Black Liberation Army.
Through intensive studying with the Panthers, Ashanti began a career in
self-teaching, popular education, and grassroots organizing through direct
engagement with people about their experiences. He has continued this work
during the 12 years he spent as a political prisoner, and living in
Brooklyn in the years since his release. Through published writing, formal
teaching jobs, participation in conferences and lectures, and membership
in grassroots organizations, Ashanti has developed his scholarship and
shared his critical analysis with young and old organizers, activists, and
students around the country. He has spoken throughout North America on the
past, present, and future of liberation struggles and the role of
community.
Ashanti has served as the Northeast Regional Coordinator for Critical
Resistance, a national organization working for the abolition of the
prison-industrial complex. Currently, Ashanti is a member of Estacion
Libre, a National people of color collective inspired by and in dialogue
with the Zapatista movement of Chiapas Mexico. Ashanti is also a board
member for the Institute for Anarchist Studies. He authors the zine
Anarchist Panther.
Jo Anna Mixpe Ley
Poet, storyteller, popular educator, artist, dancer, spiritual advisor to
the stars, and revolutionary warrior Mixpe has been a lecturer in
Chican@ Studies at UCLA, and a teacher of culturally empowering,
politically inspiring words and movements to young people throughout Los
Angeles and the Western Hemisphere. She is currently one of the
co-coordinators for Estacion Libre in Chiapas Mexico - whose objective is
to open a space of dialogue between people of color struggles in the U.S.
and the Zapatista communities.
In her time in Chiapas, Mixpe has covered the political situation through
written and radio commentary, documenting activities of the military and
policing during the Red Alert. She has built relationships with the
autonomous Zapatista communities and shared art, music, movement, and
struggles. Recently, Mixpe has served as a support for the Otra Campana of
the Zapatista movement, and has coordinated the first delegation between
U.S. based Women of Color activists and the revolutionary women of the
Zapatista movement.
Through her work, she struggles for continued solidarity with autonomous
communities, collectives, and minds. Her poetry and prose engages
narratives and oral histories of borders, the colonization and liberation
of bodies, always connected to the experiences of her communities and her
families. She can breakdown the intersection of racism, classism, sexism
and homophobia inside and outside of movements, without breaking you in
the process.
Olmeca
Artist, teacher, organizer, vagabond, traveler, and revolutionary - Olmeca
has been the co-coordinator of Estacion Libre in Chiapas, Mexico since May
2005. During his time in Chiapas, Olmeca worked with Zapatista communities
reporting on military and police incursions during the summer 2005 Red
Alert, teaching arts and skill sharing workshops, sharing the struggles
of People of Color in the US with Zapatista communities, and supporting
and observing the discussions around the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon
Jungle and the Otra Campana of the EZLN.
In the occupied territory of the United States, Olmeca is a driving force
in the fusion of music and community organizing. He worked to establish
APC the Autonomous Peoples Collective a collective of community
organizers. Artists, and musicians in East LA, and has engaged with
countless grassroots struggles for community liberation through his voice
and his music, including the Coalition of Imokalee Workers.
Olmeca is a 7-year veteran in the Los Angeles music scene. Olmeca's unique
lyrical style, bilingual rapping skills and unique song writing, has
gained the respect of his peers. He has rocked the mic with the legends of
the LA underground Hip-Hop scene (Freestyle Fellowship, Abstract Rude and
Living Legends) as well as the greats from the Latin Alternative scene,
(Roco from Maldita Vecindad, Fidel Nadal and others).
His redefining and all encompassing song writing skills contain a focused
and undaunted political and cultural message. This calls for the decoding
of genres in music and, with that, the media and the system all together.
Unwilling to separate art with politics, Olmeca has contributed to many
grassroots movements as a participant, organizer and artist. Because of
this, his music has come to be known as, musica de los pobres or peoples
music. Olmeca calls for the niñ@s de la tierra to not only become
critical of
the system, but also to begin the process of deconstruction through
reflection and action.
His album, Semillas Rebeldes will be released in March 2006 by Nomadic
Sound System.
Spiritchild
Spiritchild, a member of Escation Libre and the Movement in Motion Artists
and Activists Collective was born in Harlem and raised in The Bronx. He is
a founder of Mental Notes - a Hip-Hop Jam Band. Mental Notes has gained a
reputation as a new innovative sound throughout the New York City Night
Club Scene and has performed at such legendary venues as CBGBs, Knitting
Factory and Nuyorican Poets Café. For Spiritchild, Mental Notes is not
just a Hip-Hop Jam band that creates music, it is an outlet for political
expression.
During the Anti-War Movement that was re-ignited after September 11, 2001,
Spiritchild collaborated with artists, activists, and students to
establish Movement In Motion Arts Collective - a creative drive in the
struggle for peace, justice and social awareness. In the name of
information, Movement in Motion offers energy and rhythm to the global
peace movement. Prompted by the present threat to civil liberties, they
formulate creative spaces in NYC to share alternative news and information
and by supporting other networks of informed activists. They fight for our
constitutional right to rally and protest. Most importantly, they come out
to help like-minded people dance. Members of Movement in Motion have
traveled to Venezuela, India, Palestine, Mexico, and South Africa to build
music and movement with struggles around the globe.
Spiritchild has also been active in exposing and educating the youth
through Hip-Hop. As a youth educator, Spirichild has worked with kids
throughout New York, teaching them the fundamentals of music, writing and
how to Rap.
Winter in America show in Albany, NY
Posted April 12, 2006 by in Events
Several of our all-time favorites, Chris Stain, Scout, Josh MacPhee, and Mode are uniting for a one-night show in Albany, NY:
WINTER IN AMERICA
WORK BY STAIN / SCOUT / MODE / MACPHEE
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
ONE NIGHT ONLY
7-11PM
327 STATE STREET
ALBANY NY
The Winter in America series is a knockout --- check out Josh & Stain's contributions on our photolog. If you're around upstate New York or are willing to make the long drive north from NYC, the show promises to be a great one!
Benefit for the Loisaida-New Orleans Caravan Tonight!
Posted April 8, 2006 by in Events
Come to the 6th Street Community Center tonight @ 7:30pm to help raise funds for the Loisaida-New Orleans Caravan, sending volunteers to help rebuild New Orleans communities by working with the Common Ground Collective. Live Music, Spoken Word, and Performance, including: Jemeel, Moondoc, Seth Tobocman, Jack Waters and Peter Cramer, Ray Gant, Martha Hyde, Will Sales, Michael Sansonia, Mac McGill, Eric Blitz, Emilio China, Steve Wishnia and others!
Poster at right by Christopher Cardinale
NYC Immigrant Rights Marches: April 1, April 10
Posted March 31, 2006 by in Events
Sorry for the short notice, but I just got this myself. These marches are of the utmost importance: at least 500,000 people turned out in Los Angeles --- let's match it in NYC!
Beautiful folks:The attacks on immigrants in the US have been very clear as of late. Millions across the country are saying NO to HR 4437 and NO to punitive measures against Immigrants. Say YES to Immigrant Rights and Legalization:
In keeping with the spirits of momentum from Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dallas, San Antonio, Denver, and the entire country, New York City is going to support Immigrants, Human Rights, and Civil Rights with marches on both April 1st and April 10th. Please pass this information along to any one/group/listserv that might want to participate in New York on these days. This is the watershed moment in the movement to support Immigrants -- some are calling this a continuation of the great legacy of Civil Rights Movements in the US!!!
Please attend both rallies if possible. The April 10th rally is said to have widespread community support, but both are extremely great ways to demonstrate solidarity and support for Immigrants. Let's go out there and support our friends, family, and neighbors!!!
Saturday April 1st:
--- Meet at Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn by 11 AM
--- A,C Train to High Street Station
--- F Train to Jay Street Borough Hall Station
--- 2,3,4,5 Trains to Borough Hall and Clark Street Stations
--- Buses for Brooklyn: B25, B38, B41, B45, B51 Tillary Street Station
--- Route: Brooklyn Bridge
--- Rally Ends: 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan
Monday April 10th:
--- City Hall, Manhattan 3 -- 7 PM
--- 4,5,6 or J,M,Z trains to City Hall / A,C,E trains to Broadway-Nassau
--- NOTE: LOCATION CHANGE! Although early announcements listed Battery Park, the rally has been moved to City Hall. Organizers are asking people to wear whie shirts as a sign of peaceful protest
Details at April10.org and NoHR4437.org. See you there.
UPDATE 4/3/06: Photos from the march on flickr. See NoHR4437.org for updates and more events, including the April 10th march and May 1st national boycott.
Image at top: No Human Being is Illegal by Mark Vallen. Originally created in 1988 as a bilingual poster to bring attention to the plight of Central American war refugees. Limited edition print available for sale here.
Thoroughfare show in Brooklyn
Posted February 28, 2006 by in Events
Come check out THOROUGHFARE, an installation by: Andrew Poneros, Leon Reid (Darius Jones), and Alex Holden.
Upon entering the Riviera Gallery, the viewer will be brought into a completely different environment that combines natural and manmade elements.The walls of the gallery are covered by one mural, depicting a vast wooded landscape. Interspersed on these walls are various two dimensional works by Andrew Poneros and Alex Holden. Throughout the gallery are a variety of street sign oriented sculptures by Leon Reid. Metal trees are placed throughout the gallery. The floor of the gallery is completely covered in synthetic grass. Audible is a discreet mix of bird calls and car horns.
In addition to these sculptures and trees, there are several signposts, featuring street sign oriented work by all three artists.
Their intention is to explore the relationship between urban and natural space and structure.
Then you should go out and discover their pieces on the street!
Opening: Thursday March 2, 7 - 10 pm
Exhibition dates: Thursday March 2 - March 19th, 2006
103 Metropolitian Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Paint Jam with the Endless Love Crew
Posted February 28, 2006 by in Events
Our buds the Endless Love Crew invite y'all to come on down to a paint session this weekend! It's open up to anyone who wants to come by and there will be enough supplies so no one has to bring any. Fun fun fun!
March 4th and 25th
1-6pm
Chashama Center Gallery
112 W. 44th Street
btw. Broadway & 6th Ave.
Times Square, NYC
Eliot adds: For those who don't know, the Endless Love Crew is a great street art group made up of some of New York's most prolific artists, including GoreB, Infinity, Abe Lincoln Jr., Celso, and a whole bunch more. Very cool group -- should be a lot of fun!
Grassroots Media Conference this Saturday
Posted February 9, 2006 by in Events
This weekend: the second annual Grassroots Media Conference hits New York. Featuring a damn-near-comprehensive list of media activists and radical projects, the conference is a great opportunity to learn, spread the word about your project, or meet with like-minded folks.
VR members will lead a hands-on guide to silkscreening for beginners at 11:30, and collaborate with Josh MacPhee on a workshop about street art and public space at 2:30, so come by and say hello. Details:
Saturday, February 11th, 2006 10am --- 6pm
New School University
65 Fifth Avenue at 13th street, New York, NY
More details here.
You can check out the full conference schedule here. Registration is $20 in advance or $30 at the door, so sign up before Friday night!
Artists Call, Participate in a Traveling Exhibition on the Housing Crisis in LA
Posted February 8, 2006 by in Events
The Southern California Library (SCL) is seeking artists including performers, musicians, spoken word, and multimedia artists to participate in a traveling exhibition. If you have work or if you are interested in creating work related to the "housing crisis" in Los Angeles, they are looking for you!
The mural pictured here was painted by Eva Cockcroft and hangs on the inside wall of SCL, beside the "Wall of Honor." The "Wall of Honor" commemorates family, heroes, and friends.
DEADLINE IS MARCH 1!
Submission content should relate to these themes:
- Housing: history, memory, oral history, mapping, activism
- Land: public place, (re) development, urban planning
- Homelessness
- Gentrification/ Relocation/ Displacement
- Concepts of sustainability
- Environmental & social justice, past/ present local political movements
- Zapatista/ Indigenous Movements: Global comparisons of land, space, housing, urban planning
Artists who have an interest in creative political education, including graffiti and conceptual artists, that will help tell the story of the "housing crisis" in L.A. are encouraged to apply. For more information and application, please contact Joy at (323) 687-6743 or lunakul@yahoo.com
Memorial ride for slain cyclists
Posted January 6, 2006 by in Events
This Sunday, Time's Up! will be leading a memorial ride for the twenty-one bicyclists killed on the streets of New York in 2005. The rides will cover all five boroughs of the city and will pass ghost bikes for bicylists killed by cars. Visual Resistance will be installing a number of new ghost bikes for cyclists killed in the past year whose names have only just been made public. We will also be installing a memorial for the eight cyclysts whose names are unknown to us at the present time.
The police department and Department of Transportation are highly selective about the information they make available to the public. We know that 21 bikers were killed in 2005, but we have only been able to track down information on 13 deaths. Tragically, we are unable to honor the remaining 8 deaths by name. The tragedy of each loss is compounded by its coverup. In creating ghost bike memorials, we wish only to do a nice thing for the stranger who could be us. Sadly, the city bureacracy won't allow this remembrance.
So, Sunday we honor them all together. We will gather at 1pm in five different locations around the city, and meet up in Manhattan. The full details and locations are available on the Time's Up website. See you there.
GoreB at Orchard St. Gallery
Posted January 4, 2006 by in Events
GoreB is one of the most prolific street artists currently working in New York. He has a background in freight graffiti, and for the past year or two his hand-painted wood panels have been bolted to street signs in just about every neighborhood of Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan. He paints portraits of historical figures as often as friends and neighbors, often mixing in cryptic text. He's been a driving force in the Endless Love Crew and is a really nice guy to boot.
Those all reasons not to miss his new show at Skewville's Orchard Street Gallery:
Orchard Street Art Gallery presents Gore.bThursday, January 12, 2006 --- 7-10pm
Here are the highlights for the opening night:
* Special burlesque perfomance by Tamale Sepp and Cricket
* gore.b's mom is making appetizers
* walls will be painted by NYC's ELC Crew
* meeka will also have work in the show
Gore.b left the texas trains and came to NYC a few years ago, since his invasion NYC's poles have been filled with ever evolving gore.b art. Gore.b is infamous here at the gallery for the demolishing blows his thought provoking doodles created when he illustrated London's prominent figure heads helping the USA win Vs. the UK in "Doodledown: A Transatlantic Scrawl".
Show runs January 12 --- February 5, 2006
Orchard Street Art Gallery
Gallery hours: Saturday & Sunday 1-7pm or by appointment 917.682.6753
139 Orchard Street, between Rivington and Delancey, Manhattan.
Trains: F to 2nd Avenue or Delancey-Essex stops.
Paper Politics in Brooklyn
Posted December 27, 2005 by in Events
Mark your calendars for this great show:
PAPER POLITICS
An Exhibition of Politically and Socially Engaged Printmaking
Curated by Josh MacPhee
111 Front St., Suite 210
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Opening Thursday Januay 5th, 2006
Artist Reception: 5:00-8:00 pm
Show runs through February 19th
5+5 Gallery, in collaboration with Josh MacPhee and justseeds.org, is proud to present a major exhibition of politically and socially engaged printmaking at 5+5 Gallery. The exhibit showcases print art which uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. Originally hung in conjunction with Seattle Print Arts at the Phinney Center Gallery in Seattle, the show has been expanded for this Brooklyn engagement to include even more printmakers.The exhibition features work by over 180 artists from the US and around the world. It is curated by Josh MacPhee, a Troy, NY-based artist, activist and author, most recently of Stencil Pirates: A Global Study of the Street Stencil, published on Soft Skull Press. The exhibition includes work by artists who are primarily activists, as well as artists whose work may not always be politically motivated, but who wanted to respond to the monumental trends and events of our times.
Paper Politics presents a breathtaking tour of the many modalities of printing: relief, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, collagraph, monotype, photography. In addition to these techniques, we are delighted to include in the show finely crafted stencils and street printing, traditional media used to convey political thought.
If you can't make the show, you can get a copy of the catalogue online at justseeds.org --- it has images of all the work in the show as well as essays by Josh MacPhee Deborah Caplow of the University of Washington on political art and printmaking.
Graffiti in the Classroom
Posted December 3, 2005 by in Events
If you are a teenage student, frustrated with authority and looking for a creative outlet, or a teacher looking to challenge the institutions of art education, or a graffiti head looking to be a mentor to young folks, here's something that might interest you:
My mom, a high school art teacher at Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ recently showed me some of the work her students have produced. She encourages them to add personal elements to each art exercise they do. Clearly graffiti is an important element in these students' identities. One student drew a self-portrait incorporating graffiti style letters. Another drew a still life of wrenches with his name thrown up in the background. Another student drew a still life of his id tags (which each student is required to wear in the hallways) juxtoposed with his name written in bubble letters on a brick wall.
The recogniton of graffiti as an art form can lend itself to be a powerful lesson in the classroom.
Right now in New York City, graf legends Tracy 168, CoCo 144, Rate, Case 2, and JA are working with high school students at the Urban Academy to cover the walls of the school with tags, throw ups, and whatever else they can dream up. The school has been covered in chalkboard paint so that students and graf writers can piece up everywhere.
The project is open to the public, but you can only see it for the next 2 Saturdays at the Urban Academy in Julia Richman High School, 317 East 67th Street, from noon to 4 p.m.
This is indeed a radical approach to art education, and one that teachers should take notice of. Teaching non-traditional methods of art to students encourages them to think critically about existing institutions of authority in a positive way.
In a recent New York Times article, teachers and administrators commented on the importance of creating a supportive venue for students to express themselves through graffiti:
"You can't act like it doesn't happen," said Roy Reid, an Urban Academy teacher who has created a class that centers on street art. "You have to try to direct it and channel it instead of just saying, 'Don't do it.' "
Even the principal Herb Mack expressed support for the project noting that it stands in opposition to Mayor Bloomberg's criminalization of graffiti:
"I'm not sure how it's going to be seen by Klein or Bloomberg," he added, referring to Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein and the mayor. (A spokeswoman for Chancellor Klein and the Department of Education said the department supported the project, but added, "We would expect the school to make clear both the importance of appreciating art and respecting property.")
Mr. Mack, one of the founders of Urban Academy, said he had watched it develop into an unlikely collaboration. "It's enriching for the kids to be able to see legitimate artists at work and to critique it," he said. "They see some of these guys as the da Vincis and van Goghs of their world. They know who they are, and they're excited that they're here. In fact, they can't believe they're here."
AntiMart opening in Brooklyn
Posted December 2, 2005 by in Events
VR friends Garrison & Ray of Peripheral Media Projects are opening a store and commuity space in Bushwick next week. The store --- called Antimart --- opens next Thursday (December 8) and sounds fantastic. From their press release:
What would the world be like if people pushed to make their ideas reality? What if all those who said they cared actually supported their words through action? What if people didn’t view work as “work” because it was enjoyable? Antimart Inc, a revolutionary store in Brooklyn, answers these questions daily.Please join Antimart, Inc. Thursday, December 8th, for the launch of the flagship store in the quaint, lovely community of sweet Morgantown (a.k.a. East Williamsburg, Bushwick, The Wick, whatever). Located at 49 Bogart Street, 1 short block from the Morgan Ave. stop on the “L” train, the shebang will begin at 6PM and roll ‘til at 10PM with live video and music performances, artwork, and gravity-defying feats throughout.
In addition to showcasing outrageously uncommon design, fine art, fashion, film, video, documentaries, books, magazines, music, and jewelry, among others, Antimart provides a place where people can experience community and creativity live and direct. Many of the world’s, let alone New York’s, loveliest minds are represented via music, performance, spoken word, digital art, vj/dj battles, art installations, exhibits, film screenings, guest speakers, and more. Antimart collaborates with individuals and groups thriving in diverse fields of creativity, ingenuity, and commerce such as art, design, music, architecture, engineering, film, fashion, and sculpture. Ideas and participation from the public are highly encouraged and Antimart is interested in producing, hosting, and assisting events and programs enriching the cultural landscapes within and outside of its store and community. Please join us in this bold creative partnership and cultural experiment as we step out and celebrate what it is to be a human being in our times.
Participating designers showcasing the eclectic will include Yes Labs, JunkieZ, Peripheral Media Projects, Plan D Clothing, Cannonball Press, Yoav Bergner, Ryan Greer, C-Spot Designs, Mike Force, Michael de Feo, Anne Arden McDonald, m ss ng p eces, Adbusters, Big Noise Films, Art Prostitute, Evil Twin Booking, Black-Irish Apparel, Imagenode, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Marco Benevento, STS9, and more.
Antimart is the manifestation of a collection of ideas, of a vision, of people collaborating together to create something different, something meaningful, something sustainable, something with heart, soul, and substance. Most importantly, in creating this vibrant entity, we learn a lot about life and have loads of fun along the way.
Don't miss it. And if you're an artist or designer, you can contact the fellas through their website, antimart.net to see about participating in the new store.
Screening of The Battle of Algiers
Posted November 30, 2005 by in Events
Visual Resistance and The Empty Vessel Project are screening Gillo Pontecorvo's, The Battle of Algiers, on Thursday, Dec 1st at 8pm. The movie is starting AT 8:30pm. It's on a boat and there will be booze, bring your own popcorn.
$2-10 sliding scale donation.
Enter the event on the West side of the Carroll St Bridge, btn Nevins and Bond St, in Brooklyn. Its two blocks east of the Carrroll St F/G trains. Or take the R train to Union St. and walk two blocks South to Carroll, then take a right.
The film deals with the atrocities of war carried out by both sides, the Colonial Imperialists, and Insurgents utilizing terror tactics. There may be some striking parallels between the historical events depicted in the film and the ongoing war in Iraq. For folks who have or havn't seen this film, come and join us!
For viewpoints on the film:
Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape
Posted November 15, 2005 by in Events
Josh MacPhee --- badass stencilist, founder of Justseeds, workhorse behind the Celebrate People's History posters, curator of the Paper Politics show and Street Art Workers campaign, and all-around nice guy --- is giving a slideshow and talk this Sunday that you don't want to miss:
Taking Control of Your Visual LandscapeA Talk and Slideshow by Josh MacPhee
Novemeber 20th, 7PM
Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St., 212.777.6028
Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape is a presentation about just that, how our visual environment controls our social space from the top down, and ways to contest this. We will begin with a discussion of how corporations and the state use our environment, the "visual landscape," to create a monologue of control, and how this monologue frames our thoughts and behaviors. A slide show will be presented displaying an extremely broad array of styles and techniques of intervening in this system, spanning across both decades and continents. These images provoke peoples’ imaginations as to what a real public dialogue on the street might look like and show how possible it is. We will then discuss what seems to work or not work in terms of communicating on the street.
Josh gives a hell of a slideshow and is one of the smartest thinkers in the street art universe. Don't miss it.
Darius Jones presentation
Posted November 10, 2005 by in Events
If you're a regular reader, you know that Darius & Downey are among our favorite artists. Their work is constantly brilliant: beautiful, imaginative, funny, and challenging. Well, Friday night Darius Jones will be giving a slideshow and talk on graffiti and street art at Coooper Union. Details:
Speech and slideshow on graffiti and streetart
Friday, November, 11th @ 8PM - Free
Cooper Union
Hewitt Building-Hewitt Auditorium
41 Third Ave., between 6th and 7th streets
Not to be missed. (Via Street Res.)
3 Cities Against the Wall
Posted November 10, 2005 by in Events
The long-awaited Three Cities Against the Wall show opened last night at ABC No Rio. If you missed it, no worries: the show runs through December, and the organizers have a series of events throughout the next few weeks. A little background on the show:
Three Cities Against the Wall is an exhibition protesting the Separation Wall under construction by Israel in the Occupied Territories of Palestine. This project involves groups of artists in Ramallah, Palestine; Tel Aviv, Israel; and New York City. The show will be held simultaneously in all three cities in November 2005.Through this collaborative exhibition, the organizers and participating artists will draw attention to the reality of the Wall and its disastrous impact on the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by the separation of Palestinian communities from each other and from their fertile lands, water resources, schools, hospitals and work places, thereby “contributing to the departure of Palestinian populations,” as the International Court of Justice has warned.
The wall also destroys the human spirit. Spiritual and cultural life cannot survive under these conditions, and we, as artists, find it necessary to fight this crime with the means we possess.
The show features a wide range of artists, working in all different mediums. There is a talk planned for tonight at ABC No Rio, and several others in the next few weeks:
ARTISTS RESPOND TO THE WALL:--- Thursday, November 10 at 7:30pm at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street;
--- Tuesday, November 15 at 7:30pm at VoxPop, 1022 Cortelyou Road, Brooklyn
REPORTBACK:
--- "Three Cities" artists Sara Danielle Frank and Tom Lewis will discuss the exhibition following their return from Ramallah and Tel Aviv:
--- Tuesday, November 22 at 7:30pm at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street
This is a really ambitious project which deserves support. Don't miss it!
Really Really Free Market
Posted November 1, 2005 by in Events
Saturday, October 29, was New York City's 2nd Annual Really Really Free Market. The day was filled with free food, massages, a piñata, a Dia de los Muertos altar, music, piles of useful yet random things and, of course, a stenciling workshop by Visual Resistance.
The picture on the right was taken by Ida Benedetto. Click here to check out the rest of the Really Really Free Market pictures she posted to the NYC Indymedia website.
Here are some reasons why the Really Really Free Market is so great:
- Because there is enough for everyone.
- Because sharing is more fulfilling than owning.
- Because corporations would rather the landfills
overflow than anyone get anything for free.
- Because scarcity is a myth constructed to keep us at
the mercy of the economy.
- Because a community-building day outside is better
than anything money could buy.
Screening tonight: To Be Seen
Posted October 28, 2005 by in Events
Our friend Alice Arnold is screening her great documentary To Be Seen tonight (Friday, October 28) at DCTV. To Be Seen is a 26-minute film about the ways street artists in New York City interact with public space. It features revealing interviews with Swoon, Dan Witz, Ryan Watkins-Hughes, Vinnie Ray, Michael DeFeo, and others. From the director's description:
"To Be Seen"is a study of visual culture, of urban culture and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art. The film takes a critical look at our consumer society by looking at the practice of street art in New York City.The subculture of street art is significant because it embodies within it a sense of subversiveness, which is rare in today's culture of consumerism and political amnesia. Street art functions as a way of 'taking back the streets.' Streets are public spaces, but increasingly public spaces are being privatized - through security cameras, Business Improvement Districts, and the profusion of corporate marketing. This form of art, that is not a commodity (there is no price tag), that is somewhat ephemeral, and that tends to address current political and/or cultural issues, will be examined as a form of public expression, a form of media and a means of political and social protest.
The film is showing tonight at 7pm with a number of other short films. DCTV is at 87 Lafayette St, two blocks below Canal St., in Manhattan.
Stencil Workshop at Really Free Market
Posted October 27, 2005 by in Events
Some of our favorite neighborhood anarchists have been busy organizing the second annual Really, Really Free Market, set for this Saturday at St. Mark's Church. The RRFM is a chance to meet folks, get rid of good old stuff you know you shouldn't keep, and find treasure amongst others' trash. More on it here. It's a very relaxed and fun event, with impromptu activities scattered throughout the day.
A few members of VR will be hosting a stencil workshop at 1pm. Stop by if you're interested in trading tips and tricks, sharing your skills or learning someone else's, or just saying hello. Bring materials if you can --- cardboard, manilla folders, markers, x-acto knives, paint, etc. --- or borrow some of ours. We'll have supplies and stencil templates for people to work on. See you there.
Photo at top by Ida, from a series on one of our previous workshops.
Street Magic in Cleveland
Posted October 5, 2005 by in Events
Any Midwest readers, be sure not to miss Street Magic, the new show curated by Tod Seelie. The show features work by Swoon, Darius & Downey, Akay &Adams, Jorge Rodriguez Gerada, and Zevs. From Tod's description:
Every artist in this exhibition challenges the understanding of exactly what is and who controls public space. Whether through subtly embellishing the visual experience of an area, or by aggressively changing it to suit their vision, these artists have expanded the understanding of what art is and where it belongs.
The show is up throughout October, full details here. If you can't make the show in person (we can't), you can get a sense of it by reading up on the artists involved. See expecially Swoon's interview with Jorge Rodriguez Girada and Akay's Traffic Island and Zoo projects. Also, don't forget that you can still catch Darius & Downey's show at the Jen Bekman gallery until October 22.
WW3 Illustrated anniversary
Posted October 4, 2005 by in Events
Peter Kuper sends word that the next issue of World Word 3 Illustrated is ready to hit the streets, and that this issue marks the magazine's 25th anniversary. They're celebrating both events with a party and exhibition Thursday night at Exit Art:
EXIT ART presents an exhibition and the release of World War 3 illustrated's 25th anniversary issueThursday, Oct. 6th, 2005, 6-8pm
475 10th Ave. (at 36th St.)
The release party will also be the opening of a show of original art from WW3 with many of the artists in attendance. Show will remain on display through Oct 27th
If you're not familiar with World War 3 Illustrated, you're missing out. The magazine has cultivated an incredible array of artists, many of whom are featured in #36. The new issue is called "Neo Con" and was edited by Ryan Inzana and Peter Kuper, features a cover illustration by Sue Coe and contributions from Eric Drooker, Seth Tobocman, Sabrina Jones, Mac McGill, Ryan Inzana, James Romberger, Chuck Sperry, Nicole Schulman, and Joe Sacco's account as an embedded journalist in Iraq.
Full details on the anniversary event after the jump:
EXIT ART presents
an exhibition and the release of
World War 3 illustrated
25th anniversary issue
THURSDAY, OCT. 6TH, 2005
6-8 PM
475 10TH AVE. (AT 36TH ST.)
NYC 10018
Gallery hours
Tues-Thurs 10-6
Fri 10-8
Sat 12-8
(212) 966-7745
Overspray show at Orchard Street Gallery
Posted September 14, 2005 by in Events
The good folks who put out Overspray Magazine, the stencil/street art glossy that celebrates its first anniversary this month, are setting up a show at Skewville's Orchard Street Gallery and it sounds like a biggie:
Overspray Magazine PresentsPICK UP THE PIECES
New York, NY, September 2005 --- Overspray Magazine, the world’s first and only magazine dedicated 100% to street art, have assembled a blowout exhibition of over 150 works by established and up and coming street artists to be held at The Orchard Street Gallery, 139 Orchard street between Delancey and Rivington. The exhibition will be on view from September 22-26, with an opening party on Thursday, September 22 at 7:30PM. The opening party will feature sounds by DJ Nature from Puerto Rico, free copies of brand new Overspray Issue #4, and, because they love you, free drinks.
PICK UP THE PIECES will feature works by Pisa73 and Evol from CT’INK in Berlin, Hammo, Sixten, Dr3w, Fremantle, New York’s ELC, Michael Defeo, Parskid, Tyler Kline, Peat Wollaeger, Asbestos and Creeper among others. The art will be priced as low as possible -- between $25 and $200 – and will be sold right off the wall.
Full listing in the extended entry:
PICK UP THE PIECES will also mark the completion of Overspray Issue #4, and the magazines one year anniversary. The sumptuous glossy magazine will include artist interviews with a focus on art that translates into fashion. Get a peek at clothing lines by NYC’s own Claw, I love you, Robots will Kill, and Germany’s Superflu Societe and Momo Collective. Overspray Issue #4also includes an international group of stencil artists who submitted hand-stenciled clothing for one of the hottest photo shoots of summer on NYC’s Frying Pan boat. Also get to know the magic and splendor of Skewville and TOWER.
Besides marking the premiere of Issue #4, PICK UP THE PIECES will launch the new Overspray website, which will be the most comprehensive, informative and interactive street art website on the web. The new site will have galleries where artists can upload their work and have it critiqued by peers, interactive forums with free membership, event listings as well as reviews
of past events and videos and audio clips from interviews.
Overspray is the world’s first and only 100% street art magazine. The quarterly magazine is an entirely independent, artist run publication, with international contributors and distribution. Overspray features artists working on the street and in public spaces as well as on other mediums including clothing, which is the theme for Overspray Issue #4.
Wobbly centennial celebration at CUNY
Posted September 12, 2005 by in Events
From Nicole Schulman, co-editor of Wobblies! the wonderful comic history of the Industrial Workers of the World:
100th Anniversary of the Wollblies: A New York City Celebration of the IWW CentenaryTuesday, September 13, 6:30pm
CUNY Graduate Center - 365 5th Avenue (at 34th St), NYC
Free admission
The hundredth anniversary of the Industrial Workers of the World will be celebrated by artists, historians, musicians and today's Wobbly organizers. The event will feature performances, talks and a slide show commemorating the Wobblies role in Labor history. Featuring:
--- DANIEL GROSS (Starbucks Workers Union, IWW)
--- PAUL BUHLE (historian; Senior Lecturer, Browne University; co-editor of 'Wobblies! A Graphic History')
--- HENRY FONER (Labor activist, musician, historian)
--- JOHN PIETARO (protest musician, Labor organizer, writer)
--- PETER KUPER (artist)
--- NICOLE SCHULMAN (artist, co-editor of 'Wobblies! A Graphic History')
--- SABRINA JONES (artist)
--- SETH TOBOCMAN (artist)
This event will also be the official release party of the new CD 'I DREAMED I HEARD JOE HILL LAST NIGHT...A CENTURY OF IWW SONG' by John Pietaro & The Flames of Discontent
Plus, an exhibit of original art from the "Wobblies!" book will be up in the exhibition hall (near the student center, ground floor) at CUNY grad center from Sept. 1 through Sept. 23rd.
Comics vs. prisons
Posted September 11, 2005 by in Events
Several artists who contributed to the Wobblies book are hosting a slide show/discussion/book party for the Real Cost of Prisons Project:
The creators of three comic books about the effects of mass incarceration will show slides and discuss their work, along with activists who are using the comics to educate and organize for less reliance on prisons and more just policies and practices.After 30 years of the "War on Drugs" and tough-on-crime laws, America's prison population has skyrocketed to the highest in the world. Lois Ahrens, director of the Real Cost of Prisons Project, collaborated with Sabrina Jones, Kevin Pyle and Susan Willmarth to create three 20-page comic books,"Prisoners of the War on Drugs," "Prison Town: Paying the Price," and "Prisoners of a Hard Life: Women and Their Children," which are distributed to activists and educators. Requests pour in, hand-written from inside prisons, or emailed from lobbyists and family support groups.
LOIS AHRENS will discuss her choice of comics as an organizing tool. Artists SABINA JONES and KEVIN PYLE will project images and read from the comics. CHRISTINA VOIGHT will speak from her perspective as someone who has survived being incarcerated and is now doing her doctoral work on the related issues of women and children of incarceration.
@ Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
594 Broadway, Suite 401, NYC
Between Houston and Prince St.
Monday, September 19, 2005, 6:30pm
Free Admission
Benefit for Katrina Victims TONIGHT!
Posted September 10, 2005 by in Events
A night of political spoken word, folk, & hip hop to raise money for the Katrina victims. Show your love and support!
Saturday September 10th, 2005, 7:00 pm - ???
STAY GOLD GALLERY, 451 Grand St, Williamsburg,
$5-$20 sliding scale all proceeds will be donated to AmeriCares
Performances by:
Alixa & Naima (Climbing poeTree), Bonfire Madigan, Cameron Hull, Dynasty Handbag, Honeychild, Maija Garcia, Tippy, TK Webb & Shannon, & More
Musicians bring instruments if you want to jam or perform.
Bring your $ and they'll provide the beer and the booze til it is gone.
Darius & Downey's "We're on it" opening today!
Posted September 7, 2005 by in Events
NYC based artists Darius and Downey have their debut gallery opening, today at the Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring St, from 6-8pm.
Darius & Downey create street installations parodying street signs, somtimes as "fine art," while other times using well known traffic symbols that are often overlooked.
We're on It uses humor to underscore institutional regulation of public behavior and to provoke awareness of how this control affects the evaluation of art, self, and social status. Subtle, comic and often provocative, Darius + Downey surprise their viewers with their reactions to how property, space and personal experience overlap in an era of privatization. Using found and forgotten remnants of urban architecture, Darius + Downey reinvent public objects and reinsert them into the every-day landscape. Street signs, cement bricks and public telephones in unexpected places are manipulated to create personal relationships with each other and with passersby. These temporary disruptions � persisting as little as minutes and as long as months � toy with interrelations between individuals as they inhabit public and private space.
I really appreciate and enjoy how beautiful and provocative their work can be, and get excited every time I discover a new peice on the street. Some of the VR collective have expressed sadness when their neighborhood Darius & Downey pieces were destroyed. So not only engage the viewer to question their surroundings, they become a welcome part of the visual landscape.
Congratulations to the both of them, they are hard working fellas and have totally earned this opportunity! The show will be up from September 7th to October 22nd, for those that can make it at a later date.
ABC No Rio Anniversary
Posted July 28, 2005 by in Events
This weekend ABC No Rio celebrates its 25th anniversary with a lineup of art, music, and performance that showcases the legendary art/activist squat's place in Lower East Side culture. The open house Friday night at 7 will feature art by Christopher Cardinale, Fly, and Seth Tobocman, and the weekend continues with a whole host of great events.
ABC No Rio was founded after a collective of artists took over an abandoned building on New Years Eve, 1979 to stage the Real Estate Show, an exhibition about housing and land use issues. The show was shut down by the police, and the city let the artists use an empty storefront at 156 Rivington as a concession. Over 25 years later, the collective that runs ABC No Rio is trying to raise about $150,000 to officially purchase and renovate the building. You can donate here, read more about their history here, and get the full details on the anniversary celebration here.
Street Art Panel Lecture Tonight!
Posted July 25, 2005 by in Events
Michael De Feo organized a panel lecture at the McNally Robinson bookstore on Prince Street in New York City for tonight July 25th, 7 pm. It's titled, "The City as Collaborator: Documenting Contemporary Art on the Street". Thus far the panelists include Kelly Burns, Martha Cooper, Dan Witz and Michael De Feo. The moderators are Marc and Sara of Wooster Collective.
Also check out Michael's recent flower paste-ups in Colorado, the pics are gorgeous.
Me & You & Everyone We Know
Posted July 7, 2005 by in Events
...will be at the opening of Swoon's gallery show at Deitch Projects tonight. For her debut solo show, Swoon has transformed the gallery into a giant, precarious dreamscape. It's a real knockout.
The opening is tonight, July 7, from 6--9pm, at 76 Grand St. in Soho. Full details here. The show will be up until August 13.
Design of Dissent-- political art show at SVA
Posted July 1, 2005 by in Events
This art show ends tomorrow!!! Sorry I didn't post it earlier. Go see it if you can.
The Design of Dissent ends Saturday, July 2, 2005
School of Visual Arts presents “The Design of Dissent,” an exhibition of over 100 political posters and other graphic art from around the world, curated by SVA faculty, board member and legendary designer Milton Glaser and graphic designer and SVA faculty, Mirko Ilić.The exhibition and book examine the varied, vital graphic response to the constraints of government and the “powers that be” from around the globe.
“The Design of Dissent” showcases posters, books, buttons, magazines and other ephemera from the 1960s to the present, from countries such as Israel, Palestine, the former Yugoslavia, Russia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Iran, Turkey, Bosnia, Serbia, Spain, Poland, Malaysia, Germany, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico and the United States.
The graphic works tackle a variety of issues ranging from peace, animal rights, gun control, religion, the Iraq war, equality, women’s rights, gay rights and the corporate world. Milton Glaser articulates the power and need for dissent in modern life. “Part of the characteristic of dissent when it’s at its best is fueled by empathy, and it’s fueled by the idea that other people matter, and that if somebody is hurt or victimized, we are all hurt or victimized. It is necessary for dissent to be expressed. It has to be expressed because to protect democracy, it’s the only hope we have."
If you can't make it to the show, there is a book with all the artwork and you can view some of the posters on this website.
Dreamland Artist Club premiere
Posted June 16, 2005 by in Events
Fans of Os Gemeos' mural at Coney Island won't want to miss the unveiling of the Dreamland Artist Club project. Organized by Steve Powers (aka ESPO) and funded by Creative Time, Dreamland got 17 contemporary artists to make hand-crafted signs for Coney Island vendors and sites and 10 more to make prizes for game booths. Details:
Art Tours of the 40 + Dreamland Artworks. June 18 tours leave at 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, and 4:30 p.m. and then every Saturday and Sunday at 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. or by request throughout the summer from THE CLUBHOUSE (1206 Surf Ave.). Win artist designed prizes at participating arcade games. Opening Party @ Ruby's on the Boardwalk, 5:00-8:00 p.m. FREE TIGER BEER AND DOOR PRIZES!
The Dreamland website has previews of each artist's contribution. Details and directions. Thanks to A'yen and Hustler of Culture for the tip.
Weekend of Resistance for Jeff "Free" Luers
Posted June 10, 2005 by in Events
Open the Cages: A Night of Political Prisoner Support
Saturday, June 11
7PM-2AM
$8-10 donation. sliding scale-no one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds benefit the Jeffrey Luers Legal Fund and Jericho NYC. Contact: freefreenow@mutualaid.org
DUMBA Art space, 57 Jay Street [between Front and Water Streets]. Down under the Manhattan bridge in Brooklyn. F train to York Street. Exit train, make right, go two blocks down Jay Street. DUMBA is on your right side.
There will be food donated by Foodswings, veggie chili dawgs, info-tables of radical groups, pinatas, copious amounts of beverages, a DJ dance party [starting around 11pm] and some surprises!
7pm -- The NYC premiere of the film '22/8: the Jeffrey Luers Story'
8-9pm -- Speakers Ashanti Alston, Andy Stephanian, and representives from the Jeffrey Luers Defense Network and Jericho NYC.
9-11pm -- Music by Cipher, Casey Neill, and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra
For more info go to freefreenow.org
Saying Good-bye to #9
Posted June 9, 2005 by in Events
As some of you know already the 9 train's final departure occured on May 31st. We all know that sometimes saying good-bye is hard to do. So why not come out with friends and family "1 more time for the 9." Gospel music, story-telling, dancing, surprises, and of course 9's! Not convinced? Check out pics from the Q's final day. Also read the Gothamist post.
Meet at Chambers St. Station Uptown 1 train--last car. 9pm sharp. Tonight June 9th!
DanZine in NYC
Posted June 7, 2005 by in Events
A great exhibit about the history of Danzine is currently showing for FREE at the Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, City University of New York until June 25, 2005. The address is 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY and the Gallery Hours are Tues-Sat 12-6 pm.
Danzine began 10 years ago in Portland, OR by and for exotic dancers, escorts, and lingerie models. Cutting and pasting the first issue on a folded piece of paper, Danzine was left "in every dressing room where a gal provided entertainment and labor." From that, several community outreach programs were initiated. StreetReach entered the community and offered a no nonsense needle-exchange program. DanceReach was founded to educate women on STD's and unwanted pregenancies. The Sex Work Task Force, working with local Portland agencies, investigated the risk of HIV transmission among sex workers there. Lastly, the Danzine Resource Room, with various resources and services, provides a safe place for people to meet and talk about their experiences in and outside of the industry. DanZine has also helped to create a space for newer publications like Spread Magazine.
Here is a description of the show from their website:
"This installation recreates 'Switzerland', a neutral space within the Danzine agency where one could retreat to a small beautiful room to read, watch videos or take a time out. From the Danzine Archives come paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, collage, covers of the publication danzine, framed film festival and benefit art auction posters, books/pamphlets on harm reduction such as syringe exchange, overdose prevention and safer sex, safer sex supplies, gear, post cards and the last Danzine T-shirt. "
Rally Against Ratner!
Posted June 5, 2005 by in Events
As we enter the summer months, the fight against massive urban development in the city will be warming up. The West Side Highway Stadium plans have been postponed until this Monday, setting up a dramatic situation that may have ramifications on whether or not the city will become home to the 2012 Olympics. In Brooklyn the opposition to a stadium and development complex situated around the Atlantic Railyards will be holding a rally this Tuesday, meeting up at Brooklyn Borough Hall at 5pm and arriving at City Hall at 6pm. To download flyers go to the Develop Don't Destroy site.
Screening Tonight-- Speak Out: I Had an Abortion
Posted June 2, 2005 by in Events
If you can please try to make it to uniondocs tonight for a screening of Speak Out: I Had an Abortion. Before the film begins artists Linda Zacks and Swoon will be on hand presenting their work and afterwards there will be a discussion with the filmmakers and some of the women from the film.
The following is text from the film's webpage:
"1.3 million women get abortions each year in the U.S. alone. For most it is a secret. The debate itself is loud and paralyzing while the voices of the women who get abortions are submerged.
"Speak Out: I Had an Abortion," directed by Gillian Aldrich and co-produced by Aldrich and Jennifer Baumgardner, documents the stories of 11 women ranging in age from 21 to 85. The film cuts across race, religion, region, class, sexuality, and politics--demonstrating that abortion effects all women."
As part of the film's outreach to change perceptions and attitudes about abortion Jennifer Baumgardner has designed a simple t-shirt reading "I Had an Abortion,"explaining that "About a year ago, I decide to work on a DIY (do-it-yourself) project to encourage women to “come out” about their abortion procedures. The political reason behind it was that I believe that one of the reasons it is so easy to demonize abortion is that the issue is often isolated from the very women (our mothers, sisters, friends, grandmas, selves) that have abortions." Additionally, she also produced cards "to be distributed to abortion clinics that read “If you’ve had an abortion, you don’t have to be sorry” and then listed resources such as non-judgmental counseling, the religious coalition for choice, ways to be involved politically, and how to raise money for your or another woman’s procedure."
You can purchase shirts from Clamor and to order cards, contact jennifer@manifesta.net.
photo by Tara Todras-Whitehall can be found here.
Critical Mass Warming Up!
Posted June 1, 2005 by in Events
May's Critical Mass proved to be festive and one of the largest in recent memory. After months of police intimidation, threats, and arrests this month's ride went off relatively smoothly. About 500 or so riders convened together on the streets of the city starting from Union Square (and elsewhere) and eventually ended up at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. This is not to say that the police have changed their stance.
11 arrests, helicopters overhead, and undercovers abound the NYPD continue to waste money and create unwanted tension at an otherwise safe and friendly event. Thanks goes out to Freewheels who once again provided arrestees with loaner bikes through their Steal it Back! program.
And great work by our friends from Notanalternative/Change You Want to See Gallery who helped facilate a huge amount of cardboard visuals for the ride and for the performances by Rev. Billy and his Choir. Check out pics here.
If you haven't yet donate to the TimesUp legal defense fund!
Also, continue to check out and send your work to our new webpage dedicated to Critical Mass art!
Still We Ride!
Wobblies in Brooklyn
Posted May 31, 2005 by in Events
Labor History Celebration
Remember the Past --- Organize for the Future
Nicole Schulman sends word of an upcoming event celebrating the Industrial Workers of the World and the new book Wobblies:
Picnic and educational entertainment Saturday June 4th, from 2-5 pm at Fort Greene Park, followed by an evening of music, refreshments and entertainment 8pm-midnight, at Dumba Space at 57 Jay Street in Dumbo, 2 blocks from the York Street F train stop. The picnic is free and open to the public. For the evening events we are asking for a suggested $5 donation. In case of rain the afternoon, entertainment will be added to the evening program.The days events will be part of the commemorations of the gathering of top labor organizers from across the continent that met to expand the labor movement to include all working people skilled or unskilled, male or female, regardless of race, religion or any other distinctions. This lead to the formation of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905, we are celebrating their centennial. These labor organizers brought creative energy, free speech, new strategies, and lots of music, jokes and art, to the labor movements.
At Ft Green Park music will be provided by John Pietro, actors will present the words of labor leaders Big Bill Haywood, Lucy Parsons, and Mother Jones.
The evening events at Dumba will include more music and multi media presentations by Brooklyn labor artists commemorating the achievements of the past such as the 8 hour day and helping with the today's drive to organize in the sweat shops and fast food shops. Graphic artist Nicole Schulman will present a biography of labor martyr Frank Little. Tom Keough will give a presentation of art about coal miners and sweatshop workers.
This is being organized by the New York City IWW Centennial Committee.
For more information please contact David at 718- 769-3837
Come out if you can! Image at top is a Nicole's portrait of Frank Little, from the Wobblies! book. Read more about the book here, or get a copy here.
Busy weekend for bikers
Posted May 26, 2005 by in Events
This weekend is chock-full of wonderful events for the two-wheeled among us:
STILL WE SPEAK! A rally to support free speech and freedom of assembly
Friday, May 27, 6:00 p.m.
Union Square South, 14th St & Broadway, Manhattan
Come join us as we speak out against NYC's suppression of our rights to free speech and assembly. The NYPD continues to harass and arrest cyclists during group rides like Critical Mass and has recently revoked or denied permits for peaceful rallies, such as those of the anti-war demonstrators. Speakers include City Councilmember Gail Brewer, Civil Rights Attorney Norman Siegel and other distinguished speakers. Performers include Rude Mechanical Orchestra. For more information please visit stillwespeak.org
CRITICAL MASS (Manhattan)
Friday, May 27, 7 p.m.
Union Square North (or anywhere else)
Link up! Find other bikers and ride together for safety and strength. The most recent flier lists at least four starting spots. Choose one that appeals to you.
Lots, lots more after the jump:
REVEREND BILLY TIME'S UP! FUNDRAISER SHOW and AFTER-PARTY
Friday, May 27, 8:30 p.m.
St. Mark's Church, Corner 10th St. & 2nd Ave.
$10+ (nobody turned away)
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir will raise money for TIME'S UP!, which is being sued by the City. The show will include a re-enactment in cardboard of the fateful night of April 27th, when cyclists threw their bikes over the St. Mark's fence. There'll also be food, music, silent auction and free valet bike parking.
BICYCLE FETISH DAY
Sat., May 28, noon --- 6:00 p.m.
Havemeyer Street between Grand and Hope Streets
(just over the Willamsburg bridge)
How HOT is your bike? Come to Williamsburg this Saturday and show it off! BICYCLE FETISH DAY is a chance for all of us celebrate our babies. The block will be closed to car traffic and open to all people who fetishize their beloved bicycles. There will be contests, jousting, food, music and prizes by local bicycle friendly vendors. TIME'S UP! will be rocking the tunes on our sound bike and whipping out some serious smoothies on our latest creation, Sweet Blenda, the Bike Blender.Representing their unique styles will be clubs such as; The Civic Riders Bicycle Club, The Moustache Riders, Classic Riders Bicycle Club, Puerto Rico Schwinn Club, Black Label Bicycle Club, Bicycle Works NYC, Bicycle Cherry, Foodswings, NYC Bikes.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST:::
Black Label's Banana Hammock party
Saturday, March 28th
The Chicken Hut (169 spencer and willoughby, bklyn)
$3/complimentary slim jims, hot dogs, baby carrots
djs porkchop, andersonic, dirty fingers
You MUST wear spandex. All you unisex uniform participants have your outfits already, everyone else find your old swim team speedos, bike shorts, tubetops, or get to the dollar store now.
Art-making for Critical Mass
Posted May 19, 2005 by in Events
Our friends from Not An Alternative / The Change You Want To See are making props this weekend to help Reverend Billy throw a post-Critical Mass benefit for Time's Up. UPDATE: Note date change at bottom of the post!
ART-MAKING: CRITICAL MASS + REV BILLY TIME'S UP! BENEFITIt's bike month and summer's almost here. Critical Mass will be a big one...even bigger with an ARMY OF CARDBOARD BIKES! Join the Not an Alternative collective and Time's Up! for cardboard prop production and set construction for next week's Critical Mass and Reverend Billy AFTERPARTY show and TIME'S UP! benefit.
Cardboard bikes will process from Union Square to St. Mark's church where we'll celebrate bike power and reenact that fateful RNC ride at the show later that evening. A cardboard set will include streets, traffic lights, more. No experience necessary...we'll have patterns and materials. Just bring yourself, your friends, and extra cardboard if you can.
They got cops, we got a cardboard army.
Where and When:
Sunday, May 22. 12-7 pm --- Time's Up! space (Houston & Mulberry)
Tuesday, May 24. 6:30-10pm --- Time's Up! space (Houston & Mulberry).
Beehive Collective visits NYC
Posted May 17, 2005 by in Events
A few weeks ago the Beehive Collective visited NYC. They were invited to Washington Square Park during the May Day weekend when the New World in Our Hearts Conference was happening. The Beehive members gave a narrative explanation of their Plan Colombia poster, after unfurling it out on the bricks of the park, in front the large crowd that assembled.
The Beehive Collective is a group of artists that create graphic posters about the intense web of effects from corporate globalization, the resistance in culture and the impacts of deregulation. The "bees" also create elaborate stone mosaic murals, one being created for MOFGA, Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, about agriculture and biodiversity.
The Beehive's Biodevastation poster was the first image of theirs I came across, in 2000. And ever since I have been amazed by their capability of representing the different aspects of globalization, in sort of a "food-web" poster mural, creating posters on the Free Trade Area of the Americas(F.T.A.A), the Latin American Solidarity Network, and currently the Plan Puebla Panama.They have traveled all over the Western hemisphere (North and South) gathering first-hand accounts from people most directly affected by these political and economic initiatives to place them in their imagery. And they do not forget to include the social movements and resistance amidst all of these overwhelming issues. Being sensitive to forms of cultural appropriation they are committed to using animal and insect metaphors to represent the struggles going on around the world. Which works out very well when they are doing "field research." I can remember a few different stories told to me by a "bee" about traveling in Colombia and Mexico, where indigenous communities would tell them about the different symbolic meanings that the regional creatures have for them. These aspects have been worked into the imagery and allow for the representation of ethnicity and culture without being "racial."
This is a super busy group of folks, and its necessary to note that they have distributed tens of thousands of posters and given hundreds of "narrative picture-lectures" thru grassroots and independant organizing! They are always looking for a hand in disseminating the fruits of their labor and for help with their various projects, so contact them through their website or email: pollinators(at)beehivecollective.org
If you happen to be in Maine in August visit the Collective's "beehive" for their ceremony celebrating the completion of renovations on their, soon-to-be, 100 year old Grange hall!
Critical Mass images on the street
Posted May 16, 2005 by in Events
Just added some new pictures to our photolog --- part of our ongoing visual campaign around Critical Mass. Go here for the pictures, here for the sources, and here for ideas on how to make your own.
We'd love to get more designs in our gallery, so if you've got some in the works, we'd really love to hear from you --- drop us a line at visual.resistance [at] gmail.com. Stencil design by Nino.
Bicycle Film Festival
Posted May 12, 2005 by in Events
Tonight is the beginning of the Bicycle Film Festival, a long weekend full of pro-bike movies at Anthology Film Archives. Two highlights from tomorrow's listings are a short about Josh Kinberg's Bikes Against Bush project, a brilliant project from last summer (think sky-writing, but with a bike), and the much-anticipated Still We Ride, a documentary about the Bloomberg/NYPD crackdown against Critical Mass. From the advance:
On Friday August 27, 2004 just days before the start of the Republican National Convention, a massive police operation was underway. By the end of the night 264 people were arrested. It marked one of the largest mass arrests in New York City's history - and the arrested had done nothing illegal.For many New Yorkers, August was the first time they heard of what has become a monthly ritual for New York City’s bike community – a free-forming ride called Critical Mass.
Still We Ride is a documentary that captures the joyous atmosphere of this August ride before the arrests began and the chaos that followed. It recounts how this ride first started in San Francisco over 10 years ago and chronicles the police crackdown and resulting court battles in New York over the last seven months. The movie takes on issues of civil liberties, surveillance, the power of mainstream media, and the benefits of alternative means of transportation.
Check the full schedule here. Here's the essential info:
Thurs., May 12 - Sun. May 15
Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Avenue (at 2nd Street)
Critical Mass tonight
Posted April 29, 2005 by in Events
Critical Mass is tonight --- for folks in NYC, remember that there are now four meeting spots: Union Square Park, Washington Square Park, Tompkins Square Park, and Madison Square Park, all at 7pm. Hopefully we can divide and conquer the cops!
VR folks will be giving out our new, free stickers, just in from the printers last night. Still we ride!
Free food, priceless conversation
Posted April 23, 2005 by in Events
Come one, come all: Visual Resistance is hosting a dinner this Sunday in Brooklyn. Toyshop Collective and friends kicked this thing off two weeks ago with the first in an ongoing series of free dinner gatherings at Rubulad, and challenged us to cook for the follow-up. There will be vegetarian & vegan food for about 40 people, first come, first served. Here's the details:
Sunday, April 24
Rubulad --- 338 Flushing, at Classon, Brooklyn (Map)
G train to Flushing or Classon stations, J,M,Z to Marcy, B61 bus to Flushing
7:00pm doors, 7:30pm dinner
Free (donations appreciated)
Now that you know where and when, you're probably wondering who and why. Find out after the jump:
Grub
A cheap, simple dinner for strangers and co-conspirators.
We are a small group of people who do a lot of other things in New York, like decorate subways and throw parties in the streets. We work with several collectives and art groups, like Toyshop, Madagascar Institute, Visual Resistance and Rubulad. At Grub we're just offering dinner.
Whether you are active in other collectives, your neighborhood, your backyard garden, or just new to town, we invite you to our table. To get a little squishy, we are looking for practical ways to build community. We are particularly inspired by weekly dinners served at squats in Amsterdam and Berlin, where you can get a cheap, tasty meal and catch up with friends in a cozy room. We like parties as much as anyone, but we think there should be places to talk without a pounding sound system.
We are not gourmands nor fancy cooks; we offer simple food simply prepared. We will only be able to serve 40 people, first come first serve. There will be plates for vegans and vegetarians alike. Please come early and hang out.
Wobblies! Release Party
Posted April 19, 2005 by in Events
The New York release party for the great new book Wobblies!, co-edited by Nicole Schulman, is set for next Friday at the new(ish) Vox Pop bookstore & coffeehouse in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Featuring multi-media presentations by: Mac McGill, Sabrina Jones, Tom Keough, Nicole Schulman and Seth Tobocman, it's sure to be a great event. Come out, buy a book, and say hello:
Friday April 29th, 8pm --- Free!
Release party for Wobblies! @ Vox Pop
1022 Cortelyou Road, Flatbush, Brooklyn (Map)
Directions: “Q” Train to Cortelyou Road --- exit to the Left, walk a few blocks.
Arts meeting on Williamsburg rezoning
Posted March 14, 2005 by in Events
This Thursday evening, the good people at Williamsburg's The Change You Want To See gallery space are hosting an emergency arts meeting to plan creative organizing against the city's proposed rezoning of the Williamsburg & Greenpoint waterfront.
They've been working with a bunch of arts organizations, as well as community-based groups like the North Brooklyn Alliance and the Williamsburg Warriors and doing strong, door-to-door outreach to gain community support for a Community Plan that would contain the height of new buildings, create low-income housing, preserve small businesses & light industry, and otherwise respect the neighborhood and its residents.
There will also be a hands-on art-making workshop this Sunday (March 20) at the gallery from 12-5. They're working on some pretty rad visual ideas, from props for demonstrations to street stuff...
Whether you live in the neighborhood or not --- I don't --- rezoning, eminent domain, and overzealous development will affect all Brooklyn residents (and Manhattan residents --- and Port Chester residents, New London residents, etc.) in the years to come. Drop us a line at visual.resistance [at] gmail.com if you're interested in getting involved. For mor background on Williamsburg/Greenpoint rezoning, check out the North Brooklyn Alliance website.
$pread Magazine launch party in NYC!
Posted March 14, 2005 by in Events
$pread Magazine launch party in NYC!
Wednesday, March 16th, 8pm at The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St
Party in New York City with: New York's hottest new punk band I LOVE YOU. Drag, dance, and dissent divas DALIPSTYXX, Playboy's first out lesbian Playmate STEPHANIE ADAMS, Off-Broadway interracial/interfaith comedy sensation EPSTEIN AND HASSAN of "The Black and the Jew", sexpert and author DUCKY DOOLITTLE, HOOK Magazine founders SHANE LUIJTENS and DANIEL W.K. LEE, DJ DESIGNER IMPOSTER Go-go wildness from the all-gender $PREAD DANCERS.
Also: Emcee Raven Snook raffles off t-shirts, magazines, and free passes to NYC strip clubs, $pread contributors read from the first issue, tarot readings, drink specials, and more!
Join sex workers, activists, and literati from around the world in celebrating the launch of the US's first independent sex industry magazine! (also a send off to co-editor Mary Christmas as she departs NYC for an indefinite period) Burlesque performers are to be announced.
Come early for the spectacular show and stay late for the band, DJs and dancing till 2am! Entry is $10 with a copy of the magazine, $7 without; sex workers get in for $8 with a magazine or $5 without.
$pread is the first magazine in the U.S. to explore the sex industry from the workers' perspective and includes articles by sex workers and their allies across the globe. Issue One features original articles by Jo Doezema, David Henry Sterry, and Katherine Frank, an exclusive interview with Carol Queen and contributions from Annie Sprinkle and Scarlot Harlot, as well as news, reviews and stories by sex workers all over the world. Topics covered include women of color in the American porn industry, anti-trafficking policy in Europe, the effect of the recent Tsunami on Asian sex workers, the Bangkok AIDS Conference, retiring fromstripping, and discrimination in Israel-Palestine.
BE THE FIRST TO GET A COPY AT THE LAUNCH PARTY!
A New World in Our Hearts May Day Conferance
Posted February 28, 2005 by in Events
There's a May Day conferance in the works! We'll keep you updated with more info.
A New World in our Hearts: Building for Revolution May Day Conference will be held in NYC
Thursday, April 28 – May 1
There will be workshops, skill shares, music, a really free market, a critical mass bike ride, parties, speakers, films, and more...
Some of the workshops we will be hosting:
-Bridging the Generational Divide: An open dialogue between older and younger radicals to learn from the past
-The A-word: Is Anarcho-pride Always a Good Thing? With the Curious George Brigade
-Networking: In what ways can radicals in different areas coordinate and work together better?
-Actively Supporting Political Prisoners
- Are computers secure? When and for what?
-Building Permanent Autonomous Zones: creating the infrastructure to support a successful revolutionary movement.
-Blogging the revolution: anarchists on the web, the potential and the limitations.
-Radical mental health.
-Free School education
Guerilla workshop space will also be available for those who don't organize with us ahead of time.
BAST Art Show and Book Release
Posted February 10, 2005 by in Events
BAST's First NYC Art Show "MAS VINO"
And the release of his new book "REVOLUTION DE PAPEL"
Opening Reception and Release Party: Saturday February 12, 6-9pm
Transplant Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist BAST titled “MAS VINO” This show will also celebrate the release of his new book "REVOLUTION DE PAPEL". A 60 paged soft covered book released in limited edition. Signed copied will be available on opening night. The exhibition will showcase a collection of new paintings on canvas... (more)
Bast is one of the first artists I noticed on the street when I woke up to street art years ago and i'm super excited to see some posters up in full, not ripped, torn, or weathered. So if your in NYC this weekend come out to the opening, or try to make it here while the show is up! The show will be exhibited from February 12-March 10, 2005 at: Transplant Gallery, 525 West 29th Street, second floor (bet. 10th and 11th Avenue).
For more of Bast's work check out: Pictures of Walls, as well as the VisualResistance Photolog for photos and updates from the opening!
Icarus Project Visioning Meeting NYC
Posted January 26, 2005 by in Events
For those who enjoyed the Icarus Project Art Show, here's their next event...
What: A meeting to talk about the near future of The Icarus Project in NYC and across the world where we hang out and eat good food and brainstorm exciting plans
When: This Sunday January 30th, 2005 1:00pm --?? (we have the space for the whole day)
Where: The Silvia Rivera Law Project 322 8th Avenue (Next to Duane Reade) 3rd Floor Manhattan, NYC
Who: For Anyone interested in talking about the near and far future of the Icarus Project in New York City and beyond. People who’ve talked about coming include members of Fountain House, the Freedom Center, the Icarus Project NYC Support Group, the NYU Students For Social Equality, The ABC No Rio Visual Arts Collective, Visual Resistance Collective, the New York Rat, the Teenage Lobotomy kids, Nsumi, the Curious George Brigade, David M. who presented about Hellerwork the other week, a bunch of other interesting folks.
This Sunday members of the Icarus Project and the Freedom Center and Fountain House are going to be coming to New York City to meet from as far away as California and Western Mass with the intention of figuring out ways we can all work together in the coming Spring. Beginning in April, the Icarus Project is going to be officially based out of the Fountain House building on 47th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues in Manhattan. What this means is still a little amorphous and what we’re hoping to do this weekend is figure some of it out.
Some things we already know: The Icarus Project is a new exciting visionary project with lots of
energy. Fountain House is an old established project with lots of resources. The Freedom Center is a growing project that does lots of grassroots radical mental health organizing.
Sascha will be there to talk about the work he and Ashley are doing this winter on a piece of writing which they hope will help to inspire a network of radical mental health support groups. He’s also going to present some visionary writings of Icarus members that have be posted
on the website for the general community. Will and Caty and others are going to talk about the exciting local community organizing work they’ve been doing with the Freedom Center. Alison and Elliot and some of the members of Fountain House are going to talk about the general philosophy and history of the place and how it’s put into practice on a day to day basis, the youth program at the House and the changes it’s going through, and the kind of things they’re hoping to see happen with the Icarus Project partnership. Folks from a number of colleges and universities and radical groups are going to talk about the work they do and how they want to get involved come the Springtime.
Basically we’re all going to hang out and eat a bunch of good food and talk about our visions for the future and do a bunch a brainstorming onhow we might make those dreams happen together. Come join us!
sascha (917) 733 9316
scatter[at]theicarusproject.net
And So Forth conference reportback
Posted January 23, 2005 by in Events
Had a great time at the AI Firefly conference yesterday. Met a lot of great artists and activists and listened on some great panels. At our discussion, we talked a little bit about our experiences working on the No RNC Poster Project and our inspirations for doing political street art and poster campaigns. The back-and-forth afterwards was interesting and useful, but we ran up against out time limit far too soon.
So, whether you were there or not, some of the questions that are still swirling in around my head are: Does political art change people's minds? Or is it meant more to create/strengthen communities? Who is the intended audience? How do you avoid preaching to the choir? Should artists try to "bomb the suburbs" or at least the red states?
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the conversation. Special thanks to Swoon and John Emerson for coming out. Big, big thanks to Esy and the rest of AI Firefly for the invite and the opportunity.
For those of you who were at the conference and are coming to the site for the first time, take a look around, add your comments, and drop us a line at visual.resistance@gmail.com.
Oh, and we'll try to get version of our zine up on the site sometime this week.
And So Forth conference
Posted January 20, 2005 by in Events
Just a brief reminder about this weekend's And So Forth conference at Office Ops:
We'll be participating in a panel along with Swoon on street art and political poster campaigns on Saturday at 2pm --- click here for complete details.
You can register for the conference in advance for $10, or at the door for $12. The comlete schedule is pretty damn impressive. Check out the whole site and stop by our panel for what should be an informal, fun discussion.
Teach-in "Aceh: Epicenter of Disaster"
Posted January 7, 2005 by in Events
This is happening this weekend, Saturday, in NYC! Sorry for such a short notice.
Teach-in "Aceh: The Epicenter of Disaster"
Featuring; Amy Goodman, of Democracy now!,
Alan Nairn, award-winning journalist and activist,
Warzain, Acehnise activist, and others.
The teach-in will cover the impact of the tsunami on Aceh as well as how the history of Aceh's oppression has affected the present situation. The event is free, but it is also a fundraiser for grassroots Indonesian and Acehnese organizations doing relief work on the ground in Aceh, so donations will be accepted.
Brief Background on Aceh:
Aceh (pronounced "Ah-chayh"), the province on the westernmost tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, was right near the epicenter of the largest earthquake and was also impacted by the largest Tsunami waves. The coastline of Aceh was shattered, countless villages were wiped off the map, and much of the capital, Banda Aceh, was flattened. The Indonesian government has confirmed over 100,000 deaths in the country; most of these dead are in Aceh.
Despite this level of devastation, Aceh has been getting proportionately less attention and assistance than most other areas. This is due to a combined set of factors.
First, a longstanding independence struggle by the Acehnese has led to a military invasion and "civil emergency" imposed by the Indonesian government. Up until the disaster struck, Indonesia had banned most journalists from Aceh. Indonesia is now relaxing that ban, but there are still few journalists present.
Second, because of the "civil emergency," there were no Western tourists in Aceh and, consequently, no interest by the Western media in the fate of their "own" people there.
Third, because of its corruption and its repressive attitude toward the Acehnese, the Indonesian government cannot be counted on to provide proper assistance. According to a report from one independent journalist in Banda Aceh, much aid is piling up unused at military bases and airports. He also reports that every night military forces are looting those homes still standing in Banda Aceh.
The event is free
Saturday, Jan 8, 2005
from 1:30-4:00pm
At The Community Church of NY
40 E 35th St. Manhattan
Donations to Aceh can be made through Greengrants
For more information contact:
EMERGENCY ACEH RELIEF
c/o Dhyta Caturani
275 Fort Washington Ave #6C
New York, NY 10032
646-251-2862
And So Forth conference
Posted December 23, 2004 by in Events
The Visual Resistance collective will be participating in a panel at the upcoming And So Forth conference --- our panel is called In the Eye of the Passerby: A Discussion on Street Art. The conference looks fantastic, and will be held January 22-23 at the Office Ops space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Here's more information from the release:
And So Forth: A Post-Inaugural Assembly is an out-of-the-ordinary conference on arts and activism presented by Amnesty International Firefly Project, THAW, Art is Permitted Everywhere, and FELT.
ASF was conceived as a response to the incredible profusion of engaged artistic projects, performances, and events that have been created in New York City this past year. The election is over, but our underlying social justice concerns in the US and elsewhere haven't disappeared?we've still got work to do. ASF is an opportunity for artists and activists of all sorts to come together to teach and discuss innovative, creative methods for raising social and political consciousness and effecting change. Please join us in celebrating past successes, evaluating past failures, and discussing what's next.
Featuring:
+ two days of panels, workshops and interactive discussions
+ a gallery exhibition juried by Aspara DiQuinzio and Christina Kukielski of the Whitney Museum
+ a film and video festival
+ a free post-conference resource guide featuring panel transcripts, artist bios, and activist resources
Here are some of the artists and organizations who will be present: Peter Kuper, Circus Amok, Mariam Ghani, Chitra Ganesh, Yury Gitman, UnionDocs, Blackkat, The Onion, David Rees, The Civilians, Gigantic Art Space, Andrea Liu, Marc Lepson, Dread Scott, Najla Said, Sophia Skiles, Music for America, Stephan Smith, Jazz Against War, Promotheus Radio Project, Paper Tiger Television, Soft Skull Press, Barbara Hammer, Globalvision, WITNESS, Apsara DiQuinzio, Tina Kukielski, and many more.
Check out the And So Forth site and take a look at the panels, workshops, discussions, films, performances, parties and exhibits that will be taking place on January 22nd + 23rd at OfficeOps in East Williamsburg.
Register! (Only $10 in advance or $12 at the door.) Sign up to volunteer! Sign up for workshops!
The Icarus Project Art Show
Posted December 6, 2004 by in Events
Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness: A Collection of Radical Visions from Bipolar Worlds
An Art Show and Community Gathering Sponsored by the Icarus Project
The Icarus Project was created in the beginning of the 21st century by a group of people diagnosed in the contemporary language as Bipolar or Manic-Depressive. Defining ourselves outside convention, we see our condition as a dangerous gift to be cultivated and taken care of rather than as a disease or disorder needing to be "cured" or "eliminated". With this double-edged blessing we have the ability to fly to places of great vision and creativity, but like the mythical boy Icarus, we also have the potential to fly dangerously close to the sun—into realms of delusion and psychosis--and crash in a blaze of fire and confusion.
At our heights we may find ourselves capable of creating music, art, words, and inventions which touch people's souls and shape the course of history. At our depths we may end up alienated and alone, incarcerated in psychiatric institutions, or dead by our own hands. Despite these risks, we recognize the intertwined threads of madness and creativity as tools of inspiration and hope in this repressed and damaged society. We understand that we are members of a group that has been misunderstood and persecuted throughout history, but has also been responsible for some its most brilliant creations. And we are proud.
Icarus will be presenting a spectrum of visions from people with bipolar disorder or related madness. Part of our intention in putting together this show is to educate viewers about the experience of bipolar. The artshow opens on December 16th, 2004 and is located at ABCnoRio on the lower east side of Manhattan at 156 Rivington Street, between Suffolk and Clinton Streets. For more information on ABCnoRio, check out their website at www.abcnorio.org.
VR at the New School 11/9
Posted November 5, 2004 by in Events
The Visual Resistance collective will join Swoon at a workshop on street art at the New School, sponsored by New School Students for a Democratic Society. Thanks to SDS for the invite – the event is free and open to the public, so please come out if you can.
