Lots doing with the Llano Del Rio Collective. Talk at Farmlab in LA, event in the Los Angeles River, guides and speakers bureau on the way. New Website ldrg.wordpress.com
(drawing at left by Katie Bachler).
Collaborations
Lots doing with the Llano Del Rio Collective. Talk at Farmlab in LA, event in the Los Angeles River, guides and speakers bureau on the way. New Website ldrg.wordpress.com
(drawing at left by Katie Bachler).
Continental Drift comes to L.A.
Control Society/Metamorphosis with Brian Holmesat the Public School in Los Angeles February 27 and 28th
http://occupyeverything.com/events/continental-drift/
Come down and participate in a two-day theory convergence, a "Continental Drift" seminar with the Paris and Chicago based theorist, Brian Holmes.
Though this Drift is situated on the West Coast in a time of University of California occupations and walkouts, it is connected to the budget cuts and "crisis" brought on by changing economies around the world and the emergence of a neoliberal control society over the past few decades. This drift aims to trace these situation and find ways for liberatory culture to supersede the moment.
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1. The Continental Drift; Control Society/Metamorphosis
2. On Brian Holmes and the Drift
3. UC Strikes and Beyond
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1. The Continental Drift; Control Society/Metamorphosis
Saturday, February 27 -Sunday, Feb. 28 @The Public School 951 Chung King Rd., Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Join us for a mostly horizontal seminar conversation with Brian Holmes, UC strike Organizers and Academics and independent intellectuals.
day 1. 2/27- control society
12 pm: disassociation (psychological effects/desire)
facilitators: Liz Glynn and Marc Herbst
2 pm: financialization & the UC crisis
facilitators: Aaron Benanav and Zen Dochterman
4 pm occupation/ collective speech
facilitators: Cara Baldwin, Nathan Brown, Maya Gonzalez, Evan Calder Williams
7 pm: discussion day one
facilitators: Brian Holmes, Solomon Bothwell
day 2. 2/28- metamorphosis
12pm: Autonomous Space
facilitators: Hector Gallegos, Robby Herbst
2 pm:. Precarity
facilitators: Christina Ulke, Sean Dockray
4 pm: Brian Holmes Lecture
7pm: Sharable Territories/ Bifurcation
facilitators: Jason Smith, Ava Bromberg
occupyeverything.com/events/continental-drift
Note: This is a collaboratively organized event. Organizers include Zen Doctherman, Cara Baldwin, Jason Smith, Sean Dockray, Liz Glynn, Solomon Bothwell, Christina Ulke, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst.
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2. On Brian Holmes and the Drift
Brian Holmes is an art critic, cultural theorist and activist, particularly involved with the mapping of contemporary capitalism.
An article Brian wrote that he asked to read in preparation for the drift:
http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/guattaris-schizoanalytic-cartographies/#sdfootnote10sym
Holmes on the UC Strikes:
http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/the-u-c-strike/
Journal interview we did with him from issue 4:
http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/4/holmes.html
Some publications by or with Brian Holmes:
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?S=R&wauth=Brian+Holmes&siteID=1JSk6CbYEf0-bBxS9UMaaFGtIjUV42joJA
The Drift has taken a variety of forms in its manifestations at 16 Beaver (2004-2006) in New York, through the Midwest's Radical Culture Corridor (2008) and in Zagreb Croatia (2008)
Here is An interview with Brian Holmes from the first continental drift in NYC in 2004.
http://www.16beavergroup.org/journalisms/archives/001168.php
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3. UC Strikes and Beyond
The Drift was independently organized though occurs in coordination with the
Beyond the UC Strikes working group.
The working group occured when folks who were participating in the strikes and talking about them decided to meet up the the Los Angeles Public School to see what could be done.
We are promoting these linked events.
http://joaap.org/other/drift/BeyondtheUCStrikes.html
http://occupyeverything.com/
The working group includes Organizers include Cara Baldwin, Solomon Bothwell, Micha Cardenas/Adzel Slade, Zen Dochterman, Sean Dockray, Ben Ehrenreich, Ken Ehrlich, Liz Glynn, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Elle Mehrmand, Marko Peljhan, Kenneth Rogers, Jason Smith, Cybelle Tondu, Christina Ulke, Caleb Waldorf, Michael Wilson and Kim Yasuda.
Action, Conversations, and Intersections an exhibition of participatory projects at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery January 24 - April 18, 2010
The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest contributed the artwork to the
right, a copy machine to be used by visitors to the gallery.
Text on wall behind copy machine reads "Relational aesthetics recapitulates avant-garde ideas and practices into a capital-friendly, service economy aesthetics." This is a quote from Stevphen Shukaitis and Erica Biddle from the New Issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest contributed the artwork to the
right, a copy machine to be used by visitors to the gallery.Text on wall behind copy machine reads "Relational aesthetics recapitulates avant-garde ideas and practices into a capital-friendly, service economy aesthetics." This is a quote from Stevphen Shukaitis and Erica Biddle from the New Issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Issue #7
http://joaap.org/7/7.html
Available in print ($7)
http://www.joaap.org/press.htm#issue7
or online (free)
GO POST-MONEY!!!!
A new publication of conversations and thoughts reflecting on responses to economic & environmental conditions.
Edited by Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Christina Ulke.
Print design by Jessica Flieschmann.
Intern help Lucy Dinnen
http://joaap.org/7/7.html
Available in print ($7)
http://www.joaap.org/press.htm#issue7
or online (free)
GO POST-MONEY!!!!
A new publication of conversations and thoughts reflecting on responses to economic & environmental conditions.
Edited by Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Christina Ulke.
Print design by Jessica Flieschmann.
Intern help Lucy Dinnen
The Winter 2010 issue of Xtra Magazine features a lengthy review by writer Mathew Timmons of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and its extended projects.
Check it out at your magazine stand.
Check it out at your magazine stand.
The Llano Del Rio Working Group's Map For An Other LA is complete and available for free.
The full color, two sided, map sites and describes locations that
support, dream, act and aid in the creation of an other Los Angeles.
Beekeepers, Greywater Operators, Hacker Spaces, Cooperatives,
Collectives, Art Spaces, Radical Places, Gardens, Swimming Holes,
Cooking Collectives, Think Tanks etc....
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest has been invited to Portland, Oregon to talk at Portland State University for their Monday Night MFA Lecture Series.
Portland State University: Shattuck Hall Annex
1914 SW Park Ave
Portland OR 97207,
Free Admission
Mon . Nov 2 . 7:30-9 pm
(At the corner of SW Broadway and SW Hall.)
Portland State University: Shattuck Hall Annex
1914 SW Park Ave
Portland OR 97207,
Free Admission
Mon . Nov 2 . 7:30-9 pm
(At the corner of SW Broadway and SW Hall.)
The Center for Integrated Media presents a Democracy and Media Workshop with the "Editorial Collective" from the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Robby Herbst, Marc Herbst, and Christina Ulke. Additional guests include CalArts faculty, Ken Ehrlich and Janet Sarbanes.
Calarts
Mon, 09/21/2009 - 19:00 - 22:00
Calarts
Mon, 09/21/2009 - 19:00 - 22:00
Us JOAAP folks facilitated a conversation about the feelings that come
up when people work together. We invited collaborative members from the
Echo Park Time Bank, Fallen Fruit. We did this at the Public School.
This event was done in collab with the Performing Economies exhibit at
FOCA.Matias of Fallen Fruit shares how money can effect group dynamics even in utopian projects.
The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest set up a both to share stuff with the community at the Echo Park Community Festival.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest editorial collective organized Street Signs and Solar Ovens, Socialcraft in Los Angeles, at LA's Craft and Folk Art Museum, Oct- Dec. of 2006.The exhibition was reviewed in LA Weekly, LA City Beat, and Artus.
Baby Boomers Fucked everything was another (1 of 3) Fourth of July psychedelic lightshow Karl Erikson, Steve Anderson and I did- though this one was done on the 3rd and up in San Francisco (Southern Exposure) not Machine (LA).
Dig the psychedelic stain on the pants-leg!
Donna and Chris and the rest of the Faraway Places crew met us up there. The performance was more traditional than usual (bands, lights), but we had a largish glow in the dark skull, some cool images and spirographs to play with.
Dig the psychedelic stain on the pants-leg!
Donna and Chris and the rest of the Faraway Places crew met us up there. The performance was more traditional than usual (bands, lights), but we had a largish glow in the dark skull, some cool images and spirographs to play with.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Editorial Collective (Myself, Marc Herbst, Christina Ulke)- got its hands on a typewriter and the last two events were text submissionsThis one's called "Artwork Where Donor/Collector Helps To Develop Community With LACE In The Form of A Picnic". I don't know if it's proper to call "art" a scrap of paper, even more something made specifically for a fundraiser auction, but I kinda like what the piece did. It asked the buyer to host a picnic within the year at Hollywood's Delongpre Park for LACE's staff and the 25 people who signed up to go. Miraculously someone stepped up to bat to be the Donor/Collector.
The Military Industrial Complex is Sucking the Living Blood from this Nation:A Psychedelic Lightshow
July 4th, 2007, 12:01 to 1:01 am
Machine Project, LA.
With Karl Erikson and Steve Anderson.
July 4th, 2007, 12:01 to 1:01 am
Machine Project, LA.
With Karl Erikson and Steve Anderson.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest participated in the 2008 California Biennial held at the Orange County Museum of Art.
We gave away 3,000 copies of issue #6 of the Journal using the device to the right in the photo. The "duct" spewed forth an amount of books each day. The # of books dropped referred, through an algorithm posted on the wall next to the duct, to the amount of deaths incurred on that day a year previously in American wars in the Iran, Iraq and Afganistan.
We gave away 3,000 copies of issue #6 of the Journal using the device to the right in the photo. The "duct" spewed forth an amount of books each day. The # of books dropped referred, through an algorithm posted on the wall next to the duct, to the amount of deaths incurred on that day a year previously in American wars in the Iran, Iraq and Afganistan.
The Journal is doing a monthly class at TELIC's The Public School.
http://thepublicschool.org/259/theory-in-3-actsthought-technique/
http://thepublicschool.org/259/theory-in-3-actsthought-technique/
The October Surprise took place over a couple of days in 2004. Its aim was to unveil a local neighborhood to itself during the time of the national spectacle of a presidential election. The series of multi-and-non sighted exhibitions, events, shows, interventions and happenings took place throughout the diverse areas surrounding the Highland Park area of LA. Its goal was to foster community discourse rather than sheepish electorate.
There was a hub space at Avenida 50 Gallery. There were also events at the late anarchist social space Flor Y Canto. Otherwise the October Surprise took place in the places that people frequent outside in North East LA. We got some funding from 2 neighborhood council districts but mostly the show was funded through sweat equity a rock show and a bbq.
The event was directly inspired by Chicago's Department of Space and Land Reclamation (DSLR). While DSLR aimed to use urban interventions to create a polsylabic discourse around the issue of gentrification in Chicago- the context of LA was our muse for the October Surprise. As such the goals for the October Surprise was as diverse as its participants. The organizers aim was to create a context for the multiple stakeholders (from undocumented workers through kids on up to the wealthy hill dwellers) to experience one another in a civic space.
There was a hub space at Avenida 50 Gallery. There were also events at the late anarchist social space Flor Y Canto. Otherwise the October Surprise took place in the places that people frequent outside in North East LA. We got some funding from 2 neighborhood council districts but mostly the show was funded through sweat equity a rock show and a bbq.
The event was directly inspired by Chicago's Department of Space and Land Reclamation (DSLR). While DSLR aimed to use urban interventions to create a polsylabic discourse around the issue of gentrification in Chicago- the context of LA was our muse for the October Surprise. As such the goals for the October Surprise was as diverse as its participants. The organizers aim was to create a context for the multiple stakeholders (from undocumented workers through kids on up to the wealthy hill dwellers) to experience one another in a civic space.
An Atlas of Radical Cartography
Failure: Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices
Read Reviews! Buy Now!
(the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest itself is available through joaap.org)