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).
News
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).
The lovely Lumpen Magazine has within the pages of issue #114 an interview with Katie Bachler & myself, spokespeople for the Llano Del Rio Working Group regarding The Map For An Other LA.
Find a copy of the mag, download a pdf here, or read the interview, below!
Lumpen Magazine, Issue 114, Pg. 21
Edmar: An Other LA is a map, a directory and
document of activities and places that describe
LA as an interesting and progressive community.
Can you tell us why you created this project? You
mention an inspiration from Chris Carlsson's
Nowtopia project.
1) In any city, at all times, people are
creating the worlds they live in. Outside of
the stop and go fl ow of urban vectors, and
the history and myths surrounding a place,
we are planting seeds, riding bicycles, imagining
life as magical realism, as nature all
around us, we not buying corporate goods,
we are loving eachother, remembering mountains
and the tectonics that created them
(and us)---- This map aims to situate the
many "other", "radical" ways of being in this
city in the context of eachother, as a network,
as a politic. Nowtopia de-mythologizing a
utopia as something to strive for, an idea of
a whole shift in consciousness. We beleive
that something like a utopia is already taking
place, in secret hollows and mountain tops,
on roofs and under bridges. We made this
map so all the other LA folks could learn
about eachother, and feel powerful from
knowing that this is a movement, made of
lots of mini-movements.
Find a copy of the mag, download a pdf here, or read the interview, below!
Lumpen Magazine, Issue 114, Pg. 21
Edmar: An Other LA is a map, a directory and
document of activities and places that describe
LA as an interesting and progressive community.
Can you tell us why you created this project? You
mention an inspiration from Chris Carlsson's
Nowtopia project.
1) In any city, at all times, people are
creating the worlds they live in. Outside of
the stop and go fl ow of urban vectors, and
the history and myths surrounding a place,
we are planting seeds, riding bicycles, imagining
life as magical realism, as nature all
around us, we not buying corporate goods,
we are loving eachother, remembering mountains
and the tectonics that created them
(and us)---- This map aims to situate the
many "other", "radical" ways of being in this
city in the context of eachother, as a network,
as a politic. Nowtopia de-mythologizing a
utopia as something to strive for, an idea of
a whole shift in consciousness. We beleive
that something like a utopia is already taking
place, in secret hollows and mountain tops,
on roofs and under bridges. We made this
map so all the other LA folks could learn
about eachother, and feel powerful from
knowing that this is a movement, made of
lots of mini-movements.
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....
This pdf document highlights some of the art and curatorial projects I've been involved with from Spring of 2002 to Spring of 2009.
ARTPRESENTATION:09.pdf
ARTPRESENTATION:09.pdf
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.)
Where Possible Possibilities Are Possible: Experiences and Forms of the Possible.Proximity Magazine, Issue 5.
This is part 1 of a multi-part essay on possibility. The piece examines phenomenology of the possible in social & protest practices.
Folks discussed: RNC Welcoming Committee, Tree & Space, Edible Estates, Red 76, The Bicycle Kitchen, Jr Ambassador and briefly Camp Baltimore.
Future installments of project coming soon.
Where Possible Possibilities Are Possible: Experiences and Forms of the Possible.
On the final day of 2008 I cycled to a tree in Eagle Rock, CA. My riding partner, in natty fisherpersons cap, was Kelly Marie Martin. The trip took us ten miles from her small house near smoggy downtown LA, through an industrial belt surrounding the LA River finally suddenly up a hill. This part of LA is filled with undeveloped hills available surprisingly for off-beat art projects. Breathing heavy, at the top we were met by a storm fence. We had to go around it to get at the scrubby chaparral behind. ....
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
Fritz Haeg and Evil Twin Publishing are releasing
this month The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive.
It's like a 380 page collection of everything that was the Sundown Salon.
One of my favorite illustrations with some related poems (egads!), and a short essay of mine are all packed in here amongst a trillion other contributions. I was also very happy to also contribute one of the 5 possible covers for the book (the caveman & dinosaur to the left)!
Sundown was a magnificent thing for LA when it was going off. A place where you could go and see and meet people doing really neat stuff. Maybe it was the idiosyncratic space of the dome- or just the time- but Sundown events unpacked for the moment in LA a real grassroots arts scene. We all had heard of one another in some manner but the Salons offered some common ground to be precisely that, common. Objects weren't there at all, what mattered most was the energy of sharing. The diversity of ideas that flowed through the Dome was outrageous, and probably the reason that it was so vital.
The book retroactively composes an artifact from this ephemerality. Its unweildyness (again 380 pages) is it's strength. 1/2 photos 1/2 writing it's a document of what we were when we dreamed of being together as artists.
this month The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive.
It's like a 380 page collection of everything that was the Sundown Salon.
One of my favorite illustrations with some related poems (egads!), and a short essay of mine are all packed in here amongst a trillion other contributions. I was also very happy to also contribute one of the 5 possible covers for the book (the caveman & dinosaur to the left)!
Sundown was a magnificent thing for LA when it was going off. A place where you could go and see and meet people doing really neat stuff. Maybe it was the idiosyncratic space of the dome- or just the time- but Sundown events unpacked for the moment in LA a real grassroots arts scene. We all had heard of one another in some manner but the Salons offered some common ground to be precisely that, common. Objects weren't there at all, what mattered most was the energy of sharing. The diversity of ideas that flowed through the Dome was outrageous, and probably the reason that it was so vital.
The book retroactively composes an artifact from this ephemerality. Its unweildyness (again 380 pages) is it's strength. 1/2 photos 1/2 writing it's a document of what we were when we dreamed of being together as artists.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Editorial Collective (Christian Ulke, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst) is looking for articles for issue #7 of the JOAAP.
The call is very wide open at this moment and here's what we want to see....
For the 7th issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, we are looking for articles and compendiums in the form of manifestos, alphabets, radical critiques, how-tos, guides or ideas with expository or theoretical or curatorial text about (but not limited to) the following subjects:
The call is very wide open at this moment and here's what we want to see....
For the 7th issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, we are looking for articles and compendiums in the form of manifestos, alphabets, radical critiques, how-tos, guides or ideas with expository or theoretical or curatorial text about (but not limited to) the following subjects:
Class composition
Critical inquiries into popular front styled movements today
Street vending
Conscientious uses of style, media and branding in movements
Food-coops
Examples of building grassroots power and non-traditional alliances
Time banking
economic meltdown and counter models
Land-use strategies and alternative housing projects
Crisitunities
Issue 7 of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest will be a short and sweet issue, not because you don't have anything to say, but because we are broke.
Please send your proposal to editors@joaap.org by May 31st.
Please send a concise paragraph describing your proposed article.
Cheers.
Thursday, April 16th, 7 PM
Protest as Performance
David Patton Los Angeles
This Thursday April 16th we will be hosting a talk by Robby Herbst on protest as performance. You can expect to hear about yoga in the streets, sectarian marches and witchcraft. The discussion will center on research that Herbst has done regarding current trends in "distributed" forms of protests. The research, and subsequent writing, have informed the work in our current exhibition "Blockades (with collaborators)".
Thursday, April 2nd, 7 PM David Peel & the Lower East Side "The American Revolution"
&
Miles Davis "Live Evil"
One side from each album
Thursday April 2nd David Patton LA will be hosting a Record Listening beginning at 7 PM sharp. Organized by Robby Herbst, for this evening we will be listening one side of "The American Revolution" by David Peel & the Lower East Side (1970) and one side of "Live Evil" by Miles Davis (1971). Like a film or video screening, we will present some historical info of the albums and then listen to them, in this instance first one side of one, with a brief intermission to stretch legs, and then one side of the other. We'll have a few chairs available and the doors will be open a little bit before hand.
Completing a triumvirate of in-class-lecture-visits, Marc, Christina and I are visiting with Andrea Bower's Calart's class. Christina will talk about gentrification and branding in Hamburg. Marc's talking about how culture works- and how radical artists fit into that picture. I'll be talking about the aesthetics of possibility.
Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions will present Sustainability.
A group exhibition of Los Angeles based artists, March 28 - May 9.
6518 Hollywood Blvd
Christina, Marc, and I are gonna stop by Sandra de la Loza's, Public Practice Class at Otis College to talking about building infrastructures, knowledge and institutions.
Blocades (with collaborators)
14 March - 18 April, 2009
DAVID PATTON LOS ANGELES
932 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012 213.626.2524
www.davidpattonlosangeles.com / info@davidpattonlosangeles.com
14 March - 18 April, 2009
DAVID PATTON LOS ANGELES
932 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012 213.626.2524
www.davidpattonlosangeles.com / info@davidpattonlosangeles.com
March 4, 09.Marc, Christina, Kelly Martin of the bicycle and sound, and I are heading up to visit with Sam Durant's class tomorrow.