Nonsite Collective

The Nonsite Collective is a collective of Bay Area visual artists, writers, activists, archivists, independent scholars, and non-traditional learners, all working together to stimulate new forms of collaboration and public participation around a range of interdisciplinary projects. The collective is not only committed to promoting new work, but to sustaining discussion about the projects it promotes. We do this through modes of self-organized pedagogy, whereby collectively proposed “curricula” become ongoing series of interrelated investigations, presentations, study groups, and events. This allows participants — artists and non-artists alike — to test new ideas, while developing shared vocabularies across disciplines, stimulating new forms of discourse around the inquiries that sustain our work. Thus Nonsite creates multiple points of leverage for ongoing cultural engagement and social action.

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Nonsite || Rob Halpern's "Pornotopias"

Michael Cross
08/02/2011 - 01:55
Greetings Friends:
 
Please join the Nonsite Collective on Sunday, August 14 at 1 pm for a casual conversation with Rob Halpern around his recent Naropa workshop "Pornotopias."
 
In the thumbnail sketch for his workshop, Rob writes: "Is porn a regime of representation, or an erotic utopia where identities are shorn and desires socialized? Pleasure’s 'bad infinity' or democracy’s frontier? Commodity or commons?  The media’s lingua franca, or poetry’s scene of resistance? What can so-called 'pornographic' language activate? Might it even offer a strategy for responding to social crisis?"  What is porn, anyway? And what might itsuse be beyond its exchange-value? Can it be made to work critically in our various practices against dominant regimes of representation and proprietary selfhood?
 
On Sunday, Rob will share some of his thinking around the social poetics of porn and facilitate some discussion by way of these questions, perhaps in relation to contemporary military culture and disaster capital, while touching on the Marquis de Sade, Whitman, Genet, as well as his own project, Music for Porn. We also...

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