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AN ARCHITEKTUR BERLIN
TEN DAYS FOR OPPOSITIONAL ARCHITECTURE
November 12-21
Gair Building No 6, 81 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (York Stop on the F Train) Map

What would happen if an intergalactic consortium of investors bought up all of New York City's affordable housing? If automated labor and robot workers took over Manhattan ? If an evil super villain released a mutant nano-virus into the urban water supply?

City of Tomorrows is a workshop about the New York City of the future that merges urban geography, science fiction and guerrilla theater. In the space of 2 hours, participants will develop, script and rehearse short sci-fi scenes about New York City's political, spatial and social futures. We will then perform the scenes in public space for both a Performa audience and passersby. They will follow along and even participate as these utopian and dystopian tomorrows are played out on the streets of Lower Manhattan.

Who we're looking for: Science fiction writers, visionaries, astronauts, astral psychics, sci-fi geeks, drama queens, class clowns, urbanists, protesters, agent provocateurs, brainstormers.

You will be given reading and viewing material prior to the workshop as well as background info on the issues to be explored. You will be asked to contribute to a collaborative mini-drama as well as perform in public space.

Please email cityoftomorrows@performa-arts.org to reserve a space. Please include a brief description of yourself and your interests, your current email address; and phone number. We will inform you within a few days if space is available. bit.ly/fgAOb for more information.

Workshop limited to 20 people.

Created by Lize Mogel, Stephanie Rothenberg, and Jenifer Kaminsky.
Curated by Defne Ayas. Presented by Performa and Storefront for Art and Architecture.

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About PERFORMA 09
Performa 09, the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance, will be held in New York City from November 1-22, 2009, showcasing new work by more than 150 of the world's most exciting contemporary artists. Over its three week-run, Performa 09's innovative program will break down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, film, television, radio, graphic design, and the culinary arts, presenting over 110 events in collaboration with a consortium of more than 80 of the city's leading arts institutions, 40 curators from around the world, and a network of public and private venues throughout the city.

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Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
10012 New York, NY
Tel. 212.431.5795
Fax 212.431.5755

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New exhibit open at the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Los Angeles location:

URBAN CRUDE: 
The Oil Fields of the Los Angeles Basin
Open to the public starting October 30th, 2009


 
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The CLUI Los Angeles Exhibit Hall is open noon to five PM, 
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, or by appointment. 
Admission is free. 

Directions 

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The Center for Land Use Interpretation
9331 Venice Blvd. 
Culver City, CA 90232 
310.839.5722 office
310.839.6678 fax 
support (at) clui (dot) org 
www.clui.org 

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Also on view in Los Angeles:

Two CLUI landscans on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 
as part of the exhibit New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM:
South Belridge Oil Field, Kern County, California
and Houston Petrochemical Corridor
October 25, 2009–January 3, 2010

Exhibition Symposium: 
"What's at Stake?" 
New Topographics: Photography and the Man-Altered Landscape 
Saturday, November 7 

at LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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The Center for Land Use Interpretation 
is a non-profit organization dedicated to the increase and diffusion of knowledge 

about how the nation's lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived. 

Attention advocates, organizers, educators, policy wonks, organizers, researchers, students, etc:

Do you have a complicated issue that you'd like to see visualized? A complicated policy that you'd like to educate your constituency about? Are you interested in a deep collaboration with a designer or visual artist?

CUP is seeking proposals for the next issues of Making Policy Public, our series of foldout posters that use graphic and information design to explore and explain complex public policy issues. Advocates chosen through the juried submission process will receive 1000 copies of the color publication to distribute directly to their constituents and an honorarium of $1000.

Applications are due on June 26th.

Click the link below to download the guidelines:
http://tinyurl.com/making-policy-public

Visit www.makingpolicypublic.net to see past issues and read more about the series.

Roundtable
“Reclamation of Post-Industrial Territories: Lands Arts of the American West and the Incubo Atacama Lab”
Friday, April 10, 2009 -- 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
2 West 13th Street
New York City
Free admission

This panel discusses transdisciplinary fieldwork in art, landscape architecture and industrial reclamation, focusing on the field methods of "Land Arts of the American West" and the "Incubo Atacama Lab" in Chile. Joel Towers, Dean of the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design, frames the panel by discussing the epistemological significance of the post-industrial landscape within the field of Urban Ecology.

Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech, directed by Chris Taylor, is a field program that investigates the intersection of geomorphology and human construction beginning with the land and extending through the complex social and ecological processes that produce contemporary landscapes. The Incubo Atacama Lab project began when the curatorial exchange organization Incubo invited Taylor to bring the working methods of Land Arts to Chile.

Participants:
+ Incubo, Santiago, Santiago, Chile Josefina Guilisasti, artist and co-founder Bárbara Palomino, artist Gonzalo Pedraza, art historian
+ Chris Taylor, Director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University
+ Joel Towers, Dean of the School of Design Strategies, and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Ecology, Parsons The New School for Design
+ Flora Vilches, Curator, Museo Arqueológico Gustavo Le Paige, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Moderator: Carin Kuoni, Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School

The event is organized by the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, on the occasion of the exhibition “Into the Open: Positioning Practice,” the Venice Biennale U.S. Pavilion Exhibit at Parsons.

Here go links to two articles by Patrick, both on poetics and disability.

"Post-Language Poetries & Post-Ableist Poetics" (with special reference to the work of William Carlos Williams and Laura Moriarty)
http://inscribe.iupress.org/doi/abs/10.2979/JML.2009.32.2.159

"Psychosocial Disability and Post-Ableist Poetics: The "Case" of Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journals"
http://cww.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol2/issue2/index.dtl

Perhaps those who would like to read PDFs of the articles will consider emailing Patrick: kenningeditions [at] gmail [.] com