Please make your contribution to the May 4 agenda here:
--Ongoing "Translation as Social and Aesthetic Practice": summer events (Amy Trachtenberg and Elliot Anderson), Camerawork collaboration, follow-up discussions, possible compendium/publication of curriculum proceedings.
Recently scheduled event: talks by Tyrone Williams and Pat Clifford (translation as social and aesthetic practice).
--Upcoming collaborations:
Proposed new curriculum called "Poetic Material". (Wendy)
Collaboration with Artifact
New York activity.
--What makes a nonsite event a nonsite event?
--Southern Exposure / Alternative Exposure Grant application.
--Revising the draft proposal.
--Expanding user base.
--Website.
also: depending on timing/resources, want to invite N/S folks to consider proposing projects/exhibits/etc for my backyard/garage (garBARGE) over the summer - it's all fairly open till i find a new renter. Gardening / landscape art / backyard cinema, exhibits/talks/rdgs, etc.
also: looking to start a spanish-language poetry study group. This would be geared twds not-yet-fluent folks who want to work on their spanish thru the practice of poetics/translations. Casual, social, east bay based, aiming to start spring/summer.
DB
Minutes/notes for Meeting held Sun. May 4, 2008 @ Get Lost Travel bookstore
Hi everyone. Here's a wiki page to start some notes on what we discussed at the Nonsite general meeting. Please see also the General Discussion List; Christy has started a thread to continue the discussion virtually: it promises to be rich!
Other attendees will be posting on this wiki page too, so watch for additions and updates! My apologies for being so incomplete; I'm on lunch break and limited time but wanted to get something out there. [Wendy]
Present: Rob Halpern, Taylor Brady, Lee Azus, Wendy Kramer, Stephen Vincent, Christy Rodgers, Elliot Anderson, Tanya Hollis, Jocelyn Saidenberg
I had made a set of notes to use as minutes, too, so I'll just go ahead and incorporate some of them into the minutes Wendy has already prepared. [Rob]
Curricula updates:
Translation as Social and Aesthetic Practice:
Summer events: Thurs. July 10, 6 p.m. @ Camerawork: Amy Trachtenberg and Elliot Anderson: moving the translation curriculum towward non-text media and forms. The collective will continue its practice of organizing follow-up events so that presenters have an opportunity to facilitate a sustained discussion around their projects. Dates/locations for follow-up discussions with Amy Trachtenberg and Elliot Anderson TBA.
Sun. June 1 (location / time TBA) Talks by Tyrone Williams and Pat Clifford.
Topics that came up: possiblity/practicality of publishing a print publication: journal, reader, or other format. Led into a discussion about documenting nonsite's activities, and the primacy of that intention to the collective. Thus far, the documentation is not well-realized. We've just now got the "container" of the website, and are beginning to create content. Need more pics, sound, video, etc.!
Elliot Anderson inroduced his new project to build a greenhouse in Hunter's Point (Heron's Head?) in an industrial setting. This will be “laboratory” for thinking about landscape, waste and forms of urban/environmental “translation.” Elliot will speak on this project at the next Nonsite/Camerawork event.
Poetic Materials: Wendy previewed this upcoming Nonsite curriculum, which will explore the relation between physical and nonphysical materials, and how real material “stuff” enters into and become part of the making of poems. For more information around this curriculum, see the workbook page devoted to this.
The curriculum will launch with a joint Nonsite / Artifact reading with Mike Basinski, David Larsen, and Jeanne Heuving on Sat. 5/24 and will be followed by a more intimate salon with Mike Basinski at the home of Taylor Brady and Tanya Hollis on Sunday 5/25.This event will give us an opportunity to spend informal time with Mike Basinski and some of his paper materials. (see events)
Addressing the question of where the curriculum might go from here, it was suggested that an open discussion oriented around a few questions, might be the best way to proceed.Discussion list thread: Wendy started it and will promote it to front page [inculdes links to related texts and materials]. Discussed how the thread might be encouraged to continue: i.e. asking May 24 readers to contribute statements.
Southern Exposure Grant status: due soon. This year's application specifies visual art over other arts. We discussed why and how to update and re-submit our application. [last year's application at http://nonsitecollective.org/node/258 ] A workbook page will be set up for collective participation in this year's grant application. Application will be finalized for submission at next meeting (June 2).
Topics of discussion that ran throughout the meeting:
--We need to document events variously and post that documentation.
--How does the collective's draft proposal help inform and guide our current activities?
--Evaluating the functions of print and online documentation and publication as it fits into the intentions of the organization.
--Instituting regular meetings, not necessarily at a standard date and time, but to keep an ongoing discussion, and a stable opportunity for people to get together in person around the collective's ongoing projects.
Next meeting Mon. June 2