organizational structure & strategy

NONSITE COLLECTIVE: A Draft Proposal (open to revision)

“There are things
We live among ‘and to see them
Is to know ourselves’”
— George Oppen, “Of Being Numerous”

But what happens when the things we need to see in order to know ourselves—to know our social worlds and their interrelated environments—become “processes” accessible to us only in the most mediated ways? And what happens when the things we do see stand between ourselves and those processes as a false immediacy?

In other words, what happens when we can no longer really see these “things” at all?

PROJECT

With these general questions in mind, Nonsite Collective will work to construct a framework for community building activities and collaborative programming in an ongoing effort to locate ourselves—by way of our work—in social space where “we are first presented with an endless maze of relations and interconnections, in which nothing remains what or where it is” (Robert Smithson, “Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape”). Read more

“There are things
We live among ‘and to see them
Is to know ourselves’”
— George Oppen, “Of Being Numerous”

But what happens when the things we need to see in order to know ourselves—to know our social worlds and their interrelated environments—become “processes” accessible to us only in the most mediated ways? And what happens when the things we do see stand between ourselves and those processes as a false immediacy?

In other words, what happens when we can no longer really see these “things” at all?

Read more