Events

From Amy Balkin:

can you post this link to nonsite collective blog when you have a
chance?

http://www.justspaces.org

it's an excellent upcoming exhibition about space, race, and justice
in the US
(invisible5 is in it, but that's beside the point!)

Amy
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INTRODUCTION ///

If you haven't had the occasion to see this show yet, do your best to make it before it closes. The ongoing video documenting the recent history and suppression of the popular uprising in Oaxaca is remarkable, and should be seen by all.

Exhibition Dates: October 13 - November 3, 2007

WHERE: Galeria de la Raza|Studio 24 2857 24th St. @ Bryant
Gallery Hours: Wed. - Sat. 12 - 6 p.m

Thanks to all the users who have made the trip over from the OpenMute site or the blog. I can see from today's activity that at least two of you have started to explore some of the content creation tools on the new site. Over time, I'll be posting periodic announcements explaining how to use various features of the site. For now, I want to give a brief overview of three topics:

1) Creating content: That big "Create" link at the top of the page will take you to a menu of options for the type of page or image you'd like to create. Each has an associated description of what I envisioned as its appropriate use. Feel free to follow this advice or disregard it as you prefer -- the important thing is to get people comfortable posting things to the site. If anything ends up badly miscategorized, it's a trivial amount of work to reclassify it as a different content type. In fact, the ability to retroactively change content types, classifications, etc., answers some of the "compartmentalization" problems we were having over at OpenMute, where different types of content on the site were divided into functionally separate areas of the site. Here, by contrast, if I notice, say, a news item that answers a particular "wanted" page in the wiki, I can just pull it directly into the wiki without having to make it stop functioning as a news item.

The real kernel of the introduction to creating content, though, is to remember that <em>it's impossible for you to break the website</em>. (In my other guise as "Nonsite admin," it's possible for me to do this, and in fact I've done it quite a few times already getting things ready to launch. I promise to be more careful now that others are here with me).

In response to <a href="http://www.nonsitecollective.org/user/57">Wendy Kramer</a>'s <a href="http://www.nonsitecollective.org/node/292">post</a> in the website forum, I've fixed (I think) one of the two issues she identified. I think I set the margins on the sidebars generously enough to stop the calendar from spilling over into the central text and content area, even for users who set their browsers to display text pretty large. However, if this formatting issue is still a problem for you, let me know.

This Thursday Nov 15 @ 6pm I'll be giving a talk on public art practices in
the Bay Area at the SF Public Library. I'll be showing slides & looking
at recent works & interventions performed by local artists, as well as interrogating
the parameters by which we tend to define "public" and "art"
in the context of an increasingly privatized & corporatized urban landscape.
I'm also aiming to look at some counter-practices, especially those everyday
life-world practices that don't always "read" as "art",
as well as exploring some speculative practices that might yet emerge out of our
collective tactics as engaged citizen-artists.

David Buuck
Thur Nov 15 6-730 pm
SF Public Library (downstairs)

http://sfpl5.sfpl.org/scripts/publish/webevent.pl?cmd=showevent&ncmd=search&cal=cal5&id=84886&ncals=&de=1&tf=0&sib=1&sb=0&sa=0&ws=1&stz=Default&sort=e,m,t&swe=1&cf=list&set=1&m=11&d=11&y=2007

• Strategies of Occupation: Grabbing Land, and the Political Agency of

the Artist*

Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.
The New School
66 West 12th Street, #510
New York City
Admission: $8, free for all students, and New School faculty, staff,
and alumni with valid ID
Reservations strongly suggested, contact kuonic@newschool.edu

The exhibition *Land Grab* at Apexart gallery in New York (on view
through December 22) presents an anthology of art situations where land
is *grabbed,* or claimed. Extending this inquiry, this accompanying
workshop discusses the specificities and significance of such
occupations, on a broader scale as well as in more detail, shedding
light on the agency of the artist as political subject today.

Facilitators:
- Lillian Fellmann, Zurich, co-curator of *Land Grab*
- Sarah Lookofsky, New York, co-curator of *Land Grab*

Participants:
- Amy Balkin, artist, This is the Public Domain, Los Angeles
- eteam (Franziska Lamprecht, Hajoe Moderegger), New York/Germany
- Andrea Geyer, artist, New York
- Jens Haaning, artist, Denmark
- John Hawke, artist, New York
- Albert Heta, Kosovo
- Sergio Munoz Sarmiento, Clandestine Construction Company
International
- Vyjayanthi Rao, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The New
School for
Social Research, New York
- Martin Rosengaard, wooloo.org, Berlin
- Felicity Scott, historian of modern and contemporary
architecture and
urbanism, Columbia University, New York

The artistic positions to be considered are not concerned with the gain
of extra space or the implementation of an anti-institutional policy.
They*re not to be understood in the vein of land art but rather
contest a larger reality-the prolonged condition of emergency, for
instance, called the global state of war or state power.

The curators, theorists and artists (partly from the exhibition *Land