- NONSITE || Amy Trachtenberg and Elliot Anderson(Event)(5 days)
Nonsite Bay Area general discussion meeting
Submitted by Nonsite admin on Fri, 01/25/2008 - 14:49.
02/03/2008 - 18:00
02/03/2008 - 20:00
Etc/GMT-7
As I'm sure you're all aware, things got off to a quick start last summer, with some great events, discussions, and possible directions for community curriculum development. Since then, we've undergone a bit of a...well, let's call it a deceleration. Lots of things have contributed to this: the demands of the academic year on some members, the long and ungainly transition period with the website, etc.
More importantly, though, we haven't really seen each other as a group in quite a while. I'd like to propose getting together on Sunday, February 3rd, 6pm, at Get Lost Travel Books (1825 Market in San Francisco) to re-open some lines of communication. I know some folks will be out of town or otherwise unavailable, so let's not treat this as anything definitive, but as a forum to check in on what people's various projects are, how we can develop links and supports between them, etc. And if anyone wants to take the lead in putting together additional meetings, just let me know and I'll move the group email list development to the top of my priority list.
Informally, the following items look like good places to start a discussion:
- where the collective is at and where it might be going
- reactivating nonsite's project(s)
- ongoing and upcoming curricula--"Translation as Social and Aesthetic Practice" and the "Archive/Anti-Archive" work--with their related events
- ideas and proposals for future activity
- website
- other agenda items, open for suggestion...
agenda item
Hi taylor, hi everyone,
Since I'm out of town for the weekend, I'm not sure if I can make it for 6 p.m. Sunday. If I do, I can speak to the below then; otherwise, here's a brief agenda item, and I can talk to people informally and at future meetings:
I and some friends are bringing Michael Basinksi, performance,visual/sound poet from buffalo, for a reading on Sat. May 24. We particularly would like to introduce or re-introduce, as the case may be, him to San Francisco experimental, avante-garde, performance et al poets. He is prolific, wide-ranging, and crucial for any discussion of poetry both on and OFF the page, poetry that combines art media, and draws off of several rebellious poetic traditions and movements--fluxus, working class, beat, aleatory, improvizational...i could go on. i do go on.
the point is, our "scene" needs it.
David Larsen is going to read with him. I don't know Larsen's work as well as I ought, but something about his performative presence and uncategorizableness seems right to have him be the San Francisco "draw" for this night. Larsen, I hope this sounds like the compliment it is!:)
I have booked L's cafe on 24th street in the Mission for Sat. May 24, 7:30-9:00 p.m. They can fit 50, and they might be able to let us hang Mike's visual poems for display during the reading.
I'd like to make this part of a nonsite series, if we have that developing, as the beginning of a type of series that is, for a lack of a better way to put it right now as i rush off to work (job work) local but not localized.
Hope I will see y'all SUnday, if not, pls comment/backchannel, see you another time.
love
wendy