http://www.nonsitecollective.org/taxonomy/term/81 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.nonsitecollective.org/node/463 I'm still not sure what to make of it, beyond filing it under the banner of archive-fever, but in addition to a number of recent archival/art projects in the bay (Theory of Survival at the Lab and now at Yerba Buena, which I HIGHLY recommend - http://www.theoryofsurvival.com/ - the CCA storage container show, the Jonestown exhibit at MIssion17 -http://mission17.org/exhibits/JonestownHadAGarden.htm - etc etc), there have also been a number of 're-enactments', ranging from the re-staging (if that's the word) of several Kaprow happenings in LA, similar performance art "covers" in NY, and the like. Of course historical re-enactments are not new, nor are leftist historical 'legacy' tours (labor history walks in SF as part of Yerba Buena's Ground Scores exhibit, the Black Panther Legacy Tour, NY Radical History tour, the Counterpulse SF Bicycle Tours - http://www.shapingsf.org/biketours.html - etc etc), but I'm curious about the impulse to restage radical political and/or artistic "events" - Jeremy Deller's Battle of Orgreave being an exemplary project - http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/archive/battle_of_orgreave.html - anyways... here are two local items of note: 1. The Port Huron Project is staging a reenactment of a 1969 Angela Davis speech this Sat at 6pm in deFremery Park in Oakland. http://www.nothing.org/porthuronproject/ note that the night before at the Oakland Museum Mark Tribe of the PHP will be in conversation with EMORY DOUGLAS (!) and Nato Thompson, to discuss the PHP, the BPP, and the experimental doc CHICAGO 10 - http://museumca.org/cal-public/calendar.cgi?category=17&QueryTitle=First%20Friday%20Events (scroll down) 2. The Oakland General Strike Re-enactment Society did an event this weekend commemorating the 1946 strike, and is holding a follow up meeting this Wed. Here's the cut-n-pasted email: Dear fellow rabble rousers, street performers, and radical historians... - Did you know that in 1946 there were more strikes and work http://www.nonsitecollective.org/node/463#comments events lecture art archive & anti-archive performance public art Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:51:36 -0400 David Buuck 463 at http://www.nonsitecollective.org http://www.nonsitecollective.org/node/382 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture: Emory Douglas with Sam Durant and Jennifer González Wednesday, 9 April at 7:30pm Lecture Hall 800 Chestnut Street campus Free and open to the public Emory Douglas worked as minister of culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 80s. Douglas’s graphic designs defined the trademark visual style of the group’s newspapers, posters, and pamphlets. Disseminating the party’s agenda in a visually powerful way, Douglas’s bold illustrations and striking images spoke forcefully to a community ravaged by poverty and police brutality. Douglas portrayed a populace emerging from segregation and beginning to assert their rights to equality. A retrospective exhibition Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas (organized by Sam Durant) recently showed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Sam Durant creates installations that explore the history of modernist art and design, American politics, and the search for social justice. Public collections of Durant’s work include the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, Tate Modern in London, Project Row Houses in Houston, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. He teaches at California Institute of the Arts. Jennifer González is associate professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture department at UC Santa Cruz. She writes about contemporary art with an emphasis on installation art, digital art, and activist art. González’s forthcoming book, Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art, examines installation art as a form of critical assessment of race politics in the US. http://www.nonsitecollective.org/node/382#comments events lecture art Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:46:18 -0400 David Buuck 382 at http://www.nonsitecollective.org