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Alan Moore
Sep 15, 2015, 3:12:48 PM9/15/15
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Dear People,
We are producing an ambitious series of events this September in NYC around the "Making Room" exhibition on cultural work in squatted spaces. The show is at ABC No Rio, itself once a squat.
The exhibition "Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces" runs at ABC No Rio from September 16 - October 15, 2015.
A full schedule of events is planned, with new ones likely to be added. The events are listed below -- for the full schedule and updates, see: the blog "Occupations & Properties" -- http://occuprop.blogspot.com/2015/09/events-series-at-making-room-show-in.html
"Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Space" is also the title of a new book, an anthology of texts co-edited by Alan W. Moore and Alan Smart, from Other Forms and Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. The "Making Room" book is a rare anthology of texts from squatting movement participants, artists, musicians, activists. The book was presented first at the Barcelona conference of the SqEK research collective in May 2015.
Moore's own book "Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below" has just been published by Minor Compositions/Autonomedia. This new book, tells the story of Moore's travels and visits, together with chapters of analysis which tell of the different movements and cultures which give rise to and reinforce squatting, mainly in Europe.
"Occupation Culture" comes out of years of close research on the movement of political squatting in Europe. Findings findings have been published annually in the anthology 'zine "House Magic", and the blog "Occupations & Properties" (occuprop.blogspot). Moore is a member of the SqEK research collective, whose members participated closely in the preparation of the "Making Room" anthology.
Both books are for sale, and both are also available online as free PDFs:
"Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below"
by Alan W. Moore
free PDF online
"Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces"
Edited by Alan W. Moore and Alan Smart
Co-published by Journal of Aesthetics & Protest and Other Forms
free PDF online
Schedule of events for "Making Room" show in NYC 9/16-10/15:
Tuesday, 15 September, 7pm
A.W. Moore hosts activists from Slovenia talking about two giant cultural centers in Ljubljana which began as occupations — Metelkova, a former army base, and Rog, once a bicycle factory. The venue is MoRUS, the NYC squat & garden museum. Other radical travelers may join us…
MoRUS museum storefront
155 Avenue C
Manhattan, New York City, 10009
Wednesday, September 16th, 7pm
opening reception for the exhibition:
"Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Space"
Alan Smart and Jack Henrie Fisher of Other Forms are designing this exhibition at ABC No Rio based on the anthology book “Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces”.
Related Events at:
New York Art Book Fair
both "Making Room" and Moore's book "Occupation Culture" will be presented at the New York Art Book Fair
Other Forms will be tabling Making Room at the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest "Friendly Fire" at New York Art Book Fair
September 18–20, 2015; preview: Thursday, September 17, 6-9pm
Friday, Sept. 18, 8pm
Related Event:
Friday, September 18
A.W. Moore will be talking at the Sunview Luncheonette, an artists’ project working in a fully functional modernist restaurant. Dylan Gauthier is coordinating this meeting, and other NY Art Book Fair participants will most likely be roped in.
Sunview Luncheonette
221 Nassau Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11222
b/t Russell St & Henry St
Greenpoint area
Friday, Sept. 18, 6-8pm
oral history event with Amy Starecheski and friends
Oral history is a powerful tool for producing activist knowledge. Hear stories of living and making history from squatter historians, moderated by anthropologist and oral historian Amy Starecheski, author of the forthcoming "Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City."
Related Event at ABC No Rio:
Monday, Sept. 21
TRI-X-NOISE a mobile photo installation by Bill Daniel
Hobo filmmaker/phototramp Bill Daniel is back on the road with a pop-up photo show comprised of 30 years of 35mm photographs beginning with the early 80s punk scene in Texas, featuring all of your favorite old school punk bands
Related Event:
Seminar session on the squatting movement, produced with the Interference Archive
The first two sessions will likely be held at ABC No Rio and the MoRUS museum
pre-enrollment is strongly recommended -- contact: awm1...@gmail.com
On-site at ABC No Rio
Tues. Sept. 22 7-9pm (tentative)
off-site at MoRUS museum
Wed., Sept. 23 7-9pm (tentative)
(final session 9/27, 2-5pm, in Brooklyn; archive will be open at 12noon)
Interference Archive
131 8th St.
Brooklyn, New York 11215
Thursday, Sept. 24, 7pm
Martha Rosler in conversation with Alan Smart
A conversation with the renowned artist and cultural critic Martha Rosler. The discussion will be keyed to her book Culture Class, and turn on relationships between her artistic practice and urban politics.
Erick Lyle and Streetopia 25th, 7pm
Erick Lyle talks about “Streetopia”
A catalogue of the epochal San Francisco exhibition that cried out against the ferocious gentrification of that city by dot-com workers -- “a massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place in venues throughout the city.” Writer and co-curator Erick Lyle (of the zine SCAM) will present the Streetopia project. (An informal BBQ with BYO will follow in the backyard.)
As yet unscheduled:
early afternoon reportback from the Futurological Symposium at Christiania in Copenhagen, Denmark
comrades from the SqEK group and friends will call in to talk about what is going on at the conference, which runs from 9/24 thru 9/26
Related Off-Site Event:
final session of squatting seminar
9/27, 3-5pm in Brooklyn)
Interference Archive
131 8th St.
Brooklyn, New York 11215
Sept. 29, evening
meeting at MoRUS to discuss squatting in the USA
A discussion on the relation between artists and social movements -- "Artist as Ally" will be scheduled in October
For Moore's book "Occupation Culture":
book tour website
Mirror site tour website:
SqEK group Barcelona conference website:
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