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Ultra Screening Day
Sunday September 11th - 2PM
No Space
84 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
1.
On Sunday September 11th, "Patriot Day", we invite you to join us for
a day of screening, discussion, and food and drink.
For the past ten months we've taken part in a reading group engaged in
studying the Ultra Left, Anti-State Communism, Post-Anarchism, and any
number of other associated tendencies we neither agree nor disagree
with. Our reading list is representative of no single coherent line of
thought, nor does it represent the analyses or desires of all or any
of those who participated in this process.
Over the course of our conversations a number of films and videos have
come up, and we’ve decided to organize this event, a triple feature
screening open to the public, to watch and discuss this work together.
--2:30: Torre Bela - Thomas Harlan, 1975, 81 minutes
--4:30: Working Slowly - Guido Chiesa, 2004, 98 minutes
--6:30: Paths Through Utopias - Isabelle Fremeaux, John Jordan and
Kypros Kyprianou, 2011, 109 minutes
2.
in various modalities of speech
-a feature film -a documentary
-wondering what happened
provocative and static
a possible future
visually traversing visually familiar modes of understanding
to recognize forms of recognition of memory
of conception
of relations
this is only propaganda
what they did not what we will do
not found, but stored in relation to
3.
Torre Bela: "A year after the Portuguese "Carnation Revolution" that
ended the longest running dictatorship in Europe, people from a group
of villages in central Portugal went to the neighboring "Torre Bela,"
the largest walled manor in the country. Spurred on by the radical
mood in the country, the people demanded jobs from the owner, the Duke
of Lafões, descendant of the Portuguese royal family. When the Duke
refused, the crowd began to think not only of jobs, but also of
ownership of the land and the "palace" where the aristocrat's family
lived. They decided is to transform Torre Bela into an agricultural
cooperative, with no single owner, in which everyone--both men and
women-- earns the same salary, with a day care centre and a cultural
centre. The film documents the rise and fall of this revolutionary
cooperative movement and follows the process by which a revolutionary
movement develops on a local scale, its relation to the radicalizing
military, its difficulties and particular development in specific
cultural conditions."
Working Slowly: Co-authored by the Italian collective Wu-Ming
Foundation, "the film is set during an actual student uprising that
paralysed Bologna for several days in March 1977. Several narrative
threads are woven around Radio Alice, the station run by the "creative
wing" (the so-called "Mao-Dadaists") of the radical Autonomia
movement."
Paths Through Utopias: "As the global financial crisis surfaced in
2007, we journeyed for 7 months across Europe to investigate and
experience examples of post-capitalist living - from a direct action
Climate Camp set up illegally on the edges of Heathrow airport to a
hamlet squatted by French punks, an off grid low impact permaculture
community to occupied self-managed Serbian factories, a free love
commune in an ex Stasi base to a farm where private property had been
abolished, we shared different ways of loving and eating, producing
and sharing things, deciding together and rebelling. We were not
looking for escapist Neverlands, blueprints for a perfect future or
universal systems, but communities who simply dare to live
differently, despite the catastrophe of capitalism."
4.
The group has been a space for us to find each other, learn and study
together, to challenge one another to articulate ourselves in response
to current realities, and various circulating political philosophies.
We have recently discussed ending this reading group as a “reading
group”, to not limit the ways we think, work, and exist together.
Among those read include Alain Badiou, Franco Berardi, Alfredo M.
Bonanno, Gilles Dauve, Jacques Derrida, Endnotes, Todd May, Saul
Newman, Nina Power, Jacques Ranciere, Theorie Communiste, and Tiqqun:
http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/note/3053
5.
Please bring both food and drink to share. And ibuprofen.
6.
http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/class/2983
http://notanalternative.com/
http://confusingsigns.wordpress.com/
http://thevoider.wordpress.com/
http://autonomousorganization.org/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=260734043949598
---
Creating the Comfort of Corporate Sponsorship: An Open Discussion
Wednesday September 14th - 7:30PM
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002
A multinational car corporation and a multinatinal art institution
partner to provide a “community center” and a “public gathering space”
for radical politics, culture and arts in the Lower East Side/East
Village, New York:
“…The theme of the Lab’s first two-year cycle is Confronting Comfort—-
exploring notions of individual and collective comfort and the urgent
need for environmental and social responsibility… Part urban think
tank, part community center and public gathering space, the Lab is
conceived to inspire public discourse in cities around the world… The
public is invited to attend and to participate in free programs and
experiments at the Lab…” -BMW Guggenheim Lab
The calendar of the BMW Guggenheim lab offers a wide spectrum of
events with radical content: The NY Leftover Bailout: Squatting time
Sit-In; screenings of The Take by Naomi Klein, The Garden by Don
Normak, The Starlite Project: We Came to Sweat by Kate Kunath and
Sasha Wortzel; Beyond Segrification: Models for Equal Glocalization,
Sustainism as the New Modernism?, Saskia Sassen: Talking back to your
Intelligent City...
“So are we to assume that corporate culture doesn’t suck because it is
giving us access to things we once started and now can’t afford to
maintain: bike shops, print shops, recording studios, experimental art
spaces, etc? But what happens when the marketers have moved on to the
next marketing methodology and we are left without their
infrastructure, or ours?” -Dara Greenwald, "Does Corporate Culture
STILL Suck?"
Red Channels invites everybody to an open discussion on corporate
sponsorship for radical initiatives, and its implications for a DIY
culture in New York. We want to examine the specific example of the
BMW Guggenheim Lab and at the same time analyze it within the broader
context of global capitalism and current austerity measures.
How can we respond to the commodification of anti-capitalist projects
and the depoliticization of politics? How can radical spaces
collaborate to confront the comfort of branded venues offering
participatory and social experiences?
Join us at this event as we analyze our own entanglements in
capitalist structures, refuse participation in the branded
Participatory, and develop strategies of cultural struggle.
Further information:
--Official website of the BMW Guggenheim Lab: http://bmwguggenheimlab.org/
--Dara Greenwald’s critique on the BMW Guggenheim Lab "Does Corpotate
Culture STILL Suck?": http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2011/08/does_corporate_culture_still_s.html
--Protest against the BMW Guggenheim Lab "Gentrification is Class War.
Fight Back!": http://evgrieve.com/2011/08/recap-of-saturday-nights-protest-at.html
www.abcnorio.org
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156555597763013
www.redchannels.org
www.facebook.com/groups/redchannels/
Sunday September 11th - 2PM
No Space
84 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
1.
On Sunday September 11th, "Patriot Day", we invite you to join us for
a day of screening, discussion, and food and drink.
For the past ten months we've taken part in a reading group engaged in
studying the Ultra Left, Anti-State Communism, Post-Anarchism, and any
number of other associated tendencies we neither agree nor disagree
with. Our reading list is representative of no single coherent line of
thought, nor does it represent the analyses or desires of all or any
of those who participated in this process.
Over the course of our conversations a number of films and videos have
come up, and we’ve decided to organize this event, a triple feature
screening open to the public, to watch and discuss this work together.
--2:30: Torre Bela - Thomas Harlan, 1975, 81 minutes
--4:30: Working Slowly - Guido Chiesa, 2004, 98 minutes
--6:30: Paths Through Utopias - Isabelle Fremeaux, John Jordan and
Kypros Kyprianou, 2011, 109 minutes
2.
in various modalities of speech
-a feature film -a documentary
-wondering what happened
provocative and static
a possible future
visually traversing visually familiar modes of understanding
to recognize forms of recognition of memory
of conception
of relations
this is only propaganda
what they did not what we will do
not found, but stored in relation to
3.
Torre Bela: "A year after the Portuguese "Carnation Revolution" that
ended the longest running dictatorship in Europe, people from a group
of villages in central Portugal went to the neighboring "Torre Bela,"
the largest walled manor in the country. Spurred on by the radical
mood in the country, the people demanded jobs from the owner, the Duke
of Lafões, descendant of the Portuguese royal family. When the Duke
refused, the crowd began to think not only of jobs, but also of
ownership of the land and the "palace" where the aristocrat's family
lived. They decided is to transform Torre Bela into an agricultural
cooperative, with no single owner, in which everyone--both men and
women-- earns the same salary, with a day care centre and a cultural
centre. The film documents the rise and fall of this revolutionary
cooperative movement and follows the process by which a revolutionary
movement develops on a local scale, its relation to the radicalizing
military, its difficulties and particular development in specific
cultural conditions."
Working Slowly: Co-authored by the Italian collective Wu-Ming
Foundation, "the film is set during an actual student uprising that
paralysed Bologna for several days in March 1977. Several narrative
threads are woven around Radio Alice, the station run by the "creative
wing" (the so-called "Mao-Dadaists") of the radical Autonomia
movement."
Paths Through Utopias: "As the global financial crisis surfaced in
2007, we journeyed for 7 months across Europe to investigate and
experience examples of post-capitalist living - from a direct action
Climate Camp set up illegally on the edges of Heathrow airport to a
hamlet squatted by French punks, an off grid low impact permaculture
community to occupied self-managed Serbian factories, a free love
commune in an ex Stasi base to a farm where private property had been
abolished, we shared different ways of loving and eating, producing
and sharing things, deciding together and rebelling. We were not
looking for escapist Neverlands, blueprints for a perfect future or
universal systems, but communities who simply dare to live
differently, despite the catastrophe of capitalism."
4.
The group has been a space for us to find each other, learn and study
together, to challenge one another to articulate ourselves in response
to current realities, and various circulating political philosophies.
We have recently discussed ending this reading group as a “reading
group”, to not limit the ways we think, work, and exist together.
Among those read include Alain Badiou, Franco Berardi, Alfredo M.
Bonanno, Gilles Dauve, Jacques Derrida, Endnotes, Todd May, Saul
Newman, Nina Power, Jacques Ranciere, Theorie Communiste, and Tiqqun:
http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/note/3053
5.
Please bring both food and drink to share. And ibuprofen.
6.
http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/class/2983
http://notanalternative.com/
http://confusingsigns.wordpress.com/
http://thevoider.wordpress.com/
http://autonomousorganization.org/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=260734043949598
---
Creating the Comfort of Corporate Sponsorship: An Open Discussion
Wednesday September 14th - 7:30PM
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street, New York, NY 10002
A multinational car corporation and a multinatinal art institution
partner to provide a “community center” and a “public gathering space”
for radical politics, culture and arts in the Lower East Side/East
Village, New York:
“…The theme of the Lab’s first two-year cycle is Confronting Comfort—-
exploring notions of individual and collective comfort and the urgent
need for environmental and social responsibility… Part urban think
tank, part community center and public gathering space, the Lab is
conceived to inspire public discourse in cities around the world… The
public is invited to attend and to participate in free programs and
experiments at the Lab…” -BMW Guggenheim Lab
The calendar of the BMW Guggenheim lab offers a wide spectrum of
events with radical content: The NY Leftover Bailout: Squatting time
Sit-In; screenings of The Take by Naomi Klein, The Garden by Don
Normak, The Starlite Project: We Came to Sweat by Kate Kunath and
Sasha Wortzel; Beyond Segrification: Models for Equal Glocalization,
Sustainism as the New Modernism?, Saskia Sassen: Talking back to your
Intelligent City...
“So are we to assume that corporate culture doesn’t suck because it is
giving us access to things we once started and now can’t afford to
maintain: bike shops, print shops, recording studios, experimental art
spaces, etc? But what happens when the marketers have moved on to the
next marketing methodology and we are left without their
infrastructure, or ours?” -Dara Greenwald, "Does Corporate Culture
STILL Suck?"
Red Channels invites everybody to an open discussion on corporate
sponsorship for radical initiatives, and its implications for a DIY
culture in New York. We want to examine the specific example of the
BMW Guggenheim Lab and at the same time analyze it within the broader
context of global capitalism and current austerity measures.
How can we respond to the commodification of anti-capitalist projects
and the depoliticization of politics? How can radical spaces
collaborate to confront the comfort of branded venues offering
participatory and social experiences?
Join us at this event as we analyze our own entanglements in
capitalist structures, refuse participation in the branded
Participatory, and develop strategies of cultural struggle.
Further information:
--Official website of the BMW Guggenheim Lab: http://bmwguggenheimlab.org/
--Dara Greenwald’s critique on the BMW Guggenheim Lab "Does Corpotate
Culture STILL Suck?": http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2011/08/does_corporate_culture_still_s.html
--Protest against the BMW Guggenheim Lab "Gentrification is Class War.
Fight Back!": http://evgrieve.com/2011/08/recap-of-saturday-nights-protest-at.html
www.abcnorio.org
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156555597763013
www.redchannels.org
www.facebook.com/groups/redchannels/
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