Reminder: Wednesday at ABC No Rio - Creating the Comfort of Corporate Sponsorship: An Open Discussion

[Red Channels]

Reminder:

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 etc.

“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


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