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ACTIVE ECONOMY: FLEA MARKET event a 11/17
ACTIVE ECONOMY: FLEA MARKET
Ken Ehrlich & Brandon LaBelle
In celebration of the release of Surface Tension Supplement No. 1, you are invited to join us for a Flea Market. Each of the participants has been asked to prepare a table of objects, items, and goods, to be available for visitors to acquire. The tables have been organized according to different domestic spatial motifs or structures, from 'the kitchen' or 'the bedroom' to 'around the corner' or 'under the floorboards'. The market and the acquisition of objects will be organized around a bartering or trading system: visitors can offer other objects, services, items, promises, etc., in exchange for other goods or items. In this way, it is our intention to develop the event around issues related to 'informal economies' and the notion of the circulation of private goods through recycling. The event is structured in this way to experiment with the structure and formation of an exchange.
Please bring an item or two with you to offer in exchange. Or, feel free to offer other forms of services or more intangible items, such as stories, promises, secrets, etc. The event will last roughly 2 hours, and will also include a lecture/presentation on economic structures by Haidy Geismar, an anthropologist from NYU.
Drinks will be served!
Friday, November 17, 8.00pm
16 Beaver Studio
16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10004
www.16beavergroup.org
www.errantbodies.org
Surface Tension Supplements is a book series focusing on writings, projects, and documentation of site-specific and location-based practices, published by Errant Bodies Press.
Ken Ehrlich & Brandon LaBelle
In celebration of the release of Surface Tension Supplement No. 1, you are invited to join us for a Flea Market. Each of the participants has been asked to prepare a table of objects, items, and goods, to be available for visitors to acquire. The tables have been organized according to different domestic spatial motifs or structures, from 'the kitchen' or 'the bedroom' to 'around the corner' or 'under the floorboards'. The market and the acquisition of objects will be organized around a bartering or trading system: visitors can offer other objects, services, items, promises, etc., in exchange for other goods or items. In this way, it is our intention to develop the event around issues related to 'informal economies' and the notion of the circulation of private goods through recycling. The event is structured in this way to experiment with the structure and formation of an exchange.
Please bring an item or two with you to offer in exchange. Or, feel free to offer other forms of services or more intangible items, such as stories, promises, secrets, etc. The event will last roughly 2 hours, and will also include a lecture/presentation on economic structures by Haidy Geismar, an anthropologist from NYU.
Drinks will be served!
Friday, November 17, 8.00pm
16 Beaver Studio
16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10004
www.16beavergroup.org
www.errantbodies.org
Surface Tension Supplements is a book series focusing on writings, projects, and documentation of site-specific and location-based practices, published by Errant Bodies Press.
Open Call ⠏ctober Surprise
Deadline:
Fri Aug 06, 2004 19:08
http://www.theoctobersurprise.org/
What:
- October Surprise will converge artists, activists and the community to celebrate our neighborhoods and strengthen creative, grassroots power, using site-specific installations, interventions, art, monuments, performance, and other events.
- Projects will be situated throughout the neighborhood.
Where:
-We are calling for projects throughout Northeast LA… along the boulevards and arroyos; in the public spaces, community places and private homes.
-The Arroyo Arts Collective at 135 N. Ave. 50 in Highland Park will serve as a convergence, or meeting space, where participants can present and discuss their work. Additionally, we are interested in hosting pertinent lectures. And though the gallery space can be used to present documentation of projects and ideas, we are specifically looking for site-specific projects throughout the neighborhood.
When:
-Projects will occur on the long weekend of October 8, 9, 10 and 11, 2004. Documentation of the events will remain in the gallery through October into the first week of November and Election Day. (Ongoing projects are encouraged.)
Why:
-We hope to help reveal a city to itself and energize its communities. One month before the election, we are organizing this event to show where democracy really lives--in our neighborhoods, streets and homes. Now is as good a time as any to strengthen political and cultural discussions where it really counts--at the grassroots.
How:
-Send us a proposal by August 18th. This is a non-juried exhibition but we would like to have a basic participants list for organizational purposes.
Contact us with questions and proposals:
email: opencall@theoctobersurprise.org
ph: 323-449-9019 (English)
ph: 323-227-5861 (Espanol)
or mail proposals to:
October Surprise
c/o Flor y Canto
3706 N. Figueroa Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90065
http://www.theoctobersurprise.org/
What:
- October Surprise will converge artists, activists and the community to celebrate our neighborhoods and strengthen creative, grassroots power, using site-specific installations, interventions, art, monuments, performance, and other events.
- Projects will be situated throughout the neighborhood.
Where:
-We are calling for projects throughout Northeast LA… along the boulevards and arroyos; in the public spaces, community places and private homes.
-The Arroyo Arts Collective at 135 N. Ave. 50 in Highland Park will serve as a convergence, or meeting space, where participants can present and discuss their work. Additionally, we are interested in hosting pertinent lectures. And though the gallery space can be used to present documentation of projects and ideas, we are specifically looking for site-specific projects throughout the neighborhood.
When:
-Projects will occur on the long weekend of October 8, 9, 10 and 11, 2004. Documentation of the events will remain in the gallery through October into the first week of November and Election Day. (Ongoing projects are encouraged.)
Why:
-We hope to help reveal a city to itself and energize its communities. One month before the election, we are organizing this event to show where democracy really lives--in our neighborhoods, streets and homes. Now is as good a time as any to strengthen political and cultural discussions where it really counts--at the grassroots.
How:
-Send us a proposal by August 18th. This is a non-juried exhibition but we would like to have a basic participants list for organizational purposes.
Contact us with questions and proposals:
email: opencall@theoctobersurprise.org
ph: 323-449-9019 (English)
ph: 323-227-5861 (Espanol)
or mail proposals to:
October Surprise
c/o Flor y Canto
3706 N. Figueroa Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90065
http://www.theoctobersurprise.org/