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itinerant archive??
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Borcila, Rozalinda
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Sep 06, 2004 07:19 PDT
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so nice to find a message from the freecooperation listserv in my inbox -- in the hopes i can still reach some of you through this address, i am posting a call for participation and help. we apologise for cross-postings, of course.
rozalinda
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greetings to all freecooperators, associators, makers of common goods, community organizations, networks of all kinds, cultural collectives,
organized, self-organized or anti-organized
hosts and distributors of collective intelligence
monsters, outlaws and those who love them
Dear friends
If you are engaged in collective practice, we would love to hear from you!!!
Open Call for a traveling archive and nomadic meeting-place on collectivity and critical collective/cooperative cultural action. We need your contributions !
First stop:
Oliver Gallery, Tampa FL
November 2004
We will travel in the US in Florida, Nashville, San Francisco, Chicago (?) and Denver; to Athens Greece, Iasi Romania and Budapest Hungary
Description:
We are gathering materials on collective and cooperative forms of creativity, critique, resistance, intervention, scholarship and artistic production. This project does not claim to be a complete, exhaustive or representative archive. This is an effort to connect different social networks, to actualize and investigate the potential of public spaces. In late October/early November, the archive will be available to the public in its first phase as a room/lounge/resource center/production space/junction/meeting place at the Oliver Gallery. This will also be a staging area for actions during the US elections. We do not limit the ways in which our space may be used or may serve as a resource. Our multi-purpose room will be open 24 hours a day, we have available internet-linked computers, VHS and DVD players (NTSC and PAL), a growing collection of paper resources and reference material, books, pamphlets, print-outs, Xerox copies, photos, posters…and free water and coffee. We will have viewing, seating, lounging, napping and play areas. We also hope to provide a free Xerox machine and free CD’s for copying information. The room will be available to local teachers and community organizations with no space of their own, collaborative projects in need of production space and local bands in need of rehearsal space.
Our archive will travel to other spaces willing to host it and be open for public use. Information/materials will continuously be solicited and added. If you are engaged in collective practice, we would love to hear from you. Please share with us any material that speaks to your work: from documentation of projects to reflections on the dynamics of cooperation
Any of the following can be extremely useful sources of information or reference for your work:
o digital material: CD’s, DVD’s, digital files (text, video , image, sound; we can arrange for uploading and downloading to our server)
o printed materials (books, catalogs, magazines, pamphlets, posters, coasters, zines…)
o reproductions (Xerox copies, photographs, slides, computer print-outs..)
o documentation of your work in any format, from text to audio recordings of phone interviews with us
o letters, emails, postcards
o objects
o url’s, for the project web site
Please send materials to:
Rozalinda Borcila
Visual and Performing Arts, FAH 110
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620, USA
Please contact us if shipping expenses are prohibitive -- we are trying to organize satellite gatherers who may be able to help.
For the first phase, we are looking for materials before the end of September -- additional calls for materials will be posted periodically.
Questions, comments? please contact Rozalinda Borcila borc-@arts.usf.edu . This project is only part of the larger, on-going effort to learn about, historicize, understand and make public different forms of critical collective intelligence. We are also soliciting materials on the various attempts to theorize collectivity. For each installment, our growing collection will be restructured and recategorized -- we will invite our participants to offer interpretive interventions into the collection. We seek to connect with related initiatives to share information, resources, experience and energy.
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