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Re: itinerant archive??
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Jon Rubin
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Oct 17, 2004 19:34 PDT
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Rozalinda,
I meant to write back to you long ago, but you know how it is...............
You had contacted me after the free cooperation conference about my XCult
project and indicated an interest in the collaborative model I have
developed. Of course it is rather late, but if there is a way I can somehow
participate in the show at the Olive Gallery I would be happy to do so.
Please tell me what has been developing.
On another front, I have been working for John Kerry a bit and was thinking
that I might come down to Florida with my wife for the last 4-5 days of the
campaign to help out. Many years ago I spent a week in Ybor City and was
thinking that somewhere in the greater Tampa area might be a good place to
be for this period. Do you have any suggestions for an inexpensive but not
too grotty place to stay for a few nights?
Hope to hear from you,.
Jon Rubin
XCult: http://rachel.ns.purchase.edu/~jrubin/
Floating Cinema: http://www.laternow.com/visit.html
At 10:18 AM 9/6/2004 -0400, you wrote:
| | 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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