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Re: itinerant archive??
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borc-@arts.usf.edu
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Jun 04, 2006 17:44 PDT
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Dear Marlena
So nice to hear from you. Below, a brief update for
your cv – I will follow this up with a more extensive
email about the common_places project, which has grown
and developed quite a bit. What began as an attempt to
put together a resource on artist cooperation
practices (an itinerant "archive" or collection of
materials in generated by artists as a way of
representing their practice), expanded into a larger
and somewhat fuzzier project.
Exhibitions:
October 2004
common_places:Tampa - Oliver Gallery, University of
South Florida – Tampa USA
May 2005
common_places: Iasi - part of the exhibition Excerpt
– Vector Gallery – Iasi, Romania
(review available at:
June 2005
common_places:Budapest – Dinamo Cultural Space –
Budapest, Hungary
selections from the archive were also presented
publicly during:
HINTS Riport, part of the series of events “Report”
curated by Katalin Timar; HINTS with invited guests
common_places and Jan Danebod – Ludwig Muzeum,
Budapest, Hungary
public presentations, screenings, discussions also
held at
Tranzit Foundation - Cluj Romania
AK-57 - Budapest, Hungary
Versionfest - Chicago USA
Flight 19 - Tampa USA
There were numerous events organized at the
provisional “home” of the archive in Tampa –
workshops, seminars, lectures, open houses, project
presentations and so forth – we do not have a coherent
list of these, as some (many) were informal.
The most complete picture of the project currently is
at the blog site
www.commonplacesproject.org
it has extended beyond exhibiting materials on
collaborative practices, and into producing
infrastructures for collaboration. There are also
different sub-identities for the project, the most
active of which is the Center for Getting Ugly which
is involved in walking and other forms of critical
engagement with the urban environment. It has produced
around 20 walks and several public events about
walking (workshops, presentations and discussions).
Some of these events have been hosted by the
common_places space, and so the materials instead of
being "exhibited” were used or integrated into other
practices.
I hope this is helpful for your records. Thank you
again for sharing your work – and for sending me the
link to Helen, which I looooved!!! What a wonderful
project!!
I too will be traveling extensively in Europe in the
coming year – I will be on sabbatical and able to do
much needed research. Perhaps we will have the
opportunity to intersect….???
Many cheers and keep in touch
Rozalinda
Ps. An article on “Excerpt” was published in Idea
earlier this year(issue #20) , and the archive is
indeed also discussed there
See
http://www.idea.ro/revista/index.php?nv=1&go=2&mg=53
under “scene” the article is called
“Extracted and embezzled”
--- Marlena Corcoran
<corc-@anglistik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
| | Dear Rozalinda,
I'm updating my cv and wonder if you could send me
information on the
exhibition on collective practice. Where and when
was it shown/made
available?
I spent the spring semester at Emory University, and
travelled quite a
bit, but never got to Florida. I still hope to meet
you some time!
My latest art event was in Berlin. I was invited to
discuss my work
"Helena" at radiotesla, the home of free radio in
Berlin. They had
broadcast "Helena" several times; this time, there
was a discussion
with other artists and radio people. I'm working on
a subway
documentary for broadcast in Europe (8 cities) this
summer.
How are things with you?
Best wishes,
Marlena
On Sep 6, 2004, at 4:18 PM, Rozalinda Borcila wrote:
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so nice to find a message from the freecooperation
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listserv in my
| | inbox -- in the hopes i can still reach some of
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you through this
| | address, i am posting a call for participation and
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help. we apologise
| | for cross-postings, of course.
rozalinda
*******
greetings to all freecooperators, associators,
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makers of common goods,
| | community organizations, networks of all kinds,
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cultural collectives,
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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
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would love to hear from
| | you!!!
Open Call for a traveling archive and nomadic
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meeting-place on
| | collectivity and critical collective/cooperative
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cultural action. We
| | need your contributions !
First stop:
Oliver Gallery, Tampa FL
November 2004
We will travel in the US in Florida, Nashville,
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San Francisco, Chicago
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and Budapest Hungary
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Description:
We are gathering materials on collective and
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cooperative forms of
| | creativity, critique, resistance, intervention,
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scholarship and
| | artistic production. This project does not claim
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to be a complete,
| | exhaustive or representative archive. This is an
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effort to connect
| | different social networks, to actualize and
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investigate the potential
| | of public spaces. In late October/early November,
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the archive will be
| | available to the public in its first phase as a
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room/lounge/resource
| | center/production space/junction/meeting place at
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the Oliver Gallery.
| | This will also be a staging area for actions
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during the US elections.
| | We do not limit the ways in which our space may be
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used or may serve
| | as a resource. Our multi-purpose room will be open
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24 hours a day, we
| | have available internet-linked computers, VHS and
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DVD players (NTSC
| | and PAL), a growing collection of paper resources
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and reference
| | material, books, pamphlets, print-outs, Xerox
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copies, photos,
| | posters…and free water and coffee. We will have
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viewing, seating,
| | lounging, napping and play areas. We also hope to
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provide a free Xerox
| | machine and free CD’s for copying information. The
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room will be
| | available to local teachers and community
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organizations with no space
| | of their own, collaborative projects in need of
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production space and
| | local bands in need of rehearsal space.
Our archive will travel to other spaces willing to
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host it and be open
| | for public use. Information/materials will
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continuously be solicited
| | and added. If you are engaged in collective
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practice, we would love to
| | hear from you. Please share with us any material
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that speaks to your
| | work: from documentation of projects to
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reflections on the dynamics of
| | cooperation
Any of the following can be extremely useful
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sources of information or
| | reference for your work:
o digital material: CD’s, DVD’s, digital files
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(text, video , image,
| | sound; we can arrange for uploading and
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downloading to our server)
| | o printed materials (books, catalogs, magazines,
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pamphlets, posters,
| | coasters, zines…)
o reproductions (Xerox copies, photographs,
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slides, computer
| | print-outs..)
o documentation of your work in any format, from
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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
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prohibitive -- we are
| | trying to organize satellite gatherers who may be
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able to help.
| | For the first phase, we are looking for materials
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before the end of
| | September -- additional calls for materials will
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be posted
| | periodically.
Questions, comments? please contact Rozalinda
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Borcila
| | borc-@arts.usf.edu . This project is only part
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of the larger,
| | on-going effort to learn about, historicize,
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understand and make
| | public different forms of critical collective
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intelligence. We are
| | also soliciting materials on the various attempts
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to theorize
| | collectivity. For each installment, our growing
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collection will be
| | restructured and recategorized -- we will invite
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our participants to
| | offer interpretive interventions into the
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collection. We seek to
| | connect with related initiatives to share
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information, resources,
| | experience and energy.
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