Txt Chandelier

Colonizers

Mike Arcega - Conquistadork
http://www.arcega.us

Peter Callesen - Palace of Dreams
http://www.petercallesen.com

Learning Site

Learning Site pays attention to the local conditions it finds in the place where it chooses to work. In the past years Learning Site has mainly worked with resource materials and economies related to the specific situations where work has been carried out. Economic, environmental, labor, property rights, and many other issues are investigated in tandem to produce a variety of perspectives.

]]> Learning Site takes part of a discussion of how knowledge is distributed and produced.

Learning Site is comprised of Rikke Luther (DK) and Cecilia Wendt (S), co-founders of N55 (download N55 BOOK as PDF), Julio Castro (MEX), co-founder of Tercerunquinto, and Brett Bloom (US), co-founder of Temporary Services. The different backgrounds are the basis for expanding the language they built up through sharing and mixing.

http://learningsite.info/

Sundown Schoolhouse

Sundown Schoolhouse is a geodesic home based educational environment with an activist mission. In the classic model of the schoolhouse, students of many ages {18 and up} come together to study a diversity of disciplines. It is a school for the gently radical design, literary, performing & visual arts. We foster models for active creative practices that engage with the messy realities of the world around us, from our relationships with the diverse peoples in our city to the eroding natural and urban environments we inhabit.

]]> Schoolhouse studies take many forms, dictated by the inspirations and interests of the visiting teachers, and the response and desires of the students. This may include anything related to the design, literary, performing & visual arts, and tangentially beyond into the sciences and the humanities. Detailed information on the specific curricula and schedule for the Autumn 2006 season is now posted. The Autumn 2007 schedule will be posted in late summer.

http://www.fritzhaeg.com/schoolhouse.html

unitednationsplaza

unitednationsplaza is exhibition as school. Structured as a seminar/residency program in the city of Berlin, it will involve collaboration with approximately 60 artists, writers, theorists and a wide range of audiences for a period of one year. In the tradition of Free Universities, most of its events will be open to all those interested to take part.

]]> unitednationsplaza is organized by Anton Vidokle in collaboration with Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Martha Rosler, Walid Raad, Jalal Toufic, Nikolaus Hirsch, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Tirdad Zolghadr.

http://www.unitednationsplaza.org

Colourschool

colourschool is a school within a school dedicated to the speculative research and exploration of five colours: black, white, brown, yellow, and red. Located in a studio at the University of British Columbia, colourschool provides a free and open space for critical inquiry as an alternative to institutional participation in the knowledge economy.

]]> Inspired by the history of experimental education, colourschool draws from the pedagogical precedents of Black Mountain College and Joseph Beuys' Free International University as well as the Colour Research project undertaken by Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov.

colourschool facilitates an open and transdisciplinary approach to colour consciousness in the form of lectures, screenings, colloquia, research, residencies, exhibitions, workshops, and performances. colourschool sessions will take place over the course of one academic year between November 2006 and August 2007.

http://www.colourschool.org/wiki

Soundtrack for An Exhibition

Soundtrack composed by/composée par Susan Stenger [Band of Susans] with contributions by/avec des contributions de Robert Poss [Band of Susans] , Alan Vega [Suicide], Alexander Hacke [Einstürzende Neubaten], F.M. Einheit [ex Einstürzende Neubaten], Will Oldham [Palace Music, Bonny Prince Billy], Kim Gordon [Sonic Youth], Mika Vainio [Pan Sonic], Bruce Gilbert [Wire], Ulrich Krieger, Warren Ellis [The Dirty Three, The Bad Seeds], Jim White [The Dirty Three], Jennifer Hoyston [Erase Errata], Andria Degens (Pantaleimon), Spider Stacy [Pogues]

]]> - Paintings by John Armleder, Steven Parrino
- Feature film by Kristian Levring
- An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland

8th March until 11th June 2006 - Musée Art Contemporain Lyon

THE TITLE AS THE CURATOR’S ART PIECE*

A SUMMER SHOW BY MATHIEU COPELAND
*Show title #347, by Stefan Brüggemann
A painting exhibition with Jaroslaw Flicinski & Claude Rutault
A spoken word exhibition with Douglas Coupland, Nick Currie (aka Momus), Karl Holmqvist, Tomas Vanek, Lawrence Weiner & Ian Wilson

]]> The Title As The Curator’s Art Piece* acts as a multi-layered exhibition, a series of successive exhibitions in one given space, at a given time. A neutral ‘all over’ curating, constantly expanding in time, two independent exhibitions within a concomitant space are unified by the time of the exhibition.

If in the title the whole program of an exhibition is revealed, the show title by Stefan Brüggemann–which cancels itself by stating a title as curator’s piece as an artist’s piece—illustrates the exhibition’s concerns with self-referentiality and denial. An exhibition where what is is not what one approaches, but what constitutes the space as a series of successive exhibitions in a given space, at a given time.

more at http://www.mathieucopeland.net/

SUPERULTRAHYPERBOLE

Explicit Content Only - ni9e (fi5e, Max Asare)
http://www.ni9e.com/nwa.html

Voice Over - Brian Joseph Davis
http://www.yorku.ca/agyu/artistsproject/brian.html

REMIX / FAIR USE

Catherine Ross - Trilling
http://www.catherineross.net/Trilling.html

Claudia X Valdes - In the Dream of The Planet
http://www.claudiaxvaldes.com/video/inthedream.html

University of Sodan Art

(VIA GOOGLE TRANSLATION)
[Initiated by artist Tsuyoshi Ozawa in 1995, the University of Sodan Art,] directs the creation of a new self, and removes the fence between student teacher what compared to roughly it is with the pioneer where one by one does not have a possibility thing as the curriculum itself which does prerequisite, first it exists as the place where “the person encounters truly”. The symbol tower of the Mito art mansion which is established, like the triple spiral which is seen there, those which do not have the times never to be piled up, in spite big vector it is bearing, with the image which is done is there. Already various informations and as for us who exist in related to with human and society, as for each one not being possible independently it probably is widely known thing. Rather than saying that it is independent, while much, to influence mutually, above existing, it is self-explanatory for the other person to be required there. While dressing up [deisukomiyunikeshiyon], furthermore, we assume that the fact itself that already is not possibility, it has coexisted, if is, does symbiosis probably mean just being what?

http://www.soum.co.jp/mito/soudan/guide/guide.html

Arbour Lake Sghool

Living in a monotonous suburban community is an experience which begs to have its social limitations challenged. Activities which break the pattern of uniformity and shatter the austere tranquility of the cul-de-sac form a politic of exception, an accursed remainder within an otherwise perfect world. Re-enactments of World War One with water balloons and trenches, the construction of giant cardboard volcanoes in backyards and public robot fights dissolve the hegemony of the “new community” aesthetic into a provocative and ambiguous social milieu. It is with this “we’ll do what we want” attitude that the Arbour Lake Sghool was conceived and now thrives.

]]> The Sghool’s mandate is to provide a stage for the creation and display of artistic or critical projects in a way which explores and engages our suburban setting. Activities under this mandate excite, entertain, and often serve as comic interlude in the not-so-secret game of suburban one-upmanship. A loose association of artists, athletes, musicians, trades-people and students form the core group of project participants. Membership in the group is not determined by any specific criteria other than a desire and willingness to collaborate in a diverse and open-minded atmosphere.

Since the Sghool’s inception as an entity (November 2003) the most active participating members (and those responsible for maintaining the group as a distinct concept) have been Andrew and John Frosst, Wayne Garrett, Ben Jacques, Justin Patterson, Scott Rogers and Stacey Watson. Outside of this group numerous other artists/producers have contributed to the Sghool’s critical and entertaining projects. These projects have taken place within recognized arts institutions such as galleries and universities, in public spaces such as parks and backyards as well as within the private atmosphere of the Sghool. One of the essential features of the Arbour Lake Sghool is a willingness to engage in creative (and controversial) dialogue within our community while also addressing the role of educational, governmental and business institutions in the development of our daily lives. The various freedoms and restrictions which are produced by these overbearing and ubiquitous social forces are the subject of our examinations and critiques. In creating bodies of work which defy popular institutional themes and incite panic amongst busybody neighbours, the Arbour Lake Sghool aligns itself with a certain disobedient spirit which seeks to dissect the world it lives in, while presenting possible alternatives. The supposed sub-cultures to which our members belong are necessarily just as susceptible to this critical interpretive stance.

Derrida and The Unconditional University

On October 11, 1999, renowned philosopher Jacques Derrida, Professor of Philosophy, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, visited the University at Albany and presented a lecture on "The Future of the Profession or the Unconditional University."

http://www.albany.edu/history/derrida.html

Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry

TSCI designs education events inquiring into the new enclosures: enclosures on time, space, creativity, thought, ecology, love... We seek to understand how these enclosures work. But combating against cynicism, we also inquire into creative pathways within, against, and beyond the enclosures: pathways of thinking, collaboration, organization, experimentation...

Independent School of Art

Initated by artists Jon Rubin, The Independent School of Art is an experimental art school that operates without external resources, accreditation, or a physical site. Run solely through the labor and efforts of its participants, the school fosters an action-based approach to college-level arts education, a real-world model where students are challenged to determine and create their own artistic realities. The school’s barter-based tuition system makes explicit the social contract between students and teachers and honors their collective labor as a vital form of cultural production. Locating nomadically, the school prioritizes social over physical architecture, and asks all involved to imagine how their practice might intersect and respond to a larger set of physical situations and cultural possibilities.

]]> The ISA complements its curricular offerings with student and faculty designed exhibitions, fundraisers, lectures, grants, publications and now a play. These multi-disciplinary public actions are a central part of the school’s pedagogy, and serve a vital function by engaging the students in the direct creation of public culture. The ISA is designed for continual reinvention and experimentation, changing each season to reflect the ambitions, personalities and abilities of those in its community.

http://www.independentschoolofart.org/

Momentary Academy

Ted Purves' Momentary Academy is a free public education program, which will run throughout the duration of the exhibition. Embracing the gift economy, Purves has created this elaborate project as a true skill exchange: class offerings range from a creative writing workshop, to an experimental fashion design course, to a seminar on geometry. Also see Purves' recently published book: What We Want is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art (SUNY Press, 2005).