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From: Social Design Notes
on 10/09/10 | Read More

Centre d'art contemporain de Brétigny: Noise & Capitalism: Exhibition as Concert

Centre d’art contemporain de Brétigny
1 September – 30 October 2010


Taking as a starting point the book Noise & Capitalism and the desire to explore noise and improvisation in social and political terms, the CAC exhibition context will become an improvised concert lasting for two months. Going through different degrees of intensity, nothing will remain static; the production and reception will take place simultaneously.Read Full Article

From: e-flux shows :: rss
on 05/09/10 | Read More

Gasworks: Hydrarchy: Power and Resistance at Sea

Research image for Uriel Orlow’s “The Yellow Fleet” (2010)Gasworks
18 September – 7 November 2010

Hydrarchy: Power and Resistance at Sea is a group exhibition that examines the contested cultural, political, social and economic territories of the sea and the offshore. Focusing on specific events, situations and mythologies attached to past and recent maritime history, the works address power relations at sea and the forms of resistance and survival developed as a response.Read Full Article

From: e-flux shows :: rss
on 08/09/10 | Read More

60 Israeli actors boycott theatre in West Bank settlement

A group of Israeli actors, directors and playwrights have signed a letter to the management of six Israeli theatres announcing their refusal to participate in stage productions in a new performing arts centre in a West Bank settlement. The signatories have asked theatre managers to restrict their activity to stages within the internationally accepted 1967 borders.

More than 60 have joined the protest over plans by Israel’s national theatre, the Habima, and other leading companies to stage performances in Ariel, a settlement 12 miles inside the West Bank. The letter, to Israel’s culture minister, Limor Livnat, says the new centre for performing arts in Ariel, which is due to open in November after 20 years in construction, would “strengthen the settlement enterprise”.
“We want to express our dismay with the intention of the theatres’ managements to perform in the new auditorium in Ariel and hereby declare that we will refuse to perform in the city, as in any other settlement.” Israel’s theatre companies should “pursue their prolific activity inside the sovereign territory of the state of Israel within the boundaries of the Green Line”. (The Guardian)
After news of actors’ protest became public, hundreds have gathered at Tel Aviv’s Habima Theatre in support of the boycott. The sentiment of those opposed to performing in the new centre were eloquently summarized by actor Yousef Swaid, who explained his position to Israeli television: “Settlers and settlements are not something that entertain me, and I don’t want to entertain them.”

From: Art Threat
by Rob Maguire on 31/08/10 | Read More

Subversion II: “Yes Lab for Creative Activism”

Das Yes Lab der Yes Men fördert subversive Projekte: “The Yes Lab is a series of brainstorms and trainings to help activist groups carry out Yes-Men-style projects on their own. In a typical Yes Lab project, an activist organization will come to the Yes Lab with a target—e.g. Monsanto, or war profiteers, or one of those “too big to fail” banks, or greedy health insurance companies, or a bad government policy—as well as a goal: to affect public debate, push for legislation, embarrass an evildoer, etc. Depending on ability, they will pay a fee to help the Yes Lab keep going. We’ll work with the group to develop the smartest, most effective plan to accomplish it. We’ll help assemble the team from within the group as well as our mailing list, we’ll train folks as necessary, and we’ll check in on the project until it’s successful.” Via

From: rebel:art
by *A on 07/09/10 | Read More

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