OUR
CALL
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 and
Denver; to Athens, Greece and Iasi, Romania
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 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 the archive, and the space temporarily
housing it, may be used or may serve as resources. 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:
- digital material: CD’s, DVD’s, digital
files (text, video , image, sound; we can arrange for uploading
and
downloading to our
server)
- printed materials (books, catalogs, magazines, pamphlets,
posters, coasters, zines…)
- reproductions (Xerox copies, photographs,
slides, computer print-outs..)
- documentation of your work in any
format, from text to audio recordings of phone interviews with
us
- letters, emails, postcards
- objects
- 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
Postmark deadline: September 15th
Questions, comments? please contact Rozalinda Borcila borcila@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
seek to connect with related initiatives to share information, resources,
experience and energy. |
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