Saturday June 21st @ 5pm, participants will come with white sheet or blanket and white pillows, prepared to spend the night and following day. Toting laptops, books, cell phones, creative materials, etc ... participants will come and set up their materials, side by side, creating one giant bed. Participants will make themselves comfortable to spend the next 24 hours together.
All will be welcome to engage in dialogue with one another while working/sleeping. Dialogue will fuel creative exchange and result in the creation of a blog/webspace that will extend the in-house conversation to the internet world at large. This event is to be a 24 HOUR live installation, a sort of collective meditation. We will operate much the same as a think tank, whose aim is first solidarity : our individual selves, to our group, to collective volition.
Come participate! Leave a comment to sign up in advance to WORK-IN for 24 hours with us, or email anna.rosie@gmail.com or brit.manor@gmail.com. If you can not participate, please visit us during gallery hours (June 22 1-5pm) and witness the work-in.
This WORK-IN is to in continuation of and supported by witnesses of LA VS WAR. Let us continue to conversation...
20 comments:
Wow Anna, it's looking great right now!
Seven o'clock and it's all looking great! Next time let's try to find a better way to do audio though, but I love the concept.
I've been watching and listening .... where'd everyone go all of a sudden?
WE TOOK A BREAK TO HOSE OFF OUTSIDE!! it's a million degrees here. thanks for watching! we broke bread together, did the introductions, and are now getting ready to use space conceptually... introductions to our team here will follow! keep watching...send thoughts : thoughts on UTOPIA ...we're working on our own tonight
Very cool, I absolutely LOVE the concept. I'm at work, but I'll be checking in all night as I'm working a night shift. Wish I could participate tonight!
doc! and anyone else in driving proximity to eagle rock, ca...you are welcome to come to the physical space tomorrow from 1-5pm...go to www.seaandspace.org for directions to space!
xo from the WORK IN
aaron's update:
we've become acquainted with each other through a few hours of loose conversation about our backgrounds and what we "believe in"
it was funny. really funny. if you missed out. that sucks real bad for you.
i talked about the multiplicity of selves and beginning to take inventory of those other selves (internet avatars, credit history, religious ideal, social persona, professional persona) how can we begin to consolidate these versions of ourselves into one? is this possible? will we ever be able to achieve that? pros / cons?
by watering down our existence in such a way, what does that mean? how can we compare ourselves to peoples (cultures) of the past that didn't have to "water down their spirits" to be a part of modern society? what is the least number we need in order to get by?
I absolutely love how this site is evolving as the evening progresses. At first I thought the conversation would be purely political in nature, but now I see that it's more of an exploration of each of the members in the closed group. I have the night shift where I work, and I plan on keeping tuned into the "if you want it" site as long as I possibly can. What are the anticipated topics you plan to discuss? I am completely riveted.
And all of a sudden the audio sounds a lot clearer now.
Are you SURE a lot of bottled water is fluoridated? I was under the assumption that is not.
just looked into it and as with most controversial issues, accessible sources point to a number of conclusions, which collectively, leaves us with bubcus. but this alone is just as big an issue: no clear answers to questions concerning basic human needs. why? shouldn't these be the very things that are given to us freely? what are we doing otherwise? if it is so difficult to find out what water is fluoridated is what is not, then why are we so surprised at the gaping crevasses in our basic understanding of such things as what has propelled us into this war? how can we do anything but expect to know very very little...and yet the nation stays tuned to fox,msnbc and cnn (bottle of ethos in hand) for the latest breaking, reaching conclusions under the veil of confidence that leaves us estranged from our very wants, needs and selves. there are so many distractions in every direction, so many narrow-minded attempts at "good"...so many contradictions. but is it possible to consider all things after NPR's siegle finishes at 7? do we need to compromise our integrity, do we need to rewrite what individual integrity encompasses? reevaluate our values, our needs...
alright. so we're tired. it's hot as hell, and don't think that doesn't incite fears of global warming. but i digress. i'm sure it's just southern california. anyway, it's a saturday night and all our friends on the outside are having a laugh. and we're really really sweaty. so here's the plan : some of us are going to nap in this great big lumpy bed we've made. and the rest of us are going to spend the night transforming the right angles of the space. we want NO MORE RIGHT ANGLES! (we'll see how far we get) we're sick of a binary world. we've talked through ideas of what to construct, what to write, what to do next. but in the spirit of working specifically and in the micro realm at first, we're going to use the materials we happen to have in this space which already exits. ACTIVATE CHANGE FROM WITHIN. so during dream time, we're going to get physical.
aaron update:
i've been placing makeshift filters over the surveillance cameras, each one slightly different, going with the "no right angle" theme, we're framing each surveillance camera with a different material. mangled chicken wire, butcher paper with a peep hole, and cloth sliced up.
what becomes provocative is not about what can be seen, but rather, what can't be seen... without rhyme or reason, the dye cuts, like our inherently rigid system of government, don't account for those things "in periphery"... and so are simply not visible... and cannot be discussed.
looks nice... funny I looked at the video and then read the blog and looked at the video again and so much as happened in that short span! Suddenly tunnel vision!!! You do realize you are creating tunnel vision???
anna's update:
so we tried to round the edges and we created tunnel vision instead : re-defined TV, but our channel aspires to be a clear, the tunnel to focus our wide eyes : not a loss of the periphery, but rather a firm focus on what's directly ahead. as for the physical space, we're framing it, giving it rudimentary dimensions in coarse paper and cardboard, dressing the bed. our space looks like a squat! i find it quite amusing and maybe telling that when posed with the chalenge of how to use the gallery space, we go about nesting! we engage with the corporealality to unify, come together as a body. even our scratchpad on the wall is now encased in an organ like construct...our ideas are in the womb, or in the belly, or intestines.
we are 13 and a half hours into our meditation. deal with the space a bit longer and then a little writing. develop the mission. what do we do after the orgy? :)) thanks to baudrillard for the chewy philosophy
It's been over twelve hours now and it looks like the site's still running strong. I wish I could have logged on and watched around 3:00 or 4:00AM to see what the discussion was.
I'll stop by later on today!
We're making hats. We're going to put them on around noon and mock parliment and claim our cooperative commonwealth under the patronage of the United States of America. you can join us! it's a virtual and temporarily corporeal utopia. YES WE CAN DO THAT!! THIS IS AMERICA! make a hat! send us a pic!
(can't wait to see ya chuck...many thanks for the live feed)
who said that history was the most revolutionary concept in the us of a? was it howard zinn? i can't remember-althought that would make sense.
how can we make sense, knowing ourselves beyond the surface, beyond the origins, the flag, beyond the faults and blames and violence and power and green and sick and sad and fashion and football, of our own unwillingness to decontextualize our every movement just when being subject to the courts of the past would place us behind bars and when not, when its 'all the rage', when its hip, we revel in the varicolored pinwheels of generations otherwise lost. so, of course, of course we can understand this lack of responsibility. but who does this? and how can we can stand to continue slithering out of an embarassingly blatent accountability? what is necessary to jolt us out of our lay z boyz and commit not to an estranged nation or its people but to ourselves. THEM IS US. No one will do it for you. You don't have to clean your room, johnny georgey whatever but atleast know where your junk is and position your archives, the embodiments of memory, so that at every moment they collide with the now.
Anna, on the side of the camcorder there's a button which says "display". Press that to get rid of the flashing TAPE warning in the video.
- Chuck
We're going to stop by around 4:00 this afternoon, I've been watching all morning and the audio quality's great now that the camera is closer to the pads. And it looks like quite a few people are showing up!
Hi Anna
I've been playing around with a camcorder here at my house and I've been shooting some pieces of the live web stream broadcast with sound. I think you'll like it, and I'll burn it off to a DVD for your archives.
I really really like this model for communication, potentially thousands of people can be watching at a single given time. The little counter at the bottom of the streaming page sometimes hit up to 12 viewers at a single time this morning, by the way.
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