Posting With Your User Settings
Posted: April 28th, 2009 | Author: XY | Filed under: How To Use Blog | No Comments »The setting all current users have is good for all types of posting AND editing of prior posts
Final Project — Collaborative, Extended
Posted: April 28th, 2009 | Author: AT | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »Dear Friends,
Before crystallizing my final project, I had to consider all the circumstances, contingencies, contexts, and nuances of our class and group dynamic as I reasonably could:
1.) EXPERIMENTAL + COMMUNITIES
The class is called experimental communities. As a matter of pure addition, leaving synergy to chance, it’s important to think of projects and “doings” in the context of both “experimentation” and “community”.
2.) COLLABORATION
I found my second project — our project — to be a necessary next step in the arc of my projects this semester.
3.) CROSS-POLLINATION
Related to the idea of collaboration is that of cross-pollination. More and more, interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge, problem-solving, and analysis are receiving more attention and value in the eyes of academics and professionals.
4.) AMBITION
Professor Lasch mentioned this last project should be ambitious. I see mine as that, as it will take the better part of a year, perhaps a year and a half, to come to fruition.
5.) CONNECTING THE DOTS - THE PROJECT ARC
As I have discussed with Professor Lasch on several occasions, poetry is my method of generating ideas and activity. Poetry gets me thinking, gets me going, and gets me doing. It served as the basis for my thesis in undergrad, has kept me on track for getting into and surviving law school, and has filled the downtime while working in every other capacity in my life.
My personal poetry in the first project, coupled with the communitarian poetry we all engaged in for my second project has led to the conceptual basis and driving force behind my final project.
6.) SHIFTING CIRCUMSTANCES
In the interest of full disclosure, this year, and more particularly this semester, have forced me to reevaluate my strategy for giving back to a community so near to me.
As a result, my original idea of a large, academic paper has become moot. I plan to leave the Cultural Anthropology department after I complete this semester so as to put more energy and focus into the legal and policy-making aspects of my education. The decision has been less than easy to make, but I see it as a necessary one.
My final project is the first “Request for Comments” in starting a new, inter-university journal in law and policy.
Please, on Tuesday, bring an open mind, busy mouth, and a helpful heart, because I need you guys for this –
Love,
Adam
PROJECT - Empty Jambes
Posted: April 28th, 2009 | Author: VF | Filed under: PROJECTS | No Comments »
Proposal: Playing - The Plastic Ono Bowl
Posted: April 21st, 2009 | Author: CA | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS, Uncategorized | No Comments »I’ve had a fantasy recently of getting a bunch of people dressed as either John Lennon or Yoko Ono to go out bowling.
Community Garden Workday
Posted: April 18th, 2009 | Author: MB | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS | No Comments »The Garden workday is from 1-3pm on Sunday. Wear clothes you can work in and don’t mind getting dirty.
The Community Garden is a student-led project that is attempting to increase the amount of organic produce that students consume on campus. We are currently building the garden; it’s located on a small patch of land behind the Freeman center. It’s not finished yet, but we’re trying to get plants in the ground quickly. We’re currently finishing some raised beds, digging a terrace, and erecting a fence; that’s probably what we’ll work on tomorrow.
To reach the Smart Home from East campus, drive down Campus Drive for about two minutes and take a right on Swift Avenue. Take another right on Faber Street.
To reach the Smart Home from Broad Street, Drive to the South end where it becomes Swift Avenue. Then take a left on Faber street.
Day of Silence
Posted: April 17th, 2009 | Author: MB | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS | No Comments »Hi folks, today’s the day of silence. It’s a day when participants are silent “in recognition of those who are forced to be silent due to anti-LGBT bullying and violence.” You can choose what media you choose to be silent in and how long you choose to be silent. If you’d like to participate in the protest, just pick up a button from the BC Plaza so people will know what you’re doing. Otherwise, just pick a length of time and see what social effects emerge from your being silent.
Event: Buy Me
Posted: April 14th, 2009 | Author: CA | Filed under: PERFORMANCES | No Comments »
BUY ME!
an anti-capitalist cavalcade
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The Performance Collective
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Global
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Friday, April 17, 2009
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5:00pm - 11:00pm
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Swain
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9199634944
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Description
A brilliant mostly non-narrative performance of resistance and obsession.
Come enjoy many moments of heartbreaking beauty as the culmination of our class.
Swain Studio Six
Friday April 17 @ 5 and 8
Performance: Love Art Laboratory
Posted: April 14th, 2009 | Author: PL | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PERFORMANCES, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS, TALKS | No Comments »
Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth M. Stephens are COMING to UNC-CH Tuesday, April 14th 5:30 PM Hanes Art Center.
*This event is ***FREE*** and open to the public*
ADVENTURES OF THE LOVE ART LABORATORY
With Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens
‘We, Elizabeth M. Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, are an artist couple committed to doing projects that explore, generate, and celebrate love. We utilize visual art, installation, theater pieces, interventions, live-art, exhibitions, lectures, printed matter and activism. Each year we orchestrate one or more interactive performance art weddings in
collaboration with various national and international communities, then display the ephemera in art galleries.
Our projects incorporate the colors and themes of the chakras, a structure inspired by Linda M. Montano’s 14 Years of Living Art. The Love Art Laboratory grew out of our response to the violence of war, the anti-gay marriage movement, and our prevailing culture of cynicism. We hope the Love Art Laboratory will help make the world a more fun, sexy, tolerant, love- filled place.
Love is the new sex! We hope you will join us for a show and tell afternoon.”
Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. is an artist and sexologist.
Elizabeth Stephens a professor of art and is the Chair of the Art Dept. at UCSC.
Proposal: Relay for Life
Posted: April 11th, 2009 | Author: MB | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS | No Comments »Relay for Life runs until midnight on West today.