a continuing saga:
meantime, tell me more about 73 technologies ... looks as if they are needed.
i hope you are well.
with best wishes
A
>Artworkers of the world - where art thou?
>
>Mayday Artists Conference will take place in Chelsea College of Art
in
>Manresa Rd. site (of King's Rd.). The date is April 30, 2001, which
is
>Mayday eve between 11:00 – 20:00.
>It will be a symposium about art as well as a political act. Invited
>artists and students to discuss current issues of artists' practice,
>art institutions and their operation, subversion and incorporation,
>implications of globalisation on art. The conference is aimed to turn
>the growing unrest among artists to a political act that will improve
>the actual life conditions of individual artists and democratise their
>participation in the art institution.
>One of the general issues is the future of the art scene in London;
I
>see it as one of the last remnants of Tatcherism combined with
>characteristics of global capitalism. We will attack the hierarchic
>form of its establishment, the way the resources are distributed
>between artists and institutions, the decision making in galleries
and
>museums that is formed in the shape of capitalist enterprises, the
>dispossession of artists from the huge profits that the private sector
>as a whole benefits from their activity. The workshops will be
>dedicated to a discussion of the possible uses in the future of
>existing institutions - such as Tate Modern. Other workshops will
deal
>with salary standards for art workers as employees or free –
lances,
>self management of artist's practice, involvement of artists in their
>communities life, the institution of art in the light of global
>capitalism, art as a form of global resistance.
>We are trying to get artists whose commitment to the political has
>been long and uncorrupted. It is important to build links from the
>close past (art strikes) to the present moment. There is a history
of
>the political act in art that inspires students and artists. Those
who
>want to engage themselves with the practice and continue the project
>of negation and subversion of capitalism through art would like to
>form a route of dialogue with experienced artists . Another goal is
>mixing and involving students and college-staff in the discussions,
>together with well established artists and negate hierarchic
>divisions.
>The format will be a general assembly with a few speakers (about 15-20
>minutes each) and workshops for smaller groups in order to enable
>people to talk freely. The lunch break will be an occasion for
>informal discussion. There is an option for other short art projects
>during the day. There might be continuity for the conference by
>proposing future projects, formation of groups or any other way that
>individuals will choose.
>Participating:
>
>Already participating: artists Ella Gibbs (Belt) who works with a
>group of artists friends: David Lillington and Amanda Mcgregor,
>artists Holly Allen, Lizzy Sutcliffe and Tom Cargill, with whom I
have
>talked and held a few discussions, B+B - Sarah Carrington and Sophie
>Hope who initiate and facilitate discussions based on art practice,
>artists Andy Ridley and Noel Douglas of ATAC, Guy Taylor of Gllobalise
>Ressistance, artists collective Indymedia, Susanne Clausen(SZUPER
>gallery) and Alun Rowlands. Public Life, next to Spitalfield Church,
>will be open especially after the conference for a party of video
and
>music. Free entrance. We are still waiting for answers from artists,
>teachers and non-artists. More artists are involved in documenting
the
>conference or contributing their talents during the day. Publicity
>will be through the internet – www.transartist.nl –
and the anarchist
>books publication, Freedom Press.
>Contact with me: Zuky Serper
>
>mobile: 07944 384 226 email:
> mydychlse01@hotmail.com
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>(proposed) 11:00 – 11:30 reception
>Timetable: 11:30 – 13:30 assembly (4-8 speakers +
>questions from audiance)*
> 13:30 – 15:00 lunch (canteen,
>pubs+restaurants in King's Rd.)
> 15:00 – 17:00 discussion groups**
> 17:00 – 17:30 coffee / cigarette break
> 17:30 – 19:00 assembly ( discussion group
>report)
> 20:00 PUBLIC LIFE***
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>- Ella Gibbs will collect any documentation of the project which will
>be published later.
>
>- Public Life, next to Spitalfield Church, will be open especially
>after the conference for a party of video and music. Free entrance.
>
>- Susanne clausen (SZUPER gallery) and Alun Rowlands will present
a
>recent incident.
>
>Discussion Groups:
>
>- Andy, Mirari, Amanda: Creativity, Freedom, and the
>Migration of people; Individuality in unity.
>
>- Laurence, John Wild, Noel Douglas : ATAC *- Art Tendency
>Against Capitalism.
>
>- Holly: The Global and the Personal: Implications of
>globalization on the individual; How can globalization disrupt /
>corrupt principles of individuals in daily interaction /
>transaction with other people. Effects of it on art and practice.
>
>- B + B: A stop-over which initiate and facilitate
> discussions on art practice and related issues.
>
>- Zuky: A new operating system for artinstitutions. (Tate
>Modern as a test case).
>
>- ---*: The artists' role in their community.
>
>- David: Preachers Project for BELT at the Whitechapel Art
>Gallery - 2001.
>
>- INDYMEDIA (www.indymedia.org.uk) - Will send 2 members of
>the group.
>
> p.s. Good news: Gustav Metzger knows about us and is very exited.
He
>will make something for the cnfrnc! (A good friend met him yesterday
>in the Lux)
>yours, zuky serper
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