[-empyre-] FW: the other 90%

Jacquie Clarke arapito at pl.net
Thu May 15 18:17:24 EST 2008 


On the question of precarity and starvation and for whom art is made  
check out Design For the Other 90%.

http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/


“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on  
developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the  
world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed  
to reach the other 90%.” Dr. Paul Polak, International Development  
Enterprises

jqc


On 15/05/2008, at 7:06 PM, brian whitener wrote:

>
>
>>
>> "You are true Cara!!! precarity and starvation are central questions  
>> today.
>> In argentina, post-industry don't mean nothing. We didn't have NEVER  
>> a real national industry. Is post-nothing.
>> but then... your question is also our question."
>>
>> Precarity: a useful category in Latin America?
>>
>> there was an encurentro organized by Julia Risler and Martin Bergel  
>> in BA
>>
>> http://estrecho.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21374/index.php
>>
>> i'm not sure what came of it, but i heard the experience was both  
>> interesting and dificult.
>>
>> brian
>>
>>
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 17:50:47 -0700
>>> From: archivocaminante at yahoo.com.ar
>>> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] expanded (CB)
>>> To: empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
>>>
>>> Wonderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>>> fulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
>>> maillllllllllllllllllllllllllllll.
>>>
>>> many images here dear Cara!
>>> thank you very much.
>>>
>>> I have time today to read your words.
>>>
>>> pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs
>>> pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs
>>> pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs
>>>
>>> great.
>>> and thank you for Alberto Grecoooooooooooooooooo!
>>>
>>> un abrazo for Marc&Christina!
>>>
>>> Very important your commentary about migrations in America.
>>> Is really very important.
>>> I was 8 months last year in germany.
>>> strongs feelings there, and one of them was the question about  
>>> migration in argentina.
>>> Catholic - Jewuis traditions are very strong tradition in argentina,  
>>> they are in the "heart" of our mixed / mestiza society.
>>> Black people was killed, as slaves or "soldiers" during the war  
>>> against Paraguay.
>>>
>>> I imagine that protestant / calvinist, also paganismus is working in  
>>> the migrations of North America.
>>>
>>> Because of all this "migrations" I like very much to know more about  
>>> pre-hispanic cultures in America. Is a central part of my  
>>> investigation with artistic methods.
>>>
>>> Very good the images of insite05!!!!! I like this! Thank you very  
>>> much!
>>>
>>> The last part of your mail is a very good devolution,
>>> I can say
>>> YES YES YES, "we" CAN identify
>>> material conditions that need to be addressed
>>> without representing other!
>>>
>>> Because we will present them together,
>>> like the blood of Genova in your mail.
>>> Those red material conditions(saddly)are present.
>>>
>>>
>>> For me is really a big challenge to identify these "material  
>>> conditions"
>>> that have still a potence living or able to live.
>>>
>>> My Walking Archives / Archivo Caminante tries to do this, not for  
>>> putting them "in order", but to transport.
>>>
>>> You are true Cara!!! precarity and starvation are central questions  
>>> today.
>>> In argentina, post-industry don't mean nothing. We didn't have NEVER  
>>> a real national industry. Is post-nothing.
>>> but then... your question is also our question.
>>>
>>> eduardo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Eduardo Molinari / Archivo Caminante
>>> Aramburu 880, Dto.1 (1640) Martínez
>>> Provincia de Buenos Aires – Argentina
>>> 0541 1 47 98 48 35
>>>
>>>
>>> --- El dom 11-may-08, Jennifer Flores Sternad  escribió:
>>>
>>>> De: Jennifer Flores Sternad
>>>> Asunto: [-empyre-] expanded (CB)
>>>> Para: "soft_skinned_space"
>>>> Fecha: domingo, 11 de mayo de 2008, 6:56 pm
>>>> from cara baldwin
>>>> (thank you, cara!)
>>>>
>>>> ------ Forwarded Message
>>>> From: Cara Baldwin
>>>> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:07:09 -0700
>>>> To: "moarquech at yahoo.com.mx, soft_skinned_space"
>>>> ,
>>>>
>>>> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Re: expanded
>>>>
>>>> Conversation in an elevator, . looking at the stains on
>>>> wood :
>>>>
>>>> --Which is better? This, or doing this?
>>>>
>>>> --This.
>>>>
>>>> --Bring him to see or bring them to see?
>>>>
>>>> --Bring them to see.
>>>>
>>>> Alberto Greco, from Manifesto Vivo-Dito, 1963
>>>>
>>>> back in the 90's (can't write this without using a
>>>> crackly old man
>>>> voice) i was saving barricades in my apartment for a rainy
>>>> day. i put
>>>> them on either side of the bridges that connected the city
>>>> and they
>>>> quietly disappeared. i changed my underwear in public and
>>>> told
>>>> everyone i was ana mendieta. learned about chicano cultural
>>>> politics
>>>> and activism. met collaborators and friends marc herbst and
>>>> christina
>>>> ulke and began years of conversation about anything we
>>>> could imagine
>>>> and do together. following seattle we found ourselves
>>>> spending the
>>>> summer in L.A. working with folks setting up an la
>>>> indymedia for the
>>>> 2000 democratic national convention. representation.
>>>> organization, and
>>>> lot's and lot's of
>>>>
>>>> pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. p pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs.
>>>> pigs. pigs.
>>>> pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs.
>>>> pigs.
>>>> pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs. pigs.
>>>>
>>>> brian holmes wrote about the "inflated art scenes of
>>>> the 90s" and that
>>>> to "be an activist then was not fashionable in any
>>>> way, it was
>>>> considered totally retrograde in artistic circles."
>>>> critique at this
>>>> time lacked currency materially and culturally (narrow
>>>> sense of the
>>>> word) from where i was standing. listening to someone
>>>> slather on about
>>>> 68 and a postcolonial theorist's incisive critique of
>>>> metanarrative i
>>>> wondered if the blood i'd seen in images of the diaz
>>>> school around
>>>> genoa g8 was part of someone i loved.
>>>> http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/genova/pics4a.htm
>>>>
>>>> adorno's "there is no love that is not an
>>>> echo." floating a desire to
>>>> share the acoustic space in which we breath, speak, feel
>>>> and act in a
>>>> way that is occupied and open—but not like a yoga group.
>>>>
>>>> i also respond to eduardo molinari's approach to the
>>>> expanded,
>>>> particularly considering migration patterns across the
>>>> americas and
>>>> would only extend that history and migration (not just
>>>> recent. not
>>>> just one way). grimson and kessler's on argentina and
>>>> the southern
>>>> cone: neoliberalism and national imaginations, and
>>>> dunbar-ortiiz's
>>>> roots of resistance speak to this in a localized and
>>>> concrete way.
>>>>
>>>> because of the relative economic stability in north america
>>>> during
>>>> 2000 most of the art i saw produced/reproduced in
>>>> institutional
>>>> contexts were either new media works of a post modern or
>>>> minimalist
>>>> aesthetic or frothy blown out paintings meant to illustrate
>>>> 'networks
>>>> and flows.' couldn't wait for something to disrupt
>>>> that. through the
>>>> democratic national convention mobilizations met sandra de
>>>> la loza,
>>>> working again with her, marc, christina and ryan griffis
>>>> and robby
>>>> herbst on collectively organized and community-based
>>>> projects the 2004
>>>> october surprise october surprise
>>>> http://www.theoctobersurprise.org/
>>>> and journal of aesthetics & protest
>>>> http://www.joaap.org/ starting in
>>>> 2001. the curator at the L.A. museum of contemporary art
>>>> who organized
>>>> the experimental exercise of freedom (with rina carvajal)
>>>> needed an
>>>> assistant— i was able to research and write about artists
>>>> from
>>>> central, south america and italy if i held my cards to my
>>>> chest.
>>>> actually, i was more like a child at the table who would
>>>> reemerge
>>>> occasionally sticky with cobwebs. cards can fit in your
>>>> back pocket
>>>> depending on who / where you are perceived to be. the
>>>> emphasis on
>>>> institutional critique at california institute of the arts
>>>> was
>>>> grounded even as it was too narrowly circumscribed. met
>>>> etcetera last
>>>> october without a joint, sadly. first saw their work in
>>>> another
>>>> institutional context at the centro cultural de tijuana at
>>>> inSITE
>>>> 2005. bill kelly and sandra were there as well. sunday
>>>> morning as
>>>> hurricane katrina wound toward new orleans bill kelly,
>>>> sandra and i
>>>> sat the golden glow of the haudenschildGarage listening to
>>>> what i
>>>> found fucked approaches to collectivity, mobility and
>>>> 'cultural'
>>>> exchange. everyone was wearing white linen except sandra
>>>> and me who
>>>> sat talking loudly shit (like children) in the back.
>>>> http://www.insite05.org/internal.php?pid=17-357 women are
>>>> among those
>>>> compelled to learn early the many ways and to what extent
>>>> representation and invisibility are useful.
>>>>
>>>> can 'we' identify material conditions that urgently
>>>> need to be
>>>> addressed w/out representing others? this is an open
>>>> question and one
>>>> we work from and through every day. i'm on an overpass
>>>> with berries
>>>> falling out of my mouth. precarity gives way to starvation
>>>> at some
>>>> point and i would like to address that. the black panther
>>>> party
>>>> breakfast program is art.
>>>>
>>>> in addition to 'post politics' what is meant by
>>>> 'post industrial' at
>>>> this moment?
>>>>
>>>> sorry, I know I'm not following form handing threads
>>>> back in a tangled
>>>> sticky ball.
>>>>
>>>> --
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