[-empyre-] reclaiming

Wed Mar 7 10:46:42 EST 2012

Thank you Ricardo for sharing your insights and for giving us the
opportunity of seeing what the students are doing.
I am myself a daughter of the 68 movement, I was 15 years old and was still
in junior high when we went out with the students of the universities to
protest the killing of a student. His name was Liber Arce, a real wonderful
name, it means in Spanish "liberate you". His name was our motto for many
years and the influence of the student movement in the popular movements
was huge.
Ana

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:24 PM, rrdominguez2 <rrdominguez at ucsd.edu> wrote:

>  Hola all,
>
> While I can appreciate the exit culture of performing recalcitrance, which
> at least for me recalls Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A
> Story of Wall-street" with his mantra of "I would prefer not to" - the
> urban capabilities that enable those who are less powerful to reroute
> around the recalcitrance of those in power to change or delete themselves -
> is connected to another "R" word (we seem to be enjoying the impulse of
> alliteration): reclaiming. Performing reclamation of spaces that dislocate
> and add to the entanglements of "recalcitrance", "resilience", "resistance"
> has been an important trajectory for recoding the flows between the country
> side and the urbanscape - specifically for me the gestures of the
> Zapatistas, since 1994, to reclaim land and the city as an intercontinental
> process. In fact they enact the reclaiming the planet as a whole.
>
> Here at UCSD students, labor, and faculty have been performing the
> reclamation of spaces that the UC system says it can no longer afford -
> libraries and student study areas in the last couple of years. At this
> moment the UCSD Chancellor space has been reclaimed as well. As a study
> area for students. By reclaiming space, and time (study-time), as not being
> an "occupation" shifted the response by the UCSD police and the
> Administration. To what degree then can urban capabilities function as
> sites for reclaiming what has been condemned into less than ruins by the
> violence of financial weapon for the Forth World War (as the Zapatistas
> like to say) by not only staying in the city - but reaching out beyond its
> walls of the smart city to the even smarter site of country where
> "recalcitrance", "resilience", "resistance" has been developing as well and
> perhaps even longer - as networks to reclaim the ruins of system yet to be
> built.
>
>
> http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/jessica-davies/2010/02/zapatistas-reclaim-mother-earth
>
> http://reclaimucsd.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/statement-of-intentions/
>
> Thousands of students and activists marched on the state Capitol on Monday
> http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protest-20120306,0,718441.story
>
> My very best to all,
> Ricardo Domingue
> http://bang.calit2.net
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 3/5/12 9:07 PM, Ana Valdés wrote:
>
> There are many of you who named Olav Westphalen and his research at Mejan,
> Kungliga Högskolan i Stockholm, the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, here comes
> the invitation for a seminar about it. A pity I am not in Stockholm now.
>
> Ana
>
>
> Welcome to *Performing Recalcitrance,* a week-long public programme
> taking place at Kungl. Konsthögskolan | Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm
> between March 24 and March 30, 2012.
>
> *Performing Recalcitrance* comprises performances, lectures and
> workshops. It serves as the public culmination of a thematic cluster of
> courses and academic events around recalcitrance, which are being held
> throughout the academic year at Kungl. Konsthögskolan | Royal Institute of
> Art. But it is also its own symposium, festival and meeting point for
> discussion.
>
> While "resistance" and "revolt" are commonly employed as positive terms,
> "recalcitrance" has overwhelmingly negative connotations. The current
> definition of the word "recalcitrance" dates back to the 17th century
> (Fr. *récalcitrant*, lit. "kicking back," 17c.-18c.). It defines a
> stubborn, obstinate, at times even passive-aggressive or lazy attitude.
> Nevertheless, it seems to be an appropriate description of the nature of
> certain current social and political confrontations. This programme
> explores the role of obstinate refusal in contemporary art and society,
> including the academic setting. It asks whether, under certain
> circumstances, recalcitrance could be a meaningful attitude and whether the
> performance of recalcitrance can be a useful artistic and social tool.
>
> *Performing Recalcitrance* highlights a range of artistic practices
> through works produced for the programme as well as in talks and workshops.
> The members of the Berlin-based artist's group *Maiden Monsters* decide
> to withdraw from any protest movement and stay in bed. They invite us to a
> private encounter with art history and the women's rights movements, but
> only after having undergone an initiation ritual. Israeli artist *Omer
> Krieger* of Public Movement stages a collective performance, scrutinizing
> codes of conduct, legislative texts and the aesthetics of protest movements
> in the Swedish context. *Klas Eriksson* sets up a temporary, unauthorized
> McDonald's branch on the museum island Skeppsholmen in Central Stockholm,
> turning the logic of the standardized and optimized production line inside
> out. *Michael Smith* will speak about his role as an American
> recalcitrant within mainstream popular culture, such as sit-coms and
> commercial films over the last three decades. Filmmaker *Eyal Sivan* will
> show a selection of his films and comment on his work, a critique of
> nationalism and the politics of memory. *Khaled Hourani*, artist and
> founder of the art academy in Ramallah, will speak about his project
> "Picasso in Palestine", which brought a "Modernist masterpiece" to
> Palestine for the first time. *Valeria Graziano* discusses the role of
> procrastination in a culture of entrepreneurship, constantly inducing us to
> produce value. *Geert Lovink* will focus on the role of recalcitrance in
> online media and speak about debate and anonymity on the net. *Donatella
> Bernardi's students* will run TV Mejan, a continuous, fully operational
> web TV studio, while *Mårten Spångberg*  and *Olav Westphalen* will
> organize "Non Talk Radio," an intense, 24 hours-a-day, sleepover workshop
> producing live-radio programs, which cannot be talk radio; no journalism,
> no documentary, no filling time with knowledge (real or presumed).  A
> number of further workshops, performances, lectures, a book launch, film
> screenings and a final panel discussion will round off the programme.
>
> *Performing Recalcitrance* has been conceptualized and programmed by Olav
> Westphalen and Stefanie Hessler. The public programme has been organized by
> Kungl. Konsthögskolan | Royal Institute of Art in collaboration with the
> Goethe-Institut Stockholm, Iaspis, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art
> Foundation, Konst-ig, Kulturhuset, Moderna Museet and DOCH, the University
> of Dance and Circus in Stockholm.
>
> We look forward to an intensive week and invite you to participate in *Performing
> Recalcitrance*.
>
> The programme is available here:
> www.kkh.se/index.php/sv/undervisning/performing-recalcitrance/1268<http://interspire.e-flux.com/link.php?M=20548&N=2110&L=4195&F=H>
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