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The Art Workers Club
Proposal for the Public School
Dessislava Dimova
For the duration of 1 month the gallery space of KOMPLOT will be turned into a club for any art practitioners based or visiting Brussels at the time.
The club will be a space for meetings, discussions, reading, producing work, sharing individual projects, exchanging ideas and knowledge, intellectual recreation and the creation of an actual Brussels art community in a common shared space.
The Art Workers Club is not a nostalgic re-appropriation of early Soviet factory practices, but rather a productive critique of the conditions of work in the contemporary art world, which are a function of the today’s conditions of globalized labour in general.
This would be a 2 or 3-meeting class and we would
1. Read about revolutionary struggles in Guatemala (URNG), El Salvador (FMLN) and Nicaragua (FSLN) during the period from roughly 1965 to the fall of the Sandinista government in 1990. Discuss.
2. View movies, such as Pictures from a Revolution (On an American photograph in Nicaragua during the triumph of the Revolution) or Voces innocentes (on the civil war in El Salvador).
3. Bring in speakers and lectuers who took part in these struggles and-or have studied them extensively.
The purpose will be to understand the way in which these movements came to be and existed in the face of dictatorship, the tactics and theory used by the revolutionaries, how the increasing importance of women changed the face of the revolution, an analysis of the Sandinista government (1979-90), the role of the US in suppressing these struggles, as well as their possibilities and limitations.
There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing...
Deadlock: perpetual war, failing economies, the crumbling of education, capitalist realism, our environment in ruin, hostility everywhere.
Resistance? Confrontation? Insurrection?
Exodus: silence, autonomy, occupation, withdrawl, invisibility, friendship.
A simple, one session, how-to class on cutting and using your own stencils. Perhaps getting a bit more advanced than the basic one-layer cardboard stencils, I would like to learn how to use mylar, acetate, vinyl and flexible plastics - as well as learn the differences between these materials (when to use which and why). It would also be great to be shown how to fabricate identical stencils for use in multi layer images.
Culturas urbanas de fin de siglo: la mirada antropológica
Nestor García Canclini
La Ciudad Usada | Un taller de 24horas conJavier Arbona
Martes 24 de Agosto 9am en Beta-Local - Miércoles 9am en Beta-Local, terminando a las 6:30am en El Alquimista (Calle San Agustín, Puerta de Tierra) o alternativamente, los que interesen documentar desde las 6:30pm, actividad nocturna, estaremos saliendo a las 6:30pm desde El Alquimista.
The following are readings that may supplement Perec’s The Scene of A Flight and Kracauer’s Boredom. (Thank you, Paris, for your recommendations.)
From Colors / Black by Paul La Farge
Cabinet, Issue 36, Friendship, Winter 2009/10
Introduction about how to design and make books that will last, or zines/pamphlets less expensive and easier to distribute.
What potential does the handmade art book and/or the activist book have?
What is the potential for an art and activist book?
Consider all choices: font/handwritten; cover material; size; etc.
Have everyone create the book of their choice.
A workshop style class in which students would learn how to drape and create patterns in order to create clothing of their own design.
Playing, sharing, learning funny, non competitive games and songs! Name-games, ice-breakers, circle-games, traditional dances, or just games which bring joy to life.