Date: 10/12/2010
Tuesday, October 12, 6PM
Building 944 | $20 general; $15 members (includes dinner)
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A group of San Francisco-based artists and organizers join curator Stephanie Sherman of elsewhere collaborative, a project-based living museum based in Greensboro, North Carolina, to investigate how collective models form, maintain, and extend the creative spirit. Running from October 4th through 14th, the joint residency culminates in an event on October 12th, designed by the artists to share the groups' response to the Headlands site and residency experiment.
Highlighting the range of Bay Area collaborative projects, L’esprit de Corps brings Sherman into conversation with Aaron Gach, co-founder of the Center for Tactical Magic; Christian Nagler of the non-site collective; Ian Alan Paul of the Friendly Fire Collective; and Sam White of OPEN Restaurant. The residency will revolve around a daily, two-and-a-half hour gathering, wherein collaborators take turns leading group activities of their own devising—workshops, games, walks, meals, and the like. Thematically, Sherman hopes to explore Headlands’ natural and historic site as a National Park on a former military base, considering ways that group spirit may have been fostered or suppressed in a military context. To further open their process to the digital public, the group plans to blog about their experiences and experiments.
Participants
Aaron Gach: Center For Tactical Magic
Inspired by studies with a private investigator, a magician, and a ninja, Aaron Gach co-founded the Center for Tactical Magic in 2000. As the current acting Director of Operations for the CTM, he coordinates efforts to build new tactics for unleashing the creative and prophetic power of the multitude. Although you may be quick to label him an artist, an activist, or even an idealistic mischief-maker, he insists that he's actually rubber and you're glue.
Christian Nagler: Nonsite Collective
Christian Nagler is a San Francisco based writer, translator, and performer. As a part of Nonsite Collective, he has organized a series of investigations of the line between performance and discourse (Real Time Ethics). He has performed with Anna Halprin and Open Experiments Ensemble. He coordinates The Colima Project, an ongoing community work in rural El Salvador. He is senior editor of Paul Revere's Horse, a journal of literature and art documents. He is translating the collected works of Central American poet and political economist Alberto Masferrer. His writing can recently be found in Encyclopedia and Digital Artifact.
Ian Alan Paul: Friendly Fire Collective
Ian Alan Paul is an artist and writer living in San Francisco. He is a member of the Friendly Fire Collective, an anarchist collective based in the Bay Area of California which focuses its efforts on the development of prefigurative politics as a form of praxis, the exploration of aesthetic manifestations in social movements, and the mining of the relationships between antagonistic and generative practices. Ian's work as an artist and as a member of the collective can be described as striving to be antiauthoritarian, anticapitalist, and participatory. His artwork can be viewed at www.ianalanpaul.com and the Friendly Fire Collective can be found at www.friendlyfirecollective.info.
Stephanie Sherman: Elsewhere
Stephanie Sherman explores the intersection of everyday and extraordinary life through site-specific projects that combine the practices of curator, artist, writer, and organizer. She is currently collaborative director and founder of Elsewhere, a living museum and residency program set within a three-story former thrift store. Themes throughout her investigations include magic realism, cultural momentum and public fluidity, language's relativity, urban revitalization, visible and indivisible gestures, social formations, and the latent potential of surplus. She loves dead authors, and schooling in 20th C English Literature at Upenn and Critical Theory and Philosophy at Duke inform her current projects.
Sam White: OPEN Restaurant
Sam White is a creator of OPEN Restaurant, an ongoing series of sculpted food experiences put together by a growing community of artists, activists and cooks. Past performances have been with New Langton Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and SFMOMA. The next OPEN will be focused on water and will be November 13th and 14th. He works full time as a Maitre d' at Chez Panisse in Berkeley.
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