November 2010
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AFH MONSTER COLLECTIVE: BROOKLYN REPORT; NOV2010 →
We will abandon the failed program I formulated when I established this Ning/collective/CMS. The project broke on the rocks of a systemic dystopia monstrous in its own right. [The golem of obfuscations and obscurations strangled the first program. The dead space of web margins swallowed our mission. The Lords of recklessness toward Nature and risk aversion as an artificial Zombie life-death...
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GRAMATICA PARDA →
THIS PROJECT IS A PROOF OF THE DIMENSIONAL METHOD [inaugural show closes November 20, 2010]: HOW TO START A COLLECTIVE IN A RECESSION; LEAD ARTIST JOE MERRELL.
CLICK THE IMAGE TO SEE JOHN MERRELL’S PHOTOSET OF THE OPENING RECEPTION AT ANDLAB.
January 2010
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STRANGE DAYS
strange days It’s 2AM. I’m still awake. Take a sip of the red eye; eat a couple of chocolates. Have a smoke. The easel in the kitchen is empty. An hour or two ago, Charlie Rose was interviewing Larry Summers onstage at the Global Economic Forum in Davos on two channels simultaneously. The broadcasts were staggered. What’s Summers doing there? Rose is such a globalist suck-up, now. He used to have...
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“Collective: all action and all becoming involves a dynamic set of things,...”
– An interesting definition from spurse
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Irish Artists Groups & Collectives →
Here is a selected list of visual arts groups from around Ireland.
[I have no idea how up-to-date this listing is… - I’ll keep looking!]
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The Artist Meeting Place [AMP] →
From the Artist Meeting Place [AMP] website: ABOUT AMP AMP, the Artists’ Meeting Place and Resource Collective, born on February 15, 2006, was inspired by 2 connected ideas: 1) ARTISTS NEED COMMUNITY SUPPORT While art of any kind may be the product of one creative individual, that art cannot exist without the support of an entire culture - and especially the inspiration, information, and...
December 2009
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Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support... →
Why Artists Need More than Creativity To Survive
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” — Berthold Brecht
Throughout our history, artists in the U.S. have utilized their skills as a vehicle to illuminate the human condition, contribute to the vitality of their communities and to the broader aesthetic landscape, as well as to promote...
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10 Ways to Become a Starving Artist
Reposted from Chicago Art Magazine [www.chicagoartmagazine.co m]: 10 Ways to Become a Starving Artist …based on a talk by Lynn Basa, Indiana Conference on Public Art, Nashville, November 13, 2009. #10 Starving artists don’t go to professional development workshops. #9 Starving artists don’t set goals. #8 Starving artists don’t know how much money they need to live on. #7 ...
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ART WORLD →
By Howard S. Becker | Jan 1, 2008
Art is the product of collective action, of many people cooperating in the many activities without which particular works could not come into existence or continue to exist. They cooperate by means of shared understandings—conventions—that allow them to coordinate ...
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Just Seeds →
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements. Our website is not just a place to shop, but also a destination to find out about current events in radical art and culture. Our blog covers political printmaking, socially...
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ART AND WORK →
Art Work is a newspaper that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property.
The newspaper is distributed for free at sites and from people throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. It is also available by mail order from Half...
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BASEKAMP →
Basekamp is a non-commercial organization of people researching and co-developing interdisciplinary, self-organized art projects with other individuals and groups in various authorship-blurring configurations for the past decade. We use our Philadelphia space, along with temporary camps in other locations, as a home base to invite domestic and international collaborative groups in a joint...
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ISM →
OUR MISSION
ISM: a community project is a 501 c 3 non-profit organization inspiring innovative interaction and conversation both online and offline:
ISM: online Instigates intellectual idea and debate without boundaries of culture or country. Comprised of four specific columns designed to educate curious minds with contributor driven content.
asterisk Photo footnotes from behind the scenes,...
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16 BEAVER GROUP →
16Beaver is the address of a space initiated/run by artists to create and maintain an ongoing platform for the presentation, production, and discussion of a variety of artistic/cultural/economic/political projects. It is the point of many departures/arrivals.
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Calling collectives →
Take a look back at a 2004 ArtForum attempt to survey and characterize art collective actions emerging in the early part of the decade, as an exercise in trend-defining.
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For One Art Collective: Location, Location,... →
LONDON | The Centre of the Universe is a collective of young artists that migrates all over London and puts up shows in derelict, borrowed or found — they call them “nomadic” — spaces.
Echoing the structure of Andy Warhol’s famed Factory, the Centre is run collaboratively by a troop of multi-genre artists; together they put up events that include dancers, performers and on-stage orchestras.
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AFH Ning Production Updates!
Hi everyone! I’d like to start by wishing all a wonderful holiday season… May your festivities be joyful, with lots of tasty yummies, good company and cheer, and warm exchanges of love and kindness! Next, I’d like to thank all who expressed condolences after my father’s recent passing. Your sentiments have been much appreciated. I am - as you might guess - considerably...
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A Loose History of Art Collectives →
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Today feels more threatened and threatening today than at any time since the 1960’s. Terrorism, nuclear proliferation, the prospect of war on Iraq and ever tightening security measures at home has sent a hum of tension through daily life.
In the 1960’s, comparable tension, excruciatingly amplified, produced a big response: the spread of a counterculture, one that began with...
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The Collective Conscious →
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Contemporary art is a multibillion-dollar global industry. But why does such a big deal look so small, so slight, with its bland paintings, self-regarding videos, artful tchotchkes and shoppable M.F.A. artists-to-watch? There has to be another way to go, an alternative to a used-up “alternative.” By far the most interesting option so far, one that began to be news a few years...
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“Opening a gallery is a lot of work! I’m glad I had the help of my friend...”
– Julie Dunker, Livingroom Gallery (Salt Lake City, UT)
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November 2009
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St. Louis artist attempts major exhibit space →
Then again, Strauss was just looking for a studio when he first set out in the spring of 2005. He’d only recently submitted his work to the Great Rivers jury and was looking for a place that could accommodate his needs. The 6,000-square-foot space was plenty large enough for his studio, and he briefly thought about making the building a live/work space. But then he won the Great Rivers...
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CHECK OUT WETCANVAS!!! →
Here’s the 411 from the WetCanvas media kit… an awesome community of artists > one of the largest and most active in the world…
Welcome to WetCanvas!
You will find in this section everything you need to know about the WetCanvas! community. From our humble grass-roots beginnings in 1998, WC! has grown into a veritable gold mine of information, serving painters, sculptors,...
October 2009
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How To Start a Home Gallery
Introduction
My friend Julie D in Salt Lake City (Monster Collective, CGU MFA) decided to open a home gallery, and asked for advice. I thought the topic was really timely. Galleries are dropping like flies in the recession. Some big names in NYC, LA and elsewhere shuttered their expensive retail spaces (and dumped the high overhead). Scaling down operations meant for some the presentation of...