Workshop with Brian Holmes
The Stuart S. Golding Endowment Lecture Series and the common_places Center for Getting Ugly invite you to a series of provocative lectures, discussions and workshops with Brian Holmes
March 6-9, on the USF campus, FAS building, all events free and open to the public.
Monday, March 6 6-8 PM in FAH 288
Lecture: The Potential Personality: Trans-subjectivity in the society of control
This presentation considers the possibilities for art practice in the society of control – characterized by procedures which “channel perception, intellection and affection into predetermined behaviors”.
Tuesday, March 7 noon-2:50 PM in FAH 288
Micro-presentations and group discussion
Concrete examples of creative dissent, focusing on radical art collectives and social movements. Group discussion on the possibilities of radical practices today. Recommended reading: Reverse Imagineering available from the journal Multitudes and from the commonplacesproject.org Articles section here .
Tuesday, March 7 6-8 PM in FAH 227
Lecture: Artistic Activism in Argentina
This presentation centers around the strategies of street art developed during the Argentinean popular insurrection of 2001, the first great popular revolt against neoliberal globalization. Considering the larger framework of global capital, as well as the recent history of Argentina, Holmes traces the various ways in which public memory is erased and shaped through mechanisms of power. Discussion, followed by a visit to the Oliver Gallery; screening and discussion of the work of Nathan Shafer and Shawn Cheatham (rumored to involve the making and consumption of ice cream).
Wednesday, March 8 6-8 PM in FAH 288
Micro-presentations and group discussion (part 2)
A continuation of the previous discussion, with an emphasis on considering what kinds of strategies of resistance might be effective in our own context? How can our own practice denaturalize the domination of capitalism in everyday life? What are the issues, efforts and creative energies in Tampa? This workshop will be preceded by visits to several urban/suburban developments in Tampa. Our caravan will link sevral key “hot spots” of the city between MacDill Airforce Base, Ybor City, Suitcase City and two of the newest gated communities.
Thursday, March 9 noon-2:50 PM in FAH 288
Workshop: Can’t we all just get along? Counter-cartographies of Playing Nice
Brief presentations and discussion of in-progress projects. Participants are students and self-appointed Special Fellows of the Center for Getting Ugly, a common_places subdivision dedicated to researching forms of social conflict as political activity, and developing diagrams for collective critical deviance. Projects are attempts to map the field of forces that extract our compliance in a varety of arenas or sites, in preparation for a series of local interventions.
More information is available at
http://u-tangente.org
http://commonplacesproject.org
Brian Holmes is an art critic, cultural theorist and activist living in Paris. He has participated and written about many of the large demonstrations against corporate globalization around the world, and works directly with artist and activist groups. His work is particularly involved with the mapping of contemporary capitalism, and the intersections of artistic and political practice. He was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, and has worked with the French conceptual art group ‘Bureau d’Études’. He is a member of the editorial committee of the political-economy journal Multitudes (Paris) and of the art magazines Springerin (Vienna) and Brumaria (Barcelona), a regular contributor to the magazine Parachute (Montreal), and a founder, with ‘Bureau d’Études, of the new journal Autonomie Artistique (Paris). He is the author of a collection of essays, “Hieroglyphs of the Future: Art and Politics in a Networked Era” (Zagreb: Arkzin, 2003); another collection “Unleashing the Collective Phantoms”, is forthcoming from Autonomedia.
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