common places

You are invited to the Center for Getting Ugly Open House this Friday, hosted on April 7th, 8-11 PM at the USF School of Art and Art History in Tampa. Please look for the following activities:

1. “Can’t We All Just Get Along? Counter-Cartographies of Playing Nice” . Invited or self-appointed Special Fellows have been researching the production of compliance in various concrete situations, with particular emphasis on the urban landscape. Our resulting maps or diagrams do not always take the form of two dimensional representations; the desire is to produce interpretive works which may be used to incite, illuminate or facilitate critical intervention. The diagrams are proposals for walks or not-walks as a series of provocations of the city, its hierarchies and exclusions.

2. The Great Baked Potato Roll-out.
Joining forces with Citizen Concerned, we will walk the portable cob oven to the southwest corner of the Contemporary Art Museum parking lot. Baking and eating potatoes will facilitate a discussion on walking as critical practice. Participants will select their favorite walks from the proposals, and plan the specifics.

3. Walking and Not Walking.
Over the next three weeks, we will deploy a series of provocations using walking as a form of collective knowledge production. And, given that mobility is such a capitalist impulse, we always also deploy various forms of not walking: standing, stopping, lying down, pausing, being still. The marking devices, maps, questions developed during one of the walks will also be offered as our participation to the “Walk, Talk, Eat, Talk Some More” project (see description below).

“Walk, Talk, Eat, Talk Some More”

“Walk, Talk, Eat, Talk Some More” is a multi-city, multi-day project in and between London, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Malmö, Portland, Stockholm, Tallinn, Berlin and San Francisco. The project is an experimental hybrid of similar work by Ccred & the 16 beavergroup (Counter Cartographies, Alt.Space events), BASEKAMP & The Institute for Advanced Architecture (Evident Use), and the Bureau of Research into Post Autonomy.

The program includes three interlinked components: a collective counter.cartography walk through our different contexts; an alt.space meal (supper, dinner, luncheon) taking place in our different cities and linking us through the questions we pose to one another about the onwershi and use of public space; and a concluding discussion taking the form of a web-cast linking us in real-time dialogue.

Participating groups / cities
0009 / Portland (http://www.0009.org)
16Beavergroup / New York (http://www.16beavergroup.org)
Anabela Zigova / New York (anabelazigova@yahoo.com)
BASEKAMP / Philadelphia (http://www.basekamp.com)
Bureau for Research into Post-Autonomy / London (http://www.postautonomy.co.uk)
Ccred / London (http://www.ccred.org)
Centre for Urban Studies, Estonian Academy of Arts / Tallinn (http://www.artun.ee)
Institute for Advanced Architecture / New York office (http://www.advancedarchitecture.org)
Interacting Arts / Stockholm (http://www.interactingarts.org)
Lumpen / Chicago (http://www.lumpen.com)
Mess Hall / Chicago (http://www.messhall.com)
Red 76 / San Francisco (http://www.red76.com)
Signal / Malmo (http://www.signal-galleri.org)
Unwetter / Berlin (http://www.un-wetter.net)

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