[Basekamp Events] Loveland - Apr 13 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

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[1] April 13, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations  
and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

Our discussions over the past weeks have foregrounded an understanding of  
plausible worlds as largely immaterial nodes of shared desire and exchange  
— as collective constructs in time, which exist as long as the collective  
will to pursue them is sustained. This conceptual mapping has gently helped  
avoid any excessively down-to-earth take on the notion of a “world”. But  
even worlds online and in time must contend with the question as to the  
relationship between “world” and “land”. So this week we’ll be  
talking with the Detroit-based instigators of LOVELAND, a micro real-estate  
project premised on using social microfunding and online tools to get people  
experimenting with and rethinking collective land use and ownership.

LOVELAND sells square inches of land in Detroit for $1 an inch. The project  
then uses these virtual, tiny-scale investments to fund real-world projects  
throughout the city. Inchvestors — that is, the people bankrolling the  
initiative one buck at a time — are able to access their land both on and  
offline, transforming the land in a mutually agreed-upon manner, with a goal  
of purchasing numerous pieces of real estate throughout the city and  
developing them around certain themes. Anyone involved can also transfer or  
sell inches to others.

Practically speaking, LOVELAND owns the property and merely extends social  
ownership to its inchvestors, making them less titleholders than  
stakeholders. The purchased inches are not legally binding and are not  
registered with the City of Detroit, keeping taxes and other unpleasantries  
of officialdom out of the picture. But it also puts the onus on the  
stakeholders to contend with existent legal instruments to ensure their  
interests are acknowledged. Art-historically, LOVELAND harks back to projects  
such as Gordon Matta Clark’s never fully realized “Fake Estates” —  
the interstitial gutterspaces he purchased from the City of New York in the  
1970s — but significantly throws into the mix the unresolved issues of  
collective agency, common investment, and social use value.

http://makeloveland.com/

See you all then!

Join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename:  
‘basekamp’
If you come to the potluck chat in person, be sure to bring a dish :)
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/Plausible Artworlds is a project organized by Basekamp and Stephen Wright,  
and has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the  
Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative./


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