[Basekamp Events] Miss Rockaway Armada - Jul 13 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

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July 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.

This week we’ll be talking with some of the sailors and crew from Miss  
Rockaway Armada, “both a collection of individuals and an idea”, as they  
put it with their characteristic understatement.

http://www.missrockaway.org/

The idea takes the form of a flotilla of rafts the 30-odd individuals cobbled  
together themselves out of trash and which they are using to float down the  
Mississippi River. How plausible does that sound for an artworld adrift on  
America’s major inland waterway, in wake of eighteenth-century performance  
artist Johnny Appleseed? “The catch,” as they disarmingly put it, “is  
that we don’t much about boats or rivers, and we don’t have any money.”  
Why would that stop anyone? “Last year we met in Minneapolis in late July  
with sections of our raft in tow. We pieced together our pontoons and filled  
them with salvaged blocks of foam. We made it beautiful and tied on anything  
that would float, adding it to our junk armada, our anarchist county fair,  
our fools ark. Our precious cargo is everything we hold dear: pieces and  
parts of the culture we are already creating. Our zines and puppets, sewing  
projects and poster campaigns, mutant bicycles and punk rock marching bands.  
Plus our thoughts and dreams and irrepressible energy.”

The Mississippi float is not the group’s first voyage. Under the name of  
The Swimming Cities of Serenissima, members of the group last year sailed on  
the Adriatic Sea from Slovenia to Venice on a fleet of boats homemade from  
junk. http://www.swimmingcities.org/

Fun? Adventure? Not only.

“We want to be a living, kicking model of an entirely different world —  
one that in this case happens to float.”

Can we borrow that one for Plausible Artworlds mission statement?

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 :)
Basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia usa

To join this week’s Potluck Chat:

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 * Send a message when you want to join the chat, by selecting us from your
   list and clicking ‘Start chat’
 * We’ll add you to the text chat, and when everyone is ready we’ll start
   the conference call


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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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