[Basekamp Events] byproducts - May 25 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

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[1] May 25, 2010 - 6:00am - 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 Marisa Jahn, currently in the throes of  
compiling and editing a collection of essays and conversations entitled  
“Byproducts: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices,” to be published  
this fall by YYZ Books (Toronto).

http://www.rev-it.org/projects/byproducts.htm

“Byproducts” examines art-related projects — many of which have been  
discussed in the context of Plausible Artworlds — whose artfulness lies in  
building micro-worlds within other non-artworld systems. While parasitically  
reliant on the socioeconomic structure and symbolic order of other dominant  
systems, these artworks or “byproducts” — exploit loopholes, surpluses  
and exceptions in order to affirm individual agency and complexify the  
mechanisms of their dominant “host.” As pivots or turning points between  
art and other sectors, these works function as carriers for meaning across  
disciplines.

Through examples from the late 1960s through to the present (including Au  
Travail / At Work, Experiments in Art and Technology, The Yes Men, Mr.  
Peanut, Reverend Billy, Kristin Lucas, Janez Jansa), ‘Byproducts’  
explores what vocabularies may be required to describe, and what criteria  
needed for evaluating these practices. The book draws both on Jahn’s  
involvement in the arts as an artist/writer, her invitations as a  
practitioner-from-the-outside into other disciplines, and her work as an  
outreach/campaign coordinator and community organizer with a variety of  
grassroots advocacy-based organizations. Plausible artworlds within  
“Plausible Artworlds”…

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

NOTE: All Skype “Join” links are still broken. In the meantime, to join  
this week’s Potluck Chat:
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 * In Skype “Add a contact”: basekamp
 * 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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