MondaysNovember 17, 2003Monday Night—11.17.03 --Journal of Aesthetics and Protest --Marc HerbstMonday Night—11.17.03 --Journal of Aesthetics and Protest -- Contents:
Those of us who were there, remember the amazing* evening with Marc and Robert Herbst (editors of L.A. based Journal of Aesthetics and Protest) last March at 16 beaver. http://www.16beavergroup.org/friday032803.htm Marc is back in New York, if you missed the last presentation ,do not miss this one! If you were last time there, the discussion will go further, towards the third issue + ...in Marc’s words… "…It is not made up, it is what Robby, Christina and I have been thinking about for the last few months but that I have only worded in on one comic strip I have been drawing. Social Science fiction is a term I've been toying with and is just a toy. This is all meant to be light. I will be showing slides of one piece of work I have done, and handing out xeroxed scetches…."
In Los Angeles, a Journal's sister organization, c-level (www.c-level.cc) (founded in 2001) hosted one event, a public interface with New York's Creative Capital foundation, which directly helps selected people put food on the table. All other events have abstractly produced by harshening nightmares or sweetening dreams. 30 years ago, in the same area code (90026) three food cooperatives collectively met the needs of much of neighborhood's diverse demographic. Today, no coops exist. The social technology which distributed juicy manna and saucy tofu has been lost. There is scantly a percieved need, collective will or working knowledge we can use to create concrete structures that affect our immediate needs. Today, 90026 artists focus our time on interpreting history and/or political or phenomenological reality into the plastic arts, writing and performance. We shop at Trader Joes and casually meet at party's, openings and such. In our dayjobs or neighborhoods we interact within the rest of the city as bland post-modern subjects. Monday's Journal event will focus on the call for social science fiction... an art that imagines and practices the creation of new social technology. An art that understands that cultural production is a part of the production of culture, not cultural objects. A research into the poetics of collectictive practice, the discomfort of cross-community interaction and (in an anti-functional move) the specifics of site and history. Social Science Fiction would create stories and possiblity, while modeling social practice at the intersection of of matieral reality and the political moment. The event will draw from articles in our second issue including Patrick Reinsborough's DE-COLONIZING THE REVOLUTIONARY IMAGINATION (http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/de_colonizing/index.html), Christina Ulke's "Imagination is an Instrument of Survival" (http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/pragmaticMultitudism/index.html), Mariana Botey's "Conspiracy of Silence" http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/EZLN/index.html and the two articles by Journal Editors (Moving Forword and Counter Culture Dialectics).
*Guy Debord __________________________________________________ New definition: The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (growing soon but presently comprised by Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Christina Ulke and Kimberly Varella) is a Los Angeles based magazine. The Journal, aware of the possibilities of the boundless moment, searches for ways to think through the cultural and political ramifications of representation. In word and aspiration, The Journal dreams toward a world that differs from "a celebration of the choice already made in the sphere of production, and the consummate result of that choice."*
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