Monday Night 04.21.03---Meeting for Operation Now, How, Wow
Contents:
0. About this monday
1. About the festival
2.Different modes to Participate
3. Manifesto
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0. About this monday
What: Meeting
When: 7pm
Where: at 16Beaver Street, 5th Floor
Who: everyone who may be interested
we will continue discussing the organization and the ideas for Operation
Now, How, Wow (April 25-27). Again for those of you who could not make it
the past two meetings, you are welcome to participate.
so if you are interested in participating in organizing and/or taking part
in the festival, please come to the meeting, even if you missed the
meetings before.
for those of us who are already involved, we would like an update about
your projects, plans and strategies.
we also need some help in organizing and coordinating.
for example we are still looking for a space for the party on saturday
evening. we can do it here at 16beaver, but it would be good to get a
bigger space so if you have one in mind, and you can help us please write
to
mail@operationhow.org
see you tomorrow,
Ay
the website in becoming
http://www.operationhow.org/
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1. About the festival
http://www.operationhow.org/about.htm
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2.Different modes to Participate
http://www.operationhow.org/participate.htm
Mode One: you would like to plan your own event?
protest and dissent can manifest in many ways, we encourage people to take
some time (3 minutes, 3 hours, 3 days, 3 weeks, 3years, 3 decades, etc...)
and focus on voicing, evoking, communicating, elaborating, directing
dissent in a creative manner, using creative strategies, cultural
strategies. these activities are not meant to take away from the protests
we have all been participating in, instead they are meant to extend the
existing vocabulary and the possibilities.
Examples:
Forums, Public Art works, Performances, Temporary Exhibitions, Screenings,
Panels, Discussions, Town Hall Meetings, Radio Broadcasts, Recordings,
Games, Web based projects, Virtual Sit-ins, Workshops, Posters, Stickers,
Billboards, Creative Protests
Mode Two: you already have an event planned?
click here to post it. (go to the site please)
Mode Three: you do not know yet, you need more inspiration/examples?
take some time to think about it. you can invite your friends and have
some tea and talk about the issues involved in how you want to express
dissent in relation to the current politics. or borrow a video, a CD, a
book that can be an inspiration and a beginning to posing certain
questions. or go to some of the links we are providing and see how others
are voicing their dissent. you can also contact us and/or join the
different groups.
Additional modes:
In addition to creating or organizing projects, you can also do the
following:
a. Outreach -- If you know other individuals or groups who may be
interested, tell them about it. Part of this project is to further build
our networks, and work more together/separately.
b. Link -- Let us know of other events or links that may be related so
that we can add it to our calendar.
About time:
We ask that these actions take place or are initiated within the period
between Friday, April 25, Saturday, April 26, and Sunday, April 27.
Also the time frame in which the festival came together was less than
three weeks. We see the time as a major factor in acting in time, on time,
with good timing, in more urgent times.
We also see the festival as a beginning not an end in itself. And that we
organize more together and these activities spread like a virus.
(for more thoughts on the contagion of peace, please visit Reverend
Billy's website)
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3. Manifesto
http://www.operationhow.org/manifesto.htm
Operation How, Now, Wow
A Festival of Dissent
1. An artist/activist initiative responding, engaging and challenging the
notion of the "war on terror" and the ongoing attacks on civil liberties
in the name of security.
2. Recognizing that culture cannot be separated from the political, this
festival brings together individuals who work within the cultural field to
organize events, works, activities that deal with the pressing questions
of this moment.
3. The now is the horizon of this festival i.e. operation, as in the
battle field, timing is an essential part of the equation, as in response
time. The fields we choose our battles to be in, are among others, social
and cultural.
4. We perceive shifts. Shifts in the legal terrain, on the "fourth front"
of news, shifts in democracy, in resistance, shifts in our abilities to
organize, link together and consider, debate, dissent. Are we able to
face the challenges ahead? How?
What is operation how?
1. Examples range from creative protests, to public art works, online
projects and interventions, screenings, discussions and panels.
2. How to manifest our dissent in the city, in the country. cities,
countries, how to make it visible to the public. But more, how to
challenge, control, shape what is visible, audible, discernible as
alternatives to war and empire.
3. More than just the extension of the protests we experienced on the
streets of cities across the world, we are interested in opening up to the
many possibilities that the internet has opened up for creative acts of
resistance, for exchange, and contestation.
4. If the protests have been manifestations of successful resistance, how
can we create perspectives for real change in the future.
What is operation wow?
1. operation wow relates to both operations now and how. We do not project
our lives into a distant future in which we will be happier and the world
will be better.
2. The wow reveals the playfulness in our actions. Responsible
playfulness. We are aware that change does not happen overnight and that
our actions and struggles are the key to our happiness.
3. Our pleasure is based on effect. A happiness of the we over the I. One
we, two we(s), three and more we(s). a we effecting another we.
4. despite our suspicions of the we, we still say we. We still say we are
determined not to sleep.
