16 Beaver Resist&Retreat: a weekend of workshops,
discussions, projects, screenings, and party
1)))) 16 Beaver Holiday Resist&Retreat (Dec 13-14)
2)))) List of Activities
2.6)) THE YEARFILM 1962 - 2001: Soviet Lithuanian documentaries
3)))) 16 Beaver Resist&Retreat Calendar
4)))) Full Description of Projects and Activities
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16 Beaver Resist&Retreat (Fri Dec 13 – Sat Dec 14)
As a transition between days of work and leisure, 16
Beaver Group will be having its first holiday season
retreat between Dec 13th and Dec 14th. These two days
will include production sessions, workshops, meals,
discussions, and a party open to all. Some of these
activities are a continuation of on-going 16 Beaver
projects, while others are specifically geared towards
our participation in the show "Inscribing the
Temporal" (Jan 15- Feb15) at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse
in Vienna, Austria.
http://www.wuk.at/kunsthalle/indexe.htm
All activities are open to all and will happen at 16
Beaver Street, 5th floor, and its immediate
surroundings.
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LIST OF ACTIVITIES:
1. Bard College Curatorial Group Visit (Friday)
2. 16 Beaver LunchTime and Make Your Own Souvenir
Workshop (Friday-Saturday)
3. Documentary-Production Workshop and On-Line
Projects on Strategies of Resistance, including Red
Arena and Cartography of Utopias (Friday-Saturday)
4. Banned Film Compilation and Text Production
(Friday- Saturday)
5.ART/COLLECTIVES/POLITICS
A Conversation with Past and Current Members of New
York Art Collectives and Alternative Projects on Art
and Politics (Saturday)
6.Screening and Conversation with Author
THE YEARFILM 1962 - 2001 (Cuts & Scratches): Raimundas
Malasauskas. 9:00pm friday.
more info below
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16 Beaver Resist&Retreat Calendar:
Friday Dec. 13th
10:30 – 11:30am
Bard Curatorial Group visit
11:30am – 12:30pm
Souvenir Search
Search for Neighborhood Menus & Restaurant Memorabilia
12:30pm – 2:00pm
16 Beaver LunchTime and Make Your Own Souvenir
Workshop (part 1)
2:00pm – 6:00pm
Documentary Production Workshop for 16 Beaver Info
Desk and On-Line Projects on Strategies of Resistance,
including Red Arena (Vienna) and Cartography of
Utopias (Vienna + on-line)
Banned Film Compilation and Text Production
(Vienna-NY)
9:00pm
Screening and Conversation with Author: A Film from
the Lithuanian Image Archive, edited by Raimundas
Malasauskas
Saturday Dec 14th
12:00pm – 2:00pm
Brunch and Planning for Future 16 Beaver Projects
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Make Your Own Souvenir Workshop (part 2)
4:00pm – 8:00pm
Production Workshop for 16 Beaver Info Desk and
On-Line Projects on Strategies of Resistance,
including Red Arena (Vienna?) and Cartography of
Utopias (Vienna? + on-line)
Banned Film Compilation and Text Production
(Vienna-NY)
6:00pm – 8:00pm
A conversation with current and past members of New
York art collectives and alternative projects
concerned with art and politics
8:00pm – 10:00pm - ???
Dinner and Drinks in the neighborhood
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BARD COLLEGE CURATORIAL GROUP VISIT
Friday Dec 13th 10:30am-2:00pm
13 Candidates for a Curatorial Studies Degree from
Bard College care to visit 16 Beaver and learn how it
all works and what it is about. Those who have
participated in past projects are invited to explain.
After this inquiry into the nature of 16 Beaver, the
curatorial group would love to do individual studio
visits with 16 Beaver community members. If you are
interested in having such a talk, bring the evidence
of your past labors.
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16 BEAVER LUNCHTIME
An Artistic Service to New York's Finance.
An Alternative to the Clockwork Eatery.
Food-Performance-Sound-Art.
Last Friday of Every Month, 12:00pm-2:00pm
at 16 Beaver Street #5, Financial District.
OPEN TO ALL!
Located in the midst of New York City's Financial
District, the artists' collective 16Beaver Group is
opening its common space for lunch events on the last
Friday of every month.
We invite artists, cooks, dj's, architects, sculptors,
food lovers, and everyone in the neighborhood to
participate in the month by month formation of this
social space.
For a calendar of past events and participants,
suggestions, or questions, contact:
lunchtime@16beavergroup.org
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16 BEAVER SOUVENIR AND GIFT SHOP
+ MAKE YOUR OWN SOUVENIR WORKSHOPS
Starting the December 2002 Holiday season, 16 Beaver
Group will be running an alternative souvenir/gift
shop and street stand right on Beaver Street and its
surrounding area. The souvenirs will consist of local
pieces and mail submissions from around the world. The
shop will be developed in correlation to various Make
Your Own Souvenir Workshops at 16 Beaver. Although we
welcome all kinds of souvenirs, the stand as a whole
will be addressing the following questions:
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16 BEAVER INFO DESK (VIENNA) + DOCUMENTARY-PRODUCTION
WORKSHOP
About the Exhibition:
http://www.wuk.at/kunsthalle/indexe.htm
Inscribing the Temporal is a survey of recent and
current artistic and curatorial practices taking place
outside established institutional frameworks in New
York City and Vienna. The exhibition will focus on
individual and collective efforts by artists and
curators that culminate in public contexts as events,
installations, happenings, screenings, performances,
and social situations, many of which are site-specific
and fleeting in nature. While most of these projects
and artworks were not produced for presentation in a
gallery setting, Inscribing the Temporal attempts to
re-present these works at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse as
a means of questioning whether ephemeral art can be
inscribed. The artworks and projects within the
exhibition will be contextualized with archives
documenting the history of relevant artistic
activities taking place in Vienna and New York.
About 16 Beaver’s Participation:
16 Beaver Group will present an Info Desk with
material related to past and current projects, a
series of screenings of films which have been banned
in various countries, and on-line projects related to
recent and contemporary strategies of resistance.
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16 BEAVER BANNED FILM SERIES (VIENNA-NY)
Exactly what it sounds like: a series of screenings of
films banned in various countries.
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16 BEAVER ON-LINE PROJECTS ON STRATEGIES OF
RESISTANCE, INCLUDING (VIENNA-NY)
Jan 15 - ?
In collaboration with other artists, collectives, and
activists, 16 Beaver will be producing a series of
on-line projects concentrating on today’s strategies
of resistance among cultural workers wherever our
links and concerns may take us/them.
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SCREENING & CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHOR
THE YEARFILM 1962 - 2001 (Cuts & Scratches): Raimundas
Malasauskas
9:00pm
friday
THE YEARFILM 1962 - 2001 (Cuts & Scratches) by The
So-Called Records The Yearfilm 1962 - 2001 (b/w
video, 2001, 55 min) by The So-Called Records was
shot and edited in the screening room of the archive
of Soviet Lithuanian documentaries. The found
material-only-based film has been presented at Looking
for Mr. Fluxus: In the Footsteps of George Maciunas
exhibition at Art in General (www.artingeneral.org) in
New York last year. In order to track funky, bizarre
and spectacular moments of highly ideological flow of
news-reels producers of the film explored news reports
of New years' celebration as well as sport, food and
everyday life events from the 60's. Besides the
obvious easy-watching quality The Yearfilm 1962 - 2001
is a tangential continuation of the genre of Yearboxes
and Yearbooks of Fluxus movement in the 60's. The
So-Called Records (Vilnius and www.socalledrecords.com
) is an open initiative of remixing, reissuing and
redistributing of data. "The conceptual flaneurs of
info-sphere" (Lucy E. Smith) address non-linear range
of issues and usually explore oral culture while
putting it into conversation only, however their
recent projects include publishing the post-card of
Frank Zappa monument in Vilnius (Lithuania), printing
the images of the interior of the flying saucer inside
the T-shirts in the thrift store, filming people's
discussions in a cafe after Slavoj Zizek's lecture,
etc. "The So-Called Records considers everything as
a database and makes conceptual and entertaining cuts
making no difference between professional, amateur,
high, low, global, local, etc. They consider
everything as endless process of remixing and
translation while adapting the idea of 'open source'
to analogue reality." (Lucy E. Smith)
Raimundas Malasauskas is a journalist and curator of
the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (www.cac.lt),
currently living in NYC.
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ART/COLLECTIVES/POLITICS
A Conversation with Past and Current Members of New
York Art Collectives and Alternative Projects on Art
and Politics
Saturday Dec 14th 6-8pm at 16 Beaver Street, 5th floor
This is a casual event, a conversation over drinks.
Please feel free to invite people that might be
interested in talking about these issues and meeting
others involved in collaborative work and/or
art/politics. We should have some drinks, but you are
welcome to bring some.
Open Agenda (Please Add)
What issues do you feel are most pressing today for
cultural workers concerned with politics?
What do you feel cultural workers can/should be doing
in the current atmosphere of right wing nationalisms
and unquestioned U.S. Conservatism?
What collectives/initiatives have been formative and
yet have remained outside the art world radar?
How can we bridge generational/age divisions among
generally sympathetic political viewpoints?
What is civil disobedience today? How can previous
forms of civil disobedience be reformulated and
practiced now?
How can we work against the social and political
restrictions imposed by market identities, academic
institutions, museums and galleries, corporate and
state funding, media censorship, protest regulations,
etc?
What problems have you had when asked to present work
outside of its intended social context/format?
What strategies have been useful to overcome this
problem?
