New York
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Urban Foraging Group I mention to a couple of people who were at the Gleaners & I film screening for UFG v2 that two classmates and I recently put together this short doumentary on Urban Fishing in downtown NYC... Thought it might be of interest to some people in the group.
Urban Fishing, Battery Park, New York City
by Lacey Peckenpaugh, John Gatti, and Antonio Serna
May, 2010. 09.51min
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MidM268eS4
1. Exercise on arrival:
Woke up hung over, a bit of cold throat. Ah ****, hate construction out the window. Bagel with avocado. Biking down the Pacific st. Church group gives away food to slummy men. New condos await potential buyers. To the Classon st, the Atlantic avenue is empty. Nice brownstones in the street well maintained. The streets are becoming prettier. Near Fort Greene, many cute are cafes full of fashionable people enjoying each other over brunch. “Room for Rent” sign on a house across the street from Housing projects by the Park Avenue. “The Best Chinese Take Out”. Sad faced folks, black family walking to the projects. Young dad with a stroller and woman with a dog. Arrive at the Fort Greene park.
2. Exercise in observation:
Lovers in the park.
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∴ Public School Office Hours "A group of volunteers called the Public School Committee meets every other Wednesday to review proposals and develop classes. The committee is responsible for shaping the ideological goals of the program through active discussion and engagement with the community of users. Every few months, one or two volunteers leave the committee and one or two new volunteers join. In this way the operation of the school is able to remain flexible and responsive to the multiple interests of the entire body of students and teachers.
"Each committee member is able to help shape the school through the development of individual classes. To develop a class, a committee member is responsible for finding and confirming an instructor, scheduling the class at a time that works for the instructor and the students, coordinating class materials and readings and attending the class in an administrative capacity (or simply as a student).
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Architecture and the Real Hi everyone,
Due to unfriendly skies (i.e. Delta's flight cancellations), we will have to reschedule this class for sometime in September.
We apologize sincerely to those of you who had already made plans to attend tonight. Please stay tuned for updates on when the class will be held.
Matt & Tal
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Urban Foraging Group The Urban Foraging Group invites you to attend the screening of The Gleaners and I on Thursday, August 26 at 8:00pm at 177 Livingston in Brooklyn.
The Gleaners and I (video)
From Wikipedia:
The Gleaners and I (French: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) is a French documentary by Agnès Varda that features the practice of gleaning. It was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
Texts + Textures: A Writing Workshop | Session 2: Mimi Zeiger/loud paper
Sunday, August 22 at 1:00pm at Fort Greene Park | Meet at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument (150ft fluted column at the top of the hill)
In order to prepare for this session, please read the following:
For the curious, here's an Italian critique of The Coming Insurrection, a book written by some associated with Tiqqun, according to the French government. The criticisms of building alternatives in the margins struck me as relevant to some of our debates:
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchyinitaly/machete/the-insurrection-and-its-double
This is an English translation of Agamben's article "Non au tatouage biopolitique" in Le Monde, 10 January 2004, in which he explains his protest of US customs policy (=his refusal to come to the U.S. as visiting professor at NYU in 2004):
No to Bio-political tattooing
Giorgio Agamben
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