Project Processes: for DRESS CODES, RTTG, etc.
i started this blog, thinking that maybe it would help streamline communications for those of us working on specific projects that i direct. also, i am interested in keeping up with our process: how we interact, what themes and issues arise for us; how we grow within this project; and how we're inspired by ideas, images, and by one another. a document for posterity. to remind me what worked and why.
Monday, October 17, 2016
"Police Group Apologizes for Mistreatment of Minorities" - October 17, 2016
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-group-apologizes-for-mistreatment-of-minorities/ar-AAj4y0V?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
"The first step in this process is for law enforcement and the IACP to acknowledge and apologize for the actions of the past and the role that our profession has played in society's historical mistreatment of communities of color." -- Terrence Cunningham, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and police chief for Welleseley, Massachusetts.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Many people, many bodies in "installation art" otherwise categorized as spectacle and performance art/photography - work of Spencer Tunick
http://spencertunick.com/installations
"In July 1994, Spencer Tunick phoned all the people who had expressed
"In July 1994, Spencer Tunick phoned all the people who had expressed
interest in posing nude individually for his public street photographs
and asked them to come together as a group. Of all the locations in
New York the artist could have chosen for this first group work, he
decided to pick the epicenter of world politics, the United Nations. A
total of 25 people showed up to pose on that remarkable early
morning, naked and brave in front of the General Assembly building.
This day launched Tunick’s Reaction Zone series.
The book Reaction Zone presents the definitive collection of Tunick’s
early New York City photographic assemblages of nude bodies. The
artworks included combine risk and urgency as Tunick uses
gestural splashes of flesh like an action painter uses paint.
In his introduction for Reaction Zone, Carlo McCormick relays the feel
of making work on the city streets and the pressure of creating
“human graffiti” under the radar of the authorities."
Registering volunteer participants:
https://www.hull2017.co.uk/whatson/events/seaofhull/
photo-montage by Spencer Tunick
What Tunick plans for the upcoming Natl. Republican Convention:
http://www.papermag.com/naked-women-protest-rnc-with-artist-spencer-tunick-1894101971.html
and asked them to come together as a group. Of all the locations in
New York the artist could have chosen for this first group work, he
decided to pick the epicenter of world politics, the United Nations. A
total of 25 people showed up to pose on that remarkable early
morning, naked and brave in front of the General Assembly building.
This day launched Tunick’s Reaction Zone series.
The book Reaction Zone presents the definitive collection of Tunick’s
early New York City photographic assemblages of nude bodies. The
artworks included combine risk and urgency as Tunick uses
gestural splashes of flesh like an action painter uses paint.
In his introduction for Reaction Zone, Carlo McCormick relays the feel
of making work on the city streets and the pressure of creating
“human graffiti” under the radar of the authorities."
Registering volunteer participants:
https://www.hull2017.co.uk/whatson/events/seaofhull/
photo-montage by Spencer Tunick
What Tunick plans for the upcoming Natl. Republican Convention:
http://www.papermag.com/naked-women-protest-rnc-with-artist-spencer-tunick-1894101971.html
Monday, June 27, 2016
The Jesse Williams BET Speech - June 26, 2016
Read His Speech in Full:
“This
award, this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the
country. The activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling
parents, the families, the teachers, the students, that are realizing
that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand
if we do.
All
right? It’s kind of basic mathematics:, the more we learn about who we
are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize. Now this is also in
particular for the black women, in particular, who have spent their
lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and
will do better for you.
Now,
what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police
somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every
day. So what’s going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and
justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and
ours.
Now
— I’ve got more, y’all. Yesterday would’ve been young Tamir Rice’s 14th
birthday, so I don’t want to hear anymore about how far we’ve come when
paid public servants can pull a drive-by on a 12-year-old playing alone
in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going
home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better to live
in 2012 than 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to
Sandra Bland. Tell that to Darrien Hunt.
Now
the thing is though, all of us in here getting money, that alone isn’t
going to stop this. All right? Now dedicating our lives to get money
just to give it right back for someone’s brand on our body, when we
spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies and now we pray to get
paid for brands on our bodies.
There
has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of.
There has been no job we haven’t done, there’s been no tax they haven’t
levied against us, and we’ve paid all of them. But freedom is somehow
always conditional here. “You’re free,” they keep telling us. But she
would’ve been alive if she hadn’t acted so… “free.”
Now,
freedom is always coming in the hereafter. But, you know what though?
The hereafter is a hustle. We want it now. And let’s get a couple of
things straight, just a little side note: The burden of the brutalized
is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job, all right, stop
with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our
resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of
our oppression. If you have no interest in equal rights for black people
then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.
We’ve
been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done
watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and
abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind, while
extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil, black
gold. Ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them,
gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before
discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is, though,
the thing is that just because we’re magic, doesn’t mean we’re not
real.”
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Claude McKay poem
If We Must Die
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BY CLAUDE MCKAY
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
revisioning!
Visibility/Voice: a
RUNNING START
RTTG: with voice and
visibility
n
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1.
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running start - a racing start in which the contestants are already in full motion when theypass the starting line
racing start - the start of a race
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2.
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running start - a quick and auspicious beginning
start - the beginning of anything; "it was off to a good start"
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Jesse,
They run to the guns with a MAGIC BULLET---a beautiful
hand-blown or carved or stainglass bullet!
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