Tue, Feb. 16, 2021 ⁄ 5:00–6:30pm

Mt. Analogue Discussions #1 w/ Julia Bryan-Wilson

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Art, Work, Craft, Resistance: Julia Bryan-Wilson in Discussion

WHEN: Tuesday, February 16 at 5:00 PM (US Central Time)
WHERE: via Zoom  https://carleton.zoom.us/j/94805489346?pwd=d0hpdXhlWEpoOGdQSVZ0eXY4a3NPUT09

 

From her pre-academic days in radical feminist media networks to her focus on art and labor, craft and activism, and now the role of dance as a cultural form of grassroots resistance to repressive structures, Julia Bryan-Wilson has paid unique focus on how matters of everyday existence intertwine with deep rooted needs for cultural production as a social force for change. For this first session in the Mt. Analogue Discussions, Confluence Studio’s on-going series of conversations with artists, academics, activists, and global thinkers, we are proud to collaborate with the Art Dept. of Carleton College to host a discussion with Bryan-Wilson about how she sees her role as an art historian who works across difference and geographies and how she sees her work as a scholar as co-extensive with her work as an activist. Through this personal frame we hope the discussion will provide space to reflect more broadly on both the state of artistic production today as well as the role that the academy could play in furthering the cause of equity and equality.

 

About Julia Bryan-Wilson

Julia Bryan-Wilson is Doris and Clarence Maro Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also directs the university’s Art Research Center. Her research interests include theories of artistic labor, feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, performance and dance, production/fabrication, craft histories, photography, video, visual culture of the nuclear age, and collaborative practices. She is the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (University of California, 2009); Art in the Making: Artists and Their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing (with Glenn Adamson, Thames & Hudson, 2016); and Fray: Art and Textile Politics (University of Chicago, 2017).  She is the editor of OCTOBER Files: Robert Morris (MIT Press, 2013), and co-editor of three journal special issues (“Amateurism,” Third Text, 2020; “Visual Activism,” Journal of Visual Culture, 2016; and “Time Zones: Durational Art in its Contexts,” Representations, 2016).

Bryan–Wilson is an adjunct curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, where in 2019 she co-curated the exhibit Women’s Histories: Artists before 1900; in 2020 at MASP she organized Histórias da Dança/Histories of Dance. With Andrea Andersson, she curated Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, which opened at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans in 2017 and traveled to the Berkeley Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, the ICA Philadelphia, and MOCA North Miami. She is currently writing a book about Louise Nevelson.

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Sat, Jun. 23, 2018 ⁄ 10:00am–2:00pm

Rebel Kids: An Anti-Authoritarian Workshop for Children!!!

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Join Robby Herbst (Llano del Rio Collective, former Journal of Aesthetics and Protest), Sam Gould (Beyond Repair, former Red76, Tools in Common), and their children (Louis, Honora, Esme, and Juniper) for an afternoon of tactical crafts and group conversation about how kids of all ages can work together to bring about a safe, caring, and critical world of the future, free from bullies, dunderheads, jackasses, litter bugs, fire starters, Nazis, and all who would tilt power in favor of the few over the many.

Come and enjoy barricade and shield building work shops, seed “bomb” cultivation, and training in Jedi Mind-Tricks.

Parents are welcome, as well as those who are young at heart.

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Sat, Oct. 21, 2017 ⁄ 8:00pm

With Radical Love & Fierce Resistance Radio

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In concept and habit Beyond Repair was established to respond to the relationships that form through its being present. That means that things should change when things are changing. And so we have exciting news to share and hope that you’ll join us to see it into being.

Drop by on Saturday and Sunday evening, Oct. 21st & 22nd as we begin to transform the space in the Midtown Global Market so that we can house With Radical Love & Fierce Resistance Radio, our new neighborhood micro-broadcasting platform. Basically it’s a barn raising… for a radio station.

We have some ideas of how we’d like to build the space out, but we’d love your input as we transform the shop, creating a DJ booth, lounge, and new entrance.

What’s more, we want to tell you about what the future holds and how you can take part. Become a DJ at the station, tell us about your ideas for new, free printed projects to circulate around the neighborhood, and hear about the new parallel space we’ll soon inhabit, just down the Greenway from the MGM, which we’re calling Assembly (more on that soon).

Bring some tools if you got’em and ideas on how you want to get involved.

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Sun, Jan. 15, 2017 ⁄ 12:00–4:00pm

Anarchy is Female: Workshop and Gathering

 

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Organized by: Crystal Quinn, Alexa Horochowski, & Beyond Repair

Based on inherent feeling towards what is and what exists around us, the battle against this patriarchal culture, is inherently female.

Around the rallying cry “Anarchy is Female” all are invited to come together for a printing event and skill / knowledge / experience share. Throughout the day we will be printing multiple different Anarchy is Female designs to be used for the inauguration protests within the city and throughout the US, including the Million Women’s March in D.C.

Furthermore…

Matchbook Club:

As a quick reaction to the recent electoral let down, a group of female artists have come together to create. Started out as a “book club”, they quickly shifted into a loving and creative space to discuss and create. For this event, the Matchbook Club will have matchbooks for take-away, as well as a handful of posters that respond to harassment in a non-violent way. Words are our friends. We have to start somewhere and we have to keep moving.

Make Flag / Burn Flag:

Many citizens are feeling disillusionment, anger, and frustration after an ugly election where expressions of xenophobia, racism and misogyny flared and threaten to become normalized. Burning a flag is considered “symbolic speech” and protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. In conjunction with the exhibition “BLEED & BURN ” Alexa Horochowski invites participants to make their own, small flags with personalized statements, to be burned independently.

The Exhibition, “BLEED & BURN,” is on view at The Soap Factory, January 14-21, 2017.

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All are invited to utilize the space in and around Beyond Repair to consider and convene their ideas on creative resistance to misogyny and patriarchy.

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The Ross Art Museum asked Sam to contribute a project in response to the election which will begin in time for the Inauguration and run for six months. Keeping with Beyond Repair’s desire for a “deep local” practice, any projects that happens outside the 9th Ward needs to be, in some fashion, reciprocal, providing a meaningful exchange with the work going on at the shop and in the neighborhood.

With these desires in mind we’ve developed, in collaboration with Derek Maxwell and Public Address, W R/L F/R Radio, a networked radio project that builds its programming off the phrase “With Radical Love & Fierce Resistance.” Taking all interpretations of that phrase into account – from discussions on creative direct action, such as this beautiful moment from yesterday’s hearing on the appointment of Jeff Sessions’ for Attorney General to deep cuts of Alice Coltrane – W R/L F/R Radio provides a holistic and critical space for ideas and people to meet. Available streaming online, as well as broadcast over FM anywhere anyone would like to set up their own transmitter, W R/L F/R Radio existing in the ether, and is reflected on the ground, manifesting in broadcasts which broaden a social landscape of solidarity, support, and transformation, node by node, across the USA.

The images below will welcome guests into the Ross Art Museum as window decals, and a flag, which will be displayed directly outside the museum’s entrance.

Over the course of the installation students, teachers, staff, and locals are invited to submit program suggestions to be broadcast on W R/L F/R Radio.

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