DiR: C O N V I V I A L S Y M P O S I U M 3

DiR: C O N V I V I A L   S Y M P O S I U M   3

 

 

SPURSE: NEGOTIATING

*7 PM Wednesday May 20th, 2009 
The Art Institute of Boston @
Lesley University / Room 215
700 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 

*Join us at 6.30 for Hors D’ Oeuvres Presentation at 7pm

Directions: http://www.lesley.edu/aib/studentlife/directions.html

After every poor excuse for inaction has been exhausted. And when every rationalization of an empire of new clothes has run aground. We are still left beached sinking within a language of inexhaustible apriori mediocrity. Anger and violence is demanded. Action is asked. A scapegoat will not appear. We ask you to sharpen the knives and needles and soften the leathers. Join Spurse, and the full Board of Berwick, for a weaving of nets and a fitting of shoes.

Spurse will be in residence at the Berwick Research Institute over two days (May 19-20). The first evening will be devoted to a retreat and workshop for the Berwick community. The second evening will involve the presentation of a series of polemical re-framings of culture, research, community, and the possibility of art.

Part One May 19th 6pm:
The Berwick Composition.
Spurse will begin a presenting of the possible spaces of constituting to the full Board and staff of the Berwick Research Institute for discussion, revision and situational approval. The presentation of possible constitutings will be tabled in three parts for negotiation. 6PM AIB @ Lesley University / Room 215 / 700 Beacon Street

Part Two Public Presentation May 20th 7pm:
Constituting the Individuations without Commons:
Guy Debord sent packing. Whitehead evoked. Relationality rescued. Deleuze reporting from the IDF. Languages tabled. Wonderment and affect presented without categories. Ecologies confront Umwelts. Intractions co-emerging. Abstraction lived as bodies of many scales. And a soccer match staged. Join Spurse for an evening of re-examining tools and the making of apparatuses. 7PM AIB @ Lesley University / Room 215 / 700 Beacon Street

SPURSE is an open-ended group of individuals and organizations that work together as an experimental consultation service towards the development of new forms of enaction, situated knowledge and modes of being of the world (for more information please see: spurse.org). http://www.spurse.org/spurse/openings.html

As a kick-off to his tenure as DiR, Leon Johnson has initiated a series of symposia through which the Berwick will draw together leading creative thinkers to provide state-of-the-art research on questions relating to the cultivation of, and engagement with, new audiences; the incubation, initiation, and distribution of new works in convergent media; and strategies to build and sustain networks of knowledge and collaboration.

The DIR* program is generously funded by the LEF Foundation + the Massachusetts Cultural Council

*Leon Johnson + Kevin Dacey