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DiR: Convivial SymposiaDiR: C O N V I V I A L S Y M P O S I U M 3
Submitted by leon on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 15:39
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 *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: Part Two Public Presentation May 20th 7pm: 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 DiR 2nd Convivial SymposiumDiR 2nd Convivial Symposium 2ND Convivial Symposium: Jon Calame + Divided Cities
Submitted by leon on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 08:49
DiR: C O N V I V I A L S Y M P O S I U M 2
JON CALAME 
Friday March 27th, 2009 +
Jon Calame is a founding partner of Minerva Partners. A decade of field-based research on urban partition and post-conflict revitalization is summarized in a book entitled Divided Cities: Beirut, Belfast, Jerusalem, Mostar and Nicosia, released in March 2009 by the University of Pennsylvania Press as part of its "The City in the 21st Century" series. He is a recipient of the Rome Prize in 2009-2010 for historic preservation and in 2007 was a senior Fulbright Fellow in Cyprus studying the Nicosia Master Plan team. Before joining Minerva Partners, Mr. Calame served as partnerships manager for the World Monuments Fund in New York, where he managed conservation field projects in Panamá, Poland, Mexico, the Czech Republic and Bosnia-Herzegovina. His work in Mostar involved collaboration with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, the World Bank and the Municipality of Mostar towards a comprehensive rehabilitation scheme for neighborhoods and individual monuments in the war-torn city. Mr. Calame has lectured widely on the topic of post-conflict reconstruction, divided cities, and iconoclasm.
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 results of these symposia will form the nucleus of a Berwick-authored publication slated for release in 2010. Leon Johnson + Kevin Dacey Contact: leon@berwickinstitute.org / http://www.leonjohnson.org / kevin@berwickinstitute.org CONVIVIAL SYMPOSIUM #1: J. MORGAN PUETT
Submitted by leon on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 15:16
The Berwick Research Institute's Director in Residence, Leon Johnson, hosts
A Curriculum for New + Emergent Practices with J. Morgan Puett Friday, January 23rd / Hors D' Oeuvres at 6:30 / J.Morgan Puett at 7:15
Located at CAVS,
265 Massachusetts Avenue,
3rd floor, N52-390
J.Morgan Puett will inaugurate Boston's Berwick Research Institute's DiR Convivial Symposia Series. Puett will be expanding on her 'Curriculum for New and Emergent Practices' and discussing topics raised during her residency at the Berwick Research Institute. You are invited to engage the artist in dialogue around recent projects, specifically Mildred's Lane .
Her childhood reminiscence of home life in rural Georgia flavors many aspects of her work, which straddle the lines of fashion, architecture, and art. The daughter of a third generation beekeeper and painter, respectively, Puett focuses on clothing design/textile and costume, as well as the recreation of milieus that recollect her well-worn southern rural heritage. More at www.jmorganpuett.com
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 results of these symposia will form the nucleus of a Berwick-authored publication slated for release in 2010.
REPORT FORTHCOMING / THANKS TO ALL FOR A GREAT LAUNCH!
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