[inter/meta/trans] Fwd: The Art Workers Coalition (revisited): a call to participate

[adam overton]

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From: Cara Baldwin <feralysis at earthlink.net>
Date: January 15, 2007 1:20:30 PM PST
To: CB2 <feralysis at earthlink.net>
Subject: FW: The Art Workers Coalition (revisited): a call to  
participate


A reminder of this opportunity to actively reflect on the power of  
speech---

We invite you to participate in realization of this art project by  
Kirsten Forkert and creation of The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest  
fifth issue.

Please contact Kirsten Forkert today, Martin Luther King Day, to let  
her know what speech you would like to read aloud—details below.

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The Art Workers Coalition (revisited): a call to participate
Project by Kirsten Forkert

The activities of the Art Workers' Coalition began when the artist  
George Takis removed one of his sculptures from the Museum of Modern  
Art, in 1969. This act drew attention to the conditions for artistic  
production, within the broader context of feminist, anti-racist and  
anti-Vietnam War movements, and the critiques of artistic autonomy  
that were beginning to emerge out of Conceptual Art and Minimalism.  
The Art Workers' Coalition presented the director of MOMA with a list  
of 13 demands, one of them being an open hearing on museum reform.  
They were refused, so they instead held the meeting at the School of  
Visual Arts. These documents are from this meeting; they raise  
questions around the artist's place in society, the role of art  
institutions and the market, especially their implication in the  
military-industrial complex. The documents reflected a range of  
demands, ranging from the specific to the general, from calls for  
minor reforms to total revolution.

TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROJECT
Download and print out documents from http://www.joaap.org/5/articles/ 
forkert.htm

Please pick one that you would like to read aloud—one that you think  
has an interesting relationship to the present; perhaps because it  
strikes you as relevant today because of the poignancy of how little  
has changed. The whole point of the project is to work with the  
performative act of reading aloud as a reconsideration of how the  
role of the artist might be the same or different now, and  
especially, the language we use to talk about social change.

Once you have chosen a text, please email Kirsten Forkert at  
kforkert at gmail.com who will then set up a time to speak on the phone  
and will call you.

Kirsten will ask you to read your text aloud, and then will quickly  
chat about your thoughts on the text. She will record both the  
reading and the conversation and post it online after showing you a  
preliminary draft to make sure you feel comfortable with it.

The recordings will accumulate on the site as people participate.

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