THURSDAY, JUNE 10–Next Objectivists (on: Situationist International!)
7pm – 10pm
The Next Objectivists meet this Thursday in order to imagine a SITUATIONIST
INTERNATIONAL poetics. From the late 1950s through the early 1970s, the SI
practiced and theorized the use of art to politicize everyday life in the face
of a culture industry that generates and promotes desire in its subjects
through the production of spectacles. We will examine several SI documents &
then attempt to create poems which produce and/or are produced by situations.
We begin with the following statement from Potlatch #5: Lettrist International:
20 July 1954:
Poetry has exhausted the last of its formal prestiges. Beyond simple
aesthetics, poetry consists entirely of human potential. It is written on the
faces of adventures and in the form of cities. Nothing is more urgent than the
creation of new faces and construction through upheaval. The new beauty will be
SITUATIONAL, that is to say fugitive and lived. The latest artistic variations
interest us only for the potential influence that might be found within them.
To us, poetry means the elaboration of absolutely new conducts, and the means
of making them passionate.
What poetry can we imagine in relation to these speculative imperatives?
Join us & help to create the next objectivism! The Next Objectivists is always
free & open to all. Leave your expertise at the door! Join us today!
SATURDAY, JUNE 12–Propeller Grant Informational Meeting
1pm – 4pm
Propeller Fund Application Workshops introduce the Propeller Fund and offer
tips, hints and advice on how to prepare an application.
Propeller Fund is founded to support visual arts projects that are:
independent, informal, and self-organized. The goal is to stimulate further
independent growth throughout Chicago; to encourage more varied models of
visual arts presentation;to increase public recognition of these ways of
working; to spread self-organized activities into more diverse areas; to
promote the public’s interaction with such activities; and to spark ambitions
beyond current formats.
Propeller Fund will provide a total of $50,000 in grants, at the following
levels: Five grants at $6,000 Ten grants at $2,000 The two-tiered funding
structure awarded to a total 15 projects is devised to provide substantial
support for major costs—printing, rental, honoraria, material, shipping,
research time, etc. —with the aim to ensure that each project has the
resources to live up to its ambitions.
Propeller Fund is administered jointly by Gallery 400, UIC and threewalls.
Initial support for the program is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for
the Arts as part of its initiative to promote informal and independently
organized visual arts activities across the United States. Previous regranting
programs initiated by the foundation are located in San Francisco, CA
(Alternative Exposure), and Houston, TX (The Idea Fund).
***Application Deadline: August 1, 2010 Grant awardees announced: October 2010
