Becoming Institution is a series of public and private discussions, works and events that takes shape over the course of a year to generate understanding of the roles of a contemporary arts institution and the functions of exhibitions today. Through invited and self-organized platforms, this exploratory program considers the complex intersections of art institutions with artists, cultural production, public and site. The program’s concept seeks to expand the limits of institution practice, calling for agility in institution behavior by prioritizing the need to continually evolve and respond to dynamic and discursive qualities of current art and culture.

Becoming Institution is organized in association with Bureau for Open Culture’s recent recognition as a non-profit arts organization. It is a reflexive means toward sifting through what is this institution practice and what it can become in this new type of domain for the production and experience of art, design, knowledge and the built environment.

PANEL
Art in General
New York, NY
Off the Clock: Working with Flexible Labor, Social Networks and Everyday Life
October 11, 2011

LECTURE
The Future is Now READ; VIEW
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
Critical Dialogues
September 21, 2011

VIEW PUBLICATION

Bureau for Open Culture is a non-profit contemporary arts organization that takes the form of an institution to challenge and expand the way art is produced, exhibited and experienced. Its institution practice approaches the exhibition model as if it is a problem to be solved and a formal and historical structure to be interrogated. Bureau for Open Culture utilizes exhibition, design and critical writing in connection with institution, public and commercial spaces to realize its work. The work is made possible through collaborations with individuals, museums, academies and businesses, from the visual and performing arts to the built environment, design, urbanism and publishing.

JAMES VOORHIES, Director and Curator
james at bureauforopenculture dot org

NATE PADAVICK, Designer
nate at bureauforopenculture dot org

CASSANDRA TROYAN, Curatorial Assistant
cassandra at bureauforopenculture dot org

BRENDA TUCKER, Communications Director
brenda at bureauforopenculture dot org

FACEBOOK Bureau for Open Culture

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MAILING ADDRESS
243 Union Street, No. 405
North Adams, MA 01247

All events are free and open to the public

PAST EVENTS

October 11, 2011
Panel: Off the Clock: Working with Flexible Labor, Social Networks and Everyday Life
presented by Silvershed
Location: Art in General, 79 Walker Street, New York, NY
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 29-October 2, 2011
Friendly Fire
NY Art Book Fair
Location: PS1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY
VIEW PHOTOS
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September 21, 2011
James Voorhies
Lecture: THE FUTURE IS NOW (brief notes on the instrumentalization of art)
Location: Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Critical Dialogues series
Time: 6:00 p.m.
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September 9, 2011
Dylan Gauthier and Kendra Sullivan
All Hands On Deck! is a collaborative exercise in building a functional watercraft out of salvaged and foraged materials.
Location: Bureau for Open Culture @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA 
Time: 11 a.m.-5 p.m
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September 9, 2011
Red76: Bartleby's Pen
Dylan Gauthier and Kendra Sullivan
Location: Bureau for Open Culture >Beer Garden @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: 8:30 p.m.
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July 29, 2011
Red76: Bartleby's Pen
SHUT UP AND DANCE danceparty
Forget the lecture, this special edition of Bartleby's Pen takes the form of a dance party in collaboration with Bang on a Can!
Location: Bureau for Open Culture @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: 10:00 p.m.-2 a.m.
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July 17, 2011
Bureau for Open Culture >On Symptoms of Cultural Industry
There Is Only Light (We Do Not Know What To Do With Other Worlds) by Cassandra Troyan combines documentation of labor histories, interviews with former employees of Sprague Electric and lived experience.
Location: Bureau for Open Culture @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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July 1, 2011
Red76: Bartleby's Pen
Lecture by Matthew Stadler
Location: Bureau for Open Culture >Beer Garden @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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June 24-26, 2011
Solid Sound 11 Festival
Bureau for Open Culture partners with Printed Matter, Inc. to operate a pop-up book shop and The Wassaic Project to present artist Breanne Trammell’s Let’s Fly A Kite and Jen-N-Outlaw’s Fish Fry Truck and Crawfish Boils, a New York City-based food truck run by Paul Outlaw and Jennifer Catron that serves up fresh seafood in an authentically Southern style.
Location: Bureau for Open Culture @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: Friday, Saturday and Sunday during festival hours
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June 17, 2011
Red76: Bartleby's Pen
Lecture by Sam Gould and Rebecca Gates
Location: Bureau for Open Culture >Beer Garden @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: 8:30 p.m.
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June 15, 2011
Sarah Cowles: Elegantly Wasted: Let's Enjoy Our River
Stop by Miner/Mohawk Lemonade Stand at corner of Miner Street and The Mohawk Trail in North Adams. Buy some fresh squeezed lemonade and learn about Bureau for Open Culture's programming including Sarah Cowles's work with the Hoosic River.
Time: 6:30 p.m.
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June 15, 2011
Sarah Cowles: Elegantly Wasted
Ditch-In Theater Projected out-of-doors near the Hoosic River on MASS MoCA’s campus, this evening showcases a selection of films by Deborah Stratman, Cynthia Hooper and Ursula Biemann.
Location: Bureau for Open Culture @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: 9:00 p.m.
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June 8, 2011
Sarah Cowles: Elegantly Wasted
Monuments of Hoosic Tour Inspired by Robert Smithson’s Monuments of Passaic, Cowles will lead a tour of the river to search out and draw attention to the overlooked and under-valued qualities of the Hoosic River.
Location: Meet at Bureau for Open Culture @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: 6:30 p.m.
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June 5, 2011
Temporary Services: Art Work
Bureau for Open Culture will host an informal public conversation between the writer and critic Julia Bryan-Wilson and the audience to examine ideas related to Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics. Art Work is a 40-page newsprint publication by Temporary Services.
Location: Bureau for Open Culture @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: 2:00 p.m.
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June 3, 2011
Dawn School is a participatory field trip that invites museum staff and members of the public to leave the grounds of the museum in order to explore changing patterns of labor. This edition of Dawn School includes a tour of Specialty Minerals, Inc. in Adams, MA. 
Location: Meet in front of MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: 8:30-11:00 a.m.
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May 28, 2011
Opening reception: I Am Searching for Field Character
Location: MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.
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May 26, 2011
Opening night! >Beer Garden
Location: MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m.
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May 14, 2011
Bureau for Open Culture in conversation with artist and writer Nick Bastis
On Symptoms of Cultural Industry for Open Engagement
Location: Field Work, 1101 SW Jefferson St., Portland, OR
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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May 11, 2011
Performance by Cassandra Troyan
On Symptoms of Cultural Industry for Open Engagement
Location: Field Work, 1101 SW Jefferson St. Portland, OR
Time: 8:00 p.m.
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April 5, 2011
Open Reception
Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Location: Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, One College Drive, Bennington, VT
Time: 6:30-8:00 p.m.
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March 21, 2011
Bureau for Open Culture: Making New Learning Sites, a talk by James Voorhies
Sponsored by Artists in Context, UMass, Amherst and C3
Location: Room 24, Studio Arts Building, University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass, Amherst, MA
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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March 11, 2011
Denouement, discussion of findings with psychic Larry Copeland
Presented as part of Calling Occupants, a paranormal concert series by Ben Kinsley for Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, 60 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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March 4, 2011
Performance by Kianna Alarid, ancient mantras and intuitive, resonant vocalizations
Presented as part of Calling Occupants, a paranormal concert series by Ben Kinsley for Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, 60 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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February 25, 2011
Performance by Barry Chern & Friends, American roots music
Presented as part of Calling Occupants, a paranormal concert series by Ben Kinsley for Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, 60 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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February 18, 2011
Performance by Shawn Campbell, free-form, solo percussion
Presented as part of Calling Occupants, a paranormal concert series by Ben Kinsley for Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, 60 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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February 11, 2011
Performance by Ryan Jewell, an hour-long, continuous, acoustic drone
Presented as part of Calling Occupants, a paranormal concert series by Ben Kinsley for Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, 60 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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February 4, 2011
Performance by John Also Bennett
Presented as part of Calling Occupants, a paranormal concert series by Ben Kinsley for Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, 60 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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February 2, 2011
Lecture by Michael Mercil
Presented as part of The New Administration of a Fine Arts Education
Location: CCAD Design Studios on Broad, 390 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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January 31, 2011
Lecture by J. Morgan Puett
Presented as part of The New Administration of a Fine Arts Education
Location: CCAD Design Studios on Broad, 390 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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January 27, 2011
Opening reception: Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, 60 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Performance: Artist Ben Kinsley and psychic Larry Copeland lead a participatory event of paranormal proportions to initiate Kinsley's ongoing exhibition work exploring the sonic means of transdimensional influence.
All are welcome and encouraged to take part!
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, 60 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH
Time: 8:00 p.m.

After Party: Seven Dreams
Dance your way through a fog of new wave, industrial, pop, screwed jams and a laser light show. Live performances by Anna Ranger, DJ Scott Neimet and DJ Seabat. Some refreshments provided but BYOB encouraged.
Location: Skylab Gallery, 57 East Gay St., 5th Floor, Columbus, OH
Time: 9:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.
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November 17, 2010
Lecture by Matthew Higgs
Presented as part of The New Administration of a Fine Arts Education
Location: CCAD Design Studios on Broad, 390 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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October 14, 2010
Lecture by Jon Rubin Presented as part of The New Administration of a Fine Arts Education
Location: CCAD Design Studios on Broad, 390 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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May 14, 2010
Coming Soon
CCAD Junior Seminar in collaboration with the Learning Site Audible Dwelling
 
Coming Soon is a collaboration between Junior Seminar students at Columbus College of Art & Design and the Learning Site Audible Dwelling. Coming Soon brings together personal reflections of Columbus residents and civic leaders on the ecological possibilities for their city. In response to a series of questions about what it means to build, maintain and live an environmentally conscious urban life, residents voice their opinions about the increasingly uneasy relationship between city and nature. Interweaved throughout these questions and answers are samples of sounds of Ohio’s greener pastures, aural meditations on the long history of agriculture in this state and the noises that once filled the very parking lot site where Audible Dwelling sits today.

Conceived, researched and recorded by students, Coming Soon is in conversation with Audible Dwelling about visions for a sustainable future.

CCAD Professor Tim Rietenbach with students Ken Aschliman, Jeremiah Caudill, Silver Corbin, Josh Culberson, Annica Damico, Quinn Kellogg, Lisa Kozlosky, Taylor Leaman, Bailey Ruhlen, Michelle Ross, Amanda Scharf, Mike Smith, Carli Sombat, Tosha Stimage, Ryan Walters and Joe Wyman

Location: Audible Dwelling in the parking lot on CCAD campus at corner of N. Washington and E. Long Streets Map
Time: 11:00 a.m.
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May 5, 2010
Chine-collé
Ross Caliendo, Todd Pleasants, Alex Ross, Brian Sharrock

Immediately following the Emergency Alert Siren, the sound performance Chine-collé will layer consistent tones with the aim to extend the spectacle of the siren. The EAS is a symbol of imminent threat and represents a culture and economy of fear that emerged in the 1950s and continues today. When sounded the siren raises the public's awareness to the exact time and “it was only a test” regiment. The area will be blanketed with a drone that recalls the effect of the nearly 120 decibel test alarm blast. By matching the intensity of the siren, people in hearing distance to Audible Dwelling will re-experience the redundancy of the weekly siren as a new drone continues for 2 hours 40 minutes, the total number of minutes the siren blasts in one full year (the EAS sounds for 3 minutes every week).

Numerous EAS sirens are located around Columbus. The mechanical horn and distress signal have become ubiquitous in our environment. By utilizing the location of Audible Dwelling in downtown Columbus, listeners enter into dialogue with an infrastructure of defense and distress and the impact it has on public consciousness. Chine-collé explores the relevance of city ordinance and alters the audible layers that comprise the sound-scape of Columbus.

Location: Audible Dwelling in the parking lot on CCAD campus at corner of N. Washington and E. Long Streets Map
Time: 12:00 p.m.
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April 23, 2010
Aluminum Foil Mountain and Worm Man
Aimee Sones and Ryan Agnew in collaboration with the Learning Site Audible Dwelling

Made of an everyday household material, Aimee Sones’s Aluminum Foil Mountain is a sculpture and day-long action that questions notions of planned obsolescence, consumption of natural resources and conflicted intersections of mining and agriculture. Sones collaborates with the physical qualities of the Learning Site Audible Dwelling to create a large, temporary sculpture of aluminum foil over one speaker house. Ryan Agnew’s Worm Man consists of sound recordings of the usually unheard and out-of-sight labors of worms churning and fortifying the earth. The sounds are amplified from both speaker houses. Agnew’s evening performance across the asphalt parking lot draws on concepts of displacement and habitation in Audible Dwelling.

Location: Audible Dwelling in the parking lot on CCAD campus at corner of N. Washington and E. Long Streets Map
Time: dawn to dusk
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April 12, 2010
Globalization = Americanization?
CCAD Honors Seminar in collaboration with the Learning Site Audible Dwelling

Globalization = Americanization? is a collaboration between honor students at Columbus College of Art & Design and the Learning Site Audible Dwelling. It unfolds in the form a public debate with two opposing arguments about whether or not globalization is quite simply the Americanization of the world. Addressing issues related to mainstream media, national identities, new kinds of locality, public and private space and technologies, each speaker house of Audible Dwelling vocalizes a pro or con opinion about prescient topics related to America’s role in world affairs. Globalization = Americanization? is researched, written and recorded by students.

CCAD Professor Mariana Smith with students Yezen Abusharkh, Jennifer Chema, Austin McClellan, Lian Dziura, Jamie Hartman, Isuri Merenchi Hewage, Ian Horn, Todd Pleasants, Pallavi Sen and Ryan Walters

Location: Audible Dwelling in the parking lot on CCAD campus at corner of N. Washington and E. Long Streets Map
Time: 4:30 p.m.
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March 6, 2010
Closing performance of Chord of Columbus
Location: Audible Dwelling in the parking lot on CCAD campus at corner of N. Washington and E. Long Streets Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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March 3, 2010
Bicycling tour of recording sites of Chord of Columbus. Join John Also Bennett and Sarah Cowles in a tour of the sites from where the sounds of urban infrastructure where recorded and learn why these sites are significant to the work. 
Location: Meet at Audible Dwelling in the parking lot on CCAD campus at corner of N. Washington and E. Long Streets Map
Time: 5:00 p.m.
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February 26, 2010
Opening performance of Chord of Columbus, a collaboration of John Also Bennett and Sarah Cowles with the Learning Site Audible Dwelling.

Location: Audible Dwelling in the parking lot on CCAD campus at corner of N. Washington and E. Long Streets Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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February 23, 2010
Exhibition walkthrough with curator James Voorhies and conversation with artist Elizabeth Gerdeman
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD campus
Time: 6:00 p.m.
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February 17, 2010
Opening reception for Calling Beauty.
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD campus
Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m.
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November 24, 2009
Opening celebration of Audible Dwelling by Learning Site.
Location: parking lot on CCAD campus at corner of N. Washington and E. Long Streets Map
Time: 4:30 p.m.
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November 14, 2009
Organized by Sarah Weinstock and Anthony Peluso, today is the second in a two-part series of marathon screenings of 26 episodes of the Japanese anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, or NGE, (October 1995–March 1996) directed by Hideaki Anno as well as the film The End of Evangelion (1997).

This screening includes the remainder of the episodes and the film The End Evangelion.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 3:00 p.m. (approx. 6 hours screening) 
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November 7, 2009
Organized by Sarah Weinstock and Anthony Peluso, today is the first in a two-part series of marathon screenings of 26 episodes of the Japanese anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, or NGE, (October 1995–March 1996) directed by Hideaki Anno as well as the film The End of Evangelion (1997).

Visually, conceptually and psychologically dense, Hideaki Anno's work addresses a cadre of existentialist themes related to religion, identity, nationalism and independence. 

On November 14, part II of this series will screen the remainder of the episodes and the feature film The End of Evangelion.  
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 3:00 p.m. (approx. 6 hours screening) 
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November 1, 2009
playing practice
Organized by Sönke Hallmann, Magda Tyzlik-Carver and Paul Gangloff, playing practice is part of the ongoing collaborative practice-led research project Virtual Networks Social Fabrics. In irregular intervals the Department of Reading invites its participating readers to discuss and comment through a chat on Skype given texts, which are displayed on a Wikipage. As a continuation of the series playing practice the session on November 1 departs from seven textual fragments, assembled on the Wiki of the Department of Reading in numbered sections. By means of simple commands placed in the chat on Skype, they can be quoted, edited, moved, exchanged, reworked, replaced and rewritten. This session invites a discussion on playing that like the tangram allows for different figures to appear through entering into new combinations.

Location: via Skype at Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 12:00-4:00 p.m.
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October 28, 2009
Claire Fontaine: Paris-based collective Claire Fontaine gives a public talk on subjects related to the Women's Movement of 1977 in Italy, Autonomia, the war economy, and libidinal economy. The discussion will also address a new neon work entitled WARM WAR outside, situated in a public space of the city. 

Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 6:00 p.m. 
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October 24, 2009
Filmmaker and photographer Bill Daniel visits Columbus!
Join us for Sunset Scavenger, a dual screening of a documentary essay on "low-down survival strategies in a world of ecologic and economic collapse." It includes an outdoor video projection on sails atop a van and a one night installation of photographs. In case of rain, screening will take place inside the gallery.

Location: CCAD Campus, on the quad at 60 Cleveland Ave. at E. Gay St.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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October 23, 2009
Ryan Griffis of The Temporary Travel Office visits Columbus to screen the short film Parking Public: A Tour in the Storage of Utopia and discuss Parking Public, an initiative that documents histories of public parking and with regard to specific  contexts and developments of surface parking in the United States. The Temporary Travel Office has conducted tours of parking in Brooklyn, Champaign, IL, Hollywood, CA, and downtown Los Angeles. Ryan's visit is in conjunction with Learning Site's residency because their Audible Dwelling is located in and responds in part to parking lots in Columbus. 

Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 6:00 p.m. 
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October 21, 2009
VITALforms: Line of Flight: A Conversation on Love
Join us, as we follow with the collective VITALforms comprised of Cassandra Troyan and Nicole Langille to an undisclosed field on the outskirts of the city. Come experience their performance as they drift away in a hot-air, speaking to viewers below as they race to follow VITALforms impeded naturally by geographical barriers.
Location: Meet at the quad on CCAD’s campus, corner of Cleveland Ave. and E. Gay St.
Time: 6:30 a.m.
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October 19, 2009
Claire Fontaine
In anticipation of Claire Fontaine’s public discussion related to the Women's Movement of 1977 in Italy, Autonomia, and Libidinal Economy by Jean-François Lyotard. This weekly reading group will talk about Lyotard’s work and lots more.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
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October 17, 2009
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
Today! The Readymade Revolution occurs. Organized by Henrik Mayer and Martin Keil of RG, this peaceful demonstration originates at CCAD campus and concludes on the State House lawn. Join us in this procession that considers the demonstration in East Germany in 1989 as a revolutionary technique today.
Location: meet at the Quad at Columbus College of Art & Design, corner of Cleveland Ave. and E. Gay St.
Time: 2:00 p.m.
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October 16, 2009
Ben Kinsley
READING--PRESENTATION--PERFORMANCE
Tonight visiting artist Ben Kinsley READS from "A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary," a text about play, improvisation and collaboration. Ben also PRESENTS and discusses some of his past projects. Then he PERFORMS a work inspired by recent life in Iceland. This performance will include a distribution of song books, a banjo recital, and a sing-along.

We are pretty darn excited Ben will contribute to actions at the Office of Collective and invite everyone to join us tonight.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 6:30 p.m.
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October 13, 2009
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
In preparation for The Readymade Revolution on Saturday, October 17, Henrik Mayer and Martin Keil of RG hold a workshop tonight that includes making banners and flags of the East German revolution of 1989. This evening's informal public discussion and workshop considers the demonstration model as a revolutionary technique in relation to contemporary capitalist economies.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 5:30 p.m.
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October 12, 2009
Claire Fontaine
In anticipation of Claire Fontaine’s public discussion related to the Women's Movement of 1977 in Italy, Autonomia, and Libidinal Economy by Jean-François Lyotard. This weekly reading group will talk about Lyotard’s work and lots more.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
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October 6, 2009
Red76: Dedication of Anywhere/Anyplace Academy (A/AA)
Join us for this lunchtime dedication and recognition of all the collaboration and hard work on A/AA.
Location: A/AA parking lot site on CCAD campus
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
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October 6, 2009
Red76: Open House and final day of residence
Join us for music and drinks at the Office of Collective Play on this final evening of Red76's residence. Come check out the sites of Pop-Up Book Academy, TMF Co., and YouTube School for Social Politics and learn how to continue the work.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 8:00-10:00 p.m.
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October 5, 2009
Claire Fontaine
In anticipation of Claire Fontaine’s public discussion related to the Women's Movement of 1977 in Italy, Autonomia, and Libidinal Economy by Jean-François Lyotard. This weekly reading group will talk about Lyotard’s work and lots more.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
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October 5, 2009
Red76: Pop-Up Book Academy
Dylan Gauthier discusses cooperative boat building.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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October 4, 2009
Red76: TMF Co. Skill Share Afternoon
In this first of two TMF Co. sessions Dylan Gauthier of Brooklyn, New York boat fanatics Free Seas leads a cooperative boat building project out of surplus materials alongside A/AA to be followed by TMF Co. part two on Monday night.
Location: A/AA site in parking lot on CCAD campus
Time: 12:00 p.m.
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October 2, 2009
Red76: YouTube School for Social Politics
Focusing on the 1981 Provos (Irish Hunger Stikes) Ola Stahl's YouTube School for Social Politics essay utilizes simultaneous direct narratives of both IRA and Loyalist prisoners to detail the Irish prison system under British rule in the late 1970's/early 1980's.

Mining YouTube for source material YouTube School for Social Politics utilizes videos to assemble discussion regarding sociopolitical topics.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 30, 2009
Red76: Pop-Up Book Academy
Second of artist and editor Ola Stahl’s two P.B.A. sessions which work their way through the journal entries of his Great Uncle; a journeyman laborer who moved to the United States and stayed for well over a quarter-century prior to World War II. The texts intimately document the personal history of an itinerant worker at the beginning of the twentieth century and the personal and collective hardships of the time.
 
Pop-Up Book Academy is a school that materializes behind the mask of a temporary used bookstore, utilizing the printed form as a means of investigating social politics and its histories past and present.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 28, 2009
Claire Fontaine
In anticipation of Claire Fontaine’s public discussion related to the Women's Movement of 1977 in Italy, Autonomia, and Libidinal Economy by Jean-François Lyotard. This weekly reading group will talk about Lyotard’s work and lots more.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
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September 28, 2009
Red76: Pop-Up Book Academy
First of artist and editor Ola Stahl’s two P.B.A. sessions which work their way through the journal entries of his Great Uncle; a journeyman laborer who moved to the United States and stayed for well over a quarter-century prior to World War II. The texts intimately document the personal history of an itinerant worker at the beginning of the twentieth century and the personal and collective hardships of the time.
 
Pop-Up Book Academy is a school that materializes behind the mask of a temporary used bookstore, utilizing the printed form as a means of investigating social politics and its histories past and present.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 27, 2009
Red76: TMF Co. Skill Share Night
Teach-a-Man-to-Fish Company Skill Sharing sessions wherein members of Red76 and the community will share a skill of their own so that others can then go and make with their new knowledge.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 25, 2009
Red76: YouTube School for Social Politics
Tonight is a double feature! 

First, Robby Herbst of the L.A. based Journal of Aesthetics and Protest presents his essay "Mediation, Self-Marginalization and Post-politics in Protest Media," a look at the movement away from protest in the public sphere and into a strangely hermetic form of communication and resistance.

Second, Red 76's Gabriel Saloman presents his essay on "Mystery Ecology." It is both an examination of an oft ignored, or downplayed, component of the global environmental movement which seeks to preserve natural space due to its "sacred value," as well as an inquiry into the imaginal and spiritual loss that is endured by the destruction and invasion of wilderness.

Mining YouTube for source material YouTube School for Social Politics utilizes videos to assemble discussion regarding sociopolitical topics.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 23, 2009
Red76: Pop-Up Book Academy
Mary Jo Bole presents bookworks focusing on her ongoing relationship with the Dutch publisher and arts center Extrapool and Knust in Nijmegen. She discusses the nature of her work, how it relates to the unique method of printing offered at Knust, and the experience of international production and collaboration.

Pop-Up Book Academy is a school that materializes behind the mask of a temporary used bookstore, utilizing the printed form as a means of investigating social politics and its histories past and present.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 22, 2009
Andrew Culp and Gabriel Saloman host G20 and Resistance Teach-in
Students and all interested parties are invited to discuss issues surrounding the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh September 24-25. This teach-in intends to initiate a network and dialogue among the arts, student, and activist communities in Columbus about creative forms of solidarity that could potentially take place here. It also intends to generate discussion with participants who aren't going to go to Pittsburgh about topics to be addressed at the G20 Summit.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 2:00 p.m. 
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September 21, 2009
Claire Fontaine
In anticipation of Claire Fontaine’s public discussion related to the Women's Movement of 1977 in Italy, Autonomia, and Libidinal Economy by Jean-François Lyotard. This weekly reading group will talk about Lyotard’s work and lots more.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
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September 21, 2009
Red76: Pop-Up Book Academy
Gabriel Saloman discusses his 2003 essay "1999: A Year of Virtual Reality, Mind Control and the Rise of Male Paranoia." Saloman talks about his use of Google as a means of developing the essay, exploring issues of historical truth and epistemology, as well as challenge of using emerging technologies for documenting and researching our cultural heritage.

Pop-Up Book Academy is a school that materializes behind the mask of a temporary used bookstore, utilizing the printed form as a means of investigating social politics and its histories past and present.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 20, 2009
Red76: TMF Co. Skill Share Night
Kevin VanScoder hosts TMF Co. He demonstrates basic quilting techniques and leads a discussion about various uses for sewing projects--blankets, beer-cozies, messenger bag padding and more! The discussion also addresses the increasing number of male quilters today. Bring your own quilting and sewing projects to share!

Teach-a-Man-to-Fish Company Skill Share sessions wherein members of Red76 and the community share a skill of their own so others can go and produce with their newly acquired knowledge.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 18, 2009
Red76: YouTube School for Social Politics
A Hooters Universe: An Essay by  Dan S. Wang
For his YouTube School for Social Politics essay, Dan S. Wang sifts through countless videos to create a multifaceted sociological in portrait for the "restaurant" chain Hooters. Looking at kids birthday parties, image obsession, legal issues, and more Wang delves deep into one of America's most popular, and most absurd "family dining establishments."

Mining YouTube for source material YouTube School for Social Politics utilizes videos to assemble discussion regarding sociopolitical topics.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 16, 2009
Red76: Pop-Up Book Academy
Home, Washington, one of the earliest anarchist, free love communities of the Pacific Northwest (est. 1886) was also a thriving radical publishing hub in its time. Red76 members Sam Gould and Gabriel Mindel Saloman will lay out a brief history of Home, Washington and discuss some of the publications which came out of the small wooded Pacific NW colony.
 
Pop-Up Book Academy is a school that materializes behind the mask of a temporary used bookstore, utilizing the printed form as a means of investigating social politics and its histories past and present.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 14, 2009
Claire Fontaine
In anticipation of Claire Fontaine’s public discussion related to the Women's Movement of 1977 in Italy, Autonomia, and Libidinal Economy by Jean-François Lyotard. This weekly reading group will talk about Lyotard’s work and lots more.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
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September 14, 2009
Red76: Pop-Up Book Academy
Mike Wolf leads a session of Pop-Up Book Academy discussing his research and travels throughout the mid-west and the notions of the Mid-West Radical Cultural Corridor (MRCC).
 
Pop-Up Book Academy is a school that materializes behind the mask of a temporary used bookstore, utilizing the printed form as a means of investigating social politics and its histories past and present.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 13, 2009
Red76: TMF Co. Skill Share Night
Teach-a-Man-to-Fish Company Skill Share sessions wherein members of Red76 and the community share a skill of their own so others can go and produce with their newly acquired knowledge. Gabriel Mindel Saloman leads this session of TMF Co. Sunday Skill Share night discussing his use of found tapes in his music.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 11, 2009
Red76: YouTube School for Social Politics
Mining YouTube for source material YouTube School for Social Politics utilizes videos to assemble discussion regarding sociopolitical topics. Mike Wolf screens video essay.
Location: Office of Collective Play, 155 N. 5th St. Map
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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September 10, 2009
Red76: Surplus Seminar Opening Kickoff Event
Red76 will spend a month in Columbus discussing and activating situations that engage notions of learning and educational frameworks as a means for active living and critical perception. To jump-start these ideas ex-Yellow Swan and Red76 cohort Gabriel Mindel Saloman helps kick it off with Sade/Sade, his new solo project. Utilizing found cassette tapes, Sade/Sade will deliver noise, transcendence, and more noise. Books from the Pop-Up Book Academy book store and TMF Co. products will all be available, plus barbecue, drinks, etc.
Location: Red76's A/AA site at CCAD parking lot and Canzani Center Gallery, 60 Cleveland Ave. at E. Gay St.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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June 16, 2009
A Conversation with Learning Site
Learning Site has formed collaborations and made projects in New Delhi, Copenhagen, Singapore, Chicago, Moriya, and Monterrey, among other sites. They will produce a work in the urban context of Columbus as part of the fall exhibition Descent to Revolution.

Learning Site is now in Columbus to research for what will be made this fall. They will talk about the progress of their research and the possibilities.
Location: 13 East Tulane Road, Columbus, Ohio
Time: 8:00 p.m.
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April 25, 2009
To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong?
Celebrate Earth Day weekend with us! We'll be sowing seeds and planting seedlings.
Location: 926-8 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio Map
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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April 11, 2009
To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong?
Join us to do some dirt work and prepare beds for planting.
Location: 926-8 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio Map
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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March 18, 2009
Film screening: Mon Oncle (1958), 117 minutes
Director: Jacques Tati
Mon Oncle centers on the dimwitted yet lovable character of Monsieur Hulot (played by the director) and his quixotic struggle with postwar France's infatuation with modern architecture, mechanical efficiency and American-style consumerism.

Produced for the exhibition Of Other Spaces, the installation PLAYTIME by Christian Tomaszewski gathers the filmic sounds and spaces of Tati’s Mon Oncle and Play Time into a single physical site. It is an inquiry of representation and an observation on the widespread impact cinema make on routine perceptions.
Location: Canzani Center Auditorium, CCAD campus
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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March 11, 2009
As part of the exhibition Of Other Spaces, Bureau for Open Culture and Wexner Center for the Arts present She Might Belong to You (2007) by Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Metropolis, Report from China (2006) by Maya Schweizer and Clemens von Wedemeyer, and Will there be a sea battle tomorrow? (2008) by Laurent Montaron.
Location: film/video theater at Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 N. High St., Columbus, OH
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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March 5, 2009
Artists conversation: Mary Jo Bole, Laura Lisbon and Suzanne Silver
An informal talk in the gallery about work in the exhibition Of Other Spaces.
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD campus
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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February 25, 2009
Opening reception for Of Other Spaces and The New Normal.
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD campus
Time: 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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October 18, 2008
Dewey Decimal Days: Shush! It’s a Dance Party
Dance the night away as we celebrate the last hours of Dewey Decimal Days!
Location: Skylab, 57 E. Gay St., 5th floor 
Time: 9:00 p.m. - 3:00 a.m.
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October 17, 2008
Dewey Decimal Days: Zine Summit Workshop
It features readings, a trade, and a workshop throughout the open-house evening in which visitors are encouraged to bring material to make their own works. Papers, pens, staples, glue and a photocopier available to use for free!
Location: Sporeprint Infoshop, 172 E. 5th Ave.
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 11 p.m.
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October 17, 2008
Dewey Decimal Days: Book Arts Today II
The Ohio State University professor of art Suzanne Silver and director of Logan Elm Press Bob Tauber have a conference call with Brooklyn Museum chief librarian Deirdre Lawrence. They discuss experiences supporting, making, exhibiting and printing books arts. The recording and transcription of the call will be uploaded to the bureau's website!
Location: Recording available on bureau's site
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October 16, 2008
Dewey Decimal Days: Audio-Visual Materials
This evening includes a viewing of a short film by Tongsue Ly produced especially for Dewey Decimal Days. It is followed by screenings of Toute la Mémoire du Monde (1956) by Alain Resnais and the cult librarian classic Party Girl (1995) starring Parker Posey, selected collectively by librarians.

Following event, Tongsue's film will be available for viewing on the website of Bureau for Open Culture.
Location: Studio 35 Cinema, 3055 Indianola Ave.
Time: 6:00 p.m.
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October 15, 2008
Dewey Decimal Days: Book Arts Today I
A chat via SKYPE between The Ohio State University professor of art Mary Jo Bole and Joyce Guley of Knust Press at Extrapool in Nljmegen, Netherlands. They talk about Bole's experience working with the press. A video recording and transcription of the talk will be available on Bureau for Open Culture's website.
Location: Recording available on bureau's site
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October 14, 2008
Dewey Decimal Days: Recall Notices
This evening features conversations with librarians and library staff about the changing role of libraries in our society. If you work in a library (or not) and have a something to say or just want to come listen, join us for this informal gathering with ice cream!
Location: Grandview Heights Public Library, 1685 W. First Ave.
Time: 6:00 p.m.
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September 29, 2008
Making Ideas, Events and Exhibitions at the Bureau for Open Culture
James Voorhies, Director of Exhibitions, speaks about curatorial practice in relation to current, past and future projects organized by the Bureau for Open Culture. 
Location: Canzani Center Auditorium, CCAD campus
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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July 26, 2008
To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong?
Join us on the plot of land tonight for another evening of viewing a film outside under the stars!
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), 103 minutes
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Peter Sellers
Location: 926-8 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio Map
Time: 9 p.m.
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July 19, 2008
To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong?
Bring a Plant, Adopt a Plant
Missing something to love in your life? Everyone is invited to bring a plant that you'd like to see in our garden, and take one that you'd like in yours! Come learn more about the project, help work in the garden, or just hang out.
Location: 926-8 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio Map
Time: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
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July 12, 2008
To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong?
Join us on the plot of land tonight for a film outside under the stars!
Duck Soup (1933), 68 minutes Rained Out
Starring: the Marx Brothers
Location: 926-8 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio Map
Time: 9 p.m.
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June 28, 2008
To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong?
A day of tending to the garden. Come and get your hands dirty!
Location: 926-8 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio Map
Time: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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May 4, 2008
To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong? opening activities
What are you doing this Saturday? Join us for the beginning of this year-long project with a plot of land. Bring your gardening tools, seeds, strong backs and green thumbs to help move dirt, plant gardens, meet Tongsue and Matt and talk about—among other things—how to create a water collecting system and how to build a horseshoe pit! Food and refreshments will be provided.
Location: 926-8 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio Map
Time: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
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April 5, 2008
The Van Gallery
Organized by Mark VanFleet in conjunction with the VDC, The Van Gallery exhibits Free Art History fliers by Mark, Ryan Agnew, and Patrick Weber, as well as distributes a new issue of Red76’s Journal of Radical Shimming (Issue 4, Volume 1) published in conjunction with Franklin’s VDC Copy Center.
Location: Short North Arts District
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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April 5, 2008
Make Art Accessible: Cellular Theatre
Screening of video submissions shot only using cellular phone.
Curated by Anthony Castronovo
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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April 5, 2008
Umbrella Men
Danny and David Tuss of Umbrella Men perform outside in front of the VDC.
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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April 5, 2008
[OPEN EIGHT TRACK] Session II
This second installment of [OPEN EIGHT TRACK] transforms the VDC into an open recording forum and studio. Everyone is invited to come and record their voices, stories, sounds and, if compelled, bring a keyboard and guitar. Microphones and a digital 8 track are provided. Organized by Katy Castronovo and Danny Tuss
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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March 28, 2008
IMA Gallery opening reception
Artist Dina Sherman’s IMA Gallery presents work by Jamie Boyle. Artist Andy King makes fresh bread LIVE.
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 6:30 p.m.
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March 28, 2008
Tour de Dance!
Organized by Sporeprint Infoshop this dance party follows Columbus’ Critical Mass.
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 9:30 p.m.
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March 27, 2008
SKYPE meeting with Sam Gould of Red76 in Portland, Oregon
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 2:00 p.m.
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March 26, 2008
SKYPE meeting with C.CRED/Collective CREative Dissent, Malmö, Sweden
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 2:30 p.m.
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March 25, 2008
Discussion between James Voorhies and F.R.E.S.H. Air Gallery artists
Organized by Kim Glover
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 5:30 p.m.
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March 14, 2008
Film screening: The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005), 110 minutes
Director: Jeff Feuerzeig
Organized by Sarah Weinstock
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 9:30 p.m.
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March 13, 2008
SKYPE meeting with Sam Gould of Red76 in Portland, Oregon
Jason Wilson, recovering know-it-all and aspiring senior citizen, discusses religious experimentalism with Sam. Wilson is a founder of the experimental SkatePunk Art & Housing Space Martial Art; the group 0009; and the co--founder-along with Di-ann Eisnor--of the social mapping network Platial.
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 2:00 p.m.
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March 13, 2008
Artists: Karl Baumann and Pelham Johnston
Film/video installations: Newclear (2007) and The Children of Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner (2008)
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 3:30 p.m.
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March 12, 2008
Gallery conversation between James Voorhies and the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging, Columbus, Ohio
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD campus
Time: 9:30 a.m.
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March 12, 2008
Gallery conversation between James Voorhies and Resource Interactive, Columbus, Ohio
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD campus
Time: 2:00 p.m.
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March 12, 2008
SKYPE meeting with C.CRED/Collective CREative Dissent, Malmö, Sweden
Ola Stahl talks about his recent reworking of a small section of piano music by French composer Pierre Boulez. Following the presentation is a performance of the audio piece by Ola and Carl Lindh.
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 2:00 p.m.
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March 11, 2008
Gallery conversation with James Voorhies
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD campus
Time: 3:30 p.m.
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March 6, 2008
SKYPE meeting with Sam Gould of Red76 in Portland, Oregon
Ralph Youtz and Sam talk about the relationship between math, art, and music, Pythagoras' underground history, and the meaning of life.
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 2:00 p.m.
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March 5, 2008
SKYPE meeting with C.CRED/Collective CREative Dissent, Malmö, Sweden
Peder Olsson talks about his new book, which is not just non-linear, but multi-dimensional, allowing the reader to navigate through unique paths and to experience the work in many different ways.
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 2:30 p.m.
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March 1, 2008
Open Eight Track]
An open recording forum and studio in which everybody is invited to come record their voice, stories, songs, and sounds. Microphones and a digital 8 track are provided.
Organized by Katy Castronovo and Danny Tuss
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 6:00 p.m.
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February 28, 2008   
SKYPE meeting with Sam Gould of Red76 in Portland, Oregon
A discussion with J.P. Jenkins and Gabriel Mindel-Salomon on their interest in the book Art and Fear (2001) by David Bayles and Ted Orland and its relationship to artists and non-artists.
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 2:00 p.m.
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February 24, 2008
Intercontinental Medical Aid as Revolutionary Art
Emmanuel Monhammed, director of the Children’s Medical Missions located in Accra, Ghana, talks about his work securing free medical care for Ghanaian children with medical needs.
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 4:00 p.m.
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February 21, 2008
Gallery conservation with James Voorhies
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD campus
Time: 3:30 p.m.
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February 19, 2008
Film screening: Doing Time, Doing Vipassana (1997), 52 minutes
Directors: Eilona Ariel and Ayelet Menahemi
Organized by Mike Wolf
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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February 18, 2008
Artist conversation: Mike Wolf
In Domestic Struggle Part Two, Free Travel Talk Wolf discusses travels in the Midwest and life experience as artistic practice.
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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February 16, 2008
Artist conversation: Dan S. Wang
Wang presents his latest thoughts on the relationship between critical art practice and Beijing’s 1989 Socialist movement. 
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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February 14-15, 2008
Conversations and workshops with members of Irag Veterans Against the War
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 12:00 p.m.
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February 14, 2008
Artist conversation: Jonathan Calm
Location: Kinney Hall, CCAD campus
Time: 3:30 p.m.
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February 13, 2008
Selections
Artist, organizer, and Red76 collaborator Dan S. Wang has over the past five years been inviting people to play a set of recorded music for small audiences in various spaces. He invited people to share their music at the opening of Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76.
Location: Franklin’s VDC Copy Center by Red76, 1124 N. High St.
Time: 8:00 p.m.
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February 6, 2008
Artist conversation: Eric Araujo
Location: Loann Crane Center for Design, CCAD campus
Time: 3:30 p.m.
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February 1-14, 2008
Artist in residence: Eric Araujo
Araujo is in residence collaborating with CCAD sculpture class to make The House Project (2008) as part of the exhibition Taking Shelter.
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November 27, 2007
Artist conversation: Scott Massey
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD campus
Time: 3:30 p.m.
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September 12, 2007
Artist conversation: Amy Chan
Location: Canzani Center Gallery, CCAD campus
Time: 3:30 p.m.
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March 12, 2007
Artist conversation: Vitaly Komar
Location: Canzani Center Auditorium, CCAD campus
Time: 6:30 p.m.
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The Future is Now
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A Manual for the
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On Symptoms
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Seventh Dream of
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The New
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Calling Beauty
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Descent to
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Of Other Spaces
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Exact Imagination
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Taking Shelter
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NEWS

Bureau for Open Culture
October 4, 2011: Episode 318: James Voorhies. Interview with James Voorhies by Bad at Sports

I Am Searching for Field Character: All Hands on Deck!
September 2, 2011: North Adams Transcript. 'Art Pirates' Come to Port at MASS MoCA

I Am Searching for Field Character
August 25, 2011: SPACE. The Integration of Cultural Labor and Industrial Labor within a Consumption-based Society

I Am Searching for Field Character: >Beer Garden
July 17, 2011: North Adams Transcript. Down in Beer Alley

Bureau for Open Culture
June 30, 2011: Art Practical. Interview with James Voorhies by Bad at Sports

Bureau for Open Culture
June 24, 2011: WAMC. Northeast Public Radio interviews James Voorhies

I Am Searching for Field Character
May 26, 2011: North Adams Transcript. MoCA Offers Beer Garden and More

Bureau for Open Culture
April 13, 2011: Rhizome. Interview with James Voorhies by Lisa Dent

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
March 1, 2011: The Other Paper

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
February 6, 2011: Columbus Dispatch

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
January 27, 2011: Columbus Alive

Calling Beauty
December 26, 2010: Columbus Dispatch

Calling Beauty
March 14, 2010: Columbus Dispatch

Descent to Revolution
January 28, 2010: Columbus Alive

Descent to Revolution
January 11, 2010: Metropolis P/O/V

Descent to Revolution
November 24, 2009: Columbus Dispatch

Descent to Revolution
September 14, 2009: Rhizome

Descent to Revolution
September 10, 2009: Columbus Alive

Of Other Spaces, The New Normal
March 26, 2009: Columbus Alive

Bureau for Open Culture
Winter 2009: CCAD Image Magazine

Of Other Spaces, Dewey Decimal Days
December 2008: Columbus Monthly

Dewey Decimal Days
October 12, 2008: Columbus Dispatch

Dewey Decimal Days
October 10, 2008: Columbus Alive

Taking Shelter
February 24, 2008: Columbus Dispatch

Exact Imagination
February 24, 2008: Columbus Dispatch

Exact Imagination
February 21, 2008: Columbus Alive

Shoot the Family
October 18, 2007: Columbus Alive

Prophets of Deceit
March 22, 2007: The Other Paper

Prophets of Deceit
March 5, 2007: UWeekly

UPDATES

James Voorhies participates on the panel Off the Clock: Working with Flexible Labor, Social Networks and Everyday Life at Art in General in New York on October 11, 2011. The panel considers new models of institution practices and their viability as sustainable initiatives. Other participants include Summer Guthery, The Chrysler Series; Rose Marcus, The Dependent Art Fair; Jackson Moore, The Public School New York; and Lise Soskolne, W.A.G.E. It is moderated by Liam Gillick and presented by Silvershed.

James Voorhies presents the lecture THE FUTURE IS NOW (brief notes on the instrumentalization of art) at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia on September 21, 2011. The lecture is part of the Critical Dialogues series.

James Voorhies is invited to Mildred's Lane to speak with fellows in summer session of Retail 21c and The Mildred Complexity on July 6, 2011.

Bureau for Open Culture is invited to contribute a book to Printed Matter's "Artists & Activists" series. "A Manual for the Immaterial Worker" is released on July 18, 2011, accompanied by a two-day session of hand stamping a BOC insignia on 2000 copies. The stamping takes place at Printed Matter in New York.

Bureau for Open Culture is a Featured Presenter at Open Engagement in May 2011. Participation include presentation of the work On Symptoms of Cultural Industry. Open Engagement's publication has an interview with James Voorhies, available as a PDF. 

An Ecological Prothesis for the Hoosic River
April 6-11, 2011: A research study module with Sarah Cowles and 12 students from Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University. Their visit to North Adams kicks off work on Cowles's project Elegantly Wasted: A Fashion-forward Ecosystem for the Hoosic River as part of I Am Searching for Field Character

I Am Searching for Field Character
February 2011: Exhibition series awarded funding from Massachusetts Cultural Council to support participation of artists.

Parallel Ruderals
December 17, 2010: Bureau for Open Culture submits proposal for a year-long course and platform for Curating program at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Opens January 27, 2011: Press release.

On Symptons of Cultural Industry
December 2010: Bureau for Open Culture is guest contributor to the online journal 127 Prince.

I Am Searching for Field Character
December 2010: Exhibition series awarded grant from Culture Ireland to suppport participation of Dublin-base artist Sarah Pierce.

Descent to Revolution
October 2009: Exhibition awarded funding from The Danish Arts Council to support participation of artist collective Learning Site.

Descent to Revolution
June 2009: Exhibition awarded a Project Grant from étant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art to support participation of artist collective Claire Fontaine.

Of Other Spaces
June 2008: James Voorhies, Director of Exhibitions, awarded Curatorial Research Grant from étant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art as partial support for travel research for this exhibition.

ARTISTS
5.5 Designers
Eric Araujo
Craig Baldwin
Amy Balkin
BANK
Jeff Barnett-Winsby
Jeremy Beaudry
Simon Bedwell
Guy Ben-Nur
John Also Bennett
Eve Biddle
Mary Jo Bole
Brett Bloom
Thorsten Brinkmann
Joachim Brohm
Michael Brown
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Alain Bublex
Robert Buck
Gerard Byrne
Jonathan Calm
Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill
Julio Castro, Gabriel Cézares and Rolando Flores
Jen Catron
Amy Chan
Chto delat/What is to be done?
Malcolm Cochran
Sarah Cowles
Gregory Crewdson
Susan Cross
Bill Daniel
Moyra Davey
Lisa Dent
Peter Dayton
Tacita Dean
Department of Reading
Design Management AS
Rod Dickinson
Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen
feral trade
Claire Fontaine
Andrea Fraser
Paul Gangloff
Rebecca Gates
Dylan Gauthier
Gaylen Gerber
Elizabeth Gerdeman

Sam Gould
Dan Graham
Ryan Griffis
Sönke Hallmann
Ellen Harvey
Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser (PHAUSS)
HCRH
Anthony Hernandez
Robin Hewlett
Matthew Higgs
Candida Höfer
David Ireland
Christian Jankowski
Martin Keil and Henrik Mayer
Patrick Killoran
Ben Kinsley
Joachim Koester
Lara Kohl
Komar & Melamid
Jeremy Kost
Steve Lambert
Nicole Langille
Louise Lawler
Learning Site
Guillaume Leblon
Mark Leckey
Matts Leiderstam
Laura Lisbon
Nicola López
Mary Lum
Tongsue Ly and Matthew Flegle
Rikke Luther
Scott Massey
Gordon Matta-Clark
McCallum & Tarry
Ryan McGinley
Dennis McNulty
John Menick
Michael Mercil
Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf
Miss Rockaway Armada
Anna Molska
Laurent Montaron
Melvin Moti
Paul Outlaw
Joseph del Pesco
Printed Matter
J. Morgan Puett

N55
Timothy Nazzaro
Maryléne Negro
TJ Norris and Scott Wayne Indiana
Johannes Nyholm
David Ording
Ester Partegàs
Anthony Peluso
Raymond Pettibon
Red76
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
Tim Rietenbach
Kate Rich
Pipilotti Rist
Jon Rubin
Gabriel Saloman
Sarah Schönfeld
Maya Schweizer
Temporary Services
Suzanne Silver
Matthew Stadler
Ola Stahl
STEALTH.unlimited
Kendra Sullivan
Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace
Eve Sussman/The Rufus Corporation
Temporary Travel Office
Tercerunquinto
The Think Tank that has yet to be named
Mungo Thomson
Zefrey Throwell
Christian Tomaszewski
Breanne Trammell
Cassandra Troyan
Magda Tyzlik-Carver
Jeffrey Vallance
Alejandro Vidal
VITALforms
Dan S. Wang
The Wassaic Project
Darren Waterston
Clemens von Wedemeyer
Sarah Weinstock
Dawn Weleski
Cecilia Wendt
Wilco
Jane and Louise Wilson
Bowie Zunino

INSTITUTIONS
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Portland State University, Portland, OR

ECONOMY
Culture Ireland
Bennington College
Danish Arts Council
étant donnés
Greater Columbus Arts Council
Massachusetts Cultural Council
MASS MoCA
Ohio Arts Council
The Puffin Foundation

Set within a reclaimed industrial building on the grounds of MASS MoCA, Bureau for Open Culture presents I Am Searching for Field Character, a series of public conversations, performances, installations, workshops and a beer garden with a slew of artists, writers, designers and thinkers visiting North Adams, Massachusetts, over the course of the summer.

Organized in association with the MASS MoCA exhibition The Workers, I Am Searching for Field Character explores the economic and social character of the cultural laborer--from artists and writers to beekeepers and distillers--who collectively contribute to the lifestyle of a region. It examines this workforce within the context of a post-industrial city that has transformed economically from a site of major manufacturing industry to a locus for culture and experience. And that examination conflates and purposely obscures notions of labor and touristic service industries,  all transpiring inside architecture built originally for the production of goods and materials. Part exhibition, part performance, part studio, part unexpected--I Am Searching for Field Character locates and shapes a portrait of the cultural worker today with an emphasis on their precarious economic existence.

The title I Am Searching for Field Character is taken from a 1973 essay by the German artist Joseph Beuys. In the essay he expresses a desire to expand the limits of art, turn theory into action and encourage widespread participation in the knowledge-producing sphere. He calls for the reconsideration of what art is and a leveling of its hierarchies, ultimately deploying it to generate discourse about present moments and imagined futures.

EXHIBITION MODULES

>Beer Garden is a site for community, conversation and beer, all served along the banks of the Hoosic River.

>Work Site invites area freelancers and telecommuters to work periodically here.

What is already and what will become... is an installation by Sarah Pierce/The Metropolitan Complex that transforms the space of Bureau for Open Culture.

All Hands on Deck! is a daylong, collaborative exercise in building a functional watercraft out of salvaged and foraged materials.

Night Market sells goods by local and visiting culture makers in this alternative distribution outlet.

Bartleby's Pen builds upon the history of the tavern as a site for lively discussion.

>On Symptoms of Cultural Industry is an immersive installation about the economic and social life in North Adams.

Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics is an independently published, 40-page newspaper and conversation series.

Dawn School is a participatory field trip that explores changing patterns of labor in manufacturing operations around North Adams, including a tour of Specialty Minerals, Inc. in Adams.

Elegantly Wasted proposes renewed engagement between the city of North Adams and the Hoosic River.

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CURATOR James Voorhies

PARTICIPANTS Julia Bryan-Wilson, Sarah Cowles, Rebecca Gates, Dylan Gauthier, Steve Lambert, Timothy Nazzaro, Nate Padavick, Sarah Pierce, Red76, Rachel Sherk, Kendra Sullivan, Mattew Stadler, Temporary Services, Cassandra Troyan

INSTITUTION MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

DATES May 26—Sep 30, 2011

ECONOMY MASS MoCA, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Culture Ireland

PUBLICATION accompanies exhibition

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Cities around the world function today in the shadow of industrial infrastructure that originally contributed to their very economic existence. The landscapes of former manufacturing regions reveal the material and social residue of neoliberal trade policies and globalization. The conditions are, in part, the result of transitions from manufacturing goods to manufacturing culture and knowledge. While circumstances have evolved slowly and differently in cities over the course of the past five decades, they have accelerated with particular intensity in recent years.

On Symptoms of Cultural Industry considers these circumstances to investigate the role of artistic and cultural production in relation to the economic, social and physical strata of North Adams, Massachusetts. The exhibition is comprehensively performance, video, installation and photography produced by Bureau for Open Culture. The content of the work is procured from original research and interviews with individuals who worked in the Sprague Electric Company, now the site of MASS MoCA. This knowledge is juxtaposed with a consideration of the kind of production and labor associated with experience economies upon which North Adams and countless other cities rely.

James Voorhies with Timothy Nazzaro, Nate Padavick, Rachel Sherk, Cassandra Troyan

PERFORMANCE
Sunday, July 17, at 7 p.m.
There Is Only Light (We Do Not Know What To Do With Other Worlds) by Cassandra Troyan combines documentation of labor histories, interviews with former employees of Sprague Electric and lived experience.

INSTITUTION MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
DATES July 17—31, 2011

INSTITUTION Portland State University, Open Engagement, Portland, OR
DATES May 11-15, 2011

ECONOMY MASS MoCA, Portland State University

VIEW ARCHIVAL photographs of North Adams, part of the artist Andrew Davis's The North Adams Downtown Makeover

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What ever happened to postmodernism? We never really got a handle on it. It hung around from the early 1960s until the late 1990s in an elusive, nebulous, shape-shifting form. It teased and taunted us, appearing occasionally to take a position that would help us comprehend the architecture, art, music, television, video or film of any given moment during those years. Its combination of intellectual cachet, intrigue and down-and-dirty dealings with popular culture made it a catchall phrase for everything. Postmodernism, however, had none of the tidy habits of its eminent forebear Modernism. No slotting of ideas and disciplines into easy categories. This precarious condition contributed to its uncertain and unceremonious dissolution, which feels fitting for a thing so abstract, so difficult to know yet so pervasive.

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven arises from postmodernism fallout. It explores our relationship with time embodied in continual cultural transformations, whether always “making it new,” recycling the past or awash in social media and online content. These inquires are made in relation to discourses on Modernism, postmodernism and our current moment of super-hybridity, where infinite sources aggregate into one super gigantic whole. In this rapid circulation of images and ideas, where everything is always accessible, our relationship to material culture, real-time experiences and the built, spatial environment has certainly changed. But into what?

Taking its title from the 1984 album of the same name by the British pop band Love and Rockets, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven seeks to generate ideas about contemporary life in the wake of postmodernism and, of course, the remaining detritus of modernist dreams. What happens when something so prevalent gives way not necessarily to another movement but to a technology that flattens and relativizes all levels of culture? Ahhh, the Internet.

Do we remember what it means to yearn for something?

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press release: Columbus College of Art & Design

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CURATOR James Voorhies

ARTISTS Guy Ben-Ner, Joachim Brohm, Gerard Byrne, Malcolm Cochran, Peter Dayton, Ben Kinsley, Lara Kohl, Jeremy Kost, Mark Leckey, Mary Lum, Dennis McNulty, Timothy Nazzaro, Johannes Nyholm, Pipilotti Rist, Cassandra Troyan, Jeffrey Vallance, Alejandro Vidal

INSTITUTION Bennington College
DATES Apr 5—29, 2011

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design
DATES Jan 27—Mar 12, 2011

PRODUCERS Diana Matuszak, Nate Padavick

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Bennington College, Ohio Arts Council, The State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX) in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture

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The New Administration of a Fine Arts Education is a conversation series with leading individuals in contemporary art, culture and education who engage in multiple and overlapping artistic and pedagogic practices. Their exhibitions, actions, writing and artworks are at times seamless integrations of cultural production, lifestyle, studio and teaching. Some of them operate from inside or in coordination with art education institutions, challenging tradition from within. Others combine education and creative economic strategies to sustain practices in the realm of contemporary art and beyond and to realize new institutions. In all cases they are dismantling, intentionally or not, rigid definitions of what it means to be an artist, curator and educator today.
 
The series and accompanying publication intend to consider prescient questions related to contemporary cultural production and models of education. What exactly is a cultural producer? How has the portrait of the solitary artist working in the studio been reshaped as the artist simultaneously making objects, writing, curating and teaching? What are the challenges posed by these interchangeable and expanding identities and platforms? The participants in The New Administration of a Fine Arts Education represent diverse but complementary points of view for considering these questions and others. 

Publication available March 2011

JON RUBIN
Thursday, October 14, 7 p.m. view the talk

MATTHEW HIGGS
Wednesday, November 17, 7 p.m. view the talk

J. MORGAN PUETT
Monday, January 31, 7 p.m. view the talk

MICHAEL MERCIL
Wednesday, February 2, 7 p.m. view the talk

Conversations occur at CCAD Design Studios on Broad (first floor), 390 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH 

Free and open to the public

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CURATOR James Voorhies with Lisa Dent

ARTISTS Matthew Higgs, Michael Mercil, J. Morgan Puett, Jon Rubin

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design

PRODUCERS Diana Matuszak, Nate Padavick

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council

DATES Oct 14, 2010—Feb 2, 2011

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In her essay "An Argument About Beauty" Susan Sontag traces the evolving definition of beauty from concepts of rarity and exclusivity to less discriminatory notions of it. While beauty is historically aligned with high culture, class and refinement elicited by old master and modernist art, for instance, Sontag delves into alternative notions of what is beautiful, pondering beauty in that not always considered as such. While Calling Beauty does not serve to illustrate Sontag's essay, her words serve as valuable points of entry for considering what has been traditionally viewed as beautiful, how that view has influenced contemporary art, and how it has shaped, paradoxically, an aesthetics of the everyday.

Calling Beauty is organized around four pillars of reflection: still life, landscape, nude and portraiture. It includes work that draws peripherally and specifically on traditional subjects typically deemed beautiful within the realm of art. But, the works bring to the surface a retreat from that tradition to a contemporary reconsideration of it, thus a renewed engagement with historic artistic conventions.

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CURATOR James Voorhies

ARTISTS Thorsten Brinkmann, Moyra Davey, Elizabeth Gerdeman, Ellen Harvey, Matts Leiderstam, Ryan McGinley, Anna Molska, Susan Sontag, Eve Sussman/The Rufus Corporation, Darren Waterston

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design

PRODUCERS Diana Matuszak, Nicholas Hoffman, Greg Browe, Ian Horn, Brian Sharrock, Cassandra Troyan, Justin Luna, Palmer Pattison, Nate Padavick, John Ewing

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, CD101

DATES Feb 17—Apr 10, 2010

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Descent to Revolution features five international artist collectives and collaboratives that use urban spaces and social spheres as means of production and inspiration. During the course of the exhibition, participating artists visit Columbus in a series of residencies to make projects specific to the city. The work does not take place inside the space of the gallery but in concert with community and physical mediums outside of it.

Drawing on a range of ideas about urbanism, community, play, collectivity, education and revolution by figures like Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, Thomas Jefferson, Jean-François Lyotard and others, Descent to Revolution investigates how incremental shifts in cultural behavior are generated by continual production of knowledge, action and conversation. Revolution then is a slow, ever-evolving process responsive to a changing contemporary society. Within this investigation is a look at the role of the institution of art in realizing projects by practitioners whose production relies on contexts outside of the gallery.

So, while part of the gallery is the information outlet for Descent to Revolution, the remainder of it is vacant. This is a rather conspicuous act against prime exhibition real estate. Visitors are invited to wander around the empty site as they like with these thoughts in mind. But, most importantly, they are invited to read there and here online about what is happening over the course of the exhibition and wander outside to experience and contribute to works organized in response to the city of Columbus.

descenttorevolution.net documents the exhibition.

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CURATOR James Voorhies

ARTISTS Claire Fontaine, Learning Site, Red76, REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT, Tercerunquinto

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design

PRODUCERS Diana Matuszak, Nicholas Hoffman, Cassandra Troyan, Palmer Pattison, Nate Padavick, John Ewing

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, The Puffin Foundation, étant donnés, Danish Arts Council, CD101

DATES Sep 10—Nov 24, 2009

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Agency for Small Claims is a year long exhibition space. It opens conversations about art-making practices that are research-based. It supports art-making practices that ask what is public and private space. It documents art-making practices that are temporary exchanges between people and communities.

Agency for Small Claims encourages openness and generosity in art.

Agency for Small Claims is a bulletin board.

Agency for Small Claims collaborates from a distance with art-makers around the world. It acts as agent on behalf of knowledge transmission. It makes claims on behalf of art.

CURATOR James Voorhies

ARTISTS Temporary Services, feral trade, Temporary Travel Office, the Think Tank that has yet to be named, Department of Reading, Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley, STEALTH.unlimited, Dawn Weleski, Amy Balkin, Chto delat/What is to be done?, REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design

PRODUCERS Diana Matuszak, Nate Padavick

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design

DATES Jan 20—Dec 18, 2009

Of Other Spaces is about how space affects human behavior and experience. The exhibition asks us to consider the ways in which spaces are charged with authority, and both serve and suppress our actions and ways of relating. The concept of "other spaces" is inspired by the philosophy of Michel Foucault, especially his thoughts on social relations and cultural practices expressed in the intersection of space, architecture, and history. In a rarely cited 1967 text by Foucault, entitled Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias, he introduces what he calls heterotopias--different or other spaces.

Hospitals, prisons, schools, libraries, museums, fairgrounds, cinemas, beaches, cemeteries, gardens, hotel suites, train stations, and even mirrors have the potential to be other spaces. Other spaces are essentially virtual. They function in accordance with personal memories, associations, experiences, and imaginings that one has of these very real sites. By making common practices strange, Foucault's writing often initiates conversations about habitual actions, in this case, in relation to space. The collection of works of art on exhibit here and the reprinting of Foucault's text on "heterotopias" in the exhibition catalogue form the visual and philosophical catalyst for thinking about the function and meaning of space in everyday life.

This exhibition includes a screening of She Might Belong to You (2007) by Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Metropolis, Report from China (2006) by Maya Schweizer and Clemens von Wedemeyer, and Will there be a sea battle tomorrow? (2008) by Laurent Montaron at the film/video theater at Wexner Center for the Arts.

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CURATOR James Voorhies

ARTISTS Mary Jo Bole, Michael Brown, Alain Bublex, Robert Buck, Gregory Crewdson, Dan Graham, Candida Höfer, Guillaume Leblon, Laura Lisbon, Gordon Matta-Clark, Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Laurent Montaron, Maryléne Negro, TJ Norris and Scott Wayne Indiana, Sarah Schönfeld, Maya Schweizer, Suzanne Silver, Christian Tomaszewski, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Jane and Louise Wilson

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design

PRODUCERS Diana Matuszak, Nicholas Hoffman, Andrew Graham, Palmer Pattison, Nate Padavick, Cory Piehowicz, John Ewing

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, étant donnés, CD101

DATES Feb 25—Apr 25, 2009

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To Whom Do You Beautifully Belong? is a year-long exhibition of the transformation of an underutilized parcel of land located in a concentrated urban environment in Columbus, Ohio. Leased for $1 from the city by the artists, the project operates under the guiding principle of experimentation with open access to urban space for strengthening community, gardening organically, learning about plants, collaborating with neighbors, and discussing the volatile intersection of cities and ecology.

Influenced by the rich histories of community-based art, land art, process art, and public art, the initiative addresses issues of sovereignty and the social sphere—to whom does this land belong, who can use it, who is responsible for it and why is it available for $1?

The land is located at 926 E. Gay St., less than one mile from CCAD's campus.

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CURATOR James Voorhies

ARTISTS Tongsue Ly and Matthew Flegle

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design

PRODUCERS Katy Castronovo, Anthony Castronovo, Julie Taggert, Danny Tuss, Nate Padavick, Carolyn Emmons

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design

DATES May 1, 2008—Apr 30, 2009

Dewey Decimal Days is a series of free events, including informal talks, a SKYPE chat, gatherings, screenings, video-recorded testimonials, a conference call, and a dance party. It is organized in celebration of libraries, reading, and a love of all-things related to books. As a precursor to the exhibition Of Other Spaces, this project explores the changing role of libraries in our society. The activities bring together visual artists, writers, bibliophiles, and librarians in a social forum that considers the effect libraries have on our daily lives and poses questions about current and future states of these public and private spaces.

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CURATOR James Voorhies

PLATFORMS Reference Collection, Recall Notices, Book Arts Today I, Audio-Visual Materials, Book Arts Today II, Zine Summit Workshop, Shush! It's a Dance Party, Why I Love Libraries

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design

PRODUCERS Diana Matuszak, Dina Sherman, Danny Tuss, Palmer Pattison, Tony Peluso, Nate Padavick

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Grandview Heights Public Library

DATES Oct 14—18, 2008

Exact Imagination is about the experience of art, however one may have it, via gallery exhibitions, social engagements, books, reproductions, academics, or simply by being alive. Taking its inspiration and title from the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor Adorno and his analysis of aesthetic experience in which he argues that subjective and objective forces collide to determine a viewer’s perceptual reception of art-—how it makes them feel, what they take away from it, what they draw up inside of them to relate to it—-this exhibition includes art that encourages both concrete and immaterial aesthetic explorations.

With these ideas in mind, Exact Imagination investigates the authority of the institution and its effect on the viewer. It provides conditions for experiencing the way institutional devices leverage reactions to art in divergent forms of encounters, either by inspiring an internal aesthetic response to art objects (as does any exhibition or work of art) or by requiring from viewers literal participation in social exchanges.

The artists in this exhibition examine with criticism and humor the institutionalization of art, exhibition-making, academic production, artistic resistance, and a wide range of other influences that affect how people get access to, read about, study, view, reflect upon, and bring forth an imaginative response to art.

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CURATOR James Voorhies

ARTISTS BANK, Andrea Fraser, Gaylen Gerber, David Ireland, Christian Jankowski, Louise Lawler, N55, David Ording, Red76

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design

PRODUCERS Katy Castronovo, Danny Tuss, Anthony Castronovo, Steve Lombardi, Palmer Pattison, Nate Padavick, John Ewing

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, CD101, Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel

DATES Feb 13—Apr 5, 2008

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A place to call one's own—it is the most basic of human needs. This exhibition examines the natural desire for shelter through a selection of artworks and social interventions. They encourage consideration of a range of subjects, including how public space becomes private, the absence of proper housing, the identity formed by where one lives, and the feeling of safety embodied in simple walls and a roof. These works demonstrate how community, government, economics, and politics are interwoven with and sometimes inextricably linked to the dreams and expectations of having a personal place where one can take shelter.

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CURATOR James Voorhies

ARTISTS Eric Araujo, Jonathan Calm, Anthony Hernandez, Patrick Killoran, McCallum & Tarry, Jackie Sumell and Herman Wallace

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design

PRODUCERS Katy Castronovo, Danny Tuss, Anthony Castronovo, Steve Lombardi, Palmer Pattison, Nate Padavick, John Ewing

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, CD101, Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel

DATES Feb 13—Apr 5, 2008

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There is currently an extraordinary surge of interest in the state of the environment as we become increasingly aware of the cultural and ecological consequences caused by acts of over-consumption. A number of green organizations, labels, and certifications have contributed to more environmentally conscious ways of living and pushed these issues to a public forefront. But egregious waste, over-indulgence and mass consumerism continue to define contemporary society. Environmental activism is expressed in the things we buy and how we live, demonstrating our support for a better world through collective consumption of organically certified and socially accepted green products, actions and services. Alas, it is still consumption.

So how do we live an effective, environmentally sound life? In Consumption Junction participants seek to make us think more about these issues and other topics related to the general impact humans make on the earth. Through insightful cultural criticisms and whimsical, imaginative alternatives set somewhere between reality and fiction, the artists, writers, designers, thinkers, filmmakers and performers in the exhibition share a sensitivity to this worldwide environmental movement and ecological crisis. We are encouraged to contemplate these issues a little more deeply at a juncture where excessive consumption and the environment meet.

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CURATOR James Voorhies

ARTISTS Amy Chan, Guy Debord, Design Management AS, Dan Graham, Komar & Melamid, Learning Group, Nicola López, Scott Massey, Miss Rockaway Armada, Ester Partegás, Tim Rietenbach, 5.5 Designers

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design

PRODUCERS Katy Castronovo, Danny Tuss, Steve Lombardi, Palmer Pattison, Nate Padavick, Elizabeth Tupp

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, CD101, GreenColumbus

DATES Sep 13—Dec 8, 2007

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Prophets of Deceit examines messianic and apocalyptic cults, predictions, and prophecies as systems of restraining social behavior and how those systems ultimately influence the outcome of history. The exhibition considers the degree in which prophetic guidelines—-set either by powerful individuals, extreme religions or unexpected events—-play in shaping modern economic, cultural, political, and social frameworks.

The exhibition explores the theory that anticipated knowledge, fear, and irrational systems of thought about what the future may hold can indeed produce self-fulfilling prophecies. With that in mind, the participants and works of art draw inspiration from artistic and historical precedents to search for and provide insight into the world in which we currently live. Sharply questioned is the power of belief, religion, and politics within a media-saturated society.

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CURATOR Magali Arriola

ARTISTS Craig Baldwin, Tacita Dean, Rod Dickinson, HCRH, Christian Jankowski, Joachim Koester, Komar & Melamid, John Menick, Melvin Moti, Raymond Pettibon, Mungo Thomson, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser (PHAUSS)

INSTITUTION Columbus College of Art & Design, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco

PRODUCERS Katy Castronovo, Danny Tuss, Diana Matuszak, Steve Lombardi, Palmer Pattison, Nate Padavick

ECONOMY Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, CD101

DATES Feb 28—Apr 18, 2007

PUBLICATION accompanies exhibition