January 2012
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Closing 2011 / Opening AFH 2012 →
Please note: The AFH blog is migrating to the new Tumblr, AFH2012. AFH2011 will be maintained only as an archive, now.
December 2011
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Low Lives: Occupy →
[NOTE: This is a supporting text for Low Lives: Occupy, which will be presented by the Hemispheric Institute in early March.]
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Low Lives: Occupy [Draft 1]
By Paul McLean 1 In his rather grim assessment of the domain of small screen video in the introduction to Video Vortex II: Moving Images Beyond YouTube, Geert Lovink writes, “The Attention War is real.” Nothing has authenticated Lovink’s claim more profoundly than Occupy Wall Street. Earlier in the short but seminal text, Lovink doggedly propositions us with a sequence of questions about the...
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What Would Jesus Occupy?
By Paul McLean 1 O little star of Bethlehem, PA Haysoos is shuffling through the empty schoolhouse with an ole mop & his yeller bucket of wishez [no dream of Amer’ca in the dingy DOW water sloshing with every broke step by stoop-backed brown man in his bleached cheap plastic sneakers haunted by echoes of USh Chambersh of Commersh who painted these glistening cinder block walls the...
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CO-OP|occuburbs
Among the most widespread and enduring forms of progressive organization in the suburbs are environmental groups, food co-ops, and politically oriented arts groups and small galleries. These work with the domestic ethos of home and garden rather than against it, and they do a lot of good. They support open space preservation and local farms, particularly organic farms, and establish...
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Wall Street to Main Street
OCCUPY WITH ART
IN COLLABORATION WITH NEW MASTERS ON MAIN STREET
Presents WALL STREET TO MAIN STREET [INTRODUCTION] Wall Street to Main Street is a collaborative art project linking Occupy Wall Street and the rest of America, via the classic small town of Catskill, NY. Just as the Occupy Wall Street Movement has sought to focus attention on the wide needs of the 99 percent, Wall Street...
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Wall Street to Main Street [An Essay]
By Paul McLean Mic Check! Mic Check! Mic Check! Look around You are a part of a Global Uprising We are a Cry from the Heart of the World We are Unstoppable Another World is Possible Happy Birthday #occupy movement 1 Occupy Wall Street for a short time created direct consequences for those who bear the primary responsibility for our current malaise. We knocked at the door. It was about being...
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Closing Party for Social Photography II
image: Aura Rosenberg, Decemberists, 2011
The closing party for Social Photography II, A Benefit Exhibition of Cell Phone Photographs is tonight from 6 to 9 pm.
Any prints bought at the closing party will be ready for pick-up on Thursday, December 22 from 1-6 pm.
Social Photography II
A Benefit Exhibition of Cell Phone Photographs
December 6-20, 2011
Opening: Tuesday, December 6 |...
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Social Photography II Opening Tonight
image: Scott Williams, On New Jersey, 2011 Social Photography II, A Benefit Exhibition of Cell Phone Photographs opens tonight from 6 to 9 pm.
Social Photography II
A Benefit Exhibition of Cell Phone Photographs
December 6-20, 2011
Opening: Tuesday, December 6 | 6-9 p.m.
Closing: Tuesday, December 20 | 6-9 p.m.
Peggy Ahwesh
Vicen Akina
Barbara Andrus
Elaine Angelopoulos
Mia Antezzo
Polly...
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TRUE TIME: The Story of Machines [BETA]
TRUE TIME By Paul McLean 1 But prior to all calculation of time and independent of such calculation, what is germane to the time-space of true time consists in the mutual reaching out and opening up of future, past and present. Accordingly, what we call dimension and dimensionality in a way easily misconstrued, belongs to true time and to it alone. Dimensionality consists in a reaching out that...
November 2011
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Concentric Circles [Final, pre-pub/BETA/Draft]
Concentric Circles: A Conjecture about the Dimensional Nature of the Fast-Spreading Global Occupation, in Text and Images By Paul McLean ∞ “BLOOMBERG, BEWARE. ZUCCOTTI PARK IS EVERYWHERE.” – November 17 #OWS chant “We are the 99%, Look around, you are a part of a global uprising…We are unstoppable, another world is possible…We are a cry from the heart of the world…It is the...
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Concentric Circles [v.4/BETA/Draft]
Concentric Circles: A Conjecture about the Dimensional Nature of the Fast-Spreading Global Occupation, in Text and Images By Paul McLean ∞ “BLOOMBERG, BEWARE. ZUCCOTTI PARK IS EVERYWHERE.” – November 17 #OWS chant “We are the 99%, Look around, you are a part of a global uprising…We are unstoppable, another world is possible…We are a cry from the heart of the world…It is the...
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Concentric Circles [v.3/BETA/Draft]
Concentric Circles: A Conjecture about the Dimensional Nature of the Fast-Spreading Global Occupation, in Text and Images V3. Draft/BETA By Paul McLean ∞ Interdiction is always a rule of the State; impossibility is a regulation of the real.” – Alain Badiou, “Highly Speculative Realism on the Concept of Democracy” We’re living in a Post-9.17 World. Two months + 1 day after the #OccupyWallStreet...
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Concentric Circles [v.2/BETA/Draft]
Concentric Circles: A Conjecture about the Dimensional Nature of the Fast-Spreading Global Occupation, in Text and Images
By Paul McLean
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Interdiction is always a rule of the State; impossibility is a regulation of the real.” – Alain Badiou, “Highly Speculative Realism on the Concept of Democracy”
We’re living in a Post-9.17 World.
Two months + 1 after the #OccupyWallStreet movement (and it is...
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BLOOMBERG'S POGROM/KELLEY'S CLEARANCE
4 By Paul McLean It is quite possible that the hidden springs which put in motion this criminal attack will some day be disclosed, when the whole affair will be as plain as is the machinery of a clock that has been taken to pieces. But possibly there will even then remain circumstances difficult to explain in the light of certain known and attested facts. One of the problems that constantly...
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Concentric Circles [BETA/Draft]
Concentric Circles: A Conjecture about the Dimensional Nature of the Fast-Spreading Global Occupation, in Text and Images By Paul McLean 1 Maybe, now is a good time, if time is the only object, and everything else is the subject, to reconsider the painting of Kenneth Noland. Noland died last year (2010) in January, and looking again at his art is in itself a demonstration of one of the core values...
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Today in Brooklyn Rail: A Poem for a Sunday... →
October 2011
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A Fire for Liberty Plaza
October 30 A few weeks ago the New York Times ran an article “A Glimpse of a Mayor’s Baronial Side, at Home” (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/nyregion/a-glimpse-at-bloombergs-lavish-tastes-at-home.html?pagewanted=all). I mention this for comparative purposes. At a little after 3AM, with snow on the ground, a chill wind blowing, I stood smoking on the sidewalk outside my Brooklyn...
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POETRY READING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16
THE BROOKLYN RAIL PRESENTS RANTRHAPSODY REDUX MISSIVES FROM THE AMERICAN FALL! SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16TH, BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 3:00PM PROCEEDS GO TO #OCCUPYWALLST At the instigation of well-wishers and n’er do well writer-types we have decided to shake out the moth balls, dust off the deck furniture, break out the good stuff, etc etc etc…. you know what we mean. We’re coming out...
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A Poem for Sunday
1 It’s time. Dimensional time. It’s time to remember the original occupants of Wall Street, before there was Wall Street, people - we can see now they *are* people - whose language existed without Command, as Agamben is thinking, and then the machine, the one emptying Cerro Rico of its body, stealing the fat, of that holy mountain, piling the guts next to it, and the poison trickling...
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Notes on Dimensional Demos
By Paul McLean To comprehend the strength of representative democracy, we can examine its dimensional aspects and features. This brief note addresses the qualities of democracy for the purposes of formulating a new adaptation of it for art, inspired by Occupy Wall Street, and encouraging the creation of some new form emerging from the protests and other phenomena related to them. 1. Labor It is...
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September 2011
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UPDATE: Mogul Mayor Finally Comes Out - Against... →
Bloomberg Criticizes Occupy Wall Street Protest, Suggests Their Days May Be Numbered
By Michael Howard Saul, Wall Street Journal
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the specter of shutting down a two-week long demonstration on Wall Street, telling protesters who are speaking out against greed and corruption that the banks deserve support.
Asked directly on his weekly radio show...
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AFHstudioBK Notes, September 30, 2011
Current Studio Work In the studio, I have several ongoing dimensional art series in process. The small paintings in the “Shelves” sequence use wood donated by Liv Mette Larsen from her home/studio in Bushwick, chopped into rough-cut 11” x 14” pieces. The first in the sequence was completed yesterday. I began with washes of strong-pigment, and through layering and...
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On Bloomberg and OWS
Regarding the first arrow-point in the last post (“Some thoughts on dimensional apps of art in social activism”) - “celebrity as art, defining artists and art in the top-tier ‘art market’” - you may have assumed I was referring to David Byrne, and his show “Tight Spot” at Pace. Not altogether. I was also referencing NYC Mayor/Mogul/Social Media...