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This project is in part an exhibition on Vidéogazette and in part a look at paralell contemporary practices that employ technology and seek experimental, non-hierarchical approaches to creative and cultural production.  The Philly Public School has been invited to launch a series of class proposals with accompanied posters (with the inclusion of other Public Schools) which will eventually culminate into a class or series of classes.  A group will gather virtually on IRC during  Tuesday evenings this month to generate material The Whole World is Watching.  Deadline for this would be the first week in May.  See scheduled dates and comments for detail on how to get involved.

Musicians and all kinds of other artists have means and need to practice their work through daily exercises. But what does the actor have outside of rehearsals for a particular project? "Viewpoints" is the name of an improvisation technique/language for performers which was pioneered by the choreographer Mary Overlie and later extensively developed by the theatre director, Anne Bogart and her company, SITI. I would like to take a class that both uses and critically questions the literature and experiences of Viewpoints to explore it as a kind of "daily practice" -- at the level of a weekly class. I would like to explore/question it's basic assumptions and procedures, through testing it's simple exercises -- many of them movement based, but not limited to the actor's physical work -- gradually, diligently, patiently becoming more and more advanced, without, initially at least, any pressure of a goal to result in performance for an audience.

Un séminaire proposé par Bétonsalon et Kadist Art Foundation à Kadist Art Foundation

Let's get together and make some mail art. Mail art is self-made postcards, envelopes, packages, mail (no shoes), perishables, whatever. You could make a box full of leaves from your city, a collage matchbox, your holiday wrapping paper made into an envelope, anything else you can think of will work as long as it follows the postal rules of your country. 

Each person who makes a work will also receive a work at their public school. Address the work to the city's public school address with an Attn: *public school name of member who has "interested" this class.*

We won't know who we're sending this to, but we want to connect all of the public schools in a creative monologue. Let's have a day where each school gets together, brings all the craft supplies they can muster, and sends their work to members that have "interested" this class in any other public school. Let's test our postal services.