Meeting Agenda 3/3/07

Hometown

Short meditation on the hometown. Image provided by myself, Cat Park. Click on the Title (above) to journey to to Laren Leland's California Hometown.

Prop-a-Ganda

Images from the Boat Parade of '06.

To Submit

Thinking of all of our work prior to Passport Home and how we may have this documentation in paper/photo form:

http://adminsymposium.blogspot.com/

Posted by: ThreeWalls
Deadline: 03/01/07

We are looking for submissions in any style and of any length that pose questions, reveal ideas, or illustrate the process of Arts Administration. This can include ephemera from meetings such as receipts, napkin drawings or notes. The submission can take the form of an outline for an academic paper, correspondences, or simply questions. Please feel free to submit creative and untraditional materials. This Sketchbook will illustrate what ideas and projects look like while they are forming. We are publishing this sketchbook with the hope that arts administrators of all kinds can pick it up, flip through its pages and become inspired. This communal collection of “sketches” will pass ideas for exhibitions, organizational structures, or academic projects between colleagues and strangers in an effort to connect people and expand thinking on arts administration.

Testing 2

Going Public to see if it'll send an update...

Email Notification of Posts

So I'm giving this a shot. If you sign up with "weblogs.com" they should notify you at your email everytime something posts...so this is a test...

show to apply to

Get those thinking caps on. This is right up our alley. Note emphasis on experimental and sizable honorarium. Yeehaw:

http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org/?q=node/19863
http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/05_info.htm

This is rather logistical (please disregard the jumpiness, I must recap):

I've heard from: Katherine, Maggie, David, me, Jeremy (possibly) that March 3/4th might work. Should we set a specific time and day? Jeremy/Neva-maybe you should clarify what works best for you.

Neva--we'd love to see you--any Iowa City-bound carpools around? Plus, I think we should go ahead with the "At The Edge" exhibit proposal. Would you like to spearhead the writing/details--since you are our shiny-token Chicago artist? I'd be happy to have some conversations/revisions etc. via email or the phone. I think we should jump on any collaborative ops we find (sending several out is often more opportunistic than sending one or two, especially as the ball is rolling and the DVDs are crisp and fresh and the proposals are written in a current Moving Crew sensibility).

Here are some details from the BEMIS UNDERGROUND:
We will receive one keg of beer-gratis-for the opening reception (thanks to a local brewery).

The show (Nolan) prior to The Moving Crew will end June 2nd with a week of breakdown following. Thus we can enter the space and begin around June 11th or so-officially our slot is June 15th until July 21st, but we have a week before and after to work. Our press release must be planned, fine-tuned and completed very soon (hopefully in March for full coverage and hype, international journals and such). During our meeting I'd like to decide upon the opening date. Some discussion has already ensued regarding opening later than June 15th, giving us an extra week to develop the space, live in it, gather the troops. Other discussions have touched on the nature of schedules--births and moves to Seattle. So please, each of us, begin to gather specific information about June and July and our potential engagement with the BU space.

A trip is being planned to visit the Bemis Underground in March (probably during Jeremy's spring break March 19th-25th). Anyone is welcome to come along--keep me posted if you are interested--I'll let everyone know when ASAP. Part of the visit will involve a discussion with Jeremy Stern, the Bemis Underground curator, about details of the space (flag poles, sleeping in the space, sticking a trailer somewhere, the dock, the river, Carter Lake, local vigilantes and regulations).

Distant?: We need to create some sort of list for the objects/projects within the show (although this is an alternative space and our project has very little to do with the salon of objects and sales-- Mr. Stern claims patrons of the space frequently need guidance). This is something we need to ponder--signage is another alternative, leading the audience through, a path, the proposed maps and manuals.

More...

Carter Lake, Iowa

In preparation for BU in Omaha, I found out about Carter Lake, Iowa. Check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Lake,_Iowa

http://www.cityofcarterlake.com/history.html

Perhaps a project could form with this interesting local example of borders and boundaries when we are in Omaha.

I carried a watermelon

I have come to terms (finally!) with the term "American Imperialism". It is a strange reality that I live somehow in the past/in history (saying things like "America isn't the only imperialist country"...is taking a historical view instead of looking around TODAY and now...So I respectfully take back my earlier comment.

An Invitation to Participate

Greetings, Dweller of another Realm,

We, the Moving Crew, an artists group with members around the world, will construct a kingdom between June 15th and July 15th at the Bemis Underground, an art center in Omaha, Nebraska.

Forests, ports, shacks, gates, steppes, factories, a castle, and maybe a slum will materialize. Visitors to our realm will be issued passports, a guidebook, and a map, and they will explore our lands as their wills and whims direct them. Organized tours, migrations, illegal border crossings, all things are possible here. We will have outposts in the greater Omaha area, diplomatic missions and tourist bureaus to entreat and entice visitors to our domain.

The Moving Crew does not, however, exist in isolation. You, the rest of the world, are with us also. We therefore invite you to represent yourselves, you people rooted to your native soil, you people migrating through space and time, you people inhabiting your own kingdoms, fiefdoms, hovels, borroughs, districts, cantons, and lands. And so we, the Moving Crew, do hereby invite you to send to us a symbolic representation of your land in the form of a flag.

**If you so wish, we would also welcome tourist brochures, posters, ethnographic profiles, videos, advertisements, photographs of native costume and customs, official animals, gems, and flowers, and any other promotional materials you might find useful to educate the public about your kingdom. If any lands be so inclined, we invite you to send ambassadorial delegations, who may choose to travel on land, by sea, or air, on human-powered vehicles or through teleporters, to visit for a day or a week.**

We invite you to send us a flag to display outside the Bemis Underground, or inside the foyer area.

flag (flăg)n.

1. A piece of cloth, usually rectangular, of distinctive color and design, used as a symbol, standard, signal, or emblem.

2. National or other allegiance, as symbolized by a flag: ships of the same flag.

3. A ship carrying the flag of an admiral; a flagship.

4. A marking device, such as a gummed strip of paper, attached to an object to attract attention or ease identification; a tab.

5. The masthead of a newspaper.

6. Music. A cross stroke that halves the value of a note to which it is added.

7. A distinctively shaped or marked tail, as of a dog or deer.

8. Computer Science. A variable or memory location that stores true-or-false, yes-or-no information.

Technical specifications are minimal. Your flag can be any size or shape, and you can represent your realm using the materials, colors, and/or symbols that you think best. We ask that your flag has between two and four holes through which we can thread wire, rope or a snap-clip (see diagram if you need guidance). You can reinforce the holes with extra layers of whatever material you use to make your flag, or you can use grommets, such as are found on tarpaulins. If your flag is too delicate to hang outside, please note this when you send the flag. Otherwise, we will assume it is sturdy enough to be run up a flagpole outside and to withstand rain or wind.

All the flags will become part of our traveling exhibition and will continue to be displayed at all future Moving Crew events, in the USA, Europe, and Parts As Yet Unknown. We will make an online Gallery of Flags, so you can see your flag flying proudly in Omaha, and we will keep you updated whenever it flies in a new location.

Please RSVP stating your intent to send a flag by March 15th. All correspondence may be directed to the Master of Flags at movingcrew@gmail.com. (We'll send you the address for shipment upon receiving your statement of intent). We ask that you kindly send your flags to us no later than May 20th (postmark date).

Please include with your flag:

Name of sender, address of sender, any moniker you have for your realm, any other information or material that you deem pertinent about your realm.