Episode 16 – Housing and Displacement
Go to the 3rd Anti-Columbus Day Tour: https://www.facebook.com/events/235077237185003/ We build on our “Artwashing and Soho” episode using our direct experiences and observations of gentrification in our neighborhoods. We do a “Goofus and Gallant” for anti-gentrication art. Shoutout to the locals, but also these thoughts can be applied all over the place. It’s a layered topic, but I think we illustrate our points well even though I have a bad cold.
Chicago & Indianapolis shows: https://twitter.com/ArtandLaborPod/status/1047527604339822595
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BAN: https://bangentrification.org/
Ridgewood Tenants Union: https://twitter.com/RidgewdTenantsU
(Dis)Placed in Sunset Park: http://www.bettyyu.net/displacedinsunsetpark/
Anthony Rosado #FREEBUSHWICK: http://www.anthonywashrosado.com/freebushwick/
“Progress” Show at Fivemyles: http://artinbrooklyn.com/2016/03/progress-installations-performances/
RAFiA: https://soundcloud.com/rafiasworld
Brooklyn Not For Sale Protest: https://hyperallergic.com/254426/anti-gentrification-activists-protest-real-estate-summit-at-brooklyn-museum/
Bullshit yarn mural thing: https://hyperallergic.com/238626/artist-will-remove-bushwick-crochet-mural-that-sparked-community-protest/
Sad little houses: https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2018/march/sad-little-houses-casita-triste-oak-cliff-giovanni-valderas/
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Episode 15 – W.A.G.E. & SPX & Marx@200
We went to many events so you didn’t have to. We discuss the Festival Workers Association born during the many controversies of this year’s Small Press Expo. While OK was in Maryland Lucia went to the Marx@200 show at Verso Books, which was a celebration of Peter Frase’s new book “The Four Futures” and included Alfredo Jaar’s piece that is only ever revealed on September 15th. Finally, we discuss an episode we recorded after the W.A.G.E. Rager we attended at Artist’s Space that we’re probably abandoning for being “too drunk” There’s a big chunk about One Piece too!
Chicago & Indianapolis shows:
https://thecondoassociation.com/
https://putty.neocities.org/
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FWA http://festivalworkers.com/
The anthology OK won an award for http://comicsforchoice.com/
Working Artists and the Greater Economy http://www.wageforwork.com/wagency#top
Marx@200 https://www.versobooks.com/events/1849-author-peter-frase-marx-200-reception
Parasocial Hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLA-uFKjQ-g
READING – 9.5 Theses on Art and Class
Sorry for the delay, I was working the polls from 5AM-10PM yesterday! Fucking wild! We will discuss it and SPX next week when I escape the hurricane zone. Today we read Ben Davis to you. For more, buy his entire book of the same name.
Boots Riley interview where he mentions Ben Davis:
https://www.buildseries.com/video/5b2a8966523dc33ffe4c79de/
Follow him:
https://twitter.com/benadavis
Read along here:
http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/8594/9.5-theses-on-art-and-class-2011-10-25.pdf
Ben Davis at in an Arts in Bushwick panel on art and labor:
https://artsinbushwick.org/tag/ben-davis/
SPX’s mutual aid fund for people being sued by an abusive asshole #defendthe11:
https://www.gofundme.com/SPX-Support-The-11
Episode 14 – What is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag
Jingoism! For the inherently racist American imperial project?? Capitalism with a conscious??? We’re NOT having it. We talk destroying and deconstructing the American flag at home and abroad. Please check out the full show notes of this one.
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http://www.dreadscott.net/works/what-is-the-proper-way-to-display-a-us-flag/
Russian Rap^
Iranian Parliament^
North Korean 3D Missile Simulation^
Episode 13 – Bad Art World
We go through the demands of Bad Art World’s A contribution towards a programme for the arts on a brutally hot August evening in NYC. It’s a contemporary application of Trotsky’s manifesto on revolutionary art. “Eighty years ago the world was entering another great opening. Then, too, there was a gap between what was necessary to defeat capitalist catastrophe and workers’ general political understanding.”
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Check out Bad Art World: http://badartworld.net/index.php/2018/08/13/a-contribution-towards-a-programme-for-the-arts/
READING – Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art
We’ve decided to start reading art manifestos in full and providing light commentary. First up, of course, is 1938’s Towards a Free Revolutionary Art ghostwritten by Leon Trotsky, signed by Diego Rivera and André Breton. Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian revolution, he was famously forced to flee to Mexico. Thanks to funding from the American communist party, he was able to stay near Rivera and Frida Kahlo, but was eventually assassinated there. The manifesto denounces both fascism and Stalinism, and is a seminal text to the history of Muralism and Surrealism/Dada.
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For more robust context check out Bad Art World’s intro to Revolutionary Art: http://badartworld.net/index.php/2018/02/01/an-introduction-to-the-manifesto-towards-a-free-revolutionary-art/
The theme song of this episode is “Media” from The Ann Steel Album
Episode 12 – Art as Agency (and The Dirtbag Left)
We yelled at the mayor! This episode is a response to a recent Chapo Trap House interview about music, identity politics, and activism (listen here: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/unlocked-amber-interviews-aaron-j-leonard). We want to challenge the podcast left to do better coalition building, and to think more critically about art’s potential in revolution. We encourage folks to consider Rivera’s Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art, and will be posting another episode where we read the whole thing.
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Bad Art World’s intro to Revolutionary Art: http://badartworld.net/index.php/2018/02/01/an-introduction-to-the-manifesto-towards-a-free-revolutionary-art/
Yelled at the mayor: https://twitter.com/0KF0X/status/1032011814949801984
Episode 11 – HOW NOT TO BE SEEN
A Fucking Didactic Educational AUDIO File! We basically spin a weird collage about surveillance and privacy (a lost cause). A lot of time traveling this episode. We go back in time 5-7 years when folks were rushing Youtube with How To videos like it was the dang gold rush. We receive a prescient transmission from Jack Smith about the commodification of counterculture and the hyper capitalization art fairs were about to cause. We also heed lessons from David Wojnarowicz. Thank you queer history. Folks on the margins are often destroyed by the state, listen to them, and give them space.
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How Not to Be Seen:
https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-2013-51651
How to Basic:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR4s1DE9J4DHzZYXMltSMAg
How to Internet:
https://youtu.be/3r_6aYXHxuQ
How to Disappear in America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_gIRdS4XPk
Shows closing next month:
http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/jack-smith
https://whitney.org/Exhibitions/DavidWojnarowicz
Books:
Surveillance Cinema by Catherine Zimmer:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15r3z88
& Strategic Reality Dictionary: Deep Infopolitics and Cultural Intelligence
Book by Konrad Becker
Episode 10 – Post Cold War Art and the CIA
The department of defense, the CIA, and the FBI have all had a hand in influencing art, culture, and academia. We discuss the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Marvel movies, Rockefeller, modernism, futurist fascism, and Mexican muralism. Are you bummed about MFAs and institutional partnerships with banks? Us too buddy. If you like us please consider donating for bonus writing, memes, and art: https://d.rip/art-and-labor
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Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy https://www.e-flux.com/journal/21/67696/politics-of-art-contemporary-art-and-the-transition-to-post-democracy/
How Iowa Flattened Literature (With CIA help, writers were enlisted to battle both Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing lingers) https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Iowa-Flattened-Literature/144531
The CIA’s abstract art collection: https://hyperallergic.com/294142/a-visit-to-the-the-cias-secret-abstract-art-collection/
Movies funded by the state: https://twitter.com/BootsRiley/status/1025779683541934080
^backed up by this Freedom of Information Act: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hollywood-cia-washington-dc-films-fbi-24-intervening-close-relationship-a7918191.html
Marvel’s “cancelled” gun manufacturer sponsor: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x835p/northrop-grumman-paid-marvel-to-turn-the-military-contractor-into-a-superhero-avengers
The Pentagon and Hollywood: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/421064-pentagon-hollywood-propaganda-dod/
