"THE SHIT'S HIT THE FAN- GOTTA CALL MY NEIGHBOR."

What will you do when you stop believing that things will get better and start doing something yourself?

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This is the moment without: healthcare, reproductive rights for women,  real organic agricultural standards, job prospects, arts funding,  environmental protection laws welfare or affordable housing. This is the moment of strikes without end, death before diplomacy and border  deaths. This is the lingering moment of an un-elected president,  state sponsored racism and xenophobia, and a sci-fi winner-take-all  worldscape.

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But don't despair! You, artists and/or activists can collaboratively  create a new world. Our networks and DIY projects create herky-jerky  solutions to this moment of crisis.

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To these ends the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest proposes an art  project

"THE SHIT'S HIT THE FAN- GOTTA CALL MY NEIGHBOR."

We are asking for you to enact your collaborative solutions and  visions to

the structural problems inherent in all of our lives. Play them out in  the city any way that you see fit. Document your actions and send it  to us. We'll publish it in our magazine or online.

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1. We ARE NOT looking for protest signs. We ARE looking for visions,  plans and the enactment of creative visions.

2. Projects must be made together by at least 2 people.

3. At least one participant in each project must have a connection

to Los Angeles.

4. Please send your preliminary project idea and questions to

contact@journalofaestheticsandprotest.org by February 26. (This step  is important because we will need to discuss how to document your  project for   reproduction in print or online.)

5. Final submissions are due by March 10th. Include a one-paragraph

project description. Include the names of your collaborators, and

any  vital statistics on your project. Please send your submissions in

digital  format to contact@journalofaestheticsandprotest.org

For some ideas, go to:

http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/pragmaticMultitudism/ index.html

http://www.temporaryservices.org/current_services.html

http://www.artic.edu/~apalme/

http://www.laneta.apc.org/tierraviva/

http://www.nolopress.com/

http://midnightspecial.net/

http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/essa/may97/0081.html

http://www.dslrwest.org/participants.html

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The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is an online and internationally distributed print magazine.

www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org