Counter Productive Industries presents COLLECTIVE PRANKS, PROTEST GRAPHICS, AND SPACE RECLAMATION
Also with Lize Mogel speaking on the construction of "public space" in LA- and a discussion on what would make an effective public artwork in this unique "city"....
Counterproductiveindustries.com presents COLLECTIVE PRANKS, PROTEST GRAPHICS, AND SPACE RECLAMATION, a west coast tour of Retooling Dissent, the video documenting creative resistance projects from protests against the World Economic Forum.? It features collaborations and tactical media by The Institute for Applied Autonomy, The Bikewriters, StreetRec, and Spain?s Las Agencias/New Kids On The Black Block.
Accompanying the video is a series of presentations drawing on a network of critical art projects and activism from Chicago.? These projects range from large-scale political actions, spontaneous events, flexible collaborations, and temporary collectives.
One of the projects presented is the Department of Space and Land Reclamation (DSLR), an ambitious three-day campaign which sought to reclaim all the space, land, and visual culture of Chicago back to its public citizens.? DSLR brought hundreds of artists, activists, and community groups together for a weekend of interventions, presentations, graffiti, trespassing, pirate radio, community meals, loitering, hacking, guerrilla gardening, public performances, parties, and discussions.
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