call for contributions

greetings to all freecooperators, associators, makers of common goods, community organizations, networks of all kinds, cultural collectives,

organized, self-organized or anti-organized

hosts and distributors of collective intelligence

monsters, outlaws and those who love them

If you are engaged in collective practice, we would love to hear from you!!!

Open Call for a traveling archive and nomadic meeting-place on collectivity and critical collective/cooperative cultural action. We need your contributions !

First stop:
Oliver Gallery, Tampa FL
November 2004
******* a meeting-place for local action during the US elections

Description:
We are gathering materials on collective and cooperative forms of creativity, critique, resistance, intervention, scholarship and artistic production. In November, the archive will be available to the public in its first phase as a room/public space/lounge/resource center/production space/meeting place at the Oliver Gallery in Tampa FL. We do not limit the ways in which the archive, and the space temporarily housing it, may be used or may serve as resources. Our multi-purpose room will be open 24 hours a day, we have available internet-linked computers, VHS and DVD players (NTSC and PAL), a growing collection of paper resources and reference material, books, pamphlets, print-outs, Xerox copies, photos, posters…and free water and coffee. We will have viewing, seating, lounging, napping and play areas. We also hope to provide a free Xerox machine and free CD’s for copying information. The room will be available to local teachers and community organizations with no space of their own, collaborative projects in need of production space and local bands in need of rehearsal space.

Our archive will travel to other spaces willing to host it and be open for public use. Information/materials will continuously be solicited and added. If you are engaged in collective practice, we would love to hear from you. Please share with us any material that speaks to your work: from documentation of projects to reflections on the dynamics of cooperation

Any of the following can be extremely useful sources of information or reference for your work:
o url’s
o digital material: CD’s, DVD’s, digital files (text, video , image, sound; we can arrange for uploading and downloading to our server)
o printed materials (books, catalogs, magazines, pamphlets, posters, coasters, zines…)
o reproductions (Xerox copies, photographs, slides, computer print-outs..)
o documentation of your work in any format, from text to audio recordings of phone interviews with us
o letters, emails, postcards
o objects

Please send materials to:
Rozalinda Borcila
Visual and Performing Arts, FAH 110
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620, USA

Postmark deadline: September 15th

Questions, comments? please contact Rozalinda Borcila [email protected] . This project is only part of the larger, on-going effort to learn about, historicize, understand and make public different forms of critical collective intelligence. We are also soliciting materials on the various attempts to theorize collectivity. For each installment, our growing collection will be restructured and recategorized.. We seek to connect with related initiatives to share information, resources, experience and energy.