Begin forwarded message:
> From: McKenzie Wark <[email protected]>
> Date: April 11, 2004 10:18:31 PM EDT
> To: Rachel Greene <[email protected]>
> Subject: Playdate #2 please circulate
>
> Playdate #2: Transformative Play
> Can play be a radical practice
> for art and or politics?
>
> 1-3PM Friday 16th April
> The New School 65 5th avenue
> (at 14th st) Room 204
> Free. All welcome. Lunch provided
>
> Susan Laxton and Andy Bichlbaum
>
> Andy Bichlbaum is a member of the Yes
> Men, a loose-knit group of impostors. In
> May 2000, Gatt.org (a "fake" Yes Men
> website often mistaken for the website
> of the WTO) received an e-mail inviting
> a WTO representative to speak at a
> conference on international trade
> matters. Several such invitations later,
> "The Yes Men" have played the WTO at
> economic and industrial conferences, as
> well as on prime-time television. Each
> time, these satirical performances have
> generated large amounts of press,
> perhaps helping to publicly air doubts
> about neoliberalism. Bichlbaum will
> show video clips of these events, explain
> how they were accomplished, and
> discuss how others could perform
> similar actions tailored to their
> interests.
>
> Susan Laxton
> will give a general
> introduction to play as a concept - the
> way it is grasped in the vernacular
> versus its philosophical and aesthetic
> genealogy - and then introduce some
> historical instances of the deployment of
> play as an avant-garde critical strategy
> in the arts, in surrealism and later
> postwar practices.
>
> Susan is a doctoral candidate in
> Columbia University's Department of
> Art History and Archaeology, happy to
> be defending her dissertation - Paris as
> Gameboard: Ludic Strategies in
> Surrealism - in one week. Most recently
> she has published in Postmodern
> Culture and in the British journal Papers
> of Surrealism, and curated an exhibition
> on the photographer Man Ray's Atget
> collection at the Wallach Gallery in New
> York.
>
>
> Playdate is an occasional series organized
> By McKenzie Wark and sponsored by Eugene
> Lang College, New School University
>
> RSVP: [email protected]
>
>
> McKenzie Wark ~~~~~~~A Hacker Manifesto version 4
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