Fwd: PILOT! event!

June 17, 2004

Type: discussion

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Emily Roysdon <[email protected]>
> Date: June 17, 2004 4:08:20 PM EDT
> To: Ely Shipley <[email protected]>
> Subject: PILOT! event!
>
> Wonderful brilliant friends making this project!
>
>
>
> PILOT-TV CALL FOR PROPOSALS
>
>
> Calling all trans-activists, women, queers, male feminists, media
> activists,
> intersexed hackers, radical educators, genderchangers, direct-actors,
> performance artists, anti-racists, mothers, documentarians, prop
> collectors,
> youth video collectives, squatters, fence-climbers, cyberfeminists,
> urban
> farmers, prison abolitionists, women's health-care providers, all-girl
> graffiti crews, resistant bodies and trespassers of all kinds!!!
>
>
> PILOT is a hybrid activist convergence taking the form of a
> do-it-yourself
> television studio. Rejecting more passive models of conferences and
> demonstrations, we invite you to take part in 4 days and nights of
> participatory, creative problem-solving to rethink how we "stage"
> protest.
> Help us turn a three-story Chicago building into a fully functioning
> hollywood studio, replete with fantastical sets, collaborative crews,
> and
> improvised madness.
>
>
> Stage a panel discussion as a talk show, lead a workshop as a cooking
> show,
> get behind a camera, sew a costume, party all night, or just show up
> and get
> involved in the conversation. PILOT will be an open-ended space for
> those of
> us involved in the global anticapitalist movement to come together in
> sweat-space, build momentum, and strategize our biopolitical
> resistance on
> (and off) camera.
>
>
> As the last vestiges of public space, natural resources, and
> community-control are bought-off, our bodies will continue to be the
> final
> line in the struggle for autonomy. Join us at the PILOT laboratory for
> 4
> days of fleshy resistance, aesthetic experiments and tactical
> performance!
> Trespass the corporate control of media with nomadic TV, pirate radio
> broadcasts, and guerrilla drive-in screenings! Visit the PILOTWOOD
> sign and
> help make a "Walk of Flames"! Enjoy parties, community meals, and
> finish the
> weekend with us as we RECLAIM-THE-STREETS as an on-location shoot FOR
> OUR TV
> PILOT! Do things on camera that you could never do legally in real
> life!
> The PILOT TV convergence is a non-hierarchical, no-budget event
> currently
> being organized by a loose collective of trans/genderqueer activists,
> artists, and fence-cutters. Please get involved! All resources,
> skill-sets,
> and ideas for collaboration are welcomed!
>
>
> Let us know what you are thinking of doing so we can connect you to the
> people and resources you need to complete the project. Send us a full
> script, a drawing, or just a few sentence description.
> Proposals can take the form of:
>
>
> TV SHOWS: This could be any-thing! For example: direct actions-assoap
> operas, interventions-as music videos, debates-as WWF matches,
> skill-shares,walking-tours, strategizing sessions, door-to-door
> organizing,
> unusual technologies, show-and-tells, public celebrations,
> choreographed
> performances, historical reenactments, invisible theater, pranks, or
> pornography Sy Feel free to appropriate, recombine, or abandon TV genre
> altogether!!
>
>
> PRODUCTION CREWS: Be a part of the very essential 2-person camera and
> audio
> crews who will be on-call at various times and locations throughout the
> weekend! Learn howto use other people's equipment, bring your own mics,
> lights, cables, camera, or just share your skills!
>
>
> POST-PRODUCTION CREW: Help mix, title, animate, and edit the weekends'
> raw
> material into DVD and VHS PILOT TV compilations. These will be
> re-distributed back to all participants for screening on local public
> and
> cable access TV stations, websites, classrooms, and microcinemas.
>
>
> MISE-EN-SCENE: This includes everything else, such as PROPS, LIGHTS,
> SETS
> (hand-painted backdrops, installations, informative brochures, rigs,
> blue-screens, clouds, mapping projects, zines, bicycles, lending
> libraries,
> alternative monuments, dioramas, seeds, medical supplies, street-art
> campaignsSy)
>
>
> COSTUMES (makeup, masks, disguises, hot fashions, strange wigs, fake
> tattoos, anti-surveillance facial hair, cyborgian limbsSy) and SCORING
> (bands, DJs, free-stylers, poets, composers, sound artists, found
> instruments, mix-tapesSy) etc.
>
>
> Send submissions, questions, or related materials to
> [email protected]
> or
> Pilot TV c/o Nightgowns
> 3012 S. Archer Avenue
> Chicago Illinois, USA, 60608
>
>
> The deadline for proposals is July 4th 2004. Project descriptions will
> be
> included in a printed "TV Guide" to the weekend.
>
>