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<p>Exhibition Talk. <br>
Mel King, Julie Stone, Marco Scotini, Glorianna
Davenport<br>
Sreaning of Ricky Leacock's November Actions.<br>
Moderated by Gediminas Urbonas. <br>
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<p>December 9, 2011 4–5 PM <br>
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<p>MIT Building E15-001 (ACT Cube)</p>
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5–8 PM <br>
Exhibition opening and reception.<br>
E14 Lobby (Media Lab) <br>
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<p><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://architecture.mit.edu/art-culture-and-technology/event/disobedience-ongoing-video-archive">http://architecture.mit.edu/art-culture-and-technology/event/disobedience-ongoing-video-archive</a></p>
<p>Disobedience Archive brings together a series
of practices and forms of individual
self-representation just as they are finding the
key to their strength in an alliance of art and
activism: a transformation in the languages that
society produces as a political subject and as a
media object. What matters in Disobedience is
not so much an ‘alliance’ between activist
demands and artistic practices in order to
achieve common goals: it is more that of a
common space or a common base that is emerging.
This space is not clearly defined, thus making
it impossible to draw a precise line between
forces and signs, between language and labor,
between intellectual production and political
action. It functions through a display of the
archive format, in which all the materials on
show share the same level of equivalence –
without hierarchies and without exhibiting any
preordained set of institutional rules. It is up
to the public to choose and to organize their
vision of the available material: turning the
archive into a toolkit ready for use.</p>
<p>The Disobedience Archive has been organized and
exhibited in many different venues across the
World since 2005. In the installation at the
Lobby of the Media Lab Complex at MIT the
Disobedience will expand to include cases of
political and artistic action that have
manifested in the geographic and historical
terrain of Boston. In addition to this, new
student works that critically interrogate
concepts of Disobedience (produced in the
research seminars, Art, Architecture, and
Urbanism in Dialogue and Introduction to
Networked Cultures and Participatory Media),
will be exhibited in conversation with the
pre-existing body of works that comprise the
archive.</p>
<p>Here, the archive itself will take the form of
a garden “corridor” arranged on an axis that
disrupts the traditional logic of the existing
space and makes an allusion to the spatial and
urban politics, from community gardens to
self-reliant tent cities, that have
characterized many instances of activism in the
Boston area.</p>
<p><strong>Material provided to the archive by:</strong><br>
16beaver group, Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée
(AAA), Gianfranco Baruchello, Bernardette
Corporation, Black Audio Film Collective,
Copenhagen Free University, Critical Art
Ensemble, Dodo Brothers (Andrea Ruggeri and
Giancarlo Vitali Ambrogio), Etcètera, Marcelo
Exposito, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Grupo
de Arte Callejero (GAC), Alberto Grifi, Ashley
Hunt, Kanal B, Margit Czencki/Park Fiction,
Radio Alice, Oliver Ressler with Zanny Begg,
Joanne Richardson, Eyal Sivan, Hito Steyerl, The
Department of Space and Land Reclamation (with
StreetRec., The Institute for Applied Autonomy,
Las Agencias and AffectTech/BikeWriters),
Mariette Schiltz and Bert Theis, Ultra Red,
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, James Wentzy,
Dmitry Vilensky and Chto delat / What is to be
done?</p>
<p><strong>Additional contributions and material
from:</strong><br>
Hans Guggenheim, Mel King, Juliet Stone, Richard
Leacock, Sylvère Lotringer, MIT Museum, Paul
Summit, Urbano platform, ACT UP and Food not
Bombs amongst others.</p>
<p><strong>For more information see:</strong><br>
<a href="http://disobedience.mit.edu">disobedience.mit.edu</a></p>
<p><strong>Directions:</strong><br>
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology<br>
The Media Lab Complex Lobby (E14)<br>
75 Amherst Street<br>
Cambridge, MA, USA</p>
<p><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu">whereis.mit.edu</a></p>
<p><strong>Contact:</strong><br>
617.253.5229<br>
<a href="mailto:act@mit.edu">act@mit.edu</a></p>
<p>Disobedience Archive is produced in
collaboration with ACT and NABA⎯Nuova Accademia
di Belle Arti Milano. </p>
<p><strong>About ACT</strong><br>
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
operates as a critical studies and production
based laboratory, connecting the arts with an
advanced technological community.
(visualarts.mit.edu) </p>
<p><strong>About NABA</strong><br>
NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano),
founded in 1980, is an innovative Arts and
Design Academy, the largest private Academy in
Italy, and at the same time a dynamic artistic
and cultural center. (<a
href="http://www.naba.it">www.naba.it</a>)</p>
<p>The Disobedience Archive research and
exhibition project is produced in collaboration
with the students from the ACT courses Art,
Architecture and Urbanism in Dialogue and
Introduction to Networked Cultures and
Participatory Media:<br>
Alex Auriema<br>
Sofia Berinstein<br>
Giacomo Bruno Castagnola Chaparro<br>
Sumona Chakravarty<br>
Joan Chen<br>
Caleb Benjamin Harper<br>
Ali Khalid Qureshi<br>
Summer Stephanie Sutton<br>
Hailong Wu</p>
<p>As well as with the assistance of Anna Caterina
Bleuler (NABA, Milano, Italy), and Sung Woo
Jang, Catherine McMahon, Slobodon Radoman (MIT,
Cambridge, MA). </p>
<p>This exhibition would not have been possible
without the help of many dedicated individuals
and with the generous support from our sponsors.
</p>
<p><strong>Many thanks to:</strong><br>
The Office of the Dean at MIT SA+P<br>
Council for the Arts at MIT<br>
MIT's Program in Art, Culture and Technology<br>
NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milano<br>
Deborah Douglas and the MIT Museum<br>
Julian Bonder<br>
Mel King<br>
Juliet Stone</p>
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