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This week at – an air conditioned – Mess Hall:
1) Talk by Nicolas Lampert, “Building a Continental Empire in the
late 1800s: Picturing Expansionism from East to West”, June 19, 7-9 PM
2) Two-In-One Poster Show – “Posters of Radiant Optimism” and
“Ungdomshuset”, June 21 – July 15, Opening on June 21, 7-11 PM
3) “Refuse Refuse”, Booklet by Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom,
Distributed for free throughout June and July
4) Marginal Travel: Andi Sutton presents “CrossPollenNation”, June
22, Starts at 7:30 PM
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1) Talk by Nicolas Lampert, “Building a Continental Empire in the
late 1800s: Picturing Expansionism from East to West”, June 19, 7-9 PM
This talk will examine how the visual media of the late 1800s /
early 1900s in the U.S. (photographs, paintings and prints) was
used to justify and promote western expansion and the forced
removal of Native Americans from their homelands onto reservations.
The presentation will look at the work and the motives of European-
American photographers who mapped the West for corporate and State
interests and how photographers such as Edward S. Curtis pictured
Native Americans as a culture and people who were “disappearing”
into the past. The talk will highlight the work of Native American
photographers who countered this bias and used photography as a
tool to address community issues and to create a more accurate
representation of their culture during this era.
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2 ) Two-In-One Poster Show – “Posters of Radiant Optimism” and
“Ungdomshuset”, June 21 – July 15, Opening on June 21, 7-11 PM
“Posters of Radiant Optimism”
There was an enormous groundswell of optimistic and visionary
activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s. To document certain
aspects of it, we began The Library of Radiant Optimism for Let’s
Re-make the World. It is a collection of how-to books from this
time period written and sometimes self-published by people who were
working towards cultural change through art, design, health care,
farming, and societal organization. The massive countercultural
movement produced in the face of international political and social
turmoil is inspiring. We find ourselves in a similar global
environment of unprecedented crises, unrest, and we are wondering
how we can make visible and cohesive current resistant activities.
This poster show evolved out of discussions around The Library and
its books with artists, Kirsten Dufour and Finn Thybo Andersen. We
wanted to ask questions about the potential to add to the
optimistic histories of past activisms with our own movements. We
seek a discussion about the place of optimism in the face of war,
environmental, devastation, and global capitalism. We asked people
to make posters about their own work or to create optimistic plans
for going along together.
– YNKB and The Library of Radiant Optimism for Let’s Re-make the World
Finn Thybo Andersen, Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune, Center for
Tactical Magic, Michel Chevalier, Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen,
Copenhagen Free University, Peter Conlin and Kirsten Forkert,
Kirsten Dufour, Ryan Griffis and Sara Ross, Haugaard & Kilsmark, In
the Field, Nicolas Lampert, Learning Site, Runo Lagomarsino, Sarah
Lewison, Markaktiv, Dylan Mirra, Network of Casual Art, New Social
Art School, Mogens Otto Nielsen, Oda Projesi, Parfyme, Nis Rømer,
Samaras Project, Section 8, YNKB
The poster show was presented at YNKB in Copenhagen, December 2006.
The posters can be seen at: http://www.ynkb.dk/eng/posters2-kopi.shtml
**AND**
“Ungdomshuset”
Ungdomshuset was an important autonomous political, music, and
cultural center at 69 Jagtvej in Copenhagen's Nørrebro (Northern
Bridge) neighborhood. It was built in 1897 as the Folkets Hus
(People’s House) a home for the burgeoning labor movement in
Copenhagen. In 1910, The Second International Socialist group held
an International Women's conference at the house, during which
Clara Zetkin launched the idea of an International Women's Day. In
1978, the house was sold to the municipality of Copenhagen. Then in
1982 it was traded for two squatted buildings and given the name of
Ungdomshuset. From 1982 to 2007, the building was inhabited by the
Ungeren, slang for the young people who organized concerts, ran
free vegetarian kitchens, and did many other things there. In 1999,
the city of Copenhagen put the building up for sale, ultimately
selling it in December of 2000 to Faderhuset (The Father’s House),
a right-wing fundamentalist Christian organization. The Ungeren
continued to maintain and run Ungdomshuset until March 1, 2007 when
after months of demonstrations, attended by activists from around
the world, they were violently evicted by the Copenhagen police,
starting with a military police raid on the house. The battles
continued until March 5, 2007 when the house was illegally
demolished, violating multiple Danish laws and safety regulations.
The story of the struggle made international news.
This show of ephemera, posters, t-shirts and other items from the
culture of Ungdomshuset is a celebration of those who fought to
keep the house, those who mourn its loss, and those who remain in
jail for standing up for their beliefs.
This exhibition was organized by Malene Nielsen, Henrik Busk,
Bonnie Fortune, and Brett Bloom.
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3) “Refuse Refuse”, Booklet by Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom,
Distributed for free throughout June and July
Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom work together under the name “The
Library of Radiant Optimism for Let’s Re-Make the World”. They are
compiling a library of books from the late 1960s and early 1970s,
how-to-guides that came from the enormous international counter
culture of the time. They also collect stories, do their own
investigations of the intersection of natural and built systems,
realize projects, and make publications.
Their second publication together “Refuse Refuse” documents a new
addition to the library, ongoing investigations into activities
done around the urban night sky, images of “garbage
blooms” (natural forms made from scavenged trash), and more. The
booklet will be distributed for free during the poster shows.
To download a copy of the booklet: http://www.letsremake.info/
Refuse_Refuse.pdf
www.letsremake.info
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4) Marginal Travel: Andi Sutton presents “CrossPollenNation”, June
22, Starts at 7:30 PM – Details TBA
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All for free and open to the public
Mess Hall
6932 North Glenwood Avenue
(MORSE stop on the red line)
Chicago
Phone: (773) 465-4033 on day of events
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Check us out at http://www.messhall.org for calendar updates and
more. And
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