PROMISCUOUS INFRASTRUCTURES (PHASE 2)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

As part of its project entitled Promiscuous Infrastructures, the Artivistic collective invites submissions for the second phase of the project, which will take place from March 9 to April 14, 2012, at Skol, an artist-run centre in Montréal.

What Artivistic is up to

Artivistic is currently in the research-creation phase of a publication tentatively entitled Promiscuous Infrastructures: experiments in art + information + activism. Rooted in the work of Artivistic's friends, allies, and past participants, the publication sets its sights on "autonomous infrastructures" by looking at radical education & the production of knowledge, intergenerational support systems, as well as sustainable financing.

For Phase 2, we will set up a temporary printing workshop at Skol. This intervention is meant to collectively visualize our concern, obsession perhaps, with what lies behind art, activism and knowledge production: (1) the ways in which we relate to each other, (2) organise to work together, and (3) the conditions in which things are being done. In other words, we are asking:

As part of its research residency at Skol, entitled Promiscuous Infrastructures, the Artivistic collective invites multidisciplinary collectives, emerging organisations and artist-run-centres to a day of workshops and exchanges on alternative financing on August 6, 2011.

In the current political and economic context, how do we support the work that we want to do (and already do) and how do we support each other? Do we have models, propositions? This day, which will take the form of an OpenSpace, will be an occasion to share our concerns, but mostly to (collectively) build possible solutions.

What is an OpenSpace? It’s a way of co-producing knowledge and of sharing practices. All the participants make the agenda together at the beginning, then break into parallel sessions and reconvene at the end in order to come up with practical initiatives based on the discussions.

When: Saturday 6 August, from 11:00am to 7:00pm
Where: Skol, 372 Ste-Catherine W., suite 314
Your contribution to make this happen: bring a meal to share!
If possible, RSVP at: info @ artivistic . org

Do not hesitate to circulate this invitation within your network(s).

Starting 7:00pm, the day will close with: the Montreal launch party of FUSE Magazine’s issue “Performing Politics” (Summer 2011)! FUSE is 35 this year, and we’re celebrating by revisiting the work of seventeen outstanding thinkers and makers, spanning three decades. Through eight features, interviews and reports plus six artist’s projects and cover art, we explore the ways that solidarity enables political action.

++ infos :
http://artivistic.org
http://www.skol.ca/
http://fusemagazine.org/

knowledgeshare #1 :
The Promiscuous Infrastructures of Protest Camps
Wednesday June 29 @ 6pm
Skol (372 Ste Catherine W., suite 314)
all welcome -- bring food/snacks/drinks to share

From Tahrir Square to Trafalgar Square, from the Puerto del Sol to the streets of Oaxaca, protest camps are a highly visible and increasingly common feature of social movements' activism across the world. Protest camps are spaces where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious politics, often in confrontation with the state.

As part of our research residency at Skol this summer, Artivistic will broadcast the live streaming (from Paris) of the Monetary Utopia Seminar, organized by Upgrade! Paris & MCDates as part of festival Mal au Pixel 6.

Join us at Skol (372, Ste-Catherine W., suite 314) this Friday June 17 at 1pm for this public broadcast followed by a question period via chat.

Le samedi 11 juin 2011, le Collectif Artivistic invite NoosLogos et le GRPTP à intervenir dans le cadre de sa résidence de recherche intitulée Promiscous Infrastructures / Infrastructures entrelacées.

Thanks to Skol, we will be in residency from June to August 2011 in order to work on our publication project Promiscuous Infrastructures: experiments in art + information + activism.

Following an invitation by Nathalie Bachand, we submitted a text (that was picked up!) to Inter, art actuel, a (mostly) French language contemporary art magazine produced in Québec City since 1978.

As we gradually embrace our transitional phase and our new publication project, we got ourselves a brand new website! Although it is still in construction, you can already find links to our past projects and events...