#J20 Art Strike
Saturday, 10 December 2016, 7:00-9:00pm
This is not a time to bury the hatchet. It is a time to dig up the machete. After various experiments and metamorphoses elsewhere, the Machete Group has decided to come back in full force. In the coming months, we will be staging a series of collective, interactive symposia.
We enact intellectual events that are as much artistic workshops as political cells in the making. And we operate as a collective-in-struggle, seeking to recover the meaning of “cutting edge” from its vacuous appropriations by consumer society and the culture industry.
Join us for our first event on Saturday Dec. 10 from 7-9 p.m. at Marginal Utility Gallery. Come to engage in a collective, confrontational and uncomfortable conversation that seeks to rethink the state and stakes of contemporary art, theory and political praxis. We will use the constellation of artifacts attached to this e-mail to begin a discussion concerning how we can make sense of—and intervene in—the present. Participants in the conversation will include, but nowise be limited to, Avi Alpert, David Dempewolf, Sebastien Derenoncourt, Gabriel Rockhill, & Yuka Yokoyama
Download Dictionary Preface (456 KB)
Download Rockhill_Interventions_Ch1_Thinking Present (336 KB)