Dislocation

BLDGBLOG: Literary Climatology

December 8, 2011newsAirplanes, Bldgblog, Blue Angels, Car Alarms, Climatology, Clouds, Conversations, Dislocation, Excerpt, Fleet Week, Flight Demonstration, Forensics, Haze, Historians, Love, Parked Cars, Performance Art, Planes, Quantum, San Francisco, Scale Demonstration, Synch, Trajectories, Twenty Years, U S Navy

Some fascinating ideas from BLDGBLOG in excerpt form a little while ago, which relate to ideas of ecodrama:

1)Â Performance PhysicsÂ

It was, we might say, not performance art butÂ performance physics: an immersive, urban-scale demonstration of quantum dislocation… constantly out of self-synch in a single setting… the skies of San Francisco temporarily modeling an inter-dimensional event.

2)Â Sky Forensics

…the passage of the Blue Angels had been setting off car alarms all over the city… the locations of the car alarms always coincided with the physical passage of the airplanes… you could actually reconstruct the aerial trajectories of the planes through entirely indirect means.

In twenty years’ time, then, forensic historians could reconstruct the skies of Fleet Week 2011 using nothing but data from parked cars.

3)Â Literary Climatology

…we briefly got onto the subject of skywriting…Â The idea ofÂ blogging in the skyÂ through the medium of artificial weatherâ€”chemically produced, aerodynamic clouds draping the city in a haze of literary climatology…

Of course, it’s worth the whole post….

via BLDGBLOG: Literary Climatology.

PLANDâ€™s Power School

April 30, 2011ecoartscotlandClosing Date, Curators, Dislocation, Ecology, Edge Research, Fremantle, International Networks, Nbsp, Pland, Research Associate, Robert Gordon University, School Of Art, Scientists, Sports, Taos Mesa, Theoretical Texts

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PLAND (Practice Liberating Art throughÂ NecessaryÂ Dislocation)Â off-grid residency centre on the Taos Mesa is running a workshopÂ called Power School (July 10-18,2011) with a closing date of 25 April for applications.

You can find an interview with PLAND on Bad at Sports.

ecoartscotland is a resource focused on art and ecology for artists, curators, critics, commissioners as well as scientists and policy makers. It includes ecoartscotland papers, a mix of discussions of works by artists and critical theoretical texts, and serves as a curatorial platform.

It has been established byÂ Chris Fremantle, producer and research associate withÂ On The Edge Research,Â Grayâ€™s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University. Fremantle is a member of a number of international networks of artists, curators and others focused on art and ecology.

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PLAND New Initiative Proclaims: Practice Liberating Art Through Necessary Dislocation

April 16, 2010newsAlternative Communities, Amazing Things, Chamisa, Dislocation, Gmail, Immediate Release March, Inaugural Project, Launch, Motley Crew, Mundane Activities, Open Sky, Parcel Of Land, Pland, Rio Grande, Rio Grande Gorge, Sage Brush, Sangre De Cristo, Sangre De Cristo Mountains, Taos Mesa, Taos New Mexico, Taos Pueblo, Work Parties

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Erin Elder

pland.info@gmail.com

NEW INITIATIVE PROCLAIMS:

PRACTICE LIBERATING ART THROUGH NECESSARY DISLOCATION!

www.itspland.org

TAOS, NEW MEXICO â€“ Announcing the formal launch of PLAND, an off-the-grid residency program that supports the development of experimental and research-based projects in the context of the Taos mesa.Â PLAND was conceived of and founded in July 2009, when creative trio Erin Elder, Nina Elder, and Nancy Zastudil banded together to acquire a small parcel of land near the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the Rio Grande Gorge. The arid plot is currently void of amenities such as water and electricity, with terrain defined by sage brush, chamisa, and breath-taking vistas of open sky. The region is home to alternative communities including the Taos Pueblo, several Earthship developments, and a scattering of off-the-grid homesteaders.

The three founders describe PLAND as:

â€œA program that focuses on open-ended projects that facilitate collaboration, experimentation, and hyper-local engagement. We do not hold expectations about prescribed outcomes. We privilege process over product. We believe artists can do amazing things when supported and encouraged in new contexts. We believe that no context exists like that of the Taos mesa.

We find our inspiration in a legacy of pioneers, entrepenuers, homesteaders, artists, and other counterculturalists who â€“ through both radical and mundane activities â€“ reclaim and reframe a land-based notion of the American Dream.â€

During Summer 2010, PLAND will host a motley crew of thinkers and doers in a series of work parties, idea-testing workshops, and inaugural project-based residencies in order to transform the land into a more inhabitable outpost while challenging artists to create, experiment, and produce their own work within this unique context. These activities are funded in part by The Idea Fund and supported by the hard work of students at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Please note that the application deadline isÂ May 10th and due via email.

PLAND.