March 2011
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“You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing...”
– Heraclitus (c.535BC - 475BC)
Thanks to Jan Estep for bringing this to our attention. Wonderful!
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This Is Not a Gateway | 2011 Festival Call →
Thanks to our friend Melissa, who went to the UK and came across This is Not a Gateway, another creative collective working at the intersection of art, design and public engagement. They have an open call for their 2011 Festival, which sounds like a symposium, but with much more inspiration and action. From the description:
“Proposals are welcome from anybody whose point of reference is...
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“In an atmosphere of representative culture and an increasing number of...”
– Stumbled upon UrbanFestival, a group based in Zagreb that seems to do a lot of work similar in theory to our own, though they’ve been at it since 2001 and are obviously working in a totally different context. Their home base [BLOK] sounds familiar. One more reason to visit Croatia.
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WatchOur first Kickstarter campaign! Making this video was a lot of fun, and a great way to spend a Saturday.
About the Mississippi Megalops:
We are collaborating with artist and frequent collaborator Andy Sturdevant to present ‘Mississippi Megalops – A Floating Chautauqua’ at Northern Spark, an all-night nuit blanche art festival taking place from sunset to sunrise across the Twin Cities of...
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“I think what has really blossomed is the small-scale, art-meets-event kind of...”
– Artist and printmaker Jenny Schmid, as featured in City Pages’ 100 Creatives.
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WatchThe River (Part I), 1937
Directed by Pare Lorentz and produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Resettlement Administration.
“Classic documentary history of the exploitation of the resources of the Mississippi River Valley and the work being done to rehabilitate and reclaim the area.”
This is an incredible document of the Mississippi River.
