[Reader-list] archive announcement

[Rozalinda]

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Dear friends

If you are engaged in collective practice, we would
love to hear from you!!!

Open Call for a traveling archive and nomadic
meeting-place on collectivity and critical
collective/cooperative cultural action. We need your
contributions !

First stop:
Oliver Gallery, Tampa FL
November 2004
  *** a staging area for local action during US
elections!
  *** traveling to Chicago, Nashville, looking for more
temporary hosts

Description:
We are gathering materials on collective and
cooperative forms of creativity, critique, resistance,
intervention, scholarship and artistic production. In
November, the archive will be available to the public
in its first phase as a room/public
space/lounge/resource center/production space/meeting
place at the Oliver Gallery in Tampa FL. We do not
limit the ways in which the archive, and the space
temporarily housing it, may be used or may serve as
resources. Our multi-purpose room will be open 24
hours a day, we have available internet-linked
computers, VHS and DVD players (NTSC and PAL), a
growing collection of paper resources and reference
material, books, pamphlets, print-outs,  Xerox copies,
photos, postersÖand free water and coffee. We will
have viewing, seating, lounging, napping and play
areas. We also hope to provide a free Xerox machine
and free CDís for copying information. The room will
be available to local teachers and community
organizations with no space of their own,
collaborative projects in need of production space and
local bands in need of rehearsal space.

Our archive will travel to other spaces willing to
host it and be open for public use.
Information/materials will continuously be solicited
and added. If you are engaged in collective practice,
we would love to hear from you. Please share with us
any material that speaks to your work: from
documentation of projects to reflections on the
dynamics of cooperation

Any of the following can be extremely useful sources
of information or reference for your work:
o urlís
o digital material: CDís, DVDís, digital  files (text,
video , image, sound; we can arrange for uploading and
downloading to our server)
o printed materials (books, catalogs, magazines,
pamphlets, posters, coasters, zinesÖ)
o reproductions (Xerox copies, photographs, slides,
computer print-outs..)
o documentation of your work in any format, from text
to audio recordings of phone interviews with us
o letters, emails, postcards
o objects

Please send materials to:
Rozalinda Borcila
Visual and Performing Arts, FAH 110
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620, USA

Postmark deadline: September 15th

We are looking for ways to help collectives outside
the US for whom mailing costs are prohibitive. Please
email us: we are trying to organize collection points
around the world to help with mailing expenses. If you
would like to help by serving as a local collection
center, please let us know.

Questions, comments, suggestions? please contact
Rozalinda Borcila    borcila at arts.usf.edu  . This
project is only part of the larger, on-going effort to
learn about, historicize, understand and make public
different forms of critical collective intelligence.
We are also soliciting materials on the various
attempts to theorize collectivity. For each
installment, our growing collection will be
restructured and recategorized..  We seek to connect
with related initiatives to share information,
resources, experience and energy.