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the group met at 108 Leonard at the thing studio in the clocktower gallery.

the group discussed various proposals for potential exhibitions. These included:

daniel Blochwitz - 2 proposals

1. document 1 day. this is inspired by writing from Christa Wolf the eastgerman author who decided to document Sept. 22nd starting in 1962.
2. common sense. this was a proposal for an online/offline utopian community.

Lara Martini proposed a sort of telephone Arab or Exquisite Corps piece.

Ursula Endlicher proposed a group interview of one another.

Ursula talked about Medi Noche as a potential exhibition venue.

Lee Wells talked about the Roger Smith hotel on Lexington.

The group agreed to to a proposal for the DUMBO arts festival under the category of projection work. The theme was loosely based on trying to form the group. The proposal is due july 1st. the tasks are divided thus:

1. Lara & James will write the initial proposal description for the projections.
2. Daniel will go to dumbo and scout locations and take photos.
3. Lee will write the group description bio/statement/mission
4. Ursula will put together the package with gh
5. GH will printout and post the package and fill out the entry forms for DUMBO.

Each person should upload an image or text that might be used as an example to project on buildings as a work sample. This is to the artists meeting account on nujus.net

use an ftp client such as fetch.

Next meeting scheduled for Tuesday July 17th at the thing studio , 108 Leonard Street, Clocktower GALLERY


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Full Proposal by Daniel Blochwitz

Submitted by G.H. Hovagimyan on Thu, 2007-06-28 13:10.

Thanks for the meeting notes. Here a few corrections/addition regarding
"me", Daniel BlochWITZ (German: WITZ - JOKE; STEIN - STONE):

My Proposals:

1. In 1960, Christa Wolf followed a call to writers from the Russian newspaper "Isvestia" [sp?] to document as precisely as possible the day of September 27. She did so in a very personal, somewhat diaristic manner, for more than forty years. She recently published "One Day A Year, ". I
thought this would lent itself nicely as an interesting project for visual artists as well. There could be a show in which all of us document one day,kinda like an attentive "chance-encounter" with our everyday. This could be a one-time thing, or it could accumulate over the years into something more
... We could decide to also use September 27 (which would anchor the structure directly to Christa Wolf) or we could pick a different day ...

2. CommonSenses is a project of mine in its early conceptual stage. The main idea is to have a website that functions as a transdisciplinary, somewhat moderated hub/forum asking contributors to imagine a world we truly would like to live in. It's a utopian project, but with a very real base. The idea is based on "open-source" contributions, that allows anyone to participate, propose, edit, challenge, [...] according to each contributors expertise and/or experiences. Obviously this project should be grounded "offline", too, or at least expand eventually into real world. A potential exhibition could be a launching platform in which we -- as visual artists -- imagine a Utopian society, whatever that would mean to each of us ...

Do I make sense? Please let me know what you think. :)

Daniel


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