From PM fwd by WS:

I'm writing to say a basic hello, and I hope this message finds you well and in good spirits. It's been a while! This is just a quick email about a project I'm really happy about. I've been a big Yoko Ono fan for years, and this is a mini project we put together a while ago. Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth plays guitar on the track, and the whole album has folks like Cat Power, The Flaming Lips, Peaches, Hank Shocklee (who produced Public Enemy), and others. The album title is called "Yes, I'm a Witch" and its Yoko's first full length album in a while. If you have a moment, the track I did with her will be up on my myspace page a bit later today, and the official release of the full album will be on February 6, 2007 on Astralwerks. It's called "Rising" and its one of Yoko's poems - her voice came out great in the mixdown, and I'm really happy with the track.

1._Lessons_from_*the*_POSt_Modernity_
a. Morality tongue clicking cs reformed static 50's reformu[b]latedless via typified gender.s[traight_jckting]nap.shots + trap[e.the.]page in monetaried.hells
b. B sure 2 revoke + e[s]c[ape]lipse ur previousness; ethics.do.not.a.post-9.11.world.parse
c. Clued-in systemic approaches leave the weak.weeker + the know[!]n as danger[m]ous[e]

2._Post_tr[M]ama[!]_[re]Vers(ing_song)e[d]_

Notes on Paolo Virno in Buenos Aires

Maribel Casas-Cortés + Sebastián Cobarrubias (part of the Notas Rojas Translation Network)

http://transform.eipcp.net/correspondence/1170243510

Federico Geller

Virno’s visit to Buenos Aires in September 2006, invited by Colectivo Situaciones and Tinta Limon press, brought new perspectives into a public space characterized by the lack of a radical critique to the state. This absence is due in part to the notable recovery, although incomplete, of the institutional legitimacy of the state in Argentina and neighboring countries.

Scott Rigby of Basekamp talked me into coming to Philadelphia for the ICA show “Locally Localized Gravity” (through March 25, 2007). He asked me to talk about histories of collective art. I arrived late on one of the museum’s “Whenever Wednesdays,” and ran into the place, noting only the large blur of a multi-colored structure reminiscent of the Ewok village from Star Wars on one side of the large main gallery, and scattered groups of people. One bunch seemed to be dancing, dozens of folks standing on a big black-painted raised stage. Another group was squatted in a circle inside a tent on pillows talking.

Artprojx NY and Anthony Reynolds Gallery present
in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art's 'Lights, Camera, Action: Artists' Films for the Cinema', February 8 - April 1 2007
the New York premiere of ...

SLEEPER by Mark Wallinger, 2005 (2hrs 31mins)

Artprojx at Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at Second St)
New York, NY 10003
212-505-5181

Proposal for MoMA
Just before Gordon Matta-Clark died in 1978 the Museum of Modern Art approved a proposal by him to cut into the façade of the original MoMA building before the first renovation and expansion of the building.
The piece was never executed. Gordon’s proposal was a bit of one-upsmanship on a certain level. Christo had proposed in the 1960’s to wrap the façade of MoMA but it remained a proposal. Cutting into the façade of MoMA was a lot more destructive than a gentle wrapping in canvas tarps.

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Last night I went out to see the Doug Aitken projections at MoMA. They are brilliant. The sculpture garden’s side entrances on 53rd street are open in the evening for the month of the exhibition. My wife commented that the use of media stars such as Donald Sutherland didn’t add anything. Go see this piece. It’s major and a breakthrough.

Networked Politics: rethinking political organisation in an age of
movements and networks
http://www.tni.org/reports/newpol/networkedpolitics.htm

/Networked Politics/ is the product of a collaborative research process
for rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and
networks. In a world where the traditional institutions of democratic

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