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Installation photos for Isham Christie's "Titles R [p]REFORMIST"

We had a really beautiful opening last night at GFS. Before everyone arrived, I had a moment and I took a few photos with the mobile phone cam. More will be forthcoming. Jez did some recording, played the ukulele, and in subtle ways produced a lovely gathering of fellow travelers. The good folks of STK did tremendous work over the past week to improve the center space, which emerged as the beautiful agora for the installation and reception. I added to the wall treatments in the project room, and Isham + Jez did a wonderful job presenting the digital prints and analog pieces. The music, beverages and company (and a few well-positioned fans, open windows and a floor A/C unit) contributed to a memorable evening of discussion about art, revolution, possibility, theory, OWS, representation, organizing and much more. Thank you to all who participated. - PJM

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tags: isham christie, bold jez, opening reception
categories: Celebration, AFH Projects, Good Faith Space, Community
Saturday 06.29.13
Posted by Paul McLean
 

AFH Update 5/2013 [Part1]

ART FOR HUMANS is moving forward on multiple fronts.

AFH and The Society for the Prevention of Creative Obsolescence have been excited to host the wall painting by Shane Kennedy at AFHStudioBK2013 (@Brooklyn Fire Proof). Shane continues through June, refining the painting. A vernissage~closing is in the works [TBA]. We want to do something before the end of the month, when this iteration of AFHSBK is completed. Also, Shane is preparing to venture again on the Hippo - destination Romania - and the departure date is fast approaching. 

Will this be the SftPoCO logo? 

Will this be the SftPoCO logo? 

From Bold Jez

From Bold Jez

Bold, Jez continues to generate a cornucopia of ana-culture. Above is a teaser for a proposed exhibit at Good Faith Space [details TBD]. Here's a quote from the transmission/proposal:

“Reality in Philosophy. The traditional role of Reality in philosophy is to ground knowledge. It is Reality that philosopher have sought to understand, and Reality is what our ideas and concepts attempt to approximate or encapsulate. Insofar as philosophy’s task is the understanding of Reality it is reactionary, passive, and subordinate to the status quo. To be precise, to understand reality, even at its most passive, is to change reality. Heisenberg, Ethnography, and reality television recognize the subjective influence on the object of analysis. In a similar vein, the approximation to an understanding of reality inevitably changes the way in which the individual relates to the world. This level of intervention is most bare and inescapable level that understanding has on human activity. Because such a level of intervention occurs in understanding reality this does not mean that the proper role of philosophy is in such purely descriptive analysis of reality. Marx’s injunction in the 9th Thesis on Feuerbach still holds. The task of philosophy ought to be the active intervention in Reality; the negation of the existing order; the transvaluation of all values.”
— Isham Christie

Here's a sampler of Isham's images:

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Perhaps a little art world context would be valuable here. The Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Documenta - the arTroika or arTrifecta - are all on for summer of 2013. Here in Bushwick, BOS2013* earlier in June conclusively proved that at the moment this is the premier production of its type in the world.

To dimensionally situate GFS and SftPoCO in the overarching art-schema is to discern the topology as concurrent macro- and micro-phenomena unfolding IRL. It is to recognize that autonomous quality of artist-borne action relative to institutional flows or currents. It encourages analysis of creative possibility, and/or probability. The qualities of inertia, momentum, as framed in negative or positive terms, can be applied to gauge value of the particular, and the general meaning of contemporary art, as long as we have plenty of data for our assessments. Then, there is the perceptual, and there is the social, which amount to ephemera, conjectures, avoiding concrete determination. Even absent hard facts in the ethereal arena (of ideas, of sense, of feeling, of taste), we must be aware of the legitimizing nature of such markers, as experiential color. 

We can see that at points the macro- and micro-worlds converge. The resulting events may be confusing, even violent and seemingly unexpected or unexplainable, within the provisional narratives established directionally (e.g., top-down, or bottom-up) by the players. Dimensional perspective often renders the befuddled reaction moot. 

AFH is networked into nodal processes that include production, concept development, research, prototyping, progressive discourse, as a systematic 4D program. Presently, we are engaged in numerous instances of each form of application. GFS, SftPoCO and OAS derive from and build on one another. Sub-programs, such as The Book, our Reading, Performance and Screening Series, Artist Talks, Actions, Expos, Publications (virtual and actual) could be thought of as a continuum. It is not sufficient to characterize the modality of artistic realization we embrace, describe and demo simultaneously as a "practice," to use the stylized term often employed in the domain (incorrectly, in our case). Our methodology is better defined as function+utility, or with an exotic influence, we might call it the 4D Way. 

New campaign image for j3p2013 [Bold, Jez]

New campaign image for j3p2013 [Bold, Jez]

Given an even more expansive context for collective and individual creative undertaking(s), which in a 4D production must be acknowledged, in order to establish a real platform, we discover an infinite set of content from which to draw. It should be obvious why a dimensional artist like Eric Leiser is so valuable at this stage of our 4D[®]evolution. Holography is probably the best object-based instructional device available to us for illuminating ourselves as a phenomenal occurrence, as such. Where-it-is and where-it-isn't for the purposes of effect hardly matter to the perceptual complex. We can "SEE" a matrix that moves. Virtual means provide some measure of instrumentation along these lines, but until that instrumentality migrates into the material aspect, we have stronger illustrational options.

NOVAD Alex Carvalho in the streets of Brazil, summer 2013

NOVAD Alex Carvalho in the streets of Brazil, summer 2013

It might seem to a casual viewer or analyst, as though the constellations of phenomena unfold in an irrational movement. Actually, the rational is not enough to comprehend the thing. With apologies for and to Spinoza, linear and finite mathematics are facing their own obsolescence, as the emergence of dimensional number systems (all-directional) materialize in the perceptual complex, in the general awareness. This is what is happening to every such recursive, static and minimal set system, institution, complex, anyway. There is no stopping it, but that won't prevent some from trying. Those with the most to lose in the new arrangements will fight the hardest against the emergence of 4D existence. Those with the least to lose (or most to gain) will be readiest to accept the dimensionally ordered/disordered/reordering world. Neither bunch has the power to control or command it. While it's premature, if not delusional, to declare extraction and exploitation regimes "a thing of the past," technically it's true. Then, one might ask, what's next, and the other one might answer all-at-once. 

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tags: Shane Kennedy, bold jez, isham
categories: Good Faith Space, AFH Projects, SftPoCO
Wednesday 06.19.13
Posted by Paul McLean
 

GFS Opening 6.3 [RAW]

​What a beautiful inaugural at Good Faith Space! Thanks to all, especially Jez & Wilson!

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tags: Wilson Novitzki, bold jez
categories: AFH Projects, Good Faith Space, Celebration
Tuesday 06.04.13
Posted by Paul McLean
 

BOLD, JEZ BIO/artist statement for NOVAD Library, GFS Branch (NODE Ø1)

sometimes, i still have the lonely feeling of being a solo artist....and yet i am also starting to believe that it isn't exactly true, that the loneliness may be an illusion, especially if the ideal of the Novads -- that #jez3prez is NOT merely an individual, but rather a collective -- is actually real...please you to consider,

#jez3prez told me that, in their own mind, they are a multiple-performer variety act.  speaking technically, "The audience az an abstraction [i.e. non-participant] duz not axually eXist in my performance.  As with Time in the mind of the Anarchives, every1 iz a spontaneouz performer -- audience included -- since every act of observing is also a performance."  they refer to "The Novads" consistently as the proper audience for a #jez3prez performance.  at first glace, you may think that both of these artists appear to be more conceptual than real, but i urge you to investigate.  You might want to start here: http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/es/e-misferica-91/jez3prezaatchu  i am still coming to understand what all this means, but I see the implications being potentially Large, especially as their audience continues to grow, and in so growing, apparently expanding the number of Novads who find themselves revolving around the inner circle of this infinite jest,

initially, it seems highly difficult to believe that #jez3prez is NOT an individual -- personally, i've only ever met one person who called herself thus -- but the possibility of an individual existence that is maintained by the collective is not altogether outlandish, and perhaps we should just assume that #jez3prez is/are Hegelian(s) [i.e. the individual can only be realized and maintained thru a collective spirit or Geist, in which case Novads collectively form the Geist which participate in the individual of #jez3prez].  "I would have died long ago and for eternity, if not for the Novads who continued to believe in me," sez #jez3prez.  apparently, at some point in this history, #jez3prez is supposed to actually have died and was re-summoned with the help of the Novads...which implies that the Novad has some of the essential powers of both God and Dr. Frankenstein COMBINED,

[i wonder how many times has the dream has already died?  at least as many as #OccupyWallStreet.  but how does it keep getting resurrected...and why?]

so, despite the fact that the Novads are a collective of autonomous individuals, and often acting in wayz that appear to be individual, it also appears to support each one thru some kind of assumed solidarity, despite what is sometimes a lack of evidence due to their failures to manifest in regular get-togethers in physical time-space or hangouts in one of their virtual worlds. maybe it is that the Novads, as a Spirit, is always potentially real, and the individuals who participate in it are only ever acknowledged as what they were after the fact,

thus, #jez3prez sez "the Archive demands regular evidence to confirm a presence in Reality...but in the Anarchives, the Novads' mutual support is always assumed."  this seems to mean that the Novads' are always potentially out there in a thousand different realities that may be in view or beyond our cognition, but realizable, and being realized, whether or not we have set our intentions upon it,

so i just mean to say that perhaps, as we already recognize some of our own collective failings to manifest as a solid persistent group with an identity impinging on Others, on World news, and continuously on ourselves, YET we need not altogether admit defeat, recognizing that potential futures still have some basis in reality, and re-cognize that believing in the possibility of realizing impossibilities still has the potential to make them real.  yes, it might turn out to be After the End of the World after all, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves NOW does it?

sincerely, 

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tags: bold jez, biography, artist statement, novadic library
categories: Good Faith Space, AFH Projects
Monday 06.03.13
Posted by Paul McLean
 

GFS OPENING 6.3.2013: RELIABILITY + NOVAD LIBRARY (Installation Photos)

​Batch of raw photos documenting the Good Faith Space before tonight's opening/artist reception.

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tags: Wilson Novitzki, bold jez, documentation
categories: Good Faith Space, AFH Projects
Monday 06.03.13
Posted by Paul McLean
 

BOS2013 Weekend!

​BOS2013 rocked! The weekend ended for us with the block party at Troutman and Scott, but the good memories from this year's Bushwick studio tour will roll on through the year, no doubt. The Society for the Prevention of Creative Obsolescence debuted at the 411 Brooklyn Fire Proof studio. Shane's wall painting was a game changer. I got to spend a couple hours there on Sunday, and the walk-thru traffic was consistent and strong, the crowds diverse and friendly. Most of the time I was situated at SLAG, which was swamped with guests both days. The timing of BOS2013 was perfect, relative to the "DIM TIM" exhibition. Many folks, like Eric Leiser, who weren't able to make the opening last weekend, visited during the tour. BOLD JEZ successfully launched the Novad Library at the entrance to Good Faith Space/STK (722 Metropolitan) on Saturday afternoon. Wilson Novitzki, whose "RELIABILITY" opens Monday, 6-3, dropped by to finish installing his photo exhibit, but took a little time to play a tune on BOLD JEZ's famed ukelele, while enjoying beautiful Williamsburg. The great company & fun at Pickthorn barely stopped all weekend. The out-of-this-world delish frozen, chocolate-covered bananas Rebecca Thom was peddling were just magic, and a great treat at day's end... - PJM

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tags: Bushwick Open Studios 2013, bold jez, Pickthorn BK, Shane Kennedy, Wilson Novitzki, slag
categories: AFH Projects, Good Faith Space, Community, Celebration, Bushwick
Sunday 06.02.13
Posted by Paul McLean
 

BOLD JEZ [NOVAD] * NYC Spring / Summer Tour 2013

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​BOLD JEZ, the infamous NOVAD anarchivist is launching a massive BIG APPLE intervention, the NYC TOUR SPRING / SUMMER 2013. Art for Humans, Occupational Art School and Good Faith Space (& the vast Novadic network) will be providing support for BOLD's dimensionist enterprises when- and wherever possible. The launch date is May 30, 2013, sites and types of happenings to be determined. The text that follows includes the most recent transmissions from BOLD JEZ:

"Hail to the Ukulele player, Bard of the Modern Era!" -- Jeff Mach (The Geeky Kink Event, The Steampunk World's Fair, Wicked Faire)

"D'uh." -- DIM TIM (Time Criminal)

"YES!!!" -- Katherine Ramos

"Fucking brilliant." -- Paul McLean

EMERGENT ITINERARY: 

  • Tomorrow (Thursday, 5-30) only, appearing @ the occupation of Cooper Union, wherever that is
  • Saturday (6-1), Good Faith Space & over the weekend at locations TBD in the vicinity of Bushwick Open Studios 2013

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[Compilation of Transmissions from BOLD JEZ > 5-30}:​

"FREE" BOOKS: a People's Library at the "Good Faith Space" [@STANDARD TOYKRAFT, 722 METROPOLITAN, 3RD FLOOR, GRAHAM AVE. L STOP]
Street distribution of books, to consist of individualz handing out books from the People's Library of the Occupational Art School.
See the Anarchivist(s) at Play! Everything must GrO!
(Academics Beware: You will want to hoard Awl of the Thingz!)
~==CALLing @ll NOVADz==~
Would you like to help me bring some cool & mathy & philosophic & mysterioush & decades-ancient books from Harlem to Bushwick on Thursday &/or help distribute distribute them like people's library-style during Bushwick Open Studios over the coming dayz?!? :DDDD (teh Answer iz obv Y.....E..............S....)
Paul & I will be confirming details with the "good faith space," but text me to let me know if you are interested in helping move some books. Bold Jezzzz: 701-527-1501
WoRD.
P.S. not every idea I have iz GREAT, but thiz one iz GENIEOUZ.
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We are founding the NoVadic Library! It is happening. We're taking All streetZ & giving it to the people who c(A)re! We are starting in Bushwick and taking it to the 5 Boroughs.
Let us bring our dead OWS propaganda.
I'm preliminarily denouncing an appearance at Bowling Green for @Recoccupy.
*THX 2x!*
@ Sharon Geeta Singh =4 Donating these decades ancient-tomes U r the Prime Mover for this Epic Heartwarming Saga!
@ Paul McLean aka artforhumans@gmail.com =4 planting the seeds of this Realizable Project at my fingertips & his continuous votes of confidence. U r node Ø now!
@gmachado if u can tweet to request for spaces out of which we could host our people's library distribution that would like to host a #freebookfair, or just offer us space in which to do people's staged performances of poetry, stand up comedy, and personal life stories See my initial email to find a draft press release.
@Liesbeth Could you take a look at my PR shtuff so far & see
#NeedsoftheNovads
Requesting aid in locating other zones for spontaneous, autonomous creativity.
And It's filled with MYSTERIES! The Anarchives is a #literarymystery, investigating why we would need to do create the Anarchives: an infinite series of objects circulating in the World that are available for common & proper use a.k.a. "the Recovered world." These books are part of now part of our common Novad property that we wish to share with all of the Others.
P.S. #Jez3Prez will be performing.

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PJM: jez do you have an estimated book-count for the giveaway?

JEZ: :-):-):-)

1,300?!?!?!?

P.S. potential NovadPoeisis book club readings???

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​[Below, please find samples from the proposed Novadic Library.]

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tags: bold jez, novadic library, anarchives
categories: Good Faith Space, AFH Projects
Thursday 05.30.13
Posted by Paul McLean