NovadZINE [EotW Edition, no.ONE, vol.ø] Release Party

It was a wonderful night. The weather was unseasonably warm. Reuniting with Bold, Jez [visiting from yonder Dakota territory], Ritchie, Konstant and other Novads was a joy. Rob and Andrea of PacificPeople were excellent as usual as hosts for the event. The Open MIC featured a series of terrific performers, presenting poetry, song, music, movement (directed and spontaneous) + more. Seeing the NovadZINE IRL was a revelation. Seven copies were printed for the happening, and more were ordered by the guests. The plates were bound in a calendar format by Radix, and the zine is gorgeous. The passage of a year's seasons has served only to improve our collective achievements. To talk again about OWS & Magic Mountain & Occupy with Art to a receptive audience felt fantastic. Nothing is dead.

Here's what I read:

DIM TIM Note 1

Man loves to Love and Live, and this is his dreaming. Take his dream away, and he will Hate and Murder.

The computer is a sketching tool. Also a tool for Man to count Everything and even imaginaries. The math and science a sketch requires is nearly impossible to imagine, now because so many people have devoted so much to improving the tools for sketching, especially the computer. Imagination has become relatives with numbering. This is nothing new. Counting makes Man think he knows what is and what's going on. That's why he spends so much time numbering.

Man's beginning to realize all numbers are dimensional. He doesn't realize why this terrifies him so. Dimensional numbers can obviate matter. Uh oh. So much for knowing. So much for things. Art can help. It's supposed to remind us why we love, what life is.

Art is enough for itself.

I wouldn't have believed something that works so well could be so poorly used. The shame of it, man. Sickness, we have learned, can be traced. This is true of the sicknesses infecting art.

To see art in dreaming is to see it as it is. To live life as a dream is something else entirely. To dream a life is to set aside the time of dying.

Notations from Andrea >

Thanks to the “Physical” Open-Mic Participants:
rob, carry, mariette, jez, polina, andrea, paul, chris, robert, lin, richard, aurelio, sari, shane

and Thanks to our “Virtual” Open-Mic Participants:
ale, roo and elke

NovadZINE [EotW Edition], FRESH OUT OF THE BOX

It's been a year, since the world ended. We celebrate the occasion on Saturday by releasing our inaugural NovadZINE, End of the World Edition, unto this troubled world. Andrea & Rob sent us photos of one of the little Chimeras, which is about to commence a global Novadic salon tour:

[NovadZine End of the World Edition, Vol. ø, No. One] Release Party

Remember when the world was supposed to end, one year ago? The Novads celebrated that non-event/conjecture with a momentous project, celebrating revolution against systemic time-based Terror regimes. NovadZINE EotW, Vol.ø, No. One was the beautiful result. I created the 96 gorgeous color plates for the book, featuring a phenomenal mix of Novadic arts and culture by many beloved contributors from the convergent circles of original OWS A+C, OwA, AFH, RevGamerz, Novads & Magic Mountain. It was and is truly a labor of love and wonder. Preview the zine at ISSUU HERE or check out the plates HERE on Facebook.

Now we are ready to start phase 2 of the production, which entails dispersion of the EotW ZINE across the globe. Of course, the Novads will have a party to mark the occasion of the first five full (5) copies [Artist Proof(s)] of the ZINE manifesting in real life [IRL]. The gathering will be hosted by 1067 Pacific People. Details below.

1067 PacificPeople present
SOLSTICE OPEN MIC & DEVIATE ZINE RELEASE PARTAY
TESTING TESTING 1,2,3: EndoftheWorld speech acts
Saturday, December 21
SIGN IN 3:32pm STARTS 4:32pm
@1067 Pacific Street, Brooklyn

In “TESTING TESTING 1 2 3: EndoftheWorld speech acts” artist Andrea Haenggi and writer Robert Neuwirth invite people to get together for an open mic on the solstice transformation of nothingness to sense the pleasure of communicating in a quest for gestures, movement, and encounters. We will break after approximately 20 minutes of the speech acts for a 20 minute partay to dance to eat to celebrate the release of our dear friends DEVIATE ZINE “End of the World Edition no. ONE, Vol.ø “, produced by the Novad anarchist art collective. Then we return to more speech acts before we go back to again to the DEVIATE ZINE “End of the World” Release Partay.

WANT TO PERFORM? This Open Mic has two micro rules that can start now -- just email Andrea at andrea@amdat.org and you can be part of the line-up and or sign-in at the day of the event at 3:32 pm
1. Any speech act goes (dance speech, talk speech, music speech...) so long you start with a test phrase to check the mic for its frequency response.
2. End of the world speech acts can not be longer then 3 minutes

For “TESTING TESTING 1-2-3: EndoftheWorld speech acts” we encourage all participants and audience members to come on the solstice switch time (4:32 pm is sunset on the year’s shortest day) to be together in this nihilist-style approach. It will be mostly outdoors so please dress warm. The more people, the more we can warm up by being close to each other! Bring all your friends so we can pack the 2000 square foot outdoor space.

The Event is free, but please bring some food, drinks and anything that goes to share with others.
Join us at Scenic Superfical Garage Resort @1067 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, http://goo.gl/ugOcy.

Onward

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Twitter: @1067PacificPeop
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ABOUT: 1067 PacificPeople Installation/Performance research field work

SCENIC SUPERFICIAL GARAGE RESORT gets built on: “The desire to be touched by something. Untouched. Desert. Urban Desert. Landscape Touched. Architecture Touched. People Touched. Altered. Human interference. Desertification. Desire expresses movement. Movement expresses Desire. Movement includes the missing. The failed communication. Desire to express the failed communication. Desire to Produce Affections and Sensations to address the uneasy sense of dislocation and detachment that hangs in the air.”

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New Essay in Brooklyn Rail

"POST-OCCUPIED - Art, Free Speech, and the 1%" appears in the November issue of the Rail. Thanks to Ted Hamm, a great editor and friend. Click the image to read the article at the BR site.

Lloyd's smirk from the cited interview + a vampire squid. [PJM, 2013]