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Entries in occupational art school node 1 at bat haus (14)

Tuesday
Nov202012

OAS Node #1 & Chashama present PLAYLAB [Side Effecting] with The New Ergonomics

Friday
Oct192012

This week [Oct14-20] at Occupational Art School Node 1

Saturday
Oct132012

New Collab: OASN1 & Human Relations Bookstore 

Wednesday
Oct102012

oas Node #1 [10/10]: On Richard Tuttle in the Age of Art.sy

Friday
Oct052012

OAS Node #1 [10/5]: Starr Street Slam (PROGRAM)

Friday
Oct052012

OAS Node #1 @BAT HAUS: STARR STREET SLAM!

TONIGHT!

Tuesday
Oct022012

OAS Node #1 [10/3]: Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Occupational Art School Node 1 @Bat Haus is pleased to host an evening of conversation with New Media phenom Amelia Winger-Bearskin on Wednesday, October 3 from 7-9PM. She will performing in the OASN1@BH event STARR STREET SLAM. For our Wednesday night discussion with Amelia, we hope to discuss Open Source Performance Art, time-based media, and Winger-Bearskin's continent-hopping artist practice. 

"Flowers," performed in Manila City, Philippines [2010]

[ABOUT AMELIA WINGER-BEARSKIN]:

 

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an assistant professor of Art and Film at Vanderbilt University in the area of Time Based Media Arts and Performance. She works with 'models' (as defined by agent-based computer programming) as a conceptual prompt in her performance work. She has developed a concept of Open Source Performance Art (OSPA) and has spoken about OSPA at various academic conferences and performance festivals since 2010. She performed at the 10th Annual OPEN ART Performance Art festival in Beijing, China, The Performance Art Network PANAsia '09 in Seoul, South Korea, and the TAMA TUPADA 2010 Media and Performance festival in the Philippines. Winger-Bearskin recently spent a month in Sao Paulo, Brazil performing at the Verbo Performance Art Festival (the first American performance artist to be invited to do so), through an international scholar exchange sponsored by University of Sao Paulo and Vanderbilt University VIO and Art Department. She was an Artist in residence at the University of Tasmania (Australia) school of Visual and Performing arts. Other recent performance credits include the  Gwangju Biennial [three events: 1) main pavilion; 2) the Lotte Gallery Media and Performance Festival; and 3) the Women's Biennial in Seoul, Korea].
Currently, she is presenting a sound installation throughout the Nashville International Airport, and in Fall 2012 will be speaking about her work and OSPA as a visiting artist at universities in Portland, OR; Chicago, IL; and New York City, NY.

"Crying on Cue;" for the Performance Art Network PAN ASIA Performance Art Festival in Seoul, Korea [2009]

[ABOUT AMELIA'S UPCOMING PERFORMANCE AT STARR STREET SLAM]:

 

Vocal Performance

 

 

Amelia Winger-Bearskin was classically trained at the Eastman Conservatory of Music in Vocal Performance, she has worked in theatre and opera both as a performer and a composer since 1997.  Her pieces are a fusion between punk, electro, opera and dark wave, with a heavy dose of performance art and interactivity as well. This work, Vocal Performance, requires only two things, an audience and darkness (or the absence of any artificial light).


 


 

 

 

Monday
Oct012012

OAS Node #1 [10/5]: Starr Street Slam (FLYER)

Sunday
Sep302012

OAS Node #1 MAP

Friday
Sep282012

OAS Node #1 [10/5]: Starr Street Slam (TEASER + PRESS RELEASE)

PRESS RELEASE

FOR RELEASE IN ALL MEDIA

On Friday, October 5, 2012, from 7-9PM Brooklyn Rail Editor Theodore Hamm will host STARR STREET SLAM an historic series of readings in the heart of Bushwick/Brooklyn/NYC/USA/Earth at the Occupational Art School Node 1 @Bat Haus. The list of presenters includes Barbara Browning, Doug Cordell, Corey Eastwood, Paul McLean and Christopher Moylan. Come join us for a fine time, for merriment, for smart and inspirational words, for libations and finger foods, for communal pleasure of all sorts!

OCCUPATIONAL ART SCHOOL NODE 1 @BAT HAUS

279 Starr Street 
[BUSHWICK] Brooklyn, NY 11237

L Stop: Jefferson Street 
[Exit the train at the Wyckoff/Starr end of the platform, walk with the one-way on Starr towards St. Nicholas a half block, and Bat Haus is just past the famous taco stand on the left. Look for the yellow ochre door that says “Bat Haus.”]

MORE INFO: artforhumans at gmail dot com

URLs:
occupationalartschool.com 
occupationalartschool.tumblr.com
occupywithart.com
batha.us
brooklynrail.org
artforhumans.com

OAS Node 1 @Bat Haus is an Occupy with Art + Art for Humans Project. Founding members include Paul McLean, Chris Moylan, JenJoy Roybal, Alexandre Carvalho (OAS Node n) and Bold Jez (OAS Node 0). 

THE ALL-STARR STREET PLAYERS:

BARBARA BROWNING teaches performance studies at N.Y.U. and writes novels. 
DOUG CORDELL tells stories on NPR and writes them in the Brooklyn Rail. 
COREY EASTWOOD is a writer and co-owner of Book Thug Nation and Human Relations Books in Bushwick. 
PAUL McLEAN is a regular Rail contributor, dimensional artist and founding member of OASN1.
CHRISTOPHER MOYLAN is a professor, poet-artist, union organizer, occupier and founding member of OASN1. 

THEODORE HAMM is editor of the Brooklyn Rail.

ABOUT OAS NODE 1: 

“Our dream is to open a building in Bushwick, Brooklyn with vegetable and flower gardens on the roof, studios of all sorts on another floor (painting, holography, photography, theater, film and all these working together) on another, living spaces and a childcare facility on another and all of these centered on a cooperative economy: food co-op, art and educational co-op, art offered in an alternative economic model. The doors to and in this place will open all ways— out to the community so all are welcome and within the space open to all rooms so people share and work together and create together. There will be teaching in this school, naturally, but no classes. Instruction will be through inspiration and guidance in open apprenticeships. We will practice the spirit of Occupy in the most constructive, joyous, healing way we can. We will step outside of capitalism, not confront or battle it. We will ignore the hegemony of institutions and corporate interests not try to overthrow or fight them. We will work outside of corporate time and within liberated time that flows as it will.

We are doing this. The process is in place. Artists are coming to the school to give lectures, for free. We are attracting people from the community and already we are engaging in an alternative art economy, exchanging services of various sorts for lessons and art. This is happening very fast. We are in deep rem sleep, dreaming hard, and it is a wonderful experience.” - Chris Moylan (October 2012)

ABOUT BROOKLYN RAIL:

Founded in October 2000 and currently published monthly with a print circulation of 20,000 and an international online monthly readership of over 500,000, the Brooklyn Rail is committed to providing an independent forum for arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond.

Our journal features local reporting, art criticism, fiction, poetry, as well as coverage of music, dance, film and theater. In 2004, the Rail was honored with several awards from the Independent Press Association-NY, and in 2002 and 2003, we proudly received the Utne Independent Press Award for Best Local/Regional Coverage in North America. In addition, the Rail further fulfills its mission by curating art exhibitions, panel discussions, reading series and film screenings that reflect the complexity and inventiveness of the city’s artistic and cultural landscape. If you would like to receive occasional updates on our events and other special projects, please join our mailing list.

Our small press, The Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions, publishes books of poetry, experimental fiction, prose meditation, artists’ writings, and interview with artists in addition to art and literary criticism.

The Brooklyn Rail, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, distributes its journal free of charge, and our devoted staff, editors and contributors work on an entirely voluntary basis. We rely exclusively on the philanthropy of foundations and individual donors to meet our production, operation, and program expenses. If you are interested in supporting us, please consider making a fully tax-deductible donation.

ABOUT BAT HAUS: 

Bat Haus is the creation of Natalie Chan & Cody Sullivan, which began as a vague idea just after New Year’s 2012. Through many conversations with small business advisors, bankers, fellow coworking spaces, lawyers, and contractors, this idea has evolved into a complex and well-mannered life-form.

 

Friday
Sep282012

OAS Node #1 [9/27]: Everyone Is a Curator?

Click the image to read more about tonight's OASN1 open forum on curating.

Thursday
Sep272012

OAS Sketch by JenJoy Roybal

Thursday
Sep272012

New OAS Brooklyn Rail Ad [Oct. 2012]

Wednesday
Sep262012

OAS Node #1 is going to Black Mountain!

Please join us Wednesday, September 26th at OCCUPATIONAL ART SCHOOL NODE #1 @BAT HAUS to workshop our presentation at Black Mountain College this weekend! 

OASN1 Presentation Program Summary for BMC International Conference 2012 

  • ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 4 
  • September 28-30, 2012
  • Asheville, North Carolina 
  • Thematic Focus: Looking Forward at Buckminster Fuller’s Legacy 

 

OASN1 PRESENTER: JENJOY ROYBAL 

Bucky in Bushwick: Actualizing Black Mountain in the age of Occupy

 Occupational Art School (OAS) is a start up art school in Bushwick, Brooklyn, born out of the arts and culture committee at the hieght of  the occupy movement. The overall approach is to combine a self-educational salon with some of the sustainable urban strategies expressed in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. After doing a visioning process and researching similar endeavors like Black Mountain College, 3rd Ward, Eyebeam and Bruce High Quality, it became clear that there is no single place that allows one to develop a holistic approach to being an artist in the city in the way we are envisioning. You do your urban farming in one neighborhood, showcase and sell your handmade wares in another and go back to your studio to produce your artwork for a gallery showing, all disconnected. OAS is a one-stop shop for integrating art practice and a sustainable lifestyle in such a way that is regenerative – an artist centric enterprise with a strong educational component provided by its members/participants. Influencing projects from the Buckminster Fuller Challenge include Plant Chicago, Brooklyn Farm Yards and Santa Fe Innovation Park. Courses started in August 2012.

About OAS Founding Member Jenjoy Roybal: JenJoy Roybal managed the Buckminster Fuller Challenge at the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) in Brooklyn (NY) for several years. She is a graduate of the groundbreaking Urban Design Program at CUNY headed by Michael Sorkin. Prior to BFI, JenJoy worked for the City of San Jose implementing public art for capital improvement projects (CIP), and in Santa Fe, NM for a design/build company utilizing indigenous and sustainable practices for housing development. JenJoy is also a painter and video artist with a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago.