[spectre] open call - traveling archive on collectivity

[Rozalinda]

greetings to all freecooperators, associators, makers
of common goods, community organizations, networks of
all kinds, cultural collectives, 

organized, self-organized or anti-organized

hosts and distributors of collective intelligence

monsters, outlaws and those who love them

below and attached is our call for contributions --
please consider helping out with this initiative
and/or spreading the word. so far we have invitations
from 3 generous and
hospitable venues willing to temporarily host us, and
can travel the
collection fairly easily. our first space will be open
the first week of november in florida and serve as a
meeting place for action during the US elections.

cheers

rozalinda

Dear friends

If you are engaged in collective practice, we would
love to hear from you!!!

Open Call for a traveling archive and nomadic
meeting-place on collectivity and critical
collective/cooperative cultural action. We need your
contributions !

First stop:
Oliver Gallery, Tampa FL
November 2004

Description:
We are gathering materials on collective and
cooperative forms of creativity, critique, resistance,
intervention, scholarship and artistic production. In
November, the archive will be available to the public
in its first phase as a room/public
space/lounge/resource center/production space/meeting
place at the Oliver Gallery in Tampa FL. We do not
limit the ways in which the archive, and the space
temporarily housing it, may be used or may serve as
resources. Our multi-purpose room will be open 24
hours a day, we have available internet-linked
computers, VHS and DVD players (NTSC and PAL), a
growing collection of paper resources and reference
material, books, pamphlets, print-outs,  Xerox copies,
photos, posters…and free water and coffee. We will
have viewing, seating, lounging, napping and play
areas. We also hope to provide a free Xerox machine
and free CD’s for copying information. The room will
be available to local teachers and community
organizations with no space of their own,
collaborative projects in need of production space and
local bands in need of rehearsal space. 

Our archive will travel to other spaces willing to
host it and be open for public use.
Information/materials will continuously be solicited
and added. If you are engaged in collective practice,
we would love to hear from you. Please share with us
any material that speaks to your work: from
documentation of projects to reflections on the
dynamics of cooperation

Any of the following can be extremely useful sources
of information or reference for your work:
o url’s
o digital material: CD’s, DVD’s, digital  files (text,
video , image, sound; we can arrange for uploading and
downloading to our server)
o printed materials (books, catalogs, magazines,
pamphlets, posters, coasters, zines…)
o reproductions (Xerox copies, photographs, slides,
computer print-outs..)
o documentation of your work in any format, from text
to audio recordings of phone interviews with us
o letters, emails, postcards
o objects

Please send materials to:
Rozalinda Borcila
Visual and Performing Arts, FAH 110
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620, USA

Postmark deadline: September 15th 

Questions, comments? please contact Rozalinda Borcila 
  borcila at arts.usf.edu  . This project is only part of
the larger, on-going effort to learn about,
historicize, understand and make public different
forms of critical collective intelligence. We are also
soliciting materials on the various attempts to
theorize collectivity. For each installment, our
growing collection will be restructured and
recategorized..  We seek to connect with related
initiatives to share information, resources,
experience and energy.