Micro-Resistances

2008-05-14T07:59:00.000-07:00

http://ltdweb.org/

Let's Push Things Forward 2008
Filmed by Matthew Keeney and friends. Baltimore, MD. USA (Remote Instructions Project)
http://www.leewalton.com/

conducts creative, participatory research that aims to temporarily transform public spaces dominated by non-public agendas. Using performance and conversation, we investigate social and political "tiny things".
These have included corporate ads, street names, and post-9/11 security terminology. The Institute markets dissent through its research reports in the form of maps, books and videos.
http://www.ikatun.com/institute/infinitelysmallthings/

These are proposals in the web working in the field of Micro-Resistances. In order to direct our effort in one collective way this is just the begining of a list for new friends to develop cooperative processes.

Some thoughts

2008-04-26T07:43:00.000-07:00

For us, the intent was to address a hostile condition with a comforting gesture. This was a small, ephemeral act - the minute scale in time and physical intervention was quite a departure for both of us. It would be interesting to try to continue the project through other interventions / actions at other locations which are also hedged or guarded in this way.

These protected edges are almost like mini-militarized zones, and they appear in different forms, armed with different systems, in every city. I'll look for some analogous conditions here in Boston and post.

It would be great if we could get some images of situations like these and responses to them from other cities....I'm still looking for a place to do a mini-war scene with plastic green army men and camouflage! (image courtesy of sirdavethebrave)

healing cotton balls

2008-04-25T12:16:00.000-07:00

Healing cotton balls was made during the Muntadas experience last march with his group of MIT and Harvard, and us from USP. Marrikka and me decided to heal the aggressiveness generated by these structures put along the streets for homeless or regular people not to sit -or sleep- on these corners