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e in illinois in the afternoon on walls and sidewalks around the city offering fact sheets about tamms supermax prison to curious pedestrians the teams hit spots such as navy pier the chicago art institute the museum of contemporary art the jane adams hull house hyde park art center the logan square skate park the chicago zoo depaul university as well as sidewalks underpass walls and numerous other locations read full press release mud stencil video by gretchen hasse eye exam mud slinging lori waxman newcity art dirt water whisk sponge bucket box cutter tar paper these are not your typical artist s materials mix the water and dirt in the bucket lay the cut out paper against a cement surface and sponge on the mud however and the result is a handsome work of environmentally friendly graffiti street artists often work with stencils using them to shape spray painted statements but a chemical medium dispensed through an aerosol container reeks of toxicity so milwaukee based jesse graves intent on finding a more compatible way to apply his environmentally and politically conscious messages evolved an alternate means of tagging mud the technique is nothing short of ingenious simple cheap graphically effective and not necessarily illegal mud stencils if protected from the elements can last up to ten years or like all dirt they can be washed off with water consistency is key however to achieving a bold visual with sharp edges the mud mixture must be carefully controlled so that it achieves a viscosity akin to peanut butter or feces yes feces like the feces sometimes smeared by inmates at tamms prison on the walls of their cells cells where they are held in permanent solitary confinement bereft of all human contact for up to twenty three hours a day with breaks only for showers and individual exercise it s a supermax jail in southern illinois originally designed for the short term punishment of violent inmates from other facilities but one third of whose occupants have now been locked up in extreme isolation for over a decade with no clearly defined standards for transfer in or out widely believed to cause permanent physiological and psychological damage these conditions contravene the geneva convention two united nations treaties and various other international human rights accords conditions which have led inmates not only to paint their walls with shit in desperate attempts for attention but also to mutilate themselves to attempt suicide and to require for one in every ten men at tamms regular doses of psychotropic medication all this for up to 90 000 a year per inmate three to four times the cost of incarceration at other prisons in illinois what any of this has to do with mud stenciling was revealed this past saturday as some thirty artists and other activists took to the streets of chicago armed with six by nine foot cutouts informational flyers and the resolve to help end torture in illinois that was the message they broadcast in mud end torture in illinois bordered with a broken line in the shape of the state topped with a star for tamms the regional capital of cruel and unusual punishment they hit locations across the city from the art institute and the board of trade to the logan square skate park senator rickey hendon s west side office the lincoln park green city market the university of illinois quad the depaul student center and various sidewalks boarded up buildings and underpasses in between the campaign was the latest tactical art action by tamms year ten and one of its most vivid and accessible yet a coalition of more than seventy groups throughout illinois from mental health alliances to human rights advocacies and faith based committees tamms year ten was founded last year on the occasion of the prison s tenth anniversary with the goal of urging the governor of illinois and the illinois department of corrections to either close or convert the prison following national trends to establish transparency and standards at the facility and at the very least to follow the original legislative intent for the supermax which was only meant for short term use tamms year ten has also worked with illinois lawmakers to introduce hb2633 which includes provisions for instituting accountability at the prison and prohibiting mentally ill prisoners from being moved there in the first place the bill sponsored by rep julie hamos with twenty seven co sponsors seems like the least the state can do in the face of the grotesque human rights violations it has been committing for the past decade in the name of law and order identical confinement at guantanamo bay whose closure has been ordered by president obama has been determined by the pentagon to be too isolating for prisoner safety but according to an editorial that appeared in the tribune just a few weeks ago it s good enough for illinois residents chicago s newspaper of record fears that the situation at other prisons could get uglier if the idoc loses its freedom to keep inmates locked up at tamms indefinitely despite studies that indicate supermax incarceration increases recidivism and that tamms has done nothing to reduce violence in other state prisons never mind the international consensus that prolonged isolation equals torture as the tribune put it the worst of the worst end up there read who cares who cares indeed with bold public rallies calls to lawmakers intelligent press ever more studies and reports meetings with legislators and idoc officials and some smart art activism hopefully a whole lot more people mud washes off in the rain years of being cut off from any social contact being locked up and treated worse than any animal doesn t link to full article by lori waxman at newcity art misc resources see the just seeds blog for complete details of mud stenciling mud stencils jesse graves tamms year ten human rights watch public statement about tamms amnesty international public statement about tamms new yorker article about tamms supermax hellhole by atul gawande posted by nicholas_senn at 3 21 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday april 28 2009 there goes the neighbourhood there goes the neighbourhood is an exhibition residency discussion and publishing project for may 2009 the central element of this project will be an exploration of the politics of urban space with a focus on redfern sydney the project will examine the complex life of cities and how the phenomenon of gentrification is altering the relationship between democracy and demography around the world while urban change itself is not always a bad thing gentrification often happens at an accelerated rate out pricing the lower income and marginalized communities from the neighbourhood and dislocating them from their existing connections to urban space the project brings together artists from australia and around the world whose work addresses these issues white man got no dreaming michael rakowitz 2008 the politics of urban space what exactly is the mode of existence of social relationships the study of space offers an answer according to which the social relations of production have a social existence to the extent that they have a spatial existence they project themselves into a space becoming inscribed there and in the process producing that space itself henri lefebvre there goes the neighbourhood is the ironic chorus to the 1992 body count song which lamented the invasion of the once poor and black into the neighbourhood of the rich and white but an alternative destruction of the neighbourhood can happen when the poor get pushed out of their local community as part of the process of gentrification this issue is particularly relevant for the suburb of redfern an inner city suburb of sydney which has been home for a large working class and indigenous community and which is undergoing a process of rapid development and change the block redfern has been described as the black heart of australia and occupies a unique place within sydney s urban landscape as a centre for the indigenous community it was the site for the aboriginal tent embassy and has been the gathering point for many protests and community events just minutes from the second busiest train station in sydney are the open camp fires and communal use of public space of the community on the block the aboriginal housing company has had a long standing dream just recently given the green light by the government to build the pemulwuy project a new community housing project and cultural centre for redfern s aboriginal community redfern is also home to a number other non indigenous community housing projects such as the department of housing buildings known as the suicide towers which the government is trying to redevelop the suburb was once a strong working class neighbourhood and was the starting point for the 1917 general strike for a shorter working week but in the 1980s the rail yards were closed down and transformed into a new cultural centre where one of the exhibition venues performance space is based redfern grabbed headlines in 2004 when riots erupted when the police killed a 17 year old aboriginal boy after chasing him in police cars as he rode his push bike home in that same year the redfern waterloo authority was established a special government committee to oversee the rapid development and gentrification of the area redfern thus involves a complex contested and controversial overlapping of uses of urban space there goes the neighbourhood is an exhibition residency discussion and publishing project for may 2009 the central element of this project will be an exploration of the politics of urban space it will explore the complex life of cities and how the phenomenon of gentrification is altering the relationship between democracy and demography around the world while urban change itself is not always a bad thing gentrification often happens at an accelerated rate out pricing the lower income and marginalized communities from the neighbourhood and dislocating them from their existing connections to urban space as henri lefebvre reminds us the social relations of production have a social existence to the extent that they have a spatial existence they project themselves into a space becoming inscribed there and in the process producing that space itself the tussle over space is always one over the social relationships which are generated within the logic of place revolving around people occupying owning seizing developing losing or transforming this space the project will bring together a smallish group of artists who have worked in various artistic projects which have explored the relationship between community and space and invite them to develop these issues further in the contested local environment of redfern there goes the neighbourhood redfern and the politics of urban space to download a pdf of the book click here there goes the neighborhood begins with a close study of redfern before expanding into international examples to provide a detailed exploration of how the phenomenon of gentrification is altering the relationship between democracy and demography around the world this book has been published in tandem with an exhibition of the same name and many of the contributions come from participating artists in the exhibition brenda l croft australia 16beaver usa daniel boyd australia temporary services usa jakob jakobsen denmark lisa kelly australia squatspace australia claire healy and sean cordeiro germany australia evil brothers australia you are here australia michael rakowitz usa miklos erhardt and little warsaw hungary bijari brazil and democracia spain the book also includes contributions from key thinkers about the complex life of cities such as the situationists mike davis brian holmes gary foley and elizabeth farrelly there goes the neighbourhood is edited by keg de souza and zanny begg from you are here a sydney based art collective which focuses on social and spatial mapping posted by nicholas_senn at 10 41 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday april 23 2009 discover kauai surfers vs the superferry jerry mander koohan paik the nation we don t ordinarily seek inspirational models of grassroots uprisings especially against global corporate military boondoggles from surfer beaches on luscious tropical islands so it surprises colleagues on the left when we tell them they might check out some surprising events on the small outer islands in hawaii that may have an impact on grand us aspirations for military domination of the pacific basin few mainlanders have heard about it but hawaii is up in arms it all started in 2001 as a purportedly modest local effort to offer inter island ferry service to help local people more easily visit their relatives on other islands and carry their farm produce to market most locals liked the idea but soon found that this ferry the gigantic hawaii superferry was an environmental nightmare it uses far more fuel in total and per person than big planes it races at high speed 40 45 miles per hour through zones teeming with endangered humpback whales dolphins and rare sea turtles it could transport dangerous invasive species to pristine islands and it carries hundreds of cars to tiny places already choking on traffic continue reading coup de superferry the hawaii independent a boatload of trouble against the grain the superferry is not some benign way of connecting the hawaiian islands according to koohan paik and jerry mander the massive boat is closely connected to us military plans for a new pacific fleet it also endangers whales and other wildlife paik was part of momentous protests in kauai that rebuffed the superferry the superferry chronicles hawaii s uprising against militarism commercialism and the desecration of the earth jerry mander koohan paik hawai i superferry news at dmz hawai i aloha aina an interview with koohan paik and jerry mander akaku maui community television the superferry chronicles i of v a video challenge to green shoppers dot earth posted by nicholas_senn at 12 41 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the new geography the new geography a roundtable by jeffrey kastner tom mccarthy nato thompson and eyal weizman bookforum com apr may 2009 the present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space we are in the epoch of simultaneity we are in the epoch of juxtaposition the epoch of the near and far of the side by side of the dispersed we are at a moment i believe when our experience of the world is less that of a long life developing through time than that of a network that connects points and intersects with its own skein michel foucault of other spaces 1967 the practice of geography is by its nature a ticklish paradoxical enterprise it is at once the study of objects and of subjects of things and of behaviors of the world around us as 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