The Godard Sessions: Introduction
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969 Posted in The Godard Screenings | No Comments »The Godard Sessions are discussions groups focusing on readings around and discussions of the films of Jean-Luc Godard and, more specifically, radical, politically engaged cultural practice within the context of France in the 1960s. The group sets out to explore ...
Meeting 8: Le Gai Savoir (proposed)
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in The Godard Screenings | No Comments »Le Gai Savoir (Joyful Knowledge) is being released on DVD in May 2008. Shot before May '68, but finished only in '69 it perhaps marks Godard's radical start (Aufbruch), or has he says in the film a 'starting from zero', ...
Art Open Mic Series, 2005-2006
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Open Mics | No Comments »The Art Open Mic Sessions were intended to function as a platform for artist and project presentations focusing less on the object or output of a particular practice than on a critical, contextual and discursive engagement with the artistic processes ...
What is an alt.SPACE practice? Public Space Open Mics, June, 2005
Saturday, November 24th, 2007 Posted in Open Mics | No Comments »Premised on a desire and a perceived need for an informal space dedicated to serious and engaged dialogue around the relationship between artistic practice and research into theoretical and critical discourse as well as wider historical, cultural and socio-political contexts, ...
alt.SPACE Residency at Basekamp, Philadelphia (PE), January-April, 2007
Monday, November 19th, 2007 Posted in Various Other Events | No Comments »The alt.SPACE Residency & Research Centre at Basekamp, Philadelphia. Between January – April, 2007 members of the alt.SPACE Network travelled to Philadelphia for a residency at Basekamp, a local project space and residency program. During this period, ...
Meeting 7: History of Cinema (part 1 & 2) - October 14, 2007
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 Posted in The Godard Screenings | 1 Comment »Meeting 7: October 14, 2007 We watch the two first section of The History of Cinema and read Ranciere's 'A Fable without a Moral' (contact us for a pdf version of the text).
The Brockley Tapes
Friday, October 5th, 2007 Posted in Various Other Events | No Comments »In December 2006, members of the alt.SPACE Network meet up with Benno Gammerl from the Berlin based group UNWETTER in a house in Brockley, SE London, initially to take part in a Skype based discussion with the rest ...
A Slightly Modified 12×12 Interview Game
Friday, October 5th, 2007 Posted in Various Other Events | No Comments »On the 25th and 26th of August, 2006, we organized one of our interview games, based on the number 12 and around issues to do with non- or anti-institutional self-organized collaborative structures. The idea was to create a kind of ...
Learning is Fun and Dangerous, Portland (OR), March, 2007
Friday, October 5th, 2007 Posted in Various Other Events | No Comments »In March 2007, the alt.SPACE Network got invited to collaborate with a number of others groups and individuals on the Learning is Fun and Dangerous project, hosted by Red76 at Reed College, Portland (OR), USA. The project ...
The alt.SPACE Festival 2007
Friday, August 3rd, 2007 Posted in Festivals | No Comments »THE alt.SPACE FESTIVAL 2007The alt.SPACE Festival 2007, the third annual alt.SPACE Festival, took place in July 2007 in and around London, in host venues as well as in public space. Within the context of an overall engagement with the notion ...