with Red76

Red76 is an artist collaborative who’s projects are most often (though not always) initiated, curated and edited by Sam Gould. The content of these projects are developed by an international network of artists, writers, educators, musicians and friends including among many others Sam Gould, Dan S. Wang, Ola Stahl, Zeffrey Throwell, Mike Wolf, Aaron Hughes, Stephen Duncombe, and Robby Herbst, as well as dozens of other contributors and thousands of participants, readers and viewers. Gabriel Saloman has been a collaborator with Red76 since 2002′s International Arts Exhibition. He has participated in large and small ways in nearly all Red76 initiatives since then and has been a part of the development and enactment of several of Red76′s recent major projects in partnership with Sam Gould.

Fellow Travelers (with Red76)

Red76 will be participating in Manifesta 8 in the Region of Murcia, Spain, as part of ACAF’s curatorial contribution. Fellow Travelers explores the intersection of Solidarity and Indecipherability. Various friends and peers will be traveling to Murcia throughout Manifesta 8 to meet with kindred persons from the region, exchange conversations and a unique artist book, and to document their experience. Red76 also took part in ACAF’s Backbench symposium which took place in Murcia during June 2010, the documentation of which will be transformed into a major installation by Ergin Cavusoglu. As a response to Manifesta, Saloman has written an essay entitled “Only 1017 Days Left, Give or Take” to be published as part of Fellow Travelers, in print and on the web.

Links:

Fellow Travelers | Manifesta 8 | Backbench | Only 1017 Days Left, Give or Take |

SURPLUS SEMINAR #2 (with Red76)

Red76 were invited to be artists-in-residence at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN during July and August of 2010. As part of the WAC’s Open Field initiative, Red76 reprised its Surplus Seminar including the Anywhere/Anyplace Academy, Pop-Up Book Academy, The YouTube School for Social Politics and introducing the House Show as School House. Surplus Seminar #2 furthers Red76′s inquiry into non-hierarchical and experimental pedagogy.

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Open Field | A/AA | Pop-up Book Academy | YTSSP | House Show as School House

Pop-Up Book Academy: Counter-Culture as Pedagogy (with Red76)

Curated by CCA’s Graduate Class in Curatorial Studies, Red76 participated in “We Have As Much Time As It Takes”, a group show at The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francicso, CA. For “WHAMTAIT” Red76 proposed a short series of Pop-Up Book Academy events, but expanded upon them with a new issue of the Journal of Radical Shimming and a special museological exhibition of counter-cultural ephemera. All of these in some way explored a notion of Counter-culture as Pedagogy.

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WHAMTAIT | Pop-Up Book Academy | Video tour of the Exhibit | Journal of Radical Shimming #10 | Daily Serving interview with Red76

Surplus Seminar #1

In October of 2009 Red76 conducted a one month residency at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio as part of the Bureau For Open Culture’s Decent to Revolution exhibition. Curated by Jim Voorhies, Decent to Revolution stepped out of the Bureau’s home in the Canzani Gallery and into various public spaces in downtown Columbus, including an abandoned storefront. Red76 enacted their first iteration of Surplus Seminar, hosting several experimental pedagogical “classrooms” including Anywhere/Anyplace Academy, The YouTube School for Social Politics, TMF Co, Pop-up Book Academy, and Levine’s Market and Meeting House.

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The Battery Republic

Red76 took part in Creative Time’s year-long program Democracy in America: The National Campaign which culminated in the “Convergence Center”: a major exhibition, participatory project space, and meeting hall mounted in New York City’s Park Avenue Armory. The Convergence Center at Park Avenue Armory provided an activated space to reflect on and perform democracy, and was punctuated by speeches by leading political thinkers as well as community leaders and activists throughout the run of its program. Red76 inhabited the former officer’s lounge presenting their Battery Republic initiative. A consideration of the Tavern as a location for revolutionary dialogue, Red76 curated a series of informal lunch time conversations and evening presentations by artists, historians, activists, dancers, musicians and writers. Two issues of the Journal of Radical Shimming were produced to bookend these events. Creative Migration has produced a documentary of Red76 and the Battery Republic.

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The Battery Republic | Creative Migration | Creative Time | Democracy in America