Boston - Double-booking

During the first meetings of a seminar in a sculpture department in the United States’ only free-standing public art college, a group of students generated the following:

Does our movement –
How does our movement –
How could our movement generate movement?

Not long after, the seminar found itself turning into an experimental, barter-based microeconomy. Currency was designed. Needs were stated. Offers were made. Graphical observations were rendered along the way.

Now, nearing the end of the semester, the microeconomy that was once a seminar has been asked to make another sommersault and to consider itself as having all along been a collaborative exhibition in the making. The question goes something like this: what if we take all that we generated as a seminar as a microeconomy, and treat those byproducts of academic learning as having an aesthetic, a form, worthy of exhibition?

An exhibition and communal dinner are scheduled for the afternoon of Wednesday, May 6, 2009.

At that time, the seminar as microeconomy as exhibition will find itself cast further – now as a molecule in an international society of molecules – by means of a double-booking (at least). The space in which the exhibition and dinner are to take place, a space tucked deeply into the maze of buildings housing the college, will be double, triple, quadruple booked by other members of the molecule who will arrive with their own projects, questions, gifts, attendants. Members of the molecule will anticipate participation but will make no effort to solve the problems of overlap, interaction, expectation that their presence produces.

An attempt to disrupt the habitual closing that is the last day of a class by instead colliding its generated momentum with other generated momenta. Neatly allocated space as an expectation to be discharged. A delay of conclusion. Collision as productive. Misunderstanding as generative. Ending as seed – everything depends on how you punctuate the sequence.

The locale of our investigation (physical): The overlapping built and behavioral constraints protecting art students shaping themselves through formal schooling from contact with the other streams of generative, creative aesthetico-political action occuring contemporaneously in the city.

The physique of our investigation (lo-cal, digestive): Interdisciplinarity, not in the sense of both X and Y, nor between X and Y. Rather X as Y, then X as Y as Z, soon X as Y as Z as A, and in our speculative imaginings as D as J as Q.

Boston molecule: Judith Leemann and the members of SC301.401, Kenneth Bailey, Lori Lobenstine, Theresa Hwang, Najma Naz, Kiara Nagel, Dave Morgan, and Andi Sutton.

Movement profile arriving shortly.
Emissary seeking appropriate luggage.