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MiMi Nguyen On Epic Dream Dates with Keanu Reeves, Tenure & Obscurantist Labor @ RADAR Productions

by Romy＠snowyla

She's righteous!!! http://www.radarproductions.org/mimi-nguyen-on-epic-dream-dates-with-keanu-… MiMi Nguyen On Epic Dream Dates with Keanu Reeves, Tenure & Obscurantist Labor MiMi will be reading at the November 4 Radar Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library. We asked her some questions about dating, writing and advice for artists. Tell us about something that challenged you during your last (or a current) project. The worst thing about writing the first book (The Gift of Freedom) was that I had to finish it according to an external deadline – tenure. At some point I found I wasn’t writing to answer a question about liberal empire, or to close the circle of the argument, but to meet an institutional metric for a “productive” scholar. And even though I was writing with friends confronting the same metric –we would literally sit in a room together and write for hours, next to one another, chatting about a sentence one minute and leading each other through some stretches another—it was still an incredibly isolating experience. The moment I remembered that I had an intensely satisfying creative and intellectual life long before I came to the academy was transformative. A feminist literary scholar named Janice Radway came to my campus and in a lecture discussed my work as a zinester (with particular reference to the Race Riot compilations, and feminist critical theory in my zines) and its relationship to my scholarship now. I had been feeling so under seige on the tenure track that I cried for a few days afterward, because I understood so acutely what I had been missing for the last few years – which was writing to the question, for the argument, and of course, for myself. You get to have an epic dream date with anyone dead or alive: who are they and where do you go on your date? My friends reading this would know it’s a lie if I chose anyone but Keanu Reeves. That said, I have no idea what an “epic dream date” would be, and having only been on a few “proper” dates, and it seems like it would be awkward to go on a grown-up, straight-person date with Keanu Reeves. But pretending as if this isn’t the most awkward question, we could just go to a punk show on his motorcycle (or if he still has access to that time-traveling telephone booth, we could take the booth to the Hong Kong Café to see The Bags or The Go-Go’s in 1979), and then spend a few hours going through the boxes of zines and records in my living room I haven’t made time to read or listen to yet. After that, we could choreograph a mash-up of a movie-fu fight with Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” dance and put it on YouTube as a performance piece. I hope he kept his sleeveless denim jacket from River’s Edge, because I would wear the crap out of it in the video. (Also I would be wearing Madonna’s boots from Desperately Seeking Susan, since those are the most epic shoes.) And then we could make a 24-hour zine about making art and getting older, and I could impress him with my carefully hoarded Letraset collection. I should note that I am answering these questions with a cold fogging my brain. The other night, while otherwise wiped out on Advil, I randomly started a site to archive all the responses to Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety, or The Marvelous Sugar Baby.” I am totally a good time, Keanu. Give us one piece of advice you want to share with artists – about life, bills, process, editing, brainstorming, anything. I don’t have advice as much as I have “random questions about the nature of work.” How do we reproduce troubling measures of civic and capitalist productivity through binaries of activity/passivity in our cultural work? How do we evaluate an artistic process or object or experience? Through what measures of value, accountability – and to whom? As a scholar, I hear from both administrators and activists that the intellectual labor I do “should” yield concrete outcomes – whether in publications or grants, or in something measurable as “social change.” I worry about what these utilitarian (and sometimes authoritarian) demands mean for us, especially because I want to hold out a place for creative and intellectual labors that are slow to unfurl, or otherwise appear to the efficacious eye as useless, obscurantist, impractical, marginal, or wholly unproductive. Sent from my iPhone

11 years, 7 months

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by refugia

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11 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Dia de los Muertos fundraiser: is happening?

by Vicky Knox

Hi Lesley, I would strongly suggest a language change to the flyer. The flyer currently asks: "What would Nov. 1 look like if Dia de los Muertos was obsolete?" For me, Día de los Muertos is a day to immortalize my loved ones who have passed away. Given this sentiment, the idea of it becoming "obsolete" doesn't make sense to me. Also, I'm certain you don't mean it this way, but I feel like it even borders on judgmental, like it brushes off that sentiment and the immortality of the event itself. I would suggest language that asks how Día de los Muertos might be reimagined in a futurist framework. Does that make sense? Thank you, Vicky

11 years, 7 months

light-up disco dancefloor

by Jake

I just want to remind everyone that the disco dancefloor can light up, but the controller doesn't exist anymore. John (the landlord) says that all the lights in there work, which means all we need is a controller. I have plenty of relay boards we can hook up to that stuff, so anyone who is interested in getting the lightup dancefloor working again should let me know, and we can work on it together. Or at least i can supply you with the parts and materials and help you if you get stuck. -jake On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, niki wrote: > Hi Noemie! > The Disco room is currently OMNIdance's space (until the end of November, I believe) so they are the ones you should speak to about this. > > After November, the Disco room may get folded back in to the commons at which point this would be the right place to direct inquiries about reserving time > there :) > > <3 > > Niki > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Noemie Serfaty <noemieserfaty(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > Is it possible to book the disco room from 5 to 6:30 pm on sundays for free yoga classes? > > Thank you! > Noémie > -- > Noémie Serfaty > 108 rue du Faubourg du Temple > 75011 Paris > Tel: 06 27 76 88 84 > Tel: 01 71 50 51 82 > noemieserfaty(a)gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > booking mailing list > booking(a)lists.omnicommons.org > https://omnicommons.org/lists/listinfo/booking > > > >

11 years, 7 months

Sudo Room to be Organized

by mattsenate＠gmail.com

Wow! Look what wonderful possibilities there are, in the arrangement of the sudo room. Come organize the space. Help make room for: + mesh and networking platform + robot galaxy + computer nursery + hardware equipment + workshop + sewing and embroidery station + multimedia classroom + common tables + drawing and art station + testing station + more! Come get creative and set up the space as you like! // Matt

11 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Dia de los Muertos fundraiser: is happening?

by yar

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Sonja Trauss <sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I just didn't want to seem aggressive or like I'm trying to troll the list > or criticize you in public. Replying privately with an argument is in some ways more aggressive than replying on the list. It can make people feel cornered, makes it harder for them to call for backup, and can potentially enable triangulation gaslighting. Please ask for explicit permission from people before starting private email arguments. > But since you do - can you explain a thing I always wonder about when I read > authoritative statements about "My Culture" - > What should I make of Hispanics that don't agree with you - Hispanics who do > not care who celebrates their holidays, or Hispanics who don't feel > particularly connected to their holidays? Which one of you speaks for all > Hispanics? Speaking from an identity position is not the same as "I speak for everybody who shares my identity." Missing a subtle but important distinction like that and then haranguing somebody else over it, is the hallmark of a well-played troll. You've been warned several times on this list for creepy racist behavior. Please end it once and for all. Thank you.

11 years, 7 months

Board meeting TONIGHT!

by Vicky Knox

Friendly reminder! We'll begin at 7pm in Sudo Room's new space at 4749 Shattuck. Bring a snack!

11 years, 7 months

Workgroup Membership

by Timothy Baron

Last night Kevin mentioned that the Sudo Room is expected to have at least three of its members participating in Omni Workgroups. Are we satisfying that requirement? I know Ben is in the permits/construction workgroup. And I think Yar is a part of the recently created scheduling workgroup. Is there anyone else? If not, is anyone willing to step up?

11 years, 7 months

Re: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Defragmentation all Weekend

by april.glaser

Part two is tomorrow. Same time, same place, piles to sort, shelving to move. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: mattsenate(a)gmail.com </div><div>Date:10/25/2014 1:23 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: sudo-announce(a)lists.sudoroom.org, sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> </div><div>Subject: [sudo-discuss] Sudo Defragmentation all Weekend </div><div> </div>Starts at 12pm noon both days! Come reorganize and optimize the space. // Matt

11 years, 7 months

Eat the Ccili!

by David Keenan

Hey all I saved a whole bunch of the chili from the event last night for ppl to eat - it's in the fridge - PLEASE GRUB it with with wild abandon - The ziplocks are veggie chili, the plastic bins have meat chili - Any not eaten today, must be put into the freezer TONIGHT, or thrown out. Seriously.. So hork it yo! David

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