I flew to Paris last month for the Digital Methods & Migrations Workshop. I’m leaving Paris today, on my way to London and then back home on the 20th. Here are some snapshots from my trip, including a trip to the countryside and to Barcelona:

building
installation

by Kyle McKinley and Nick Lally with Ann Altstatt, Karl Baumann, Pou Dimitrijevich, Theresa Enright, Miki Foster, Nik Hanselmann, Jessy Lancaster, Madeline McDonald Lane, Lucas McGranaham, and Sophia Strosberg.

Building anything is a process. Building something good usually involves a lot of people’s ideas and labor. building is what we have called the people and the process of building something good in this building. Each Friday at 2pm, building gets together to talk, eat snacks, and make building. building builds on itself: last week’s building is this week’s built, but this week’s built is the place to build next week’s building. The interests of building include ghosts, software studies, coffee, walks in the woods, things that turn, critical spatial practice, the politics of representation, edge sites, flea markets, poesis, precarity, female-fronted punk bands of the 70s and 80s, and building. However, building interests are always building.  The process of building results in traces of those interests. It also involves traces of the art/works of Nick and Kyle. All those traces are the building where you now stand. What will be building tomorrow?

The artists wish to thank: Kelly Brown, EG Crichton, Sharon Daniel, Jennifer González, Shelby Graham, Chip Lord, Josh McVeigh-Schultz, Joshua Muir, Soraya Murray, Jennifer Parker, Warren Sack, Elizabeth Travelslight, Lyle Troxell, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Rob Wilson, Richard Wohlfeiler, and everyone who contributed to building. This presentation was made possible with funding from UCSC’s Porter College Graduate Arts Research Committee and the Florence French Award.

And here are some photos from building (project descriptions to follow):

Artclash is organizing a mail art project for May! Registration is due on April 24th via snail mail. So get off the internet and make something IRL!

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we’re over it

Each week we create participatory events and situations which explore critical spatial practices, participatory software, and social practices. Last week we went to the flea market and sold stuff in exchange for ideas for our exhibition space.

Then we built an installation which includes photos of people with the stuff they bought and the ideas they sold, audio recordings from that day, written documentation, and the receipt printer which invites people to add their idea by calling or texting 706.4048 (Santa Cruz area code–not printed here to prevent spam).

Would you like to be part of building? Contact me to participate!

My Fun-A-Day paintings

More photos on my Flickr set.

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