genral labour:DWYC2Y:destruction

(original statement)

do what you can in 2 years...

This thing will serve as an open archive. Take and add what you can whenever possible. Cite your contributions and they in turn will be cited. We are creating together and autonomously. The goal is to make a performance on Dec 9th 2011. It will happen, with or without you because no matter what withers or decays, the archive will remain (hopefully).

general labour

A public email account to which everyone has the ability to contact anyone who has ever contributed to the archive. General Labour will be our "company" name (for now) but as it is public domain it may be changed if need be. Please login and add yourself as a contact using your prefered personal email account.
It is a gmail account.
username: DWYC2Y
password: 45524552

the arch. (pronounced: ärk)

The archive is a blog that uses the server at blogspot.com
username: DWYC2Y
password: 45524552

The arch is located in a public space with complete public access. In this case the arch is a blog fascilitated by a communal email account. The passcodes and usernames to the arch and the atached email account are labeled in order grant access to all contributers, obtainers, benefactors, misappropriaters, defacers, and critiques.

The unlimited public access entails the risk of minipulation of the contents of the arch. This is good, content is less important to the structure we are trying to uphold. I then must ask: Please do not delete this arch, there is no private document to back it up. It of course can be deleted, you all have that power and that right. The structure would not function without those rights.

The arch is a place of refuge for learning and sharing what we know and what we do not know. It will exist as a constant outside our scheduled lives and gives freedom to take and give as you please. It asks not for understanding as a prerequisit but for a curiosity and a willingness to support. A space where questions are prioritized over answers.

Let us create publically.

The Contents

Destruction is the first proposal.
insert here... or anywhere... or not...

Ben and Max

this was in the common e-mail...

From Max

www.mcaf.net/html/2-Events-Ai-weiwei-2004-Dropping-Han-urn.html

proposal #1

Where we will be:

Scotiabank theater at Pia Bouman's School for Dance (standard blackbox)

things we will:

plywood
dirt
tape of sweet nuthin' by the velvet underground
ceramic cups and saucers
boombox
running model train with ample track
camera
projector

The thing

we construct a small wooden structure that will act as a protective barracade from the destruction. we have dirt on the centre of the structure as fondation for the things we will make with the ceramics.
We play the game
A camera will ride a train that circulates the track and will give a live feed projection in the space.
The boombox will be played as someone (Julia?) Talks about what we are doing.

Foreseen Problems:

How do we build the structure safe enough to protect the audience and the space yet give us space to destroy?
How do we relay a live feed from the camera to the projector if the camera is moving in a circle?

Ben

The Why

Why has this come about?
Exhausting parachute workshop show production and the desire to belong with people are two main factors. The allowance for transient involvement in a research project where the end goal is a performance and some things. The slower creation of history, extracting the command of the individual upon documentation and memory in search of a comunal archive. A shared history to provoke a community that nurtures diversity of intelligences and offers skill trades in the process. Learning to be together for later.
Ben