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30/11/2001

Saturday School

Raid Projects, Los Angeles

Opening Reception Saturday 7-10PM, December 1st, 2001

Saturday School
For this project we invited several cultural producers who represent a variety of professional practices to participate in a temporary teaching institution. They were each asked to teach a class about something in which they are truly interested. The lesson plans they have prepared intersect many aspects of everyday life, their personal practices and their passions.

Saturday School classes explore the roles of cultural producers and consumers along with the mitigating role of education. Each class blurs the distinction between viewer and participant enabling the viewer to become an active student engaged in a learning process. Saturday School also demystifies the function and significance of an art exhibition by equipping the viewer/participant with real and applicable knowledge about culture. This is accomplished by placing the viewer/participant in a position of direct instruction from the artist. By providing an alternative curriculum and model of instruction, the faculty of Saturday School prompt a broader interrogation of culture itself by awakening the inquisitive mind of the student.

Faculty:

Critical Art Ensemble with da Costa
Derek Rees
Khanh Tran
xtine

Schedule for the evening of December 1, 2001
Each Class at Saturday School will be fifteen minutes, with a fifteen minute recess for refreshments and the use of the bathrooms. After the evening of December 1st, all classes will be taught via-video during the posted hours of operation at the school for the duration of the month. After the close of the school, all classes will be available online (www.raidprojects.org).

7-8 P.M. Student Registration (All Classes are FREE), Saturday School Staff

8 P.M. SSBKY100 Basic Power Kundavinyasa Yoga, xtine

8:30 P.M. SSLTL100 Lifting the Lid, D. Rees

9 P.M. SSSCR100 Sushi: Commodification of the Raw, K. Tran

9:30 P.M. SSTGW100 Tactical Gizmology Workshop, CAE /da Costa

Critical Art Ensemble with Beatriz da Costa (www.critical-art.net)

Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) was founded in 1987. The collective has been dedicated to exploring the possibilities of tactical media ever since. In that time, CAE has done cultural and/or political actions, interventions, and provocations all over North America and Europe in various locations ranging from the streets to museums to the Internet. CAE strikes by any media necessary.

Beatriz da Costa is a robotic artist who among other things is a master of gizmology. Currently, she is an Associate Researcher at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently collaborating with CAE on the GenTerra biotech initiative, and on developing theoretical and practical models for contestational biology. Derek Rees (http://www.wigged.net)

Rees was born in England's northeastern corner in the early 1950's when shipbuilding and coal mining were king. By the age of twenty he had sold hi s way out of The Northeast. Before selling the company he founded in 1980 to come to the United States in 1992, he worked for a variety of multi-national corporations, in a variety if locations in England, Italy and France. After moving to the United States, Rees earned a BFA from Ringling School of Art & Design in FL and MFA from Vermont College in VT. Rees has exhibited in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States.

Khanh Tran

Tran holds two Masters Degree's, one in East Asian Languages and Lit erature from UCI and Asian American Studies from CSULB. Tran has taught courses in Asian Studies, Social History of the Vietnam War, Humanities, English Composition, Women Studies, and Gender Politics in Asian America at the university level. Tran has spoken at many conferences around the United States. She has also owned and operated a Pan-Asian restaurant and is currently a manager for Barnes and Noble Bookstore which now stands on the same location as her former restaurant.

xtine (http://www.missconceptions.net) xtine teaches digital video and photography at Brooks College in Long Beach, Ca. She also teaches web design and electronic art on line for Northeastern University and The Art Institute of Boston. She has never taught yoga, but has participated in classes at Kripalu in Albany, NY, SuperFitness in Waltham, Ma, Berkeley Yoga in Berkeley, Ca, 24 Hour Fitness in Berkeley and Glendale Ca, and Angel City Yoga in Studio City, Ca.

xtine's works have been shown in the 1997 Salon Show at the School of Visual Arts in NY, in the 1998 Land Escapes Show at Bradley University (Peoria, IL) , in the Digital Arts 2000 Show at the Period Gallery (Omaha, Ne), in the 2000 @mosphere Show at Raid Gallery (Santa Ana, Ca), the 2000 Palm Springs Film Festival and the 2001 Plan B Film Festival (New Mexico). She is also a membe r of the Joanie for Jackie video exchange, and can often be found on wigged.net, ifilm.com, and binaire.org. Currently, xtine teaches video art at Brooks College in Long Beach, Ca, while residing in North Hollywood, CA.

Course Descriptions

SSTGW100 Tactical Gizmology Workshop Presented by Critical Art Ensemble and Beatriz da Costa In this workshop, students will learn how to use low-tech electronic devices for the purposes of localized interventions. Materials used in this workshop can be found in any electronics store, and in most cases, they can be used b y anyone armed with a soldering gun and a minimal amount of electrical know-how. You don't need to go to engineering school to be a tactica l gizmologist; amateurs and hobbyists are welcome.

The instructors will introduce the concept of Tactical Media and the subcategory of Tactical Gizmology. Introduce and explain the function of materials used to construct a tactical gizmo. The instructors will present documentation of the device in use. The session will close with a look at some other possibilities for tactical gizmological actions.

Lifting the Lid, an Insider Peek into the World of Sales Presented by Derek Rees This course will introduce the typology of the Salesperson, basic sales techniques you can apply in your life, and a hierarchical glimpse at Western culture's global adoption and use of such techniques.

Sushi: Commodification of the Raw Presented by Khanh Tran This class will explore the definition of the term "culinary." Questions of class, race, labor and art will be addressed via the preparation of sushi. Students will be able to view, participate and consume the tasks necessary i n making of a transnational culinary dish. From killing a live fish to plate design and "proper" sushi etiquette, students will be exposed to the evolution of food: from its necessary part in human evolution and survival t o its necessary part in cultural expression and protection in modernity. Ingredients for the dish will be shown to students in its most "raw" state before being (re)presented in their culinary forms on white, sanitized plates. Market prices will accompany all ingredients to display their commodified value. Wherein lies the "culinary artistry" of sushi? That is the question of the class. Articles on modernity, Asian American Studies, and Japanese cooking will accompany the lecture in order to provide students with a view of the culinary in the wider scope of transnationalism and world culture.

Basic Power Kundavinyasa Yoga
presented by xtine

Power Kundavinyasa Yoga is a modern science combining a fixed sequence of postures linked together by the breath, sound, mantra mudra and movement. Emphasis is on synchronizing breath and movement in an efficient, continuous rhythmic flow of postures. Strength and mental stability are enforced by your Basic instructor.

Raid Projects is an artist-run non-profit curatorial organization. We are dedicated to promoting an exchange of cultural production and discussion through various exhibition models on a regional, national and international basis by emerging and established contemporary artists. We host 12 projects per year in the gallery in Los Angeles and 6-8 projects per year in external alternative, commercial, institutional, and/or appropriated spaces world-wide. These projects encompass all areas of contemporary practice, including painting, sculpture, film, new media, digital, and performance.

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