Utopian Pulse

AND AND AND is a conjunction of artists and collectives spanning several continents. Beginning in 2010, a series of occurrences, inquiries and actions were organized in Detroit, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Tbilisi, Tunis, Beirut, Amman, Yerevan, New York, London, Marcahuasi, Carbondale, Rotterdam, Houston, Iowa City, San Cesario di Lecce, and Kassel. In the summer of 2012, in the context of dOCUMENTA (13), this conjunction resulted in 100 days and nights of gatherings, in-activities and un-workshops.
The encounters included: a convergence against the weapons industry in Kassel and beyond; attempts to rethink the relation between capitalism and the body; a gathering of farmers-innovators in the field of composting; thinking about decoloniality; science fiction and autonomy; the non-capitalist internet; unearthing the anti-university; communist fiction; the politics of small groups; learning practices like seed-saving, worm composting and documentary sewing.
AND AND AND has been a collective research into modes of thinking and doing that are intrinsically related to a culture of a common(s), that disavow a capitalist way of life (patriarchal, racist, class-based) and revoke the forms of doing and work which the societies assuming these ways have produced, imposed, and today police.
In Vienna, some of the contributors to AND AND AND will convene to activate one of the hoped-for un-workshops which never manifested that summer in Kassel. It will explore an animist perspective in the context of common(s), non-capitalist life, and revocational practices.

It is convened with Ben Morea, one of the protagonists of Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker. Ben and ‘the Family,’ in which he played a critical role, were among the key proponents of anarchist thought, action and art as embodied in the 60’s counter culture and political radicalism.

Events
October 8, 7 pm
opening

For an updated schedule of events, additional gatherings and details including un-workshop with
Ben Morea please check http://commoningtimes.org
For those interested in taking part in the un-workshop organized with Ben Morea, please write to commoner(AT)commoningtimes.org.