All are invited to participate in the conversations and gatherings to push each other to think concretely and imaginatively about what is coming. Capitalism is on its last legs as a world-system, but what will follow? Perhaps a dark authoritarian world dominated by police and military that claims to be capitalist but is really a despotic simulacra? Or a newly liberated grassroots democracy, reinventing urban life on an ecological basis, a society that values everyone’s contribution without coercing anyone, a world in which a good life is guaranteed to all. Or something else altogether? What do you think?
May 1st
7pm MAY DAY PLAY, HEY!
9pm Precarious Labor Films
7pm MAY DAY PLAY, HEY! at Pro Arts (Oakland). Artist L.M. Bogad repurposes the structure of role-playing games to create a new game of “re-enacting” the history of social movements.
Door/$5-10 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds.
9pm Precarious Labor Films: Shorts from P2P Fightsharing III: Precarity; Mayday Barcelona (8:52); St. Precarious Goes Shopping (5:51); Yomango Tango (6:11); Gimme an occupation of the premises with that McStrike (4:05) at The New Great Wall of Oakland, right outside of the Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland.
May 2nd
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
7:30 pm Do Androids dream of surplus value?
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
Topic: Working With Nature to Reduce Work and Waste
How does nature shape the post-capitalist imaginary? How can we conserve time and resources to produce a better life for all? Guest artist: Asya Abdrahman. Asya develops conceptual strategies and physical structures in an effort to find future solutions to existing challenges, i.e. food, water, shelter, power.
7:30 pm Do Androids dream of surplus value? Robotic Labor Exploitation and the Falling Rate of Profit performative lecture by Eddie Yuen and Kal Spelletich at Shaping San Francisco, Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics (518 Valencia St, SF).
May 3rd
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
6-8pm sharp The Body as Resistance at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland).
8:30pm Intentions by Eva Davidova
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
May 3 Topic/Fragmented Attention, Stunted Cognition
How does our current techno-obsessed frenzy reinforce confusion and isolation? How can we nurture a calmer, more contemplative pace of life? How is our ability to know the world impaired by the massive speed-up we are all living through? Who remembers life before the personal computer?
6-8pm sharp The Body as Resistance at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland).
Door: $5-10 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds.
The Body as Resistance features the work of two radical local performance artists and cultural practitioners: Titania Kumeh & Jade Ariana Fair. Both Kumeh’s and Fair’s work deals with deconstructing our relationships with the body and it’s role within the capitalistic system of oppression. Through amplifications of their own histories and ancestries, they are actively and systematically subverting the agents of oppression which spearhead the erasure of black female narratives of struggle, history, healing, and documentation. Capitalism serves as an agent of destruction against the already violenced bodies of the oppressed citizens of earth, and these artists seek to imagine a future beyond violence, beyond erasure, beyond white supremacy, and thus beyond capitalism. In a capitalistic world, radical self care is a revolutionary act of anti-violence and anti-capitalism. Envisioning a post-capitalism within an artistic context is the first step towards better future for us all.
8:30pm Intentions. Transfer and Disappearance II interactive public projection by Eva Davidova at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (Oakland’s City Hall building)
Intentions. Transfer and Disappearance II by Eva Davidova is a short animation loop, addressing a post-capitalist future in which our future techno-centric identity, constantly manipulated by computers and ‘cold’ data, has the potential to expose the power relationship of control between the powerful and the powerless. This form a synthetic freedom, largely based on the latest technological advances, is constructed rather than natural. What if we employ the digital tools available to us and use the failure in representation to our own end, as a means of protest? Will we see the emergence of non-dualistic, perhaps even primitive, early version of ourselves? Can this dystopian future be subverted through a software glitch, one that exposes the limitation of technology to authentically represent humanity?
May 4th
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
7-9pm Never Work
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
May 4 Topic/The Future of Work
After capitalism, what work should humans/robots/nature do? What does democracy look like when applied to work? What do we need? What do we want? Who will do the work? What are the ecological consequences? Guest artist: Dan Nelson. Dan Nelson is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and author who plays with words, symbols, signals, and sounds to explore how humans communicate and create meaning.
7-9pm Never Work, Symposium & Provocation at Beneficial State Bank, 1438 Webster St., Suite 300, Oakland.
Join an unpredictable symposium led by Franco-German anti-work advocate Guillaume Paoli, all the way from Berlin, Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), and Isaac Cronin, one of the founders of the Situationist movement in the Bay Area, as the evening’s host.
Door: $10-$20 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds. Cocktails & Cake FREE.
May 5th
2-4pm Energy Plan for the Western Man: Art after Capitalism
8:20pm – 10:05pm San Francisco – Tiburon Multi-media Art Experience
2-4pm Energy Plan for the Western Man: Art after Capitalism round table discussion with Sylvie Denis (author), Keith Hennessy (artist), Andrew Mount (artist/educator), Praba Pilar (artist) and Elizabeth Thomas (curator) at Shaping San Francisco, Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics (518 Valencia St, SF)
The round table discussion will center on each of the participant’s practice and individual work with an accent on the future/post-capitalism. Largely drawing on themes that are present in Joseph Beuys work, and to be more specific his pioneering concept of social sculpture, money and universal basic income, we will use his figure to discuss the future of art and the future of art/artist/author/performer, post-capitalism.
The first steps toward a post-capitalist practice involve the redefinition of art itself. Art after capitalism starts right now. Is the promised future artist’s emancipation providing only a contemplative respite from the exploitation, hierarchies and conflict present in the art world today? What does the future hold for artists, authors, performers? Will the artist abandon the authorial form? Will there be massive exodus from the museum/from the bookstore/from the performance venue? Will art finally merge with our lived experience? What new avenues can lead us toward an exit from our failed artistic paradigms? Will the rules of competition and money remain alive in the background and it is important to learn how to struggle absolutely for changes that are still only partial? Can we build a truly inclusive adequate, equitable and decentralized system that puts the artist/author/performer/curator at the forefront of this change?
8:20pm – 10:05pm San Francisco – Tiburon Multi-media Art Experience, PIER 41 San Francisco (Please arrive 15 minutes prior to departure)
Adult round-trip ferry ticket: $25 (No Host Bar)
*Purchase your round trip ticket(s) online at: HERE
*Choose Kiosk pick-up
*Print voucher
*Bring voucher with you to the boat for entry
Join the Blue Collar Green Water Art & Culture Collective, for an hour-long journey multi-media art experience. In addition to stunning views of the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, the evening will include readings, a short video screening, slideshow and animated video presentation on San Francisco waterfront history, presented by San Francisco Bay maritime working artists.
May 6th
1-2pm Rethinking Justice
2-3pm Rethinking Economics
4- 6pm RIP Capitalism
1-2pm Rethinking Justice by Lou Viquerat at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland)
A post-capitalist world will need a radically different way of thinking about and providing justice. Local experiments in restorative and transformative justice are underway and Lou Viquerat will present her own experiences as part of a larger community of collectivized households in using these new practices which seek prevention and transformation of those that commit harms, over retribution and punitive measures. The Alternative Justices project has been an attempt to positively impact both the justice system and rape culture. Alt-Justices have been working on various strands of this project for over two years in the framework of two co-living spaces, and are now moving beyond that. ‘Alternative Justices’ refers to the creation and application of multiple systems of justice that can transcend and transform the state and its flawed systems. This presentation will be part history of the project, part resources sharing, part Q&A and is envisioned as an invitation to take this work and use it to make impacts of your own.
2-3pm Rethinking Economics and Embodying the Post-Capitalist Economy We Want Right Now, a presentation by Della Duncan at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland)
A presentation by Della Duncan of Upstream podcast, covering the problems of economic paradigms and the fascinating and wide range of alternative frameworks that point to a post-capitalist future.
4- 6pm RIP Capitalism – a WAKE at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland
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May 1st
7pm MAY DAY PLAY, HEY!
9pm Precarious Labor Films
7pm MAY DAY PLAY, HEY! at Pro Arts (Oakland). Artist L.M. Bogad repurposes the structure of role-playing games to create a new game of “re-enacting” the history of social movements.
Door/$5-10 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds.
9pm Precarious Labor Films: Shorts from P2P Fightsharing III: Precarity; Mayday Barcelona (8:52); St. Precarious Goes Shopping (5:51); Yomango Tango (6:11); Gimme an occupation of the premises with that McStrike (4:05) at The New Great Wall of Oakland, right outside of the Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland.
May 2nd
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
7:30 pm Do Androids dream of surplus value?
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
Topic: Working With Nature to Reduce Work and Waste
How does nature shape the post-capitalist imaginary? How can we conserve time and resources to produce a better life for all? Guest artist: Asya Abdrahman. Asya develops conceptual strategies and physical structures in an effort to find future solutions to existing challenges, i.e. food, water, shelter, power.
7:30 pm Do Androids dream of surplus value? Robotic Labor Exploitation and the Falling Rate of Profit performative lecture by Eddie Yuen and Kal Spelletich at Shaping San Francisco, Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics (518 Valencia St, SF).
May 3rd
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
6-8pm sharp The Body as Resistance at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland).
8:30pm Intentions by Eva Davidova
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
May 3 Topic/Fragmented Attention, Stunted Cognition
How does our current techno-obsessed frenzy reinforce confusion and isolation? How can we nurture a calmer, more contemplative pace of life? How is our ability to know the world impaired by the massive speed-up we are all living through? Who remembers life before the personal computer?
6-8pm sharp The Body as Resistance at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland).
Door: $5-10 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds.
The Body as Resistance features the work of two radical local performance artists and cultural practitioners: Titania Kumeh & Jade Ariana Fair. Both Kumeh’s and Fair’s work deals with deconstructing our relationships with the body and it’s role within the capitalistic system of oppression. Through amplifications of their own histories and ancestries, they are actively and systematically subverting the agents of oppression which spearhead the erasure of black female narratives of struggle, history, healing, and documentation. Capitalism serves as an agent of destruction against the already violenced bodies of the oppressed citizens of earth, and these artists seek to imagine a future beyond violence, beyond erasure, beyond white supremacy, and thus beyond capitalism. In a capitalistic world, radical self care is a revolutionary act of anti-violence and anti-capitalism. Envisioning a post-capitalism within an artistic context is the first step towards better future for us all.
8:30pm Intentions. Transfer and Disappearance II interactive public projection by Eva Davidova at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (Oakland’s City Hall building)
Intentions. Transfer and Disappearance II by Eva Davidova is a short animation loop, addressing a post-capitalist future in which our future techno-centric identity, constantly manipulated by computers and ‘cold’ data, has the potential to expose the power relationship of control between the powerful and the powerless. This form a synthetic freedom, largely based on the latest technological advances, is constructed rather than natural. What if we employ the digital tools available to us and use the failure in representation to our own end, as a means of protest? Will we see the emergence of non-dualistic, perhaps even primitive, early version of ourselves? Can this dystopian future be subverted through a software glitch, one that exposes the limitation of technology to authentically represent humanity?
May 4th
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
7-9pm Never Work
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
May 4 Topic/The Future of Work
After capitalism, what work should humans/robots/nature do? What does democracy look like when applied to work? What do we need? What do we want? Who will do the work? What are the ecological consequences? Guest artist: Dan Nelson. Dan Nelson is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and author who plays with words, symbols, signals, and sounds to explore how humans communicate and create meaning.
7-9pm Never Work, Symposium & Provocation at Beneficial State Bank, 1438 Webster St., Suite 300, Oakland.
Join an unpredictable symposium led by Franco-German anti-work advocate Guillaume Paoli, all the way from Berlin, Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), and Isaac Cronin, one of the founders of the Situationist movement in the Bay Area, as the evening’s host.
Door: $10-$20 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds. Cocktails & Cake FREE.
May 5th
2-4pm Energy Plan for the Western Man: Art after Capitalism
8:20pm – 10:05pm San Francisco – Tiburon Multi-media Art Experience
2-4pm Energy Plan for the Western Man: Art after Capitalism round table discussion with Sylvie Denis (author), Keith Hennessy (artist), Andrew Mount (artist/educator), Praba Pilar (artist) and Elizabeth Thomas (curator) at Shaping San Francisco, Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics (518 Valencia St, SF)
The round table discussion will center on each of the participant’s practice and individual work with an accent on the future/post-capitalism. Largely drawing on themes that are present in Joseph Beuys work, and to be more specific his pioneering concept of social sculpture, money and universal basic income, we will use his figure to discuss the future of art and the future of art/artist/author/performer, post-capitalism.
The first steps toward a post-capitalist practice involve the redefinition of art itself. Art after capitalism starts right now. Is the promised future artist’s emancipation providing only a contemplative respite from the exploitation, hierarchies and conflict present in the art world today? What does the future hold for artists, authors, performers? Will the artist abandon the authorial form? Will there be massive exodus from the museum/from the bookstore/from the performance venue? Will art finally merge with our lived experience? What new avenues can lead us toward an exit from our failed artistic paradigms? Will the rules of competition and money remain alive in the background and it is important to learn how to struggle absolutely for changes that are still only partial? Can we build a truly inclusive adequate, equitable and decentralized system that puts the artist/author/performer/curator at the forefront of this change?
8:20pm – 10:05pm San Francisco – Tiburon Multi-media Art Experience, PIER 41 San Francisco (Please arrive 15 minutes prior to departure)
Adult round-trip ferry ticket: $25 (No Host Bar)
*Purchase your round trip ticket(s) online at: HERE
*Choose Kiosk pick-up
*Print voucher
*Bring voucher with you to the boat for entry
Join the Blue Collar Green Water Art & Culture Collective, for an hour-long journey multi-media art experience. In addition to stunning views of the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, the evening will include readings, a short video screening, slideshow and animated video presentation on San Francisco waterfront history, presented by San Francisco Bay maritime working artists.
May 6th
1-2pm Rethinking Justice
2-3pm Rethinking Economics
4- 6pm RIP Capitalism
1-2pm Rethinking Justice by Lou Viquerat at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland)
A post-capitalist world will need a radically different way of thinking about and providing justice. Local experiments in restorative and transformative justice are underway and Lou Viquerat will present her own experiences as part of a larger community of collectivized households in using these new practices which seek prevention and transformation of those that commit harms, over retribution and punitive measures. The Alternative Justices project has been an attempt to positively impact both the justice system and rape culture. Alt-Justices have been working on various strands of this project for over two years in the framework of two co-living spaces, and are now moving beyond that. ‘Alternative Justices’ refers to the creation and application of multiple systems of justice that can transcend and transform the state and its flawed systems. This presentation will be part history of the project, part resources sharing, part Q&A and is envisioned as an invitation to take this work and use it to make impacts of your own.
2-3pm Rethinking Economics and Embodying the Post-Capitalist Economy We Want Right Now, a presentation by Della Duncan at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland)
A presentation by Della Duncan of Upstream podcast, covering the problems of economic paradigms and the fascinating and wide range of alternative frameworks that point to a post-capitalist future.
4- 6pm RIP Capitalism – a WAKE at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland
All are invited to participate in the conversations and gatherings to push each other to think concretely and imaginatively about what is coming. Capitalism is on its last legs as a world-system, but what will follow? Perhaps a dark authoritarian world dominated by police and military that claims to be capitalist but is really a despotic simulacra? Or a newly liberated grassroots democracy, reinventing urban life on an ecological basis, a society that values everyone’s contribution without coercing anyone, a world in which a good life is guaranteed to all. Or something else altogether? What do you think?
May 1st
7pm MAY DAY PLAY, HEY!
9pm Precarious Labor Films
7pm MAY DAY PLAY, HEY! at Pro Arts (Oakland). Artist L.M. Bogad repurposes the structure of role-playing games to create a new game of “re-enacting” the history of social movements.
Door/$5-10 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds.
9pm Precarious Labor Films: Shorts from P2P Fightsharing III: Precarity; Mayday Barcelona (8:52); St. Precarious Goes Shopping (5:51); Yomango Tango (6:11); Gimme an occupation of the premises with that McStrike (4:05) at The New Great Wall of Oakland, right outside of the Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland.
May 2nd
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
7:30 pm Do Androids dream of surplus value?
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
Topic: Working With Nature to Reduce Work and Waste
How does nature shape the post-capitalist imaginary? How can we conserve time and resources to produce a better life for all? Guest artist: Asya Abdrahman. Asya develops conceptual strategies and physical structures in an effort to find future solutions to existing challenges, i.e. food, water, shelter, power.
7:30 pm Do Androids dream of surplus value? Robotic Labor Exploitation and the Falling Rate of Profit performative lecture by Eddie Yuen and Kal Spelletich at Shaping San Francisco, Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics (518 Valencia St, SF).
May 3rd
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
6-8pm sharp The Body as Resistance at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland).
8:30pm Intentions by Eva Davidova
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
May 3 Topic/Fragmented Attention, Stunted Cognition
How does our current techno-obsessed frenzy reinforce confusion and isolation? How can we nurture a calmer, more contemplative pace of life? How is our ability to know the world impaired by the massive speed-up we are all living through? Who remembers life before the personal computer?
6-8pm sharp The Body as Resistance at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland).
Door: $5-10 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds.
The Body as Resistance features the work of two radical local performance artists and cultural practitioners: Titania Kumeh & Jade Ariana Fair. Both Kumeh’s and Fair’s work deals with deconstructing our relationships with the body and it’s role within the capitalistic system of oppression. Through amplifications of their own histories and ancestries, they are actively and systematically subverting the agents of oppression which spearhead the erasure of black female narratives of struggle, history, healing, and documentation. Capitalism serves as an agent of destruction against the already violenced bodies of the oppressed citizens of earth, and these artists seek to imagine a future beyond violence, beyond erasure, beyond white supremacy, and thus beyond capitalism. In a capitalistic world, radical self care is a revolutionary act of anti-violence and anti-capitalism. Envisioning a post-capitalism within an artistic context is the first step towards better future for us all.
8:30pm Intentions. Transfer and Disappearance II interactive public projection by Eva Davidova at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (Oakland’s City Hall building)
Intentions. Transfer and Disappearance II by Eva Davidova is a short animation loop, addressing a post-capitalist future in which our future techno-centric identity, constantly manipulated by computers and ‘cold’ data, has the potential to expose the power relationship of control between the powerful and the powerless. This form a synthetic freedom, largely based on the latest technological advances, is constructed rather than natural. What if we employ the digital tools available to us and use the failure in representation to our own end, as a means of protest? Will we see the emergence of non-dualistic, perhaps even primitive, early version of ourselves? Can this dystopian future be subverted through a software glitch, one that exposes the limitation of technology to authentically represent humanity?
May 4th
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
7-9pm Never Work
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
May 4 Topic/The Future of Work
After capitalism, what work should humans/robots/nature do? What does democracy look like when applied to work? What do we need? What do we want? Who will do the work? What are the ecological consequences? Guest artist: Dan Nelson. Dan Nelson is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and author who plays with words, symbols, signals, and sounds to explore how humans communicate and create meaning.
7-9pm Never Work, Symposium & Provocation at Beneficial State Bank, 1438 Webster St., Suite 300, Oakland.
Join an unpredictable symposium led by Franco-German anti-work advocate Guillaume Paoli, all the way from Berlin, Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), and Isaac Cronin, one of the founders of the Situationist movement in the Bay Area, as the evening’s host.
Door: $10-$20 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds. Cocktails & Cake FREE.
May 5th
2-4pm Energy Plan for the Western Man: Art after Capitalism
8:20pm – 10:05pm San Francisco – Tiburon Multi-media Art Experience
2-4pm Energy Plan for the Western Man: Art after Capitalism round table discussion with Sylvie Denis (author), Keith Hennessy (artist), Andrew Mount (artist/educator), Praba Pilar (artist) and Elizabeth Thomas (curator) at Shaping San Francisco, Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics (518 Valencia St, SF)
The round table discussion will center on each of the participant’s practice and individual work with an accent on the future/post-capitalism. Largely drawing on themes that are present in Joseph Beuys work, and to be more specific his pioneering concept of social sculpture, money and universal basic income, we will use his figure to discuss the future of art and the future of art/artist/author/performer, post-capitalism.
The first steps toward a post-capitalist practice involve the redefinition of art itself. Art after capitalism starts right now. Is the promised future artist’s emancipation providing only a contemplative respite from the exploitation, hierarchies and conflict present in the art world today? What does the future hold for artists, authors, performers? Will the artist abandon the authorial form? Will there be massive exodus from the museum/from the bookstore/from the performance venue? Will art finally merge with our lived experience? What new avenues can lead us toward an exit from our failed artistic paradigms? Will the rules of competition and money remain alive in the background and it is important to learn how to struggle absolutely for changes that are still only partial? Can we build a truly inclusive adequate, equitable and decentralized system that puts the artist/author/performer/curator at the forefront of this change?
8:20pm – 10:05pm San Francisco – Tiburon Multi-media Art Experience, PIER 41 San Francisco (Please arrive 15 minutes prior to departure)
Adult round-trip ferry ticket: $25 (No Host Bar)
*Purchase your round trip ticket(s) online at: HERE
*Choose Kiosk pick-up
*Print voucher
*Bring voucher with you to the boat for entry
Join the Blue Collar Green Water Art & Culture Collective, for an hour-long journey multi-media art experience. In addition to stunning views of the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, the evening will include readings, a short video screening, slideshow and animated video presentation on San Francisco waterfront history, presented by San Francisco Bay maritime working artists.
May 6th
1-2pm Rethinking Justice
2-3pm Rethinking Economics
4- 6pm RIP Capitalism
1-2pm Rethinking Justice by Lou Viquerat at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland)
A post-capitalist world will need a radically different way of thinking about and providing justice. Local experiments in restorative and transformative justice are underway and Lou Viquerat will present her own experiences as part of a larger community of collectivized households in using these new practices which seek prevention and transformation of those that commit harms, over retribution and punitive measures. The Alternative Justices project has been an attempt to positively impact both the justice system and rape culture. Alt-Justices have been working on various strands of this project for over two years in the framework of two co-living spaces, and are now moving beyond that. ‘Alternative Justices’ refers to the creation and application of multiple systems of justice that can transcend and transform the state and its flawed systems. This presentation will be part history of the project, part resources sharing, part Q&A and is envisioned as an invitation to take this work and use it to make impacts of your own.
2-3pm Rethinking Economics and Embodying the Post-Capitalist Economy We Want Right Now, a presentation by Della Duncan at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland)
A presentation by Della Duncan of Upstream podcast, covering the problems of economic paradigms and the fascinating and wide range of alternative frameworks that point to a post-capitalist future.
4- 6pm RIP Capitalism – a WAKE at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland
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May 1st
7pm MAY DAY PLAY, HEY!
9pm Precarious Labor Films
7pm MAY DAY PLAY, HEY! at Pro Arts (Oakland). Artist L.M. Bogad repurposes the structure of role-playing games to create a new game of “re-enacting” the history of social movements.
Door/$5-10 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds.
9pm Precarious Labor Films: Shorts from P2P Fightsharing III: Precarity; Mayday Barcelona (8:52); St. Precarious Goes Shopping (5:51); Yomango Tango (6:11); Gimme an occupation of the premises with that McStrike (4:05) at The New Great Wall of Oakland, right outside of the Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland.
May 2nd
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
7:30 pm Do Androids dream of surplus value?
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
Topic: Working With Nature to Reduce Work and Waste
How does nature shape the post-capitalist imaginary? How can we conserve time and resources to produce a better life for all? Guest artist: Asya Abdrahman. Asya develops conceptual strategies and physical structures in an effort to find future solutions to existing challenges, i.e. food, water, shelter, power.
7:30 pm Do Androids dream of surplus value? Robotic Labor Exploitation and the Falling Rate of Profit performative lecture by Eddie Yuen and Kal Spelletich at Shaping San Francisco, Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics (518 Valencia St, SF).
May 3rd
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
6-8pm sharp The Body as Resistance at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland).
8:30pm Intentions by Eva Davidova
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
May 3 Topic/Fragmented Attention, Stunted Cognition
How does our current techno-obsessed frenzy reinforce confusion and isolation? How can we nurture a calmer, more contemplative pace of life? How is our ability to know the world impaired by the massive speed-up we are all living through? Who remembers life before the personal computer?
6-8pm sharp The Body as Resistance at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland).
Door: $5-10 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds.
The Body as Resistance features the work of two radical local performance artists and cultural practitioners: Titania Kumeh & Jade Ariana Fair. Both Kumeh’s and Fair’s work deals with deconstructing our relationships with the body and it’s role within the capitalistic system of oppression. Through amplifications of their own histories and ancestries, they are actively and systematically subverting the agents of oppression which spearhead the erasure of black female narratives of struggle, history, healing, and documentation. Capitalism serves as an agent of destruction against the already violenced bodies of the oppressed citizens of earth, and these artists seek to imagine a future beyond violence, beyond erasure, beyond white supremacy, and thus beyond capitalism. In a capitalistic world, radical self care is a revolutionary act of anti-violence and anti-capitalism. Envisioning a post-capitalism within an artistic context is the first step towards better future for us all.
8:30pm Intentions. Transfer and Disappearance II interactive public projection by Eva Davidova at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (Oakland’s City Hall building)
Intentions. Transfer and Disappearance II by Eva Davidova is a short animation loop, addressing a post-capitalist future in which our future techno-centric identity, constantly manipulated by computers and ‘cold’ data, has the potential to expose the power relationship of control between the powerful and the powerless. This form a synthetic freedom, largely based on the latest technological advances, is constructed rather than natural. What if we employ the digital tools available to us and use the failure in representation to our own end, as a means of protest? Will we see the emergence of non-dualistic, perhaps even primitive, early version of ourselves? Can this dystopian future be subverted through a software glitch, one that exposes the limitation of technology to authentically represent humanity?
May 4th
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series
7-9pm Never Work
12-1pm Brown Bag Lunch Series (outdoors at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA), FREE and Open to All
May 4 Topic/The Future of Work
After capitalism, what work should humans/robots/nature do? What does democracy look like when applied to work? What do we need? What do we want? Who will do the work? What are the ecological consequences? Guest artist: Dan Nelson. Dan Nelson is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and author who plays with words, symbols, signals, and sounds to explore how humans communicate and create meaning.
7-9pm Never Work, Symposium & Provocation at Beneficial State Bank, 1438 Webster St., Suite 300, Oakland.
Join an unpredictable symposium led by Franco-German anti-work advocate Guillaume Paoli, all the way from Berlin, Marina Gorbis, Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), and Isaac Cronin, one of the founders of the Situationist movement in the Bay Area, as the evening’s host.
Door: $10-$20 donation is suggested with no one turned away for lack of funds. Cocktails & Cake FREE.
May 5th
2-4pm Energy Plan for the Western Man: Art after Capitalism
8:20pm – 10:05pm San Francisco – Tiburon Multi-media Art Experience
2-4pm Energy Plan for the Western Man: Art after Capitalism round table discussion with Sylvie Denis (author), Keith Hennessy (artist), Andrew Mount (artist/educator), Praba Pilar (artist) and Elizabeth Thomas (curator) at Shaping San Francisco, Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics (518 Valencia St, SF)
The round table discussion will center on each of the participant’s practice and individual work with an accent on the future/post-capitalism. Largely drawing on themes that are present in Joseph Beuys work, and to be more specific his pioneering concept of social sculpture, money and universal basic income, we will use his figure to discuss the future of art and the future of art/artist/author/performer, post-capitalism.
The first steps toward a post-capitalist practice involve the redefinition of art itself. Art after capitalism starts right now. Is the promised future artist’s emancipation providing only a contemplative respite from the exploitation, hierarchies and conflict present in the art world today? What does the future hold for artists, authors, performers? Will the artist abandon the authorial form? Will there be massive exodus from the museum/from the bookstore/from the performance venue? Will art finally merge with our lived experience? What new avenues can lead us toward an exit from our failed artistic paradigms? Will the rules of competition and money remain alive in the background and it is important to learn how to struggle absolutely for changes that are still only partial? Can we build a truly inclusive adequate, equitable and decentralized system that puts the artist/author/performer/curator at the forefront of this change?
8:20pm – 10:05pm San Francisco – Tiburon Multi-media Art Experience, PIER 41 San Francisco (Please arrive 15 minutes prior to departure)
Adult round-trip ferry ticket: $25 (No Host Bar)
*Purchase your round trip ticket(s) online at: HERE
*Choose Kiosk pick-up
*Print voucher
*Bring voucher with you to the boat for entry
Join the Blue Collar Green Water Art & Culture Collective, for an hour-long journey multi-media art experience. In addition to stunning views of the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, the evening will include readings, a short video screening, slideshow and animated video presentation on San Francisco waterfront history, presented by San Francisco Bay maritime working artists.
May 6th
1-2pm Rethinking Justice
2-3pm Rethinking Economics
4- 6pm RIP Capitalism
1-2pm Rethinking Justice by Lou Viquerat at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland)
A post-capitalist world will need a radically different way of thinking about and providing justice. Local experiments in restorative and transformative justice are underway and Lou Viquerat will present her own experiences as part of a larger community of collectivized households in using these new practices which seek prevention and transformation of those that commit harms, over retribution and punitive measures. The Alternative Justices project has been an attempt to positively impact both the justice system and rape culture. Alt-Justices have been working on various strands of this project for over two years in the framework of two co-living spaces, and are now moving beyond that. ‘Alternative Justices’ refers to the creation and application of multiple systems of justice that can transcend and transform the state and its flawed systems. This presentation will be part history of the project, part resources sharing, part Q&A and is envisioned as an invitation to take this work and use it to make impacts of your own.
2-3pm Rethinking Economics and Embodying the Post-Capitalist Economy We Want Right Now, a presentation by Della Duncan at Pro Arts Gallery (Oakland)
A presentation by Della Duncan of Upstream podcast, covering the problems of economic paradigms and the fascinating and wide range of alternative frameworks that point to a post-capitalist future.
4- 6pm RIP Capitalism – a WAKE at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland
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150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612
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