C.O.P.S. Class notes: Audience as wind-up monkey 08/27/11

I’m taking classes at the Conceptual Oregon Performance School this summer and I’m a huge nerd, so I’m taking notes.  TBA has been happening and things, so these are late.  This was the last proper class, the following week was a group critique. Here are my notes from class, links that are related and the best parts of the readings: Class notes: (Note—as points of Debord’s work was shown as slides, the salient points are included here as space allows, with a link back to the entire piece online. There…

Focus month: the craft room, fin

Well, July’s focus wasn’t entirely a failure. I mean, it mostly was because here I am at the end of August, having just finished the basic goal (to tidy my craft area upstairs so I can actually use it). But I still finished it! I made slow progress in the earlier part of the month But hoorah, now it is done. I need to vacuum, and there are areas that need to be further broken down and tidied, but the primary issue—having no floor space and just junk everywhere, is…

C.O.P.S. class notes: Hello/Goodbye 08/20/11

I’m taking classes at the Conceptual Oregon Performance School this summer and I’m a huge nerd. Here are my notes from class and related links. This is a video based class so the majority of the links are videos. The Amateur As the class has already covered viral film territory the focus this class was instead on one specific film maker. American Movie: The Making of Northwestern Part one Part two Part three Part four Part five Part six Part seven Part eight Part nine Part ten Part eleven Coven…

C.O.P.S. Class notes: Audience as wind-up monkey 08/13/11

I’m taking classes at the Conceptual Oregon Performance School this summer and I’m a huge nerd, so I’m taking notes. These are particularly late for several reasons, one of which is that this was a particularly non-linear session and although I tried, I couldn’t really do it justice written out. I’d also found some cool things that referenced the public versus private space theme that the syllabus had said we’d be talking about, which we didn’t directly enough for me to figure out how to shoe-horn them in. Here are…

C.O.P.S. class notes: Hello/Goodbye 07/31/11

I’m taking classes at the Conceptual Oregon Performance School this summer and I’m a huge nerd. Here are my notes from class and related links. This is a video based class so the majority of the links are videos.   Gender & Punk Class notes/discussion topics:   “Gender & punk” being a loosely defined, small framework for a gargantuan range of topic Most videos are based in music rather than performance or art realm Old-school punk (definition of movement in hindsight, sensationalised after the fact) Iggy Pop interview on the…