AUG 4
NOON - 4PM
wednesday
Taking the City by Voice:
FlatPak House
Roger Hoel + Minnetonka Girls Chamber Choir
A body of singers who perform together is called a choir or chorus. A four hour walk into the city with conductor, Roger Hoel and Minnetonka Girls Choir will form a body of voices that will temporarily claim buildings, alcoves, tunnels, archways, fields and doorways. The voice will be used to generate a commons.
"We have begun to listen to the sound of our own words, not merely to their meanings; we have begun to circle their shapes like a walk around town." William H. Gass from Tests of Time.
+ Playing with the Spect-Actor's Voice: a Bodily Exploration
AUG 5
10AM - NOON
thursday
Auction Preparation:
FlatPak House
Have each core member bring 10 objects in a blanket.
+ Playing with the Spect-Actor's Voice: a Bodily Exploration
AUG 7
10AM - 3PM
saturday
How to Build a Voice Box I: Shouting into a Megaphone Until You Become Hoarse or Duncecaps into Megaphones.
FlatPak House
Small paper megaphones will be made by the general public. Posters will be printed with a template for the megaphone form and a space for people to write a statement they wish to shout or whisper.
Alongside the public making workshop, Futurefarmers + core group will be building a large, mobile multiple person megaphone.
AUG 10
NOON - 2PM
tuesday
The Voice in Sound and Vision
FlatPak House
A two-hour workshop with ethnomusicologist, Allison Adrian of St. Catherine University, St. Paul MN.
Allison Adrian will explore the voice through music and image. How do rural and urban environments shape the human voice and vice versa? How does the voice change according to its cultural, political and historical context? In music, we will consider yootzing, a vocal tradition in rural Switzerland that alternates head voice with chest voice (high-low) to produce its sound. We will also investigate one of the oldest American choral traditions, sacred harp singing, by briefly examining its roots in the rural South and listening to some of its contemporary forms.
Screening: Yootzing and Yodeling by Hugo Zemp. The first film in the 4-part series: "Jüüzli" of the Muotatal (Switzerland).
Afternoon session: Auction Workshop Part II: A workshop with core group to prepare for Sept. 4th auction.
+ Playing with the Spect-Actor's Voice: a Bodily Exploration
AUG 12
6 - 10PM
thursday
Film Screaming
(8:45PM film begins)
FlatPak House
An evening of events and film screening. Bring a picnic and a blanket. Local performer will open up for the evening screening of shorts related to "voice."
7:30pm
Balls: A fun filled marionette show, with balls everywhere by Robin Schwartzman, Ben Desbois + Justin Spooner.
AUG 13
NOON - 4PM
friday
Theorist Daily Talk:
FlatPak House
Rick Prelinger
Field trip/performance with core group to tour the Star Tribune printing facilities.
In 2009, 105 newspapers have closed and 61 already this year. With this shift comes a lack of support for journalists and in-depth, investigative reporting. We will look at the history and currents of distributed media; newspapers, pamphlets and broadsides. From local to national reporting, we will consider whose voice is being heard.
"In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism"
- Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" in Guy, Josephine M., The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, IV.
Rick Prelinger
www.prelinger.com
Rick is an archivist, writer and filmmaker, founded Prelinger Archives, whose collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation. Rick has partnered with the Internet Archive to make 2,100 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and
reuse. Rick has taught in the MFA Design program at New York's School of Visual Arts and lectured widely on U.S. cultural and social history and on the cultural and social commons.
His feature-length film "Panorama Ephemera," depicting the conflicted landscapes of 20th-century America, opened in summer 2004 and played in venues around the world. He's now working on a second feature tentatively entitled "No More Road Trips," on travel and mobility in America. With Megan Prelinger, he's co-founder of the Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly private research library that's open to the public, located in downtown San Francisco.
+ Playing with the Spect-Actor's Voice: a Bodily Exploration
AUG 18
12PM - 5PM
wednesday
Core Group Workshop:
How To Build a Voice Box II: Unregulated Radio: The Promise of the Democratization of Media with
Anthony Tran
With the ever increasing conglomeration of the mainstream media, reducing both the quality and diversity of information communicated through various mediums as well as censor a wide range of critical thought, an individual becomes one without a voice, enclosed within a non-reactive relationship.
Every new emerging medium has the promise of democratization, as a form of wireless commons. These two workshops, led by Anthony Tran, will focus on pirate radio as a practical way to amplify voice as a way to collectively repurpose radio space for all.
The first workshop, done with a core group of twenty students, will approach pirate radio from many domains - the history and its underlying beliefs, a technical workshop on how to build individual, small pirate radio, and see its application throughout Minneapolis.
12:00p - 1:00p Discussion about the global history of pirate radio and its impact on community as a means to create and facilitate social networks that are not necessarily market based, but as a media system that respects, as well as reflects, the lives and experiences of local communities.
Taught by Max Balhorn & Siddarh Saikia
Texts Used: Understanding Community Media, Kevin Howley The Political Economy of Media, Robert W. McChesney
1:00p - 3:00p Building Radio Kits + basic electronics theory through both the perspective of sound as well as wireless frequencies.
3:00p - 5:00p Walking Broadcast
+ Playing with the Spect-Actor's Voice: a Bodily Exploration
AUG 19
3PM - 8PM
thursday
How To Build a Voice Box II: Unregulated Radio: The Promise of the Democritization of Media
FlatPak House
Anthony Tran
A public workshop that will allow all participants to have their voice heard via the ten FM transmitters built by the previous workshop to reclaim Open Field's wireless space as a public commons. It is highly recommended to bring your FM players, iPods and most importantly, your voice.
+ Playing with the Spect-Actor's Voice: a Bodily Exploration
AUG 28
11AM - 2PM
saturday
48HR Newspaper: When Voices Become Print
A public workshop in the FlatPak house! Michael Aberman, Annie Wang, and other core group members will be recording narrated stories to be published in a newspaper available on Sunday. We encourage all visitors to come and share any stories that they wish to see live on as printed word. Feel free to bring supporting photographs! Supplies will also be provided for supporting illustrations.
AUG 29
12PM - 3PM
sunday
48HR Newspaper: When Voices Become Print
Newspapers will be ready for pick up!
SEP 3
NOON - 5PM
friday
Auction Preparation:
Core Group Prep.
+ Playing with the Spect-Actor's Voice: a Bodily Exploration
SEP 4
10AM - 3PM
saturday
Auctions Speak Louder Than Words:
FREE: Open Field, Walker Art Center
10AM - NOON Field of Objects on a Blanket
Participate in the day's events by bringing 3-5 items from home wrapped in a blanket to display on the Open Field. Futurefarmers will collect the stories that these objects inspire and make drawings of participant's goods, which will get raffled off at the Public Auction. A field of blankets and stories will unfold!!
*suggested reading:
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1PM Auction with Glen and Dale Fladeboe of
Fladeboe Auctions:
FREE: Open Field, Walker Art Center
Be ready to bid with provided, custom printed money, as auctioneers Glen and Dale Fladeboe and auctioneers Futurefarmers orchestrate a system of bartering that reveals the value of everyday objects.
