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A Lecture with Mike Wolf: Drift and Surge: How We Conjure a Radical Culture Corridor
Presented as part of the CCA Graduate Fine Arts Satellite Lecture Series
Thursday, March 11, 2010, 7 pm
San Francisco campus
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A Midwest / West Coast Encounter in the year of the tiger, introduced and moderated by Sam Gould of the Red76 Collective:
Drifting
I draw on images and anecdotes from various collaborative projects that brought this ambassador into contact with the broader landscapes of the Midwest, beyond and between the traditional urban cultural centers—from Free Walking, a cultural walking series which culminated in two long-distance pilgrimages to a series of exhibitions based on Midwestern wanderings, the Domestic Struggle: Parts Two and Three and on to the 2008 Continental Drift Through the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor.
Surging
Here in North America everywhere you’ve been has been part of a battle for land, and basically the bad guys won. The answer to this is a widespread, deep-spread, grassroots decolonization campaign. This ambassador discusses the plans of the Compass Group leading up to the U.S. Social Forum, this June in Detroit—what we are learning through encounters with the Detroit-based Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, and other Midwest-based decolonization campaigns such as The Dakota Commemorative March and Unsettling Minnesota. Perhaps you can help me learn more about decolonization in Aztlan.
About the Artist
For about four years I’ve been an itinerant cultural worker, circulating in the upper Mississippi and Western Great Lakes parts of the Midwest, with a home-base camp in Chicago. I’ve been wrapping my head around the varied relationships people conduct with the landscape in this region, which in the waning days of imperial capitalism invariably includes sacrifices in other remote places here on earth. Among other work, I’ve helped to organize Mess Hall, an experimental cultural space in Chicago; and contributed to the Compass Group, a group of activists, artists, and theorists working to unleash the reality-based dream, and the dream-based reality of the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor.
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