COMMONING ON GOVERNORS ISLAND

June 5th and 6th 2010 - 11 AM to 6 PM

COMMONING ON GOVERNORS ISLAND
(a Prosodic Body* Event)
co-presented by Movement Research Festival 2010 HARDCORPS
and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Following their residencies with Movement Research and the LMCC Swing Space Grant Program Daria Fain and Robert Kocik will present works based on Commoning**. The presentation will include a performance by the Phoneme Choir, an exhibition, talks, and a screening by Iki Nakagawa.

June 5th -- 11AM to 6PM

11AM: door opens

Exhibition (on display all day): drawings and documentation concerning commoning and the Prosodic Body

1PM-3PM: Talks and Discussion with feminist activist, teacher, communalist historian Silvia Federici and the visionary socialist, writer, composer, bandleader, baritone saxophonist Fred Ho, moderated by Robert Kocik.

Silvia Federici: IN PRAISE OF THE DANCING BODY: while recapitulating the techniques capitalism has deployed to reduce the body to a machine, Federici will speak of practices by which we have resisted its mechanization, and the power of dance to articulate this resistance. More on Sylvia Federici

Fred Ho: FUTURE’S END: COMMUNISM AND ECOLOGY, REVOLUTION IS THE ONLY SOLUTION AND IT MUST BE LUDDITE! In this talk Fred Ho will ask: what is revolutionary socialist ludditism? Why is it the only solution? Why is it matriarchal (matri-centric) and indigenous-centric and why must these features be the foundation for a truly effectively revolutionary movement?

3PM-4PM: Performance of the Commons Choir (conceived and directed by Daria Fain and Robert Kocik). This piece is called Re-English—a re-tuning, an atoning for the fact that our current economic, climate and security crises are consequents of the sonic and connotative qualities of the English language—by means of phonemes as cosmogony; sound sequences as specific biochemical signaling, a reparation narrative, poetry as protection, and full recovery of the lost optative mood.

With Aretha Aoki, Margot Basset, Chung-chen Chang , Stephen Cooper, Levi Gonzalez, Hazuki Homma, Masumi Kishimota, Dora Koimtzi, Athena Kokoronis, Martin Lanz, Mina Nishimura, Peter Sciscioli, Kensaku Shinohara and Samita Sinha.

4PM-5PM: Screening of Collecting Collective Phase I: Filmic interpretations of commoning directed by Iki Nakagawa with contributions from Caterina Verde and Douglas Manson.

5PM: Q&A

June 6th -- 11 AM to 6 PM

11AM: Door opens——Commons Exhibition and continuous screening of Collecting Collective Phase I: Filmic interpretations of commoning directed by Iki Nakagawa with contributions from Caterina Verde and Douglas Manson.

2PM: Talk and discussion with poet Eric Gelsinger.

PERFECT MONEY: Eric Gelsinger will discuss the origins, history, and ontology of money, and explain its present determination by the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He will illuminate similarities between money and language, propose alternatives to the Fed's monopoly on our currency, and speculate on a "perfect money."

3PM-4PM: Performance of the Commons Choir (conceived and directed by Daria Fain and Robert Kocik) This piece is called Re-English—a re-tuning, an atoning for the fact that our current economic, climate and security crises are consequents of the sonic and connotative qualities of the English Language—by means of phonemes as cosmogony; sound sequences as specific biochemical signaling, a reparation narrative, poetry as protection, and full recovery of the lost optative mood.

With Aretha Aoki, Margot Basset, Chung-chen Chang , Stephen Cooper, Levi Gonzalez, Hazuki Homma, Masumi Kishimota, Dora Koimtzi, Athena Kokoronis, Martin Lanz, Mina Nishimura, Peter Sciscioli, Kensaku Shinohara and Samita Sinha.

5PM: Q&A

*Commoning is a group of poets, performers and persons working together toward the common good. Their foci: history of the enclosure of the commons leading directly to today's privateering, wage stagnation and material inequity; inner and somatic practices as the basis of fairness; the ways in which laws become the means for maintaining imbalance; hypertrophy of the financial sector; language as hegemonic force of globalization; and private determination of public space by 'business' that has always approached 'public' as inimical to its interests.

**The Prosodic Body is an aesthetic science that works with the sonic qualities of language as biochemical signaling; choreography; individual and social transformation; and cosmogony. This experiential field of research was begun by Daria Fain and Robert Kocik in 2006.

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The ferry to Governors Island departs regularly from the Battery Maritime Building, Manhattan and Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn. LMCC space will be well-indicated at the ferry dock.