You Are Here Columbus

The blog of the social collective of Arawak City, Ohio.

30 April 2009

YAH Mindmap

Gentrification In Columbus

What is gentrification?

Where is it occurring?

What are some resources?

What is being done?

What can we do?

What should we do?


Txt Tree

The You Are Here collective is in its nascent stages of organizing social, political, economic and cultural public events. Birthed from the deep recesses of our imaginations, our events are meant to resist, challenge and provoke dominant worldviews.

Look for our future encounters with music, new media, art and culture as they investigation relations of: the everyday and the spectacular, space and the built environment, capitalism and the state, and representation and appearance.

If you are interested in getting occasional updates about events to participate in, you can get information via text message alerts (we promise not to spam you, maybe 1 msg/2 wks?).

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Dance Parties

Here's the general description of the DP we held last week:

Classrooms - pretty overdetermined spaces, right? Especially lecture halls. Partitioned off rows, a big whiteboard/screen with the professor ("he who knows") filling your mind like an empty vessel (http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/assets/images/foucaultschool.jpeg).

Well, now is your chance to challenge the hegemony of classroom space. The Comparative Studies Undergraduate Group is hosting a dance party in a lecture hall! We will be experiencing the various ways feelings, emotions, ideas, movement, and sound circulate within spaces that are built to repress, separate, quiet and isolate.

This event will explore the intersections of the built environment, over-determined spaces, and the audio-visual affective circulation of techno music. The text we will use to inform our analysis is Michel Gaillot's "Techno: Multiple Meaning, An Artistic and Political Laboratory of the Present" [http://openlibrary.org/b/OL9010128M/Techno]

About

This blog serves as a transparent point of discourse for You Are Here--a Columbus collective that grew out of the Comparative Studies Undergraduate Group at the Ohio State University. It consists of people from all academic and social backgrounds with an emphasis on social theory. Most succinctly put, it is creative scholarship in affect--whether it be from academia, popular culture, art, language, or personal observation. The ideas expressed in this blog are by no means reached by consensus and do not necessarily reflect those of other members. The comments doubly so. Feel free to critique, question, or agree with any views expressed. You don't have to reside in or be familiar with the city of Columbus. As far as we're concerned, you are here.