You Are Here Columbus

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

26 May 2009

Dance Party




However: Thursday or Friday? Vote for the day that works best for y'all on the poll to the right. Also comment on this post if you want to help out in some way (printing out literature, outreach, setting up, tearing down, playlist input, visual stimulation input, suggestions, etc.).

Here's some info from the last dance party that still applies:

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.

Well, now is your chance to challenge the hegemony of classroom space. 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.

Please remember that OSU is alcohol and drug-free. This event is meant to be potentially trangressive but not illegal or against the student code of conduct.

This event will explore the intersection 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]

Location:
Hagerty Hall 180 -- might have to use the back doors near the loading dock.
Street:
1775 College Rd

This event is sponsored by the Comparative Studies Undergraduate Group on paper and You Are Here Columbus.

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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.