Steve Kado at xero, kline & coma 2nd September 2011 at 19:00

The event is free, but places are limited so R.S.V.P. to info@xero-kline-coma.com to book.

Steve Kado will discuss his recent shrinking of October Magazine to 3/4 its size.

Steve Kado was born in North York, Ontario, Canada in 1980. He co-founded the Blocks Recording Club in 2003 which has issued records by Owen Pallett, Fucked Up, Katie Stelmanis and others. He has been in many bands. His public speaking events, installations and image work have been presented widely, from North America to Oceania and Europe featuring at such venues as Tate Britain, Machine Project, The Department of Safety, Gambia Castle, Y3K and the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. For two years he was 1/2 of the philosophy teaching staff at the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles. At the moment he is working on a couple new book projects, an air travel carry-on bag and co-hosting "Talking Show" with Nicolas Miller on Los Angeles-based micro-broadcasting station KCHUNG. Books and printed works, as well as video fireplaces and other printed ephemera are available through Art Metropole, Printed Matter, Ooga Booga and World Food Books.

Special screening of documentation from No Haus Like Bau at 18:30 on 11.7.11

Russian Constructivist theater of the 1920s portrayed “industrial man” as part of a bio-mechanical symbiosis with the factory. For the 5th berlin biennial, Pil and Galia Kollectiv staged a new theatrical piece, a post-Fordist neo-Constructivist mime entitled No Haus Like Bau, which asked what became of this overidentification with the system in the wake of industrial manufacture: what would it mean in relation to the flexible ideology of late capitalism? With the boundaries between work and leisure diffused by the employment model of a post-Fordist creative industry, the critique of the mechanization of labor becomes ineffectual.

Marx wrote that revolutionary transformation borrows the slogans and costumes of the past to stage the new world-historical order so that they may part happily from the past. Incorporating a stage set based on flatpack furniture and inspired by Soviet theater design, No Haus Like Bau happily parts with revolution. Featuring eight performers, with a live score by Steven Kado (The Blankket, The Barcelona Pavilion, Blocks Blocks Blocks), the performance juxtaposes Bauhaus dance theory with the story of the privatisation of Russia and elements of Mozart's Magic Flute to forge a new mythology for the DiY consumer and the subject of immaterial labor. Through the performance, the heavy symbolism of state theatre and mass spectacle is reduced to the ergonomics of interior design to form a provisional aesthetic for a new politics.

The event is free, but places are limited so R.S.V.P. to info@xero-kline-coma.com to book.

New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Occupation
May 30, 2011, 7PM

Booking essential!

At the dawn of the 1980s, in the wake of the defeat of the autonomous movements of the 1970s, Félix Guattari and Antonio Negri embarked on an extraordinary collaboration to rescue communism from its own disrepute: to rethink categories of economic analysis and political organization. Today we find ourselves in a situation where such a rethinking is needed more than ever. From anti-austerity struggles and university occupation movements to the circulations of the Arab spring and the revolts of Wisconsin and Greece: what new lines of alliance and spaces of liberty might be emerging within the present? How can we move from the occupation of a particular space (whether the university or the factory) to a general occupation of the social factory, to reclaiming the collective wealth of social imagination and time for life? Come join us for a discussion of these and related questions.

This event will celebrate the release of The Occupation Cookbook, a handy guidebook for university occupations that was written coming out of a wave of university occupations in Croatia in 2009, and the re-release of an expanded edition of Negri and Guattari’s New Lines of Alliance, New Spaces of Liberty. Discussion and commentary with Steffen Boehm, Arianna Bove, Mate Kapovi?, Matteo Mandarini, and Stevphen Shukaitis.

Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life. Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia: info@minorcompositions.info. Mate Kapovi?, assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb) and political activist kapovic@gmail.com

NSK retrogarde theatre event at 18:00 on 25.2.11

The event is free, but places are limited so R.S.V.P. to info@xero-kline-coma.com to book:

The Cussedness of Objects
Saturday 22.1.11 at 14:00

The Cussedness of Objects is part of an ongoing dialogue between Evan Calder Williams of Socialism and/or Barbarism and Marina Vishmidt, writer and researcher at Queen Mary University, that started with hostile objects and has since opened more broadly onto commodity fetishism from the perspective of the commodity, recodings and "misuses" of the city (from occupations to barricades), reification theory, socialist animism, and, above all, the strange fates and promises of a built world alternately murderous, feeble, and indifferent.

The discussion will be followed by a screening of The Man in the White Suit.

Places are very limited so, R.S.V.P. to participate and for links to relevant reading.