Curated by Red76
Gabriel Saloman & Sam Gould (Red76) and Robby Herbst in person
 
The YouTube School for Social Politics (YTSSP) invites historians, artists, and theorists to construct passages of historical inquiry through assemblages of YouTube clips. In an increasingly invisible society we are each a consumer, creator, and clearing house for knowledge, just as much as we are receiver, producer, and disposer of material goods. These notions of surplus knowledge play a central role within the YouTube School for Social Politics. Scattered throughout YouTube lie countless personal and collective points of view and scattered historical moments. By arranging segments of documentaries, personal missives, family films, newsreels and music videos, new light is shed on the sociopolitical landscape of history past and history present.

 

Red76 is the moniker for initiatives most often conceived by Sam Gould and collaboratively realized with Zefrey Throwell, Gabriel Mindel-Saloman, Dan S. Wang, Mike Wolf, Laura Baldwin, and many others dispersed throughout the world. Their initiatives focus on the facilitation of discussion, thought and action within public space. Their projects manifest within the realms of printed matter, multi-media, social practices and anything else they can get their hands on.
 
Mystery Ecology, Gabriel Saloman | 2009 | 55mins | dv
Human Masks, Sam Gould | 2009 | 50mins | dv

 

 

+ Screening & live A/V performance: Robby Herbst & Sade Sade

Saturday January 16 2010, 7:30pm, $10 suggested donation

Studio 1202, RSVP programming(at)dimcinema(dot)ca for location
Complimentary light food and beverages will be available, but b.y.o.b. is welcome.

 

Mediation, Self Marginalization and Post Politics in Protest Media, Robby Herbst | 2009 | 60mins | dv
War Requiem, Sade Sade | 2009 | 12mins | a/v performance

 

Robby Herbst is part of the editorial collective of the Los Angeles based publication, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. Also an artist and writer, Robby's work looks at the intersection of theory, beauty and social upheaval. His work examines both what forms and images are created in the act of protest and how it is influenced by the world of art. Robbie will be screening and discussing his YTSSP essay in an informal and convivial environment. Complimentary light food and beverages will be available, but b.y.o.b. is welcome.