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#OccupyArt21

For the first two weeks of January, a handful of AAAAAArtists will occupy the Art21 guest-blog, with posts reflecting on and embodying the Occupy movement.

Participating AAAAAArtists/writers will include ARLA (Elana Mann & Juliana Snapper), Teresa Carmody, Carol Cheh, Dorit Cypis, Mikal Czech, Robby Herbst, Anna Mayer, Christy Roberts, Mathew Timmons, and Matias Viegener.

see the Art21 guest blog: http://blog.art21.org/category/guest-blog/

links to individual posts:
1/2/2012 – Intro: Claudine Isé – New Guest Bloggers: #OccupyArt21

1/2/2012 – Carol Cheh – Occupying Art
1/3/2012 – Robby Herbst – Human Pyramids and the Capitalist System
1/4/2012 – ARLA (Elana Mann & Juliana Snapper) – Radical Receptivities
1/5/2012 – Mathew Timmons – We Are
1/6/2012 – Teresa Carmody interviewing Owen Driggs – Octupy Los Angeles
1/9/2012 – Mikal Czech – #OccupyOccupyArt21
1/10/2012 – Anna Mayer – Dirt and Blankets
1/11/2012 – Christy Roberts – Occupy a Living Wage
1/12/2012 – Dorit Cypis – A Brave New World (remix)
1/13/2012 – Matias Viegener – From the Voice of the People to the People of the Voice

Octupy The Rose Parade!!

Monday, January 2, 2012
7:00am until 10:00am

Octupy occupied the Rose Parade!! 1/2/2012

photo of octupy in November 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall

The octopus is on the move! On January 2, 2012 it’s part of Occupy the Rose Parade (OTRP) and it’s looking for puppeteers.

We’ll meet at 7am on January 2 at Singer Park – hang out beforehand with the Occupy Block Party or aim to arrive in Pasadena at 6am (traffic is reeeally bad). We’ll be parading for 1.2 miles, so please be able to walk 2 miles comfortably.

We’re adapting the puppet a bit so it’s easier to carry and there’s also some more theatricality on the way. For this outing we don’t have City Hall to use as a prop so, to sharpen the anti-corporate finance message, we’re making Octy ‘accessories’ that include a huge hand attached to one of the tentacles, which will be sticking a dollar bill into a ballot box, and a hammer, with which a tentacle will try to smash a picket-fenced house.

Potential puppeteers please contact us at owendriggs at gmail dot com – absolutely no experience necessary!

More info about Octupy + video:

http://performingpublicspace.org/octupy

More info about Occupy the Rose Parade:
http://occupy/ theroseparade.org

“OTRP has obtained full permit police protection for OTRP as well as two separate OTRP physical site locations, one of which is Pasadena Singer Park”