The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is a Los Angeles based artists collective whose magazine sits at the discursive juncture of fine art, media theory and anti-authoritarian activism. Please join co-founder and collective member Marc Herbst for a presentation and theoretical retrospective of the past seven years of the project’s life.
Monday, May 12, 7:30pm, free
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
Since March 2001, the Journal has seen itself as one critical and dialogical site for the disparate progressive cultural movement. Coming out of the globalization movement, we have adjusted our focus as world events have unfolded and our personal knowledge, needs and experiences have changed. Spanning our movement's recent trajectory and the Bush era, we have moved from elation during the globalization era's heyday, visionary during the freaky early days of the war in Iraq, sad as reality set in and now we have a guarded sense of optimism in seeing groups and individuals re-articulate themselves.
One of the many constants throughout this era has been our sense that the Journal is a tool for a large group of engaged cultural activists (politicos, artists, media workers, theorists etc.). Another constant has been an equal sense that while we have taken on this task, no one has asked us to do it. We understand this to be the nature of the current movement-moment; a disparate, disorganized, un-aligned, busy and highly energized thing.
