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Racial Health Care, politics, beer with the pres and Bullsh**?

It took me a while to realize there are racial paradigms and the paradoxical aspect of the conservative race. This version of health care is clearly protest of a president of color. Tea parties, town hall meetings etc. are all resentment because someone (who's mother doesn’t look like mine) didn’t believe in the limitations that some scientist who designated him negroid and a groundswell of cultural madness that followed it rose to be the top dude on the planet behind whoever we owe money to in… Continue

Added by Omari Fox - Stool P.I.J.I.N. on September 10, 2009 at 12:06pm — No Comments

A letter from Jean-Marie

Jean-Marie sent me this email the other day, which I hope will lead to some discussion here on (and about?) the site: Rajni, how are you? Let me start by saying that, although I am not capable of making art and, at the same time, making sense of it, it is a constant endeavor, always frustrating, always frustrated. Which leads me to a typical contradiction of mine: as artists we must control our output, I keep preaching! Yet, remembering what I said many times during the Charleston conversation… Continue

Added by Rajni Shah on January 8, 2009 at 5:46am — 1 Comment

no money

I did a show the other week, in an outdoor place, it's the one called give what you can, take what you need. We sit around a big dining table, and give people a pound in an envelope and ask them to use it as inspiration to buy or find or make something and bring it to the table. One girl brought the pound back and said she was going to buy something then she just couldn't stop thinking about how much a pound would mean to so many other people in the world and therefore how misguided the p… Continue

Added by Rajni Shah on December 6, 2008 at 5:38pm — 3 Comments

Reflections from the North

I am writing from Provincetown, Massachusetts where I may have just experienced the last warm and sunny day for a few months to come. It's wonderful to be by the sea again; I haven't seen the ocean since I was in South Carolina. Although I did just return from Illinois and Indiana, where I was surprised to find there is a real beach with sand dunes, a horizon, even shells. But that salty smell is irreplaceable... Volunteering for Obama was unlike anything I have experienced. There was an incredi… Continue

Added by Ruby Thorkelson on November 14, 2008 at 4:40pm — 1 Comment

The Closing Weekend- HAPPENINGS 3 & 4

THE FUTURE IS ON THE TABLE Linda Burnham, co-director of the Community Arts Network and Alice Lovelace, poet and lead organizer of the US Social Forum, will facilitate and enlighten all these happenings. Short films and notes sent by participants in The Future is on the Table will be presented all along. And be sure: your voice is necessary HAPPENING #3 “We all love Art but Art can be an Uncomfortable Issue.” SATURDAY OCTOBER 25, 11AM to 5PM REDUX CONTEMPORARY ART CE… Continue

Added by Gillian Ellis on October 23, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

To be informed is DANGEROUS? THE NEW DANGER

In an e-vite for the open mic at the gallery The New Danger was described by me as a group of artists and organizers who believe being "informed" is dangerous. A fellow artist thought this was destructive and misleading. They clarified what they meant and saw a connotation of being informed as being dangerous as possibly implying the rejection of recieving information. I thought The Future was truly on the Table and responded. I didn't catch the double meaning in the statement that being inform… Continue

Added by Omari Fox - Stool P.I.J.I.N. on October 15, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Take Role; Take Roll-Absentee ARtists

I was recently asked about a topic point concerning who/what was an absentee artist? my response... You ask... What is an absentee artist? my interpretation of the absentee artist is on a few levels. The show constructed a community via invitation and collaboration with the project so to me the absentee artist might be people who rejected the concept of receiving an artwork or a gift to adapt to their own creativity and documenting it; I dont know if that was an actual occurrence but because… Continue

Added by Omari Fox - Stool P.I.J.I.N. on October 15, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Rajni: October

I am aware that now all of us artists from other countries have departed and no doubt the weather is changing there, I suspect it is very beautiful at this time of year. Oddly, due to the craziness and unpredicability of global warming, we are having a few days of Summer in London: beautiful clear hot days, swimming outside and taking walks and picnics. Strange and terrifying, with the world banks crashing and the seasons disappearing, how all these markers become mirages. The Future in on the T… Continue

Added by Rajni Shah on October 13, 2008 at 4:46am — 1 Comment

Welcome, Welcome!

New members are joining this site everyday. Please take some time to explore the site... look at the older and newer profiles, photo albums, and blogs, and add your questions and comments. Start a discussion, share your photos! And ask questions! For help navigating the site (uploading photos, adding documents, etc.) take a look at the blog "Intro to Ning", listed under "blogs" at the top bar. Happy to see you here! As an introduction look at Workshop on Art Objects and Memorabilia in Ruby Thor… Continue

Added by Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet on October 10, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Ice Cube "Why Me?"

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Added by Wok Marcia Kure - Burqua as a shelter on October 8, 2008 at 12:36pm — 1 Comment

How Did it Start?

For a history of The Future Is On The Table, please read the text below by Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet: How did it start?.pdf Continue

Added by Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet on September 28, 2008 at 11:01pm — No Comments

Where Do They Come From?

Take a look at the work of the artists participating in The Future is on the Table and see how they got to Charleston. From the Catalogue: Where do they come from?.pdf Continue

Added by Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet on September 28, 2008 at 10:56pm — No Comments

Artists' Presentations at The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

Four artists participating in The Future is on the Table, Delphine Ziegler, Aurore Gruel, Rajni Shah, and Wok Marcia Kure, presented their work as part of a series of gallery talks at The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston. Read notes from these presentations here: Gallery Talks, Halsey Institute.pdf Continue

Added by Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet on September 28, 2008 at 10:52pm — No Comments

The Future is on the Table. Welcome- The Gibbes Museum of Art

On Sunday September 14th a group of artists, participants, and observers gathered in the courtyard of the Gibbes Museum of Art for an afternoon of performance, presentation, and discussion facilitated by Alice Lovelace and Linda Frye Burnham. Please read the notes and transcriptions from the day's events, and enjoy the photographs...And add your thoughts and questions!… Continue

Added by Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet on September 28, 2008 at 10:31pm — No Comments

How Does it Look Today?

Check out the latest catalogue, "HOW DOES IT LOOK TODAY?: The Future is on the Table #3, September-October 2008"! Soon to be available in print on October 10th. See the latest photographs from the shows and opening events at The City Gallery and The Gibbes Museum of Art. How does it look today?.pdf Continue

Added by Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet on September 28, 2008 at 7:16pm — No Comments

Intro to Ning

Welcome to The Future Is On The Table Ning! Here are some quick suggestions to help you familiarize with the site. After joining… On the top you will see a bar with options such as Main, Invite, My Page, Members, Events, Photos, and Videos. Please click on the tab that says My Page. Right now it is empty! Go down to profile and click on the Edit button to add a small blurb about yourself. On My Page you can also add an image of yourself. This option is on the left-… Continue

Added by Gillian Ellis on September 25, 2008 at 10:06pm — No Comments

What is art and what is my art? What is our art? Our arts?

Workshop on Art Objects and Memorabilia, led by Gwylene Gallimard Sunday August 31st The City Gallery at Waterfront Park On Sunday August 31st, a group of participants that included teenagers and grandparents, teachers and students, artists and art collectors, as well as a number of staff from the gallery, gathered to share a diverse array of personal possessions. Participants introduced themselves, their objects, and their objects’ significance, as well as passed their objects around th… Continue

Added by Ruby Thorkelson on September 19, 2008 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Back in the grey cold of London

Hi all Just a quick one, back here, struggling with the fading light, the coldness and anonymity of London, which I love as well as hate; the hard landing of an international flight, where you leave so suddenly and land so suddenly with an unreal travel in-between. I wanted to write something on here as a way of beginning to process this incredible journey we have begun to make together, and as some form of expression of the impact it has had on me.

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Added by Rajni Shah on September 18, 2008 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

dimanche 30 août 08 gift exchange .doc

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Added by aurore gruel on September 5, 2008 at 2:21pm — No Comments

How can critical writing be a dialogue? A continuation of the discussion...

Last night, September 1st, a group of us met at Jean-Marie and Gwylene's place to respond to an exercise that had taken place in the past few months. Gwylene had asked two writers, Frank Martin and Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, to write texts responding to the The Future is on the Table and had then asked selected readers to respond with… Continue

Added by Rajni Shah on September 2, 2008 at 11:01am — 2 Comments

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