Re: [xmca] Community Art Center: A Vision of Community Regeneration

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

I have already passed the note on to local colleagues who engage in similar
kinds of work, David.
Our colleagues in Visual Arts are particularly involved in ways that
admirers of Kaustuv would also
admire.

We have a new brand around here (at least I think it has been branded).
STEAM STEartsM. I like the idea a lot because it legitimates greater wiggle
room in the educational environments where STEM is taught.
mike

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:07 PM, David H Kirshner <dkirsh@lsu.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Mike.
> I knew that Kaustuv's scholarly work would be of interest to the
> listserv.
> I'm also hoping people will explore his work in the world and consider
> supporting him in it.
> David
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
> On Behalf Of mike cole
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 11:08 AM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Community Art Center: A Vision of Community
> Regeneration
>
> David-- As I suspect you know, the heuristic "netiquette" of xmca more
> or
> less adheres to the idea that participants should try to be relevant to
> what
> they understand the interests of the group to be. And that is sort of
> circumscribed by the idea of an Xtended discussion of mind, culture, and
> activity. David Ke's followup note indicates you were right on and
> relevant
> to someone "here." The infusion of art into our discussions seems xactly
> right to me.
>
> mike
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, David H Kirshner <dkirsh@lsu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Mike,
> >
> >
> >
> > I've not recently read through XMCA's Manual of Web Etiquette J but I
> hope
> > this is an acceptable use of our shared space.
> >
> >
> >
> > XMCA colleagues, I would like to alert you to an initiative being
> launched
> > by a former colleague of mine, Kaustuv Roy.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kaustuv left LSU in 2008 on the verge of getting tenure (he has two
> books)
> > in order to move back to India to be in solidarity with oppressed
> peoples.
> > Two years later, he's determined a course of action and has decided to
> > invest himself in using art as ameliorative to the social
> disintegration of
> > impoverished communities. (Please see the attached 2-page preamble to
> his
> > application to register a non-profit Community Arts Center.)
> >
> >
> >
> > During his 5 years at LSU, I had the pleasure of many conversations
> with
> > Kaustuv, and learned something of the apocalyptic vision of our social
> and
> > political disintegration that was growing within him, eventually
> expressed
> > in his 2008 book Neighborhoods of the Plantation: War, Politics and
> > Education (
> >
> https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=536&osCsid=
> 1a7<https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=536&osCsid=%0A1a7>
> ).
> > The Community Arts Center movement is his way of responding
> constructively,
> > using art to tap "dormant energies in the collective that allows for a
> > peculiar extension of self into the community."
> >
> >
> >
> > Eventually, once incorporated as a non-profit, Kaustuv's Center will
> need
> > financial support. In the meantime, I invite you to explore Kaustuv's
> plan
> > (attached), as well as the stunning and utterly relentless vision of
> the
> > state of spiritual, social, and material slavery of the world as
> expressed
> > in Neighborhoods of the Plantation.
> >
> >
> >
> > If you are moved to contact Kaustuv to inquire into his progress, or
> to see
> > some of his own art work, I know he would be appreciative (
> > kaustuv_r@yahoo.com).
> >
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> >
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