Couple of artists on some history and capitalism
With Robby Herbst and Jim Costanzo
Thursday July 28, 2022 at 7:00pm
Presented as part of Summer School: Art, Education & Radical Resistance
ABC No Rio in Exile at PS122 Gallery
Robby Herbst will share a history of the West Coast free-schools movement connecting Vanguarde art practices to the Bay Area Counterculture. His talk will track the little known and influential Portala Institute, founded in Menlo Park, CA in 1966, as an incubator of educational innovation. The extended Portola Network connects platforms for educational experiments to the Whole Earth Catalog, little known 1970's era counter-education publication projects, The New Games movement and the People's Computer Company. The talk will touch on the themes of anti-fascism, and new forms of labor that were emerging in the 1970s.
Jim Costanzo will discuss the most recent failure of Capitalism. The coronavirus pandemic comes 15 years after criminal activities by Wall Street crashed the international banking system which led to protests in the Mideast and Occupy Wall Street. Before coronavirus, the gap in income between billionaires and working people was the highest in U.S. history. It has grown larger during the pandemic. Economic inequities have always manifested itself in the exploitation of women, minorities, workers and the environment. Disaster Capitalism and Surveillance Capitalism are important concepts to understand our current situation but ultimately it is just Capitalism.
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