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February 27, 2010, from 5:00 until 10:00pm at Hart Crane Park in the Flats.

“This is the first annual Brite Winter Festival. The goal is to hold an annual festival that gets people out of the house and into our rich urban landscapes to have fun and meet new people. Such an event also acts as an economic stimulus for the surrounding neighborhood and businesses. We believe in Cleveland, and in the richness of the organizations in our community. Brite Winter offers opportunities for collaborations between organizations with diverse purposes: urban design, academia, arts and entertainment, local businesses, and economic development. By partnering with Pop Up City, the host of successful events such as Leap Night and the Bridge Project, we are building on past successes to create something new together. “

The Festival will feature an archive of subjective cartography paired with an interactive mapping installation, curated and designed by Austin Kotting of the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative.

I spent most of January in Ankara and Istanbul. I was invited to give two artist lectures at The Pera Museum and at The Turco-British Association. Ankara one was especially ineresting since it was the first time I shared work with family, and luckily received positive feedback.

I’ve also started working on a new project on the environmental politics of different municipalites in the cap city. Research is continuing…

Happy New Year…

Persistent Iteration is on c_m_l.

The Camel Collective began as a loose affiliation of artists, architects, and writers in the Spring of 2005. The U.S. invasion of Iraq, the dominant media’s tacit support for an illegitimate administration, and the hysterical real estate speculation in New York City motivated us to consider how we might orient our individual practices towards collective organization. Our belief in the productive force of collectivity and exchange across disciplines, along with the necessity to address social, political and economic issues as artists is what motivates our activities.