Mimi Zeiger

Critic, editor, curator and instigator.

December 20, 2012

Manifesto Series 02: Infrastructural Opportunism

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Architecture, Events, Infranet Lab, Lateral Office

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For the launch of the publication of InfraNet Lab/Lateral Office’s Pamphlet Architecture 30+, Coupling: Infrastructural Opportunism, Storefront staged Manifesto Series 02: Infrastructural Opportunism.

Many thanks to Mason, Lola, and Eva for inviting me to participate.

The awesome infrastructural lineup was:
MIMI ZEIGER on manifestos
INTERBORO on exclusion
DIANA BALMORI on realignments
JASON VIGNERI-BEANE on stripping down
LYDIA KALLIPOLITI on remedies
ANDREW BLUM on tubes
JOYCE HWANG on interventions
MAMMOTH on expanding fields Read More …

Fall 2012

social club: participation, occupation, and communication

Design Dialogues Lecture Series

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Big City Forum, Events, Iker Gil, Leonardo Bravo, Liz Glynn, MoMA, Pedro Gadanho, Richard Saxton, Rosten Woo

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Chalk it up to the rise of social media in the late 2000s or to the collective actions instigated by the Occupy Movement, but social practice has emerged (or rather, re-emerged) in recent years as a dominant mode of production across multiple disciplines. Social Club explores the role of “social practice” in art, architecture, and urbanism. It features speakers whose work relies on a dialogue with the public sphere. Members of this Social Club are artists, writers, curators, and architects who use both strategies and tactics, including community collaborations, publishing, urban interventions, social media, and grassroots activism. Their work is critical and catalytic, reframing the conventions and expectations of practice.

Guest Curator:
Mimi Zeiger

Speakers:
Liz Glynn, artist
Leonardo Bravo, artist/curator, Big City Forum
Rosten Woo, writer/curator, Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Iker Gil, architect, MAS Context
Pedro Gadanho, Curator for Contemporary Architecture, MoMA
Richard Saxton, artist, M12

October 15-16, 2011

The Big Feed

A regional social on the Colorado High-Plains

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Events

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Keynote Speaker

The BIG FEED is an annual event and action held by M12. It is a celebration of the regional landscape, experimental art and architecture, food, music, culture and community. It is a forum to connect community members and artists in a casual atmosphere, as well as an opportunity for the larger public to learn more about the groundbreaking work presented by the attending community members, artists, musicians, critics, and curators. Landing somewhere between a family reunion, potluck dinner, symposium, and festival, The BIG FEED is held the second weekend in every October. The event is open to the public and the cost of entry is one food item to share.

2011
October 15-16, 2011
Location: Yuma County Fairgrounds in Yuma, Colo.
Mimi Zeiger (Los Angeles, CA)
Blue Mountain (Oxford, MS)
Yuma County Rodeo Queens
Matthew Fluharty (St. Louis, MO)
Vic Anderson (Estes Park, CO)
Gregory Hill (Joes, CO native)
Eric Steen (Colo. Springs, CO)
Ro Guenzel (Longmont, CO)
4H Royalty (Denver, CO)
Jami Lunde (Lyons, CO)
DJ Rockcrusher (Maiden Rock, WI)
CU Art Students (Boulder, CO)

Click here for the full 2011 schedule of events.

October 2010

Maximum Maxim MMX

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Architecture, Archizines, Events, LGNLGN, Studio X

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“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Now books are written by the public and read by nobody.”—Oscar Wilde

The popularity of the aphorism, a short, memorable, often pithy statement, goes hand in hand with the invention of printing. Throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, aphorisms and maxims were published globally in thick, bound collections. Although print remains precarious in a digital age, the aphoristic statement lives on.

For the Book Launch Cabaret at Storefront for Art and Architecture to celebrate Studio-X’s release, The Studio-X NY Guide to Liberating New Forms of Conversation (GSAPP Books, 2010), edited by Gavin Browning, Mimi Zeiger presented Maximum Maxim MMX a zine maximized with maxims germane to architecture and publishing.

Traveling the world as part of Archizines.