I will be out of town this weekend but this sounds like a pretty cool event for those that are on the art/politics tip. Not my usual cup-o-tea but this august is going to be pretty hectic, might as well throw some art down...
from http://www.experimentalparty.org/
Call-To-Action: "10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation"
Saturday, June 12, 7pm
Active Duty: Armed Artists of America
Studio 84, 84 South First Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Secretary Randall M. Packer of the US Department of Art & Technology will deliver a call-to-action for artists and citizens to carry out "10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation" during the Republican National Convention. Secretary Packer will be recruiting artist-delegates to participate in US DAT's 2004 Experimental Party National (Un)Convention & (Dis)Information Center at the LUXE Gallery in NYC, August 20 - September 4. The Secretary's address will take place in conjunction with Active Duty: Armed Artists of America, a show "armed with ideas and the tools to create a rapid response agenda to stop the global progression towards World War III." In response, the Secretary will call on coalition artists to inspire other artists into action by undergoing aesthetic operation as a form of magic designed as a mediation between our strange hostile world and the human spirit.