Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:05:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:  BAUDRILLARD/STONE/DIPRIMA/NEVADA (fwd)




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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 17:33:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Margaret Kaner <st950880-AT-PIP.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>
Subject: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:  BAUDRILLARD/STONE/DIPRIMA/NEVADA

>>
>>                        CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:
>>                     CHANCE:  3 DAYS IN THE DESERT
>>
>>                   JEAN BAUDRILLARD PLAYS (near) VEGAS
>>            with ALLUCQUERE ROSANNE STONE & DIANE DI PRIMA
>>
>>WHEN?  November 8 - 10, 1996
>>WHERE? Whiskey Pete's Casino, Primm Nevada (see below)
>>HOW?   Check out the CHANCE website at:
>>            http://www.artcenter.edu/events/chance.html
>>            email:  chance-AT-artcenter.edu
>>            phone:  818/568-4805
>>
>>WHAT?.....
>>CHANCE is a philosophical rave & summit meeting between artists &
>>philosophers, chaosophists & croupiers, mathematicians & musicians at
>>Whiskey Pete's Casino in the Nevada desert.  A CHANCE to redefine this
>>century's romance with randomness & synchronicity less innocently for our
>>era.
>>
>>CHANCE to explore the multiplicity of identity.
>>
>>Three days of chance encouters, gambling & deep thought with Jean
>>Beaudrillard, Allucquere Rosanne Stone & 30 other internationally active
>>cultural strategists.....Music from the San Francisco bands Towel &
>>Ohm-a-Revelator.....a one-time mystery jam between six special guest star
>>musicians with Red Krayola lead guitarist Tom Watson.....the intensely
>>nameless beauty of Oguri & Renzoku butoh.....a roving fun-house of
>>installation art & readings organized by Sarah Gavlak, Pam Strugar & Dan
>>Frydman.
>>
>>Appearing in addition to Baudrillard, Stone & diPrima will be
>>
>>DOUGLAS HEPWORTH, Wall Street Chaos Trader
>>DJ SPOOKY, That Subliminal Kid
>>SHIRLEY TSE, Hong Kong Artist
>>ANN ROWER, New York Writer
>>SYLVERE LOTRINGER, Semiotext(e)ician
>>JEREMY GILBERT-ROLFE/THE CHANCE BAND/SHEPPARD POWELL
>>& THE CHANCE OF THE UNKNOWN
>>
>>Primm, Nevada is located at the border of Nevada & California:  Paiute
>>nuclear waste specialist Calvin Meyers will lead a desert walk & talk about
>>the desecration of tribal land.
>>
>>WHO?  As above.....  & YOU!
>>
>>WHY?
>>
>>
>>the Outsider Bookstore
>>4505 Fountain Avenue
>>Los Angeles, CA  90029
>>ph #(213) 660-4361
>>
>>
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