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Veinnese Lounge - Velvet Lounge

Temporary Services
2000, Chicago

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I was invited by the austrian artist group "viennes lounge" to participate as special guest.

"Viennese Lounge" is a series of exhibitions and simultaneous events which incorporate various areas of new media and will take place at changing venues. The basic concept follows a constant pattern: new works are produced for every project and, guest artists, musicians, DJs or also theoreticians from the respective cities are invited to co-operate. A central point is that the project should be carried out at various venues and as a series of events over an extended period of time, whereby the consistent and systematic search for synergies in the different fields should stand in the forefront. The substantial thematisation and visualisation of art in the areas of new media with the background of culturally differing manifestations and their possible interpretation thus appears as an effective form of artistic strategy.

Velvet lounge is a famous and great jazz place in the southside of chicago. Mike Adams and Isaiah Spencer played both the drums at temporary services. they also performe at velvet lounge.
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CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
The history of the congress of racial equality (CORE) is essentially part of the history of the civil rights movement in america. the congress of racional equality (CORE) was founded in 1942 as the comittee of racial equality by an international group of students in Chicago. Many of these students were members of the Chicago branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), a pacifist organization seeking to change racist attitudes. The founders of CORE were deeply influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's teaching of nonviolent resistance. CORE started as a nonhierachical, decentralized organization founded entirely by the voluntary contributions of its members. the organization was initially co-led by white University of Chicago student George Hauser and black student James Farmer. In 1942, CORE began protests against segregation in public accommodations by organizing sit-ins. It was also in 1994 that CORE expanded nationally. James Farmer traveled the country with Bayard Rustin, a field secretary with FOR, and recruited activists at FOR meetings. CORE's early growth consisted almost entirely of white middle class college students from the midwest. CORE pioneered the strategy of nonviolent direct action, especially the tactics of sit-ins, jail-ins, and freedom rides. Today, under Roy Inni's leadership, CORE embraced an ideology of pragmatic nationalism and lent its support to black economic development and community self-determination.
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