MEETINGS' REPORTS

Meeting Report/Number3

Date: 09/27/2008

Time:10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Present: Morehshin Allahyari– Bailey Ferguson– Matt Contos– Marie Janiszewski– Natalie Nguyen– Josh Fishburn– Alex Aston– Richard Burgess– Andrew Baldwin – Andrew Blanton



1. Subjects/Project

* Morehshin and Bailey – Cooperative photography project – Each presents their point of view – Morehshin, Iran – Bailey, US – address identity and self dialogue – belonging

* Bailey – Scheherazade – symbol of peaceful dialogue – Each of us make our own Scheherazade story – section of the gallery/show dedicated to this micro-project –

* Matt & Alex: How to book – Gorilla how to guide – Gorilla Games – Book of various traditional American games adapted to fit with overall project, e.g. Freeze Tag – Matt & Alex will start by setting up approximately 10 games and hopefully others will draw from that and contribute some games of their own -Ask if Jaime wants to get involved?

* Marie: Graffiti? Transportable? Using decomposable/ephemeral materials – call for submissions – dialogue would be decisions from each team – Crazy Hats – deals with issue of what can be shipped to Iran and from there to here – Or maybe Scarves (Morehshin’s)

* Liz: Something based on textiles – poss. Scarves – fashion materials/textiles

* Natalie & Josh: Coded language to tell a story – combine ideas to tell a story in coded language that Iran Team could modify – Book would be transferable medium

* Richard: Find several people, possibly 6, all over 60 years old. Ask them to supply series of photos from when they were very young until now. Sit with them and have them tell their stories – record the story telling to possibly go with the photos

* Andrew: Cross-threading of folk music – Persian and US – Sound sculpture of this folk music – transfer the sounds to physical – combination of American and Persian folk instruments – Have poems read to create sounds to build off of dialogue theme
* Charlie – link to Cuba show

1. Andrew Baldwin: Google Groups, Matt & Richard given “Owner Access” – Hard drive storage for documentation – Calendar: not sensible to have each person post their individual calendars
2. Timeline – Iran deadline
3. Update on Iranian Team –Developed their ideas more - 4 people: paradoxes, tradition vs. modernity illustrate how individual’s attitudes change over time – Hands/Sign Language Dialogue: photography & video – One person: Scheherazade, - Logos, exchange – Looking to find private sponsors – Each person create a story for the Scheherazade project.
4. Funding – Through KA-TET to IRUS so all is less direct to IRUS project – Even if someone wants to invest directly to IRUS, we can ask them to go through the KA-TET
5. Break
6. Proposals Workshop – Goals: develop a dialogue, What’s the need? We lack dialogue without preconditions – art is a traditional tool for dialogue – Need to frame our ideas – Need to understand each other as, we are limited by seeing each other as nations rather than individuals.
7. It’s our aim to cultivate a more dynamic perception of each other’s cultures.
8. For next week: complete IRUS Proposal on Google Docs – Bailey will setup for us to each contribute – Establish frame for our end, using Google Groups – create discussion topic “Framework – everyone contributes to discussion – Individual proposals in two weeks – send mini-bio info to Morehshin top go with our photos – Charlie will talk to Paco, Object and Thought.



Meeting Report/Number2

Date: 09/19/2008

Time: 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

10:47/Introductions


· Elizabeth Hendrix: Painting /printmaking

· Bailey: painting

· Marie Janasuesky: photography

· Matt Contos: Painting

· Moreshin: Photograghy, MA work, video art

· Andrew Blanton: Music

· Josh Fishburn: EMAD, video art, critical game design

· Natalie Nuen: Painting

· Andrew Baldwin: website

· Alex: Facilitation

· Richard: Everything

10:55 Goals of Iran Project

General History

· Moreshin’s presentation

o Discussion with Richard

o Has gone in different directions

o 19 artists in Iran

o Weblog in Farseei, trouble

o 29 of October is the deadline

· Matt

o Dialogue is the theme

o Respond to each other as artists

o Some symbols might need to be unchanged

11:00 Richard reading the past minutes

· Suggestion of making Moreshin project coordinator

· Blogspot, Iranian blog

· Jaime joining our group

· Discuss the need for more artists

o Performance artist

o Graphic designer w/ typography experience

o Meetings every Saturday at 10:30 am

· Our Ideas

o Fundraising

§ Service learning office at DU

§ Matt to check with Lawrence

§ International House

ú Dan Jacob

ú Possible workshop and need a proposal

· Need a group to go talk to him

§ Knows a person who owns a gallery in Santa Fe.

· Charlie Roderick

· Tentative Deadline to be Jan 15 for the Show

· Stop motion video of us working

· Pool of information

· Artists statements

· Updating our proposal

o Every member shares their vision

o General Documentation

· IRUS Iranian US

· Concerns-Ideas from Iran

o Dialogue as a theme

o Exchanging incomplete work

§ Trust

§ Issues of what you really care about in a specific piece

§ Non-political

§ Artist’s statement/how your piece relates to dialogue

§ Cultural exchange

o Lists of images off-limits, what is taboo.

o Censorship worried about destroying original work

o Collaborative work just within the US and just within IR

§ Each team would have an original example of the others work






o Possible rules

11:15 Needs access to weblog

· Natalie

· Liz

· Alex

· Richard

Becoming more specific about the project

11:23 Moreshin showing Cuban US collaboration

· Dialogue of Folding

· Using Digital Media/secrecy

· Academic resistance against government

· Brazil conference

11:28 New people

· Explaining my role

o Liaison to KaTet

· KaTet: as a community

· Calendar and schedule

o When you are and aren’t available

o Google calendar

o Google Groups

· Andrew looking for funding

o Non-profits into raising funds

o Other possible groups to get involved in

o Trip to Tehran

11:38 Next time work on proposal

· Hour and half workshop

11:40 Marie

· Nick Sutton grandmother are the Us ambassador of film and arts

· Invite him/ proposal first

11:43 New people

· Natalie finding how she can fit in through this quarter

· Elizabeth similar situation

· Jaime down for joining in

· Alex as coordinator

11:49 separate google calendar for KaTet

· Community space

· Get excited

11:52 Iranian artists subjects

· Next week have our ideas on subjects ready

· Four people on an installation project

o 1000 legs/pants for 1000 people/legs?

o Illustration project

o Sammin video box? Mute and deaf photography

o Vanan painting, photography

o Monen Rugs

o Paymon painting

o Medium flint funk weight

§ Dialogue between instrument and song

§ Writings on money

o Kids painting about the US

o Movement and form

§ Video photography

o Form and Dance (see above)

o Sue attack (mask?)

o Sharazad

12:03 Traditional Persian tales and put them in an American landscape

· To Do list

· Proposals

o Small artist’s statement

· Look for money

· Calendar

· Figure out a deadline

· Contact list

· Phone for KaTet

· Come up with cool names

· Moreshin handling photos


MEETING REPORT/Number1

DATE: 09/13/2008

TIME: 11a.m. to 1p.m.

People We missed in our meeting: Andrew Blanton, Josh Fishburn, Jaime.




People we are looking to add: Natalie, Artists from Installation class…

Jaime – member of USIR? he is member of KA-TET

YES

chatted with Morehshin, wants to meet with Matt

he seems committed, Matt will speak to him

Andrew Baldwin will be here from now on

send him the notes

send him schedule – Google Calendar

Weblog – set up today

need to invite Richard to USIR blog

We each need to add photo to our weblog

Maybe Josh can help us with it, or CHARLIE (need to speak to Charlie – invite him in)

10:30am meeting every Saturday

thinking of adding more people

performance artist – Morehshin can speak to class

graphic designer

try to get outsiders (out of DU) involved

budgets – PINS deadline is Sept. 18

international house – funds (Morehshin and Matt will speak to them this Thursday before 10)

get weblog up beforehand so can reference funders to see sight

*Morehshin’s position for this project

this is her show – curator?

has a leadership role, but needs help

trying to keep them motivated, 2 emails per day

wants to do video with more Iranian theme

other members in US can do painting sculpture

Morehshin can write a proposal of what her position is

we need more numbers but she can count in both ways

we have 9 members, want 2 more (we just need ppl to show up)

doesn’t have to be 1-to-1, can be dealt with project-to-project

Morehshin translates Iran team proposal to us

they didn’t write

spoke about our idea- incomplete work switch

problem – this subject is so broad, need more specifics

theme: “dialogue” – essentially what we’re trying to do




concept of art – want to send works incomplete to see what will happen

good to know what other person will do on work without

knowing about it – need trust – we’re all artists

need to document all parts of working on each side project

- artist will be more motivated

-know who’s doing what

*need to be careful about religious iconography(Not to offend anyone)

problem – Jewish ppl in Israel

they want to know what we think – WE LIKE IT!

free about starting conversation

about cultural exchange

make dialogue legible (like Matt’s collab painting)

multimedia – projecting onto painted screens

Morehshin – typography idea (bring in Natalie)

Natalie – graphics, design, illustration

Richard and Marie speak to her

Morehshin’s friend is going to Iran in 2 months – can put together $200 together

We give money to her and have her deliver work

KA-TET can support this – little projects to build money

– whole KA-TET can get involved…petty cash

worst comes to worst, we pay ourselves

ask professors, ppl to raise funds

source: Service Learning Office – if proj is considered Community

Service thorugh DU, get money

Lawrence Argent (Matt) – possibility for funding

Get weblog up! Josh, CHARLIE

get Charlie involved, show him space

have 1.5 yrs on space, could probably be here longer

IRAN SHOW SHOULD BE DOWNTOWN

backup plan – KA-TET spac

Morehshin has possible space

need deadline – JANUARY 15 (after school starts Winter Quarter)

PINS grant if for Winter Quarter – later deadline

sending mail takes time – FedEx (will need to send art somewhere else before Iran)

Need to agree on projects, figure out shipping, figure out funding to determine deadline

We want to go to Iran

Who will be owner of projects? How to sell?




need to document the money we spend

money can reimburse costs, or can go into KA-TET, or can pay us, or can go to whoever worked on projects

or if sells in Iran – Iran gets to decide money

if sells in US – Us decides what to do with money

make sure these artworks are open in collaborative dialogue

WANT THIS TO BE TRUST BASED