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Dear all,

After a long, long… well, a very long break, we are back with more delight!

The issue #20 is all about the magic of urban space. We are very happy to feature three pieces from the InnerCity project by Noelia Santos, plus a selection of sound works by Raqs Media Collective, Daijuin Yao/Beijin Sound Unit, and ru*mor* (Rui Viana Pereira) created exclusively for the 2002 Invisible Cities sound installation project . Please read below for more information about the works and their creators.

We ask that you stay tuned, as NoCommercialValue will be getting a new look (hello, Web 2.0!) plus a series of shows to celebrate our FIRST ANNIVERSARY (yes – we’ve been around for a full year now, folks!). As always, your comments and suggestions are more than welcome. If you have an idea or a piece of work that you would like to exhibit at NCV, please write to us. And now, let’s look what we have for you today:

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Dear all,

This week we welcome back Ashley Singley as our guest curator.

Ashley selected a series of photographs by Dreamboats Collective, a new agency featuring four young photographers: Adam Golfer, Joe Leavenworth, TJ Proechel, and Daniel Shea. Unlike our previous shows, this one can be experienced both online and in person (if you happen to be in New York City). The exhibition will be on view from November 5th through December 22nd, Monday through Saturday 11–6 pm, at Umbrage Editions gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn. As a special holiday feature, each artist will make available a limited edition 8”x10” and 11”x14” affordable print series (ranging from $35 to $200) for sale at the gallery.
About the show:

As a group, Dreamboats adds to the growing disambiguation between working personally and working editorially. Membersof the collective, who met at Maryland Institute College of Art, are primarily engaged in contemporary fine art and social documentary practices, but their professed intention is to circumvent the traditional photographic establishment to create a self-sustaining network of distribution and support for the creation of new photographic works. The works selected for the exhibition are from each artist’s recent body of work:

Adam Golfer’s series, Kin*,

Joe Leavenworth’s Pictures from Home,

TJ Proechel’s Dream House, and

Daniel Shea’s Untitled (Baltimore).

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Dear NCV friends,

We would like to welcome you back to another installment of nocommercialvalue.org.   This week, we recruited some friends to helps us continue the discussion generated by the last week’s show, “Who’s hungry?.”  So, we continue by going to the farm.

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Dear all,

We hope you have enjoyed these last few days of summer. Hopefully our last show inspired you to bring more play into your life.

As we enter September, NoCommercialValue.org goes from play to… ahem, hunger. This week, we start by asking: who’s hungry?

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Dear NoCommercialValue friends,

This week we continue with the second installment of the “Art + Service” show . Our guest curator Eric Leshinsky has prepared an intriguing selection of images, text, audio, video and websites that will help you delve deeper into this topic. Read on and explore…

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Dear NoCommercialValue family,

After a very long (and unplanned!) break, we are back with a brand new show ! This week we are very happy to welcome Valeska Maria Populoh as a guest curator with the “Art + Service” issue. Valeska lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She is on the faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art and works in collaboration with a variety of community arts organizations. Her costume and performance work, often created in collaboration with other artists, is informed by street theater, festival and parade traditions, variety entertainment and puppetry.

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Hello everyone,
We would like to apologize for our delay in delivering you this weeks show. Thank you for your patience and understanding, so without further delay here is this week’s show and our launch into summer: Jamaican Sound System Pt. 1 contributed and curated by Tristram Keefe and Prasanna Balasundaram.

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Dear all,

This week nocommercialvalue.org brings you fake love, fake babies, and fake divorces. Our friends Ellie Brown and Zach Webber embarked upon a little experiment, engineering a 7-day relationship via Craigslist.
The results are now in front of you. We hope you will enjoy it.

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Dear Friends,

We are back after a short break. We hope you enjoyed our last show “Shared Spaces” curated by Natasha Chuk. It was up for two weeks and we received a lot of great comments. Thank you!

This week’s show is inspired by a new documentary called “The Delian Mode” by our friend Kara Blake. The film looks at the infamous music & sound design pioneer Delia Derbyshire.

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Dear friends,

This week we bring you “Best of Six“. We thought it would be a good way for us to recap the shows every six weeks and let you know what has been popular based on viewership. Plus it gives us some time to take a breath and plan the upcoming shows. On that note, we have new curators on board who are preparing some fun things for you. More about that soon.

Meanwhile, take a look at a piece that you may have missed, or
pass on to a friend and introduce her/him to www.nocommercialvalue.org .

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