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Dear NCV community,

The Issue # 21 has been in the works for awhile now. Our friend and netizen Katie Zien wanted to explore various facets of our ever-changing identity on the internet. Coincidentally enough we only know her through the net! After seeing her humorous and thought-provoking play with Facebook status updates, we decided it was time to do a show. Katie is currently living in Panama working on various projects including a doctorate degree in theatre. Read more below.

Hope you enjoy the show, passing the mic on to Katie..

Curator’s statement:

This installment of No Commercial Value examines the many manipulations, disguises, avoidances, and convergences that happen daily in the complicated dance of identity, play, and intercourse transpiring on the internet. As we manufacture, mask, maneuver, and manipulate ourselves and each other through digital channels, we must make fast decisions that result in meaningful material consequences for our emotional states, subjectivities, perceptual faculties, and social and ideological structures. A slip in the façade, an unintended moment of intimacy, and the seemingly ephemeral liquid of the internet inflates, gains weight…

contd. @ No Commercial Value Issue: 21

FEATURING:

Katie Zien is a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University currently researching Latin American and Caribbean theatre history and U.S. imperialism in Panama with a Fulbright fellowship. Her dissertation investigates the twentieth-century history of theatre and performance in the Panama Canal Zone in the context of collective identity formation, racial inequality, and spatial politics.

In Katie’s own performance/art practice, as well as in her personal life, questions around Internet-based social networking, virtual relationships, and the digital archive surface frequently. For this reason, she invited her artist friends to contribute memes of their own and others’ making for a collection that would explore some manifestations/ramifications of the culture of our epoch, what Katie envisions as a swirling sea of (generally) garbage, with a few gems occasionally clearing the clutter to resonate for a while.

Jason Lazarus is a photographer based in Chicago. Jason’s work has treated themes such as the cult of celebrity and the elision of images, blurring the lines between events and their representation.

Aay Preston-Myint, also based in Chicago, alludes to a variety of subjects in his work – punk and queer sensibilities abound, along with remastered recapitulations of past watershed moments in the understudied histories of suppressed subcultures.

Awilda Rodríguez Lora and André Austvoll have danced together as part of the New York-based company D UNDERBELLY, in addition to their own solo performance practices. In the piece included in this edition of No Commercial Value, they collaborate across time and space, dancing between Norway and California.

Colleen Asper, based in New York, is interested in exploring interfaces through which people communicate and transmit information. She also works with the materiality of the internet and its spatiotemporal traces.

Jorge Nieto, based in the Dominican Republic, is a visual artist whose collages represent various levels of globalized pop spirituality.

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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 didn’t forget us after this long break. The summer is almost over, but we hope you had enough time to play. If not, you will probably think more about it after you check out this week’s show. We welcome back Valeska Populoh with another great installment – and this time it’s all about playing!

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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 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,

Welcome back to another installment of NoCommercialValue.org . This week, we are “in transit.”

The six works that are posted are exploring the space that most of us have experienced or maybe happen to be experiencing right at this moment.The airport lounge, the designated waiting area, the places for idling – the ambiguous space between point A and point B.

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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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Dear Friends,

 Welcome to week 6 of nocommercialvalue.org . How time has flown by since we started six weeks ago! Many of you have asked us how can we keep putting up a show every week. All we can say is that we really believe in this project: we believe in the potential to build a strong community around nocommercialvalue.org and to create a space that features engaging works.

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