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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 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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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 are very pleased to have Natasha Chuk as a guest curator at NoCommercialValue.org .

She has prepared an amazing show, and we are sure you will enjoy exploring it. Also, we would like to remind you that we are temporarily switching to bi-weekly issues, So, this week’s show will actually stay up until May 6th.  Without further ado, we give you NoCommercialValue issue #10:

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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,

 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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