Syndicate: approriations

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>From: kobe matthys <agency_km@hotmail.com>
>To: abalint@artpool.hu
>Subject: approriations
>Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 03:48:36 PDT
>Mime-Version: 1.0
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>Dear Anna,
>
>Can you spread this message around? Thank you!
>
>Best,
>
>Kobe
>
>
>
>Agency
>Appropriations Databank
>
>To whom it may concern,
>
>Agency invites you to collaborate on the constitution of a databank on
>approriations. This databank about appropriating different given situations,
>such as the city, work, the home, transportation, the law... will be
>developed in various phases. During the first phase, the databank collects
>information about the ìartî of appropriating work situations (lab, studio,
>office, factory...).
>
>Using is a form of making. (Michel de Certeau) The appropriations of the
>organized time and space are ignored by the working situation. Employees
>disguise their own work as work for their employer. This may vary from a
>secretary writing a love letter during work hours to a woodworker using
>leftover wood to build a cabinet for his living room. This common practice
>differs from stealing or skipping work. Employees only divert time and space
>from the work situation for their own ends. It is a way to signify their own
>capability and to confirm their solidarity with other employees, family
>members or friends. Although appropriations are an implicit part of the work
>situation (in the same place and at the same moment), this kind of ìmakingî
>is being repressed.
>
>How do you appropriate your work situation? What tricks do you use? You may
>add information to this databank by mail, telephone, fax or e-mail. The data
>can be stored as text, drawing, photo, video or sound material. When sending
>the information, please take into account the following parameters: 1. the
>work situation, 2. using the work situation, 3. appropriating the work
>situation. Agency guarantees your anonymity!
>
>This interactive databank will be accessible from September on. Users will
>be able to retrieve or store information. In this way one can exchange
>tactics of appropriation.
>
>Best,
>
>Kobe Matthys
>
>Agency
>P.B 1312
>B-1000 Brussels
>tel/fax +32-(0)2 2237389
>
>
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