SERIES NARRATIVE

Beyond Repair began in the spring of 2014 as a neighborhood-centered, expanded publication project. A “long now” series of actions excited by the prospect of the continuing formation of a public, one interested in the politics around non-hierarchical co-education, below politics, cooperation, and the right to the imagination as a tool for tuning into day-to-day encounters and how, over time, they begin to structure out lives lived together

In the winter of 2015 the project found form in the creation of a shop (Transmission), located within a marketplace, to ask questions of one another, and move those shared questions out into the neighborhood to see if they transform into shared desires to act on. Upon first appearance Transmission looked very much like a book shop. And that’s good, as we love books and the power and vitality of the book in creating bonds between people. But the concept of the project moves well beyond the physical boundaries of the page. Beyond Repair sees publication as the act of public-making. An act which highlights distance, and in some fashion, makes an attempt to bridge that distance. Publication doesn’t begin with an object, a noun, but with the space in-between bodies, between people. Publication is a verb, an action.

COMMENTARY

DOCUMENTS

Members of Million Artist Movement sing for Emory Douglas (founding Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, illustrator and designer of its newspaper, The Black Panther).

Million Artist Movement Sings for Emory Douglas from Sam Gould on Vimeo.

COLOPHON