Office of Recuperative Strategies

09/05/2013

thank you harriet blog! yes! belladonna is publishing a book of julie's soon ... a full length volume!

At Jacket2, Ariel Goldberg and Rachel Levitsky have posted a new text at “Social Reading”: their new space for “conversations about writing that has some urgency to it. This project digs into the political and aesthetic necessity in corresponding on what might be called subaltern, q***r, prose, hybr...

06/18/2013

OoRS at Governors Island this coming Sunday and YOU are especially invited!

SUNDAY, JUNE 23 at NOON Dance improvisor Jovanina Pagano, and OoRS officer Rachel Levitsky will facilitate an afternoon happening in a house on Governors Island, part of Alexandra Chasin’s vi...

06/05/2013

New! Up on OoRS.net, Christian Hawkey interviews Maria D’Almada of RECUPERARTE (Portugal)
OoRS.net!

06/03/2013

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May 20, 2013Krystal Languell with Erica DoyleErica DoyleThis interview borrows its questions from William Fifield interviewing Jean Cocteau for The Paris Review in 1964. That interview is “The Art of Fiction No. 34,” from Issue No. 32. Krystal Languell was an editor of R. Erica Doyle’s first book, p...

04/20/2013

A NEURAL NET is available as a downloadable PDF.

David Buuck/BARGE has made “A NEURAL NET” — the collaborative glossary produced for ‘Groundscores’, our roundtable at the Berkeley Ecopoetics Conference – availa...

04/20/2013

See Margaret Rhonda's report of Ecopoetics where the term 'expedition' is quoted:

What might an ecological education entail in a time of planetary crisis? Can a poem, or a walk, or a site-based action, produce new paths for thinking? How might ecopoetics inhabit a mode of collective and collaborative inquiry, a form of radical pedagogy?

02/17/2013

sorry about posting that last 6 times. a Facebook wonk.

02/17/2013

Mp3 of Christian Hawkey doing John Ashbery's silence.

In the spring of 2012, Christian Hawkey was invited to participate in a festival celebrating John Ashbery at the New School (called How to Continue: Ashbery Across the Arts). Each participant — poets, dancers, filmmakers — was invited to engage his or her work using a variety of media and discipline...

10/02/2012

OORS STATEMENT
The Office of Recuperative Strategies (OoRS) is a mobile research laboratory that explores new tactics to promote the reuse, perversification, reanimation, and reparation of precarious, outmoded, and correctable cultural phenomena. Opened in 2010 by Christian Hawkey and Rachel Levitsky, it grew out of a collaboratively designed and taught class at Pratt Institute titled Cultural Sustainability and Recuperative Poetics.
OoRS seeks to develop language, architecture, and poetic strategies (associational thought, close-observation, dissonance, ambiguity, urban wandering, generative slippage) that intervene in and repurpose the brutality of technocapitalism’s obsession with speed, efficiency, able-bodiedness, originality, and novelty.
In using the word recuperative OoRS wishes to release it from its usual connotations in avant-garde discourse, where marginalized and outside experimentation is co-opted by dominant mainstream culture via a foreclosed process of capitalism. Recuperating recuperation, OoRS reclaims the term to foreground agency on the part of cultural producers, displacing outdated outside/inside, margin/center binaries in order to establish an ethics of making that is memory-based, research-oriented, and devoted to affirming and pushing up against the complexity of the world.
OoRS also supports a concept of cultural sustainability that is neither teleological nor rooted in Enlightenment ideas of preservation and/or reproductive futurism. Instead, we want to advance a memory-based politics and poetic practice that reactivates the past in ways that both denaturalize the present and open up new modes of hybridity, activism, and dwelling.
Archive investigation and disruption. Field-research, field-notes, recording. Organized misuse and capture of technological accident. Conceptual pedagogy. Close listening and distant reading. Repetition as difference, divergence, disidentification—and radical identification.
OoRS does not exist in institutional time, but Q***r time. It is a glamorous underground cult that is here to abduct you.

SEE OORS.NET

07/28/2012

Veronica and Josepha in Alexanderplatz for Saturday Elastic Cities/OoRS Des Integration walk. More photos to come!

07/28/2012

The vines release their seeds. To fall on a body.

07/28/2012

We enter and open ourselves to Berlin as multipliCITY, as a city of multiplicity--of overlapping bodies, communities, laborers, cultures, languages, and gestures--a common ground of research.

OoRS walks.

Der Spaziergang widmet sich der „Geste“ als Untersuchungsgegenstand. Teilnehmern soll so die Möglichkeit gegeben werden, sich vielleicht wacher und harmonischer durch urbane Räumen bewegen zu können. Handbewegungen, die Ausrichtung von Armen, Köpfen, Körpern. Arten, im Raum zu sein. Unser Forschungs...