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Book

"Freedom Fried" is a book in French about Interstice, Disintermediation and Freedom Fried. Attach:FreedomFried.pdf

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All documentation videos

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All documentation videos?

Better quality (15 Mb) - DVD quality (95 Mb)

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Online on Youtube - Better quality (15 Mb) - DVD quality (95 Mb)

Another part of the project is to produce works. You can come at Interstice and produce some stuff yourself. The place is full of clay, and you just need to find some wood in order to fire your works.

A big part of the produced works will be indeed virtual: social events, situations, meetings, new projects. And these are certainly the most important.

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Online on Youtube - High quality version

online - high quality

online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W0WlwLHx9c - high quality: http://www.divshare.com/download/280967-93a

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W0WlwLHx9c

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Francais | Images | Videos

Yes, you can do stuff in urban organization. This is just about you and your creativity, getting together with some people to do one thing the mainstream organized society doesn't need you to: stop buying stuff, start making things.

Interstice

First example of disintermediation here will be around the Interstice experiment in Paris, France. A friend of mine took me to a place where graphers (ER Team) produced vast murals and paintings. When arriving in this place, I landed two feet into clay that was everywhere. I said "Wow!" both for the big murals and for the sheer quantity of raw material that was below my feet.

We've set up a mailing list to follow this experiment: http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/interstice/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3vCFgxCEAw
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dqJQv_qhWw
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDIYdXIkmew

All videos:

• http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=xlrmx&search=Search

Introduction

According to wikipedia, "In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: "cutting out the middleman". Instead of going through traditional distribution channels, which had some type of intermediate (such as a distributor, wholesaler, broker, or agent), companies may now deal with every customer directly, for example via the Internet. One important factor is a drop in the cost of servicing customers directly."

But it's also the removal of intermediaries in production of your own artifacts. As a disempowered human being, I felt that I had to "take back the means of production", to be able to act and produce, and to show the production as a simple, normal activity.

This echoes the essay of Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt "Harnessing the means of production" where the YBAs took care of producing and showing their own work in a very fluid and DIY manner.

The work presented here is as much on the art pieces as well as the praxis and the Do It Yourself attitude. I intend to share as much the result of the work as the guerrilla tactics that enabled the works.

Gambetta Urban Chaos

First example of disintermediation here will be around the Urban Chaos of Gambetta in Paris, France. A friend of mine took me to a place where graphers (ER Team) produced vast murals and paintings. When arriving in this place, I landed two feet into clay that was everywhere. I said "Wow!" both for the big murals and for the sheer quantity of raw material that was below my feet.

From there, I said to my friend that I'd try to make sculpture out of this clay, onsite, and try to fire them as kilns, still onsite, with salvaged woods. Within two weeks that's what we have done.

Images

http://flickr.com/photos/philpraxis/tags/gambetta/

Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3vCFgxCEAw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dqJQv_qhWw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDIYdXIkmew http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=xlrmx&search=Search

Produced works

From there, another part will be to produce the Disitermediation output, both in term of physical artifacts as in term of social situation and of new projects.