Here is some straight video documentation of our circus performances in Santa Cruz and San Diego. We're working on a longer video that is a more complete story of the process, but if you missed the events, you can see them here!

http://sdhacklab.org/circus-of-immigration-santacruz.mov

http://sdhacklab.org/circa-circus-sd.mov

These videos are both Creative Commons licensed, BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Join the borderlands Hacklab for a net.talk about streaming media against borders on June 14th at 7pm at CRCA at UCSD, in Atkinson Hall.

about the exhibition: Silent*Observers exhibition was originally produced in September 2005 in Croatia as international project developed in collaboration of Multimedia Institute in Zagreb, TheTHING NYC and UCSD/CRCA San Diego, with support of network of partner institutions. Research and production that proceeded the exhibition was focused on ideas on aesthetics of networked image, distributed audience, technological observation as methodologies and processing of systemic visual data...

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On this week's episode of Desiring (Incendiary Devices) Machines, I summarize the recent news about the resistance to the G8 in Germany including the recent actions in Hamburg (burning cop cars and over a thousand person black bloc! not bad for a first action...), the demonstration ban, the partial lifting of the demonstration ban and the refugee caravan to the G8...

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Please join in the 24-hour, electronic protest of proposed Michigan medicaid cuts by the Michigan state legislature. The proposed Michigan Medicaid cuts will impact seniors, children with health issues and funding to public schools. Your participation will remind the legislature that they represent us, and preserve current levels of funding.

The Virtual Sit-In begins at 6am EDT on May 17th, 2007 and ends at 6am EDT on May 18th, 2007.

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Here's the third show of Desiring (Incendiary Devices) Machines. Onto doesn't join me, but Private Pipi from the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army does and we talk about the Circus of (Im)Migration, the No Borders Camp in November, creative resistance, healing laughter and an idea to start a new Borderlands Performance Laboratory.

Music by: Lady Sovereign
and music from the new Entartete Kunst album!!!
more info at http://entartetekunst.info

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Here's a brief reportback from our lovely clowny tour of the west coast.

The Circus

You'll all see the content of the circus tonight, but overall we got a
lot of good feedback about the circus performance. We had fairly large
crowds in olympia, eugene, santa cruz and san francisco from 30-100
people. The audience sizes in berkeley and portland could've been
better. But in berkeley there was a lot of traffic of students passing
by who at least saw what we were doing and were intrigued/confused. In
portland, although the crowd was small, they were alomst all organizers
and expressed a lot of interest in the No Borders Camp...

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This video was made by christie, a former san diego minutewoman who was dating Jeff Schwilk, the leader of the San Diego minutemen. He hits her in this video so she decides to show the real conflict driving this anti-immigrant right wing activist.

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And for those more interested in seeing Jeff's actual anatomy with less backstory, check out this little bizareness...

Today's performance at berkeley was hot! Seriously, wow, after the cold northwest, it is like summer here. We had so much fun with our friends from SF and Santa Cruz and the music by Entartete Kunst was amazing.

So far our traveling circus has been really wonderful, if hard. We've shared our message of joyous resistance and clown love throughout the northwest, talking with people about the No Borders Camp and the many issues around migration and freedom of movement all along the way. We've shared our personal stories about borders, played out the circus of immigration and done theater of the oppressed, inviting audiences to come up and enact the change they want to see. But you can still be a part of this! Come see the circus in SF, Santa Cruz or San Diego!

Also, please help us get the word out about the circus! We're doing workshops and performing in San Francisco tomorrow night, tues, and we'd really love to share our stories and talk about the no borders camp with lots of folks, so please tell anyone you know who might be interested!!!

Upcoming performances:

San Francisco

Tues, May 8, San Francisco, "Subvert Everything" Skillshare, 5-7pm,
Circus Performance, 8-10pm, at Station 40, 3030b 16th St., in the Mission, music by Entartete Kunst

Santa Cruz

May 9th "Subvert Everything" Rebel Clowning Workshop at Oceanview park at 3:30

May 10th at 8 pm See the Circus! including a puppet show and music by The Curse is Cast!, at the Bike Church, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

San Diego

Sun, May 13, 7-9pm, The Rubber Rose, Circus Performance, benefit for the No Border Camps in Calexico and Mexicali in November, 2007

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We did our first clowning workshop and first circus performance in
olympia. They both went well, but I'm glad that we have lots of
performances to work on improving the circus. I wish there could've been a larger turnout at both events, but I'm happy that we reached some people!

Probably the best part of the circus yesterday was the forum theater of
the theater of the oppressed. We worked directly with organizers from
the Poor People's Union in Olympia and they asked us to make the last
act about a homeless person on the street getting kicked off by a
business owner and then arrested. Then, for the audience participation
part, a number of homeless people at the event joined in the action,
taking roles and changing the outcome of the scene in various ways...