Foolish Operations

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Bring you personal stereo and come dancing on the small wharf behind the market! Be on time, it’s a will be short and fun, don’t miss it!

Our locations for the summer lab:

Monday August 20 6:15pm - English Bay lifeguard station

Tuesday August 21 6:15pm - the northwest side at Burrard and Davie

Wednesday August 22 6:15pm - Grandview Park on Commerical Drive (by the playground)

Thursday August 23 6:15pm - Yaletown, the end of Helmken St (It’s called Helmcken Park: 1103 Pacific Boulevard @ Helmcken Street)

Friday August 24 6:15pm - Canada Place, end of pier

As usual, show up with your personal stereo and your own music… and dance! We’re dancing in tight spurts of 30 minutes each day. Afterwards, fill out a booklet to help us with our research.

See you there!

Summer sun, long shadows from start of sunset, great dancing! The Lab artists installed fun stuff in the space.

Note to clubbers: Friday location is under Granville Bridge south side 4th Ave.

Mobile clubbing hits the streets of Vancouver for two weeks:

The weeks of August 13-17 and  August 20-24 we are mobile clubbing everyday at 6:15pm in different locations.

August 13 - Granville Loop (Granville and 5th, at the grassy park)

August 14 - Science World

August 15 - the park at Richards and Davie

August 16 - Cambie Bridge (downtown end, on the broad sidewalk)

August 17 - wildcard! Keep posted for location.

Bring your personal stereo, tunes of your choice, and dance with us for a half hour in the glory days of summer.

Join our e-list by emailing foolishoperations at gmail dot com.

FOOLISH OPERATIONS seeks 4 artists
Deadline: July 31, 2007
Honorarium: $800

For our summer research lab, Foolish Operations seeks 4 professional artists: radio
artists, field recording and editing artists, installation artists (in situ), web artists, video
artists, text artists…

Our summer operation?
It’s a dance lab! Vancouver’s first mobile clubbing dance lab hits the streets in August-
September 2007 with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Mobile clubbing is a spontaneous gathering for personal stereo users who dance to their
own music in a public location.

We are looking for 4 other artists to join our research to explore dance and sound in
public locations using mini-fm transmitters. How do people experience Mobile clubbing?
Is there an art to comfort? How does public space and private sound affect comfort?
We’ll be testing out temporary modification of soundscapes through radio, ephemeral
installations, collecting observations and testimonies, making Utube movies.
Requirements:
- You are currently living in Vancouver.
- Dancing! We will dance for 30 minutes outdoors during 2 weeks of research, rain or
shine.
- Available 4-8 pm on August 13-24 except weekends.
- Able to set aside enough flexible time in early September to create an art project of your choice (individually or collaboratively) on the subject of Mobile clubbing. It will be part of an art exhibit. You must manage your time to meet a deadline of September 10.
- You will participate in the installation of the exhibit including setup and strike during
the second week of September (exhibit opens September 15).
- You have community art experience, or a genuine interest in community art.
- We may ask you to help find participants and volunteers.

Honoraria for each artist: $800

Click here for more info on how to get involved : FOOLISH OPERATIONS artist call

Please send to foolishoperations@gmail.com by July 31, 2007.

FOOLISH OPERATIONS seeks volunteers!

For our summer research lab, Foolish Operations seeks volunteers to help with all kinds of fun for our summer research lab.
Our summer operation?
It’s a dance lab! Vancouver’s first mobile clubbing dance lab hits the streets in August-
September 2007 with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Mobile clubbing is a spontaneous gathering for personal stereo users who dance to their
own music in a public location.

We are spending two weeks in August to research to explore dance and sound in public locations using mini-fm transmitters. How do people experience Mobile clubbing?
Is there an art to comfort? How does public space and private sound affect comfort?
We’ll be testing out temporary modification of soundscapes through radio, ephemeral
installations, collecting observations and testimonies, making Utube movies.

You can help in many ways:

* Dancing! There will be opportunities for you to try Mobile Clubbing some days.
* Give out cards during Mobile Clubbing and talk about the project to passers-by
* Help with set-up and strike of ephemeral art installations, under the supervision of a professional artist.
* Monitor or carry equipment

Volunteer requirements:

- You are currently living in Vancouver.

- 16 years and up.

- Available most of the time between August 13 to 24 from 4 pm to 8 pm, except weekend.

- Your contact information, telephone number, address and email.

- You love people, public art, and helping out

Please send to foolishoperations@gmail.com.

Come to our next mobile clubbing session on Monday June 4 at 6:30pm at the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library - we’re going to be dancing our hearts out on the Robson side (by the stairs).

Bring your own tunes (and your sunscreen), show up, and dance!

Join our mailing list by emailing foolishoperations@gmail.com.

We broke our record! Yesterday, May 26 2007, we actually danced for 2 hours and 20 minutes! We had a fabulous time at the New Dance Festival here in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Thank you to all Mobile Clubbers and Festival organizers!

Our next mobile clubbing session is tomorrow (Saturday May 26) in St John’s Newfoundland. Meet us at the LSPU Hall at noon to walk to our secret destination.

The last mobile clubbing session on Wednesday (see photos below) was great - the sun came out, the jackets came off as we warmed up to our tunes. The nine dancers grooved for an hour, nearly beating the Vancouver record of 75 minutes.