667 Shotwell Projects: Freedom Ice Cream

PROJECT 2002: Freedom Ice Cream
		Freedom Ice Cream July 4, 2002 Free Freedom Ice Cream posters were put up around 667 Shotwell's Mission neighborhood. On the front steps of the 667 house homemade ice cream was given to passerbys in exchange for displays of freedom. This year Free Freedom Ice Cream returns . Come display your freedom and enjoy some homemade vanilla ice cream at the 21st and Shotwell tennis courts. July 4th,1pm-3pm.

		Part 2 July 11, 2002 Freedom Not To Think Disccussion The public discussion focused on the effects of the patriot act on civil liberties, art production and art institutions. Topics of conversation included unrestricted access to public library reading records by the FBI, new mandatory drug testing for high school students, the social role of the artist, and the question of aesthetics as politics. Michel Foucault's revival of the Greek concept of parhesia (free speech) was also discussed, particularly as form of risk under tyranny. Conversation was lively among a diverse group of participants. Freedom Ice Cream with hot fudge was served.


		Part 3 of the Free Freedom Ice Cream Events Freedom to Think / Freedom Politics in Art and Action A second public discussion regarding the erosion of civil liberties, censorship, freedom of speech, and the role of the artist in the context of a war "without end." This conversation will focus specifically on the political force of art in politics, and on the organization of new collaborative projects. Art historian and cultural theorist Jennifer Gonzalez, and 667shotwell.com founder, Chris Sollars will moderate the discussion. All participants are invited to bring a brief text to read (2-5 minutes) concerning the topic of the discussion.



Jennifer González is Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her scholarly essays and reviews have appeared in Bomb, Frieze, World Art, Diacritics, and Art Journal . She has contributed chapters to The Cyborg Handbook, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture and Race in Cyberspace. In 2002 & 2004 she served as the Joanne Cassullo Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Jennifer is currently working on the Phaidon Christian Marcalay book and has just published Shock and Awe: War on Words published by New Pacific Press 2004.
"If you don’t know what to say about global war, you need a dictionary. Shock and Awe: War on Words (New Pacific Press: Fall 2004) is just that: a keywords book that participates in a battle over the imagination, acknowledging the force of words, concepts, and images in framing our everyday lives. Located in the borderlands between scholarship and public culture, it re-appropriates our vocabularies by exploring the political trajectories of world-making words, projects, and images."