Latest Updates for Summer 2020
"We invoke one dualism only in order to challenge another. We employ a dualism of models only in order to arrive at a process that challenges all models. Each time mental correctives are necessary to undo the dualism we had no wish to construct but through which we pass. Arriving at the magic formula we all seek – pluralism = monism – via all the dualisms that are the enemy. The furniture we are forever rearranging."
–Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Update /
Rearranging the Year of ARBOREALITY
Dear Friends,
We continue rearranging our summer in hopes of keeping in tune with the regional protocols during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please stay in one place, be well, and think of others. When and if our current guidelines are lifted, a range of change will reawaken our senses with a set of new experiences in this bewildering landscape.
We regretfully must postpone most sessions this year into 2021. Under the best circumstances, new hopes are that Mildred's Lane will reopen to limited capacity for July/ August/ September/ October to individuals, couples, families, and small groups becoming Resident-Artists-in- Complex(ity):
• Accepting applications for the August Session, Marx for Cats Applied.
• Accepting letters of interest for short and more extended stays.
• Open for day visits, tours, and talks, with social distancing.
• Open Air community events and exhibitions at The Mildred Complex(ity) in nearby Narrowsburg, NY, to be announced.
• Sending Institutions, Fellows, and new applicants, please contact Mildred's Lane directly to reschedule accordingly.
• AirBnB access will reopen once the current protective guidelines are lifted, as it stands we are currently closed.
In efforts to SUPPORT Mildred's Lane and the artists who contribute to our cause we are soon launching A GUIDE TO THE FIELD site, encouraging you to COLLECT art-works-and-wares. Please share the postings with your friends and colleagues. For further information follow Instagram/ aguidetothefield
For now, we continue to follow all precautions provided by factual sources.
From the Ambassador of Entanglement / Mildred's Lane
Image/ The BLUE Hour / April 2020 / Mildred's Lane
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MARX FOR CATS APPLIED
August 3 through August 9
Caroline Woolard, Leigh Claire La Berge, Christine Wang, Marisa Williamson
Using the figure of the radical cat, we will explore the representation of capitalism, from the Middle Ages to the present. We will ask how performance, irony, and pleasure may become vehicles for the critique of settler-colonialism, racial capitalism, and financialization.
contact/ mildredslane@gmail.com
Instagram/ @mildredslane
"In nature the normal way trees flourish is by their association in a forest. Each tree may lose something of its individual perfection of growth, but they mutually assist each other in preserving the conditions for survival."
From Alfred North Whitehead, ‘Concepts of Nature’
Update /
Rearranging the Year of ARBOREALITY
Dear Friends,
We are rearranging our summer schedule. Mildred's Lane will continue accepting applications, although, in this ever-changing world, a new title for your involvement at Mildred's Lane emerges as Resident-Artists-In-Complex(ity).
Our engagement is pushed back at least a month. There is a new schedule, see below. We will practice social distance swarming independently, open-air, and amongst the trees, following new protocols reinforced by the current societal health facts and guidelines.
Keep watching for updates about open sessions as we assess new conditions in the coming weeks. We ask that current fellows rearrange their schedules and self-quarantine before arriving.
Sending Institutions, Fellows, and new applicants, please contact Mildred's Lane directly to reschedule accordingly.
We hope that everyone stays safe and sound while we PAUSE. Meanwhile, follow all precautions provided by factual sources – we will get through this.
Ambassador of Entanglement
Mildred's Lane
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WORKSTYLING the WILD is CANCELLED. But we will be working on the garden throughout the summer.
Closed June.
BIBLIOPHANTICS and the Narrowsburg Deep Water Literary Festival are CANCELLED. But we offer open-air Bibliophantics throughout the late summer and autumn, so use this bewildering landscape as your independent reading/writing/working residency.
Closed June.
SILVER–IRON–LIGHT is on.
July dates to be announced.
Noah Doely, Susanna Crum, Rudy Salgado.
Set in the landscape with an extravaganza of 19th and 20th-century equipment; we will facilitate the plein-air tintype, cyanotype, and anthotype processes forming retinal memories of Mildred's Lane.
FOREST–BODY–CHAIR is CANCELLED.
New schedule in Summer 2021.
TREEHOUSE is CANCELLED.
July 20 through August 2
New schedule in Summer 2021.
MARX FOR CATS APPLIED is on.
August 3 through August 9
Caroline Woolard, Leigh Claire La Berge, Christine Wang, Marisa Williamson
Using the figure of the radical cat, we will explore the representation of capitalism, from the Middle Ages to the present. We will ask how performance, irony, and pleasure may become vehicles for the critique of settler-colonialism, racial capitalism, and financialization.
As of now, ORDER OF THE THIRD BIRD: ATTENTION LAB is on.
August 10 through 16
Justin Ginsberg, Anne Riley, D. Graham Burnett, Sal Randolph, Leonard Nalencz.
The indiscreet associates of The Order of the Third Bird continue their investigations into experimental protocols of Practical Aesthesis and methods of Sustained Attention.
ALL AUGUST / SEPTEMBER dates are
open-air sessions,
and we welcome letters of interest for
BEING there; long or short stays.
mildredslane@gmail.com