BUREAU’s Scott Sullivan presented in the “live arts magazine,” Antenna::Signals, Issue 007, at Paper Machine in New Orleans on January 24, 2018.

Ulay Deux (Scott Sullivan) in Antenna::Signals at Paper Machine

In celebration of the opening of Antenna’s Paper Machine print center, Signals presentations and performances examine the theme Papers. Papers explored the myriad uses of paper – a medium at once literal and symbolic, malleable and dogmatic, portable and burdensome – to translate and regulate life. The event will explore the connotations of the theme from a number of specific angles, including immigration papers, the Green book (guide to safe road tripping for African Americans in Jim Crow America), Storyville blue books (catalogues for New Orleans’ famed red light district), and rolling and hemp papers.

BUREAU’s Scott Sullivan, an international law and foreign affairs professor at LSU and occasional artist under the pseudonym Ulay Deux, presented on several document-performance works, including the CIA’s experiment in training cats and Osama bin Laden’s English language bookshelf confiscated by the U.S. government at the time of his killing.

The CIA’s “Views on Trained Cats” from Ulay Deux (Scott Sullivan)’s document-performance in the Micro Internet Yami Ichi New Orleans, 2015.

Presenters and performances included:
Katrina Andry
Pamela D. Arceneaux
Vanessa Centeno
Ulay Deux (Scott Sullivan)
Rick Kasini Kadour
John Lawrence
Lydia Y. Nichols
Bob Snead
Dave Sobel
Rodrigo Toscano

ABOUT ANTENNA::SIGNALS
Conceived as a “live arts magazine,” Antenna::Signals is a variety show-styled event from the artists and writers of Antenna. Each “issue” of Antenna::Signals features a spread of 6-8 local artists, writers, musicians, scientists, activists and scholars whose practices relate thematically. The live magazine drops 4 times each year, accompanied by the release of a two-dimensional print publication.

ABOUT BUREAU of CHANGE
BUREAU of CHANGE is an education-centric lab for real art practice in New Orleans. We create, curate and exhibit socially and politically engaged work. Our process commissions artists and non-artists to collaborate on creative works aimed at inciting institutional change while studying social technology, digital media theory, interdisciplinary research and artistic production. We present our work at art institutions and community-accessible physical and digital spaces, as well as US|IS, our public art space at Gravier & Magazine Streets in downtown New Orleans.

ABOUT ANTENNA
Antenna is a New Orleans-based Non-profit organization committed to being a vital participant in the life of the city by creating and supporting artist- and writer-driven programs.

BUREAU of CHANGE is proud to present Reverberations, a series of lectures, workshops and performances on local acts and global impacts. Organized by BUREAU founder Margot Herster, in collaboration with the LSU Law Center and Ogden Honors College, the series brings together socially engaged practitioners in law, journalism and art to present recent work.

Reverberations is a a three-part series, taking place at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge on March 29, April 3 and April 7, 2017.

Past Due: Costs and Consequences of Charging for Justice

Mathilde Laisne (Vera Institute) & Jennifer Hull (Orleans Public Defenders)

Wednesday, March 29, 2017; 3:30 PM

LSU Law Center, Room 106

Every year, government agencies in New Orleans collect millions of dollars in the form of bail, fines and fees from people involved in the criminal justice system and, by extension, from their families. Millions more are transferred from the pockets and bank accounts of residents to for-profit bail bond agents. Some view these costs as a necessary way to offset the expense of operating the criminal justice system. But because many “users” of the system have very low incomes or none at all, there is growing concern that charging for justice amounts to a criminalization of poverty.

Join us for a conversation on the cost and function of criminal justice in Louisiana featuring Jennifer Hull, a felony trial attorney at the Orleans Public Defender’s Office and Mathilde Laisne, a senior program associate at the Vera Institute for Justice.

Mathilde Laisne is a senior program associate with the Vera Institute of Justice’s New Orleans office where she works with local partners to develop initiatives that improve fairness and efficiency in the city’s criminal justice system. In 2017, she co-authored a report that looks at the use of bail, fines and fees in New Orleans and the resulting incarceration and costs. Mathilde holds a masters in international security from the Paris School of International Affairs with a concentration in human rights law. Prior to that, she studied political science at the University of Sciences Po in Paris and sociology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. While in school, Mathilde interned with the Office of the Prosecutor at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague, Netherlands.

Jennifer Hull is an attorney in the trials division of the Orleans Public Defender’s Office (OPD), where she represents indigent clients who are charged with felony crimes. Prior to working for OPD, Jennifer worked for Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, a 503(c) non-profit, providing legal representation to indigent clients in civil matters. There, she worked predominately in the domestic unit, litigating family law, child in need of care and domestic violence matters. Jennifer graduated from LSU Law in 2011. While at the law center, she worked as a student practitioner in the Immigration and Juvenile Criminal Defense Clinics, served as the Pro Bono Chair of the Public Interest Law Society and was the recipient of the Ginger Berrigan Award.

Anguish, Rage and Mercy

Kevin Sack, New York Times

Monday, April 3, 2017; 3:30 PM

LSU Law Center Auditorium

“In an extraordinary culmination to the federal death penalty trial of Dylann S. Roof, 35 family members and friends of his nine African-American victims confronted him directly at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday. Some forgave him with Christian grace. Others damned him to hell. But almost all proclaimed defiantly that his murderous church rampage had failed in its mission to sow division and racist hate.” -Kevin Sack, “Anguish, Rage and Mercy as Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death,” New York Times, January 11, 2017.

Join us for a lecture and conversation with Kevin Sack, who covered the trial of Dylann Roof for the New York Times, about the interaction of community and legal process in the aftermath of racist violence at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Kevin Sack is a senior writer, based in Atlanta, who produces long-form narrative projects for the investigations team. He has written broadly about national affairs for more than three decades and has shared in three Pulitzer Prizes.

During more than 20 years with the Times, he has served as bureau chief in Atlanta and Albany, covered health care for the national desk, and reported extensively on race, the South and domestic politics. His interests over the years have ranged widely, from kidney transplantation to the assimilation of refugees to the intersection of race and faith. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, he is an honors history graduate of Duke University.

It’s amazing we don’t have more fights

Chloë Bass, Artist and Public Practitioner

Friday, April 7, 2017, 11:00 AM

Ogden Honors College, French House Grand Salon

NOTE: EVENT CANCELLED DUE THE ARTIST’S FLIGHT CANCELLATION FROM INCLEMENT WEATHER IN NEW YORK.

This workshop investigates appropriate social distances within the context of institutional behavior. Schools and courtrooms are sites of both formality and great intimacy between people and their colleagues. As we navigate our personal, pedagogical or professional desires, we are often swept up in crowd management, or guided through procedures by structured choreographies. Inspired by the sociological field of proxemics (the spatial requirements of human beings and the effects of these requirements on society), Chloë Bass will bring participants together to turn distance into story, and teach new ways to read a room. Expect some engagements of intimacy, some instances of performance, and some participatory writing. Measuring devices and other materials will be provided; the systems we design to use them will be all yours.

The workshop is part of the fourth chapter of The Book of Everyday Instruction, Bass’ ongoing project about one-on-one social interaction. Chapter Four is focused on the accidental and incidental choreographies created by engaging with other bodies in space. The chapter’s title (“It’s amazing we don’t have more fights”) is a paraphrase of a quote from the artist’s mother about successful social behavior on New York’s subways and buses.

Chloë Bass is a conceptual artist working in performance, situation, publication, and installation. Her work addresses scales of intimacy, where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand, and daily life as a site of deep research. Her current project, The Book of Everyday Instruction, is an eight-chapter investigation into one-on-one social interaction. Chloë is a 2017 – 2018 Workspace resident at the Center for Book Arts, and a 2017 studio resident at Triangle Arts Association. Her projects have appeared in recent exhibitions at CUE Art Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, the James Gallery, and elsewhere. Her forthcoming book will be published by the Operating System in December 2017; her writing is most often found on Hyperallergic. She is an Assistant Professor in Art and Social Practice at Queens College, CUNY.