Co-presented by Rural Projects and WGXC, participants will camp on the grounds of Rural Projects, in Columbia County, for one week while working on a collaborative project with artist Maximilian Goldfarb. The project will relate many components of Goldfarb’s work, together with a range of scheduled daily presentations by specialist artists. Work will include the construction of Top Bar Hive kits designed by Goldfarb (to be modified by the group), assembly of radio transmitters, and a field trip: the group will visit Matt Bua’s B-Home compound for a tour of his growing collection of improvised architecture. The group will read at least one complete text, "Lectures On Bees," by Rudolph Steiner, as well as excerpts from John Dewey’s "Art As Experience." The week will culminate with a presentation of a collectively produced installation that will utilize various skills and activities of the week. The presentation, at Rural Projects, will be open to the public and followed by a second installation in a storefront display space in Hudson, NY: The Incident Report Viewing Station.

CONTRIBUTORS/PRESENTERS:

Sam Comfort, Anarchy Apiaries

Tom Roe, WGXC-FM

Tom Guiterez (N2NZD)

Dan Devine

Daniel Karpowitz Bard Prison Initiative

Matt Bua

Kaya Weidman, Germantown Community Farm

Strongtree

Oona Stern

DETAILS AND HOW TO APPLY:
The fee for the week is $175 which covers all meals. You will need a tent, sleeping bag and enough clothes for one week. A laundry day may be arranged midweek. You will have use of shower facilities on a rotating schedule. Set up and clean up of meals will also rotate. You may want to bring a camp mattress, in case camp is moved inside the barn during inclement weather, and a bicycle. Lake Taghkanic State Park swimming beach is accessible via bike trail (1.5 miles away). You may provide your own transportation; carpooling is encouraged. Also, pick-up and drop-off at MetroNorth or Amtrak train stations can be arranged.

To apply please email info@ruralprojects.org with your name, brief bio, statement of interest, plus contact details (email and telephone) for two referees by July 21. Please indicate if you are a full time student.

All interested are welcome to apply, including students.

The work of Max Goldfarb intersects many disciplines. His projects take the form of objects, improvised electronics, radio transmissions, publications, and performative situations. His ongoing project Mobile 49, centers around a radio-utility studio housed inside a converted emergency vehicle, drawing together many facets Goldfarb's creative project.

Goldfarb has exhibited his work at such venues as the SculptureCenter, NY; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Western Front, Vancouver, B.C.; Mjellby Art Center, Halmstad. Sweden; Art & Idea, Mexico City; De Stadgalerij, NL; and Fringe Exhibitions Space, Los Angeles, CA. His work will be included in the upcoming exhibit, Burocrazy at 99 Proyecto in Guatemala, curated by Ivan Navarro. Goldfarb graduated from the MIT Visual Studies Program in 2006. http://m49.us/

Rural Projects is an artist workspace and residency in southern Columbia county, New York, two hours north of New York City. Our primary mission is to serve artists who utilize or address technology in their work. www.ruralprojects.org

WGXC: Hands-on Radio is a community-run media project, re-envisioning radio as an innovative platform for local participation. Our inclusive programming connects diverse voices, and distributes information across the public spectrum in New York's Greene and Columbia counties. WGXC is a project of non-profit transmission arts organization free103point9. www.wgxc.org

The program has been funded in part by the Experimental Television Center (ETC). The ETC's Presentation Funds Program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.