ABOUT
Maybe we're just not making them big enough. (June 2011)
Red Channels is a radical collective based in New York City. The collective is open for those interested in collaboration and new proposals.
In New York we do not operate a physical space. We gather when we can, and when we wish, to organize events and and produce things. Just as there is no space, there is no fixed mission statement, membership, hierarchy, financial or legal status. We informally institutionalize around affinities and desires.
Red Channels has revolved around cinema and discussion. Now we also curate, perform, publish, read, write, and take direct action. We look at previous attempts of dissent and opposition to stimulate our imaginations for collective transformation. We work to defy the categories of art and politics, activism and media, in search of a new communist culture.
We have organized screenings and discussions at spaces like Anthology Film Archives, BAMcinematek, Bluestockings, The Brecht Forum, e-flux, Flux Factory, Maysles Cinema, 92Y-Tribeca, 16Beaver, Spectacle Theater, and UnionDocs.
Our collective has produced 10 short videos, as well as 5 publications, both in print and online, of collected and original writings. Our work has been screened at The Brecht Forum, Brooklyn Community Access Television, Flux Factory, International House Philadelphia, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, MassArt, MoMA PS1, New Nothing Cinema, 92Y-Tribeca, Philadelphia Community Access Media, La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez, and Spectacle Theater.
In this visit to Berlin we follow recent trips to San Francisco (“Gentle People in Motion”, February 2011) and Chicago (“As a Crowd Gathers”, March 2011), where we connected with old friends and new comrades. The goal is not to franchise, or to charter new branches, but to engage with our collective struggles in different contexts.
More information:
No More Séances: An interview with Red Channels by Stephen Squibb (Idiom)
