endings, beginnings, and things that remain

I pass along the following because it relates differently to the theme of the exhibition at Connexion Gallery (see my earlier post, and their website where photographs of the exhibition are now available: http://counterforces.blogspot.com/2009/12/connections.html) on reuse, refiguration, and sustainability. It is, however, a quite different inflection of the set of topics.

"From: The Center for the Study of the End of Things [mailto:director@endofthings.org]
Sent: Wed 12/30/09 11:30 PM
Subject: February 5, 2010: The Center for the Study of the End of Things

To Whom It May Concern:

The Center for the Study of the End of Things, a creative organization
affiliated with the the McIntire Department of Art at the University
of Virginia, will be holding its Inaugural Symposium on February 5,
2010. The venue is a vacant 10,000+ square foot building in
Charlottesville, VA, which will be demolished shortly after the
exhibition. We are seeking work from a wide variety of disciplines,
including painting, film, drawing, sound, sculpture, architecture, and
printmaking, in addition to collecting found objects of natural and
mechanical origin. Our Call for Submissions, and the Application Form,
are available on our website (http://endofthings.org). Please forward
this information on to anyone that might be interested. A flyer
summarizing the event is attached. The submission deadline is January
25, 2010.

Milholen + Williams, Co-Curators
The Center for the Study of the End of Things
http://endofthings.org