Clandestine Construction Company International
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Founded in 1968, Clandestine Construction Company International is referred to as CLANCCO. CLANCCOis located in Brooklyn, New York. CLANCCO is a corporation which deals in the investigation of two areas: visual culture and law, and is subdivided into three areas of operation: projects, news on art and law, and its own writings and interviews.
CLANCCO was initiated as an umbrella project based on the structures and operations of a corporation. This diverse and eclectic armature allows CLANCCO to cover the effects of law--primarily free speech, intellectual property, and property law--on artistic and cultural production, as well as manifest projects which intervene in the making and interpretation of law. CLANCCO's projects are either self-driven or commissioned, and bridge diverse artistic areas such as sculpture, architecture, drawing, photography, and writing.
In 2006, CLANCCO initiated the Center for the Study of Thought and Consciousness, a nexus for the manifestation of pedagogical projects and initiatives.
CLANCCO began as a conceptual project, comprised of previous artistic practices such as the Situationists, Conceptual Art, New Genre, Institutional Critique, and Post-Studio practices. The diverse and mixed approaches to culture making by these practices led CLANCCO to initiate its own in-house legal counsel in 2003 and thus strengthen and expand its own practices.
[edit] Projects
CLANCCO produces public and private projects of both a clandestine and commissioned nature. Projects vary in form and material, ranging from architecturo-sculptural and drawing, to pedagogical and photographic. Its projects have been installed across the United States, in locations such as New York, California, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
CLANCCO staff also lecture and teach on topics such as contemporary art, visual culture, critical theory, and law, and have lectured, taught and presented papers in institutions such as CalArts, Harvard University’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts, Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School, Hofstra University, and the Centre Sociologie de l’Innovation, Ecole des Mines de Paris.
CLANCCO has also been featured in publications such as Cabinet Journal (U.S.) and Law Text Culture (Australia), as well as Swiss Television Schweizer Fernsehen.
[edit] Art + Law News
CLANCCO's Art & Law section covers recent events dealing with the legal effects on artistic production, such as intellectual property(copyrights, trademarks), property law (eminent domain) and the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (free speech, assembly, press, defamation, right to privacy). In June of 2007, CLANCCO began covering [1]the lawsuit between the MASS MoCA and Swiss artist, Christoph Buchel.
In this section CLANCCO provides a global reading audience with daily updates on diverse topics affecting cultural production, such as: race, language, visual culture, economics, privacy, covert operations, fashion, pornography, and writing.
[edit] Writings & Interviews
CLANCCO also produces writings and interviews with scholars, academics, and art's practitioners on issues ranging from property law, free speech, and individual artistic practices that have a direct correlation to the legal-artistic, socio-political and politico-economic. Among those interviewed are Cornell Law Professor Eduardo Peñalver, Dean of CalArts Thomas Lawson, and Spanish artist Ruben Verdu.
Essays by non-CLANCCO authors available via CLANCCO are The Better Futures of Architecture, by Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Avant-Garde, Kitsch and Law, by Anthony Chase; Home Is Where the Internet Connection Is: Law, Spam, and the Protection of Personal Space, by Andrea Slane; and interview with Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future.
CLANCCO staff have also written essays such as, Imminent Lawless Action: Buck-Morss v. Enwezor, On Law, M&M's, and the Panopticon: The Work of Donny Johnson, On Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception, On Urban Renewal: Saatchi, and Reterritorialized Markets, How to Legally Own Someone Else’s Land, Google and It's Global Archive: Infringing and Making Private Information Public, and Erasure, Indifference, Willful Ignorance: Ken Burns and PBS
