Clandestine Construction Company (CLANCCO) is a new virtual and web project on art and law, with a specific focus on lawbreaking and outlaw status as a means of cultural production.

Through projects and writings by artists and writers, legal scholars and law practitioners, this website/blog addresses the interrelation between contemporary art, visual culture and law. The discursive effects of intellectual property, freedom of expression and property law are a main focus.

Currently found on CLANCCO.COM are an interview with Cornell Law professor, Eduardo Peñalver, art and property; critical essay on Okwui Enwezor, Susan Buck-Morss and their views on the avant-garde; book review of Giorgio Agamben’s State of Exception; how to register a copyright; and links to valuable news for visual artists.

Upcoming are an interview with CalArts School of Art Dean Thomas Lawson; selections of films on law; and review of film, Divorce Iranian Style; and CLANCCO’s 2006 Rose Bowl Flea Market Biennale, which will help fund Blue Print, an artist grant for the study of visual culture and law.

CLANCCO is a project initiated by Sergio Muñoz-Sarmiento, former LMCC Studio Resident (2000) and recent Cornell and Harvard Law graduate.

For more information on CLANCCO, visit http://www.clancco.com