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my notebook
I am old school. I still keep most of my thoughts and ideas in an actual notebook. Yes, a notebook made of dead trees.
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an other order
Adrian Piper, Pretend not to know, 1989 Order may be private or public. A friend of mine owns an enormous collection of classical music. His CDs fill the walls of a whole big room, floor to ceiling....
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evidence
In January I went to White Columns to see, “Looking Back,” an exhibit surveying artwork shown in New York in 2010, curated by Bob Nickas. The work was a mix of mostly New York-based artists, young and...
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neighbors
Jana Leo, My Neighbor, 2002 – 2011 Artist’s statement: She used to live across the hallway and was the first person I related to when I moved to Chinatown in 2002. She came into my apartment when...
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new feature: facebook field notes
Dear readers, today is the premiere of a new feature here on Archiving the City: facebook field notes. For many years, I avoided the draw of facebook, but when I joined the Strelka Institute, I was...
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city of islands within islands 1
The winter of 2011-2012 marked a tense and exciting period in Moscow. For the first time since 1991, people entered the streets en masse to demand change in their government. During this period, I...
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what is artistic research?
In a recent article about the international contemporary art exhibition dOCUMENTA (13), which features artistic projects that employ research methodology, artist and sociologist, Hakan Topal, asks: How...
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sociological party marathon action
During the winter and spring of 2011-12 residents of Moscow and Saint Petersburg went into the streets en masse for the first time in 20 years, demanding change in the regime of political and social...
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speaking with specters
Luis Camnitzer, Last Words (2008). Excerpts from the final statements of death row prisoners, taken from website of the Texas Department of Justice. What seems almost impossible is to speak always of...
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new problems
There is a first, false idea that needs to be set aside, which is that the philosopher can speak about everything. This idea is exemplified by the TV philosopher: he talks about society’s problems, the...
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