I have begun blogging for my friends at Knowledge Must in Delhi. This is a fantastic blog and I am honored to be able to contribute to it.
My first post, on trains and travel, is here.
© Knowledge Must
This is a list, taken from my notebook, of works referenced during Open Engagement this past weekend. My head is still spinning a bit, both from the cold I caught on the Empire Builder and from the ideas and inspiration whirling about in there….I hope to post more about this adventure soon.
In no particular order at all:
- Success Magazine [recommended by the Suit in the Kinkos in Chicago...apparently it comes with a free DVD? He gave my friend Jeff and I a spiel about entrepreneurialism while we were perusing the self-help books in the copy shop.]
- Tom Marioni, Beer Philosophy & Art: The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art
- Native Speaker, Chang-Rae Lee
- Relational Aesthetics, Nicholas Bourriaud [lots of kvetching about this]
- Participation, Claire Bishop [lots of talking about Bishop]
- Social Acupuncture, Darren O’Donnell
- Naomi Klein [specifically her definition of activism]
- Paul Chan- National Philistine [for some reason no one mentioned the Porno fonts, which I think are brilliant]
- Ranciere- Aesthetics and Its Discontents
- Deep Blue -A documentary about chess
- Darwin’s Nightmare - documentary
- Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks
- City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America
- Anarchy in Action – Colin Ward
- Streetwork: The Exploding School – Colin Ward and Anthony Fyson
- Compulsory Miseducation – Paul Goodman
- Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class [Nils Norman called him Darth Vader. That was pretty good]
- Cedric Price
- Cira Archive in Geneva
- Suzanne Lacy- The Roof is on Fire
- Claire Bishop [yes, again]- The Social Turn
I’m showing the Bed Project in it’s entirety at Art of This gallery in Minneapolis as part of the Scattered Light show this month. I’m really excited about this show (not just because I’m in it…). This project has always been, in a large sense, about noticing my surroundings, and, increasingly, about intimacy, memory, and connection. I feel lucky to be part of this larger Scattered Light conversation about some of these same ideas. Check out the assignment images that have been posted online already- they’re really beautiful.
I just received the package containing nearly one thousand pictures of my bed- printed, real, tactile- and will ship them off to Minneapolis before I head down to D.C. tomorrow for Empire Builder. It’s a little overwhelming to actually hold the weight of these images and all they contain. I won’t be out there for the show, but you can go instead of me.
Scattered Light
Art of This Gallery
3506 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN
5.22.10 – 6.12.10
I mailed my contribution to the Mail Nothing project to the Tate this afternoon. I was a little disappointed that the post-woman didn’t even bat an eye at my customs form. She did cover over the old stickers and detritus from this box’s previous journeys. Oh well.
A couple of days ago I found a toad had moved into my fennel seedlings…
From 2009.
