what i’ve been working on lately
Tourism is work takes for granted that many of the activities we associate with our leisure time are actually forms of revenue-generating labour, necessary to keep our urban economies going. In this project I will be engaging in a variety of actions to research and explore the impact of tourism on our experience of cities today.
Diogenes Cosmopolitan Cultural Center: A research proposal for an abandoned tram car in Turin, Italy. This is a proposal to conduct artistic research as part of the Progetto Diogene artist’s residency program.
Foolish Journeys: urban research for the city yet to come. Documentation of the project can be viewed here, and I am working on a related paper of the same title, for Montreal-based publication, No More Potlucks’ special issue on Magic.
Terrible Karma: Reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire– a collaboration with Merle Patchett–March 2011. Documentation of the event can be viewed here, and here.
Just Stories, a workshop on the relationship between storytelling and environmental justice–March 2011
Conversation with Randal Wilcox, trustee of the Alvin Baltrop Estate, and friend of Al Baltrop.
Conversation with Hakan Topal of x-urban collective–Summer 2010
“New York will always be the place for you”–performance with Tracee Worley as part of “PIGS” (Politically Involved Girls)
Architecture Souvenir– record of a project I did with Jana Leo in Jan 2007
Chaque époque rêve la suivante — on the film Demonlover and disappearance.
ICondoNY front cover & back cover– just great!
writing and images i care about
Signs and Symbols, a short story by Vladimir Nabokov
A talk by artist Luis Camnitzer, given at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York on May 15, 2011
C. Wright Mills “On Intellectual Craftsmanship”
Alvin Baltrop’s photographs of the New York City Piers 1975-1986
I don’t feel that about Environmental Psychology today. But I want to.
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Hey,
I just wanted to say that I love your site. I noticed that my old site is listed under your links (www.wordswithoutborders.net). I recently donated this domain name to http://www.wordswithoutborders.org and am moving to http://wordswithoutorgans.blogspot.com/
best,
Nour