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!

Archiving the City Pamphlet

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

Archigram is my inspiration

I don’t feel that about Environmental Psychology today. But I want to.