Goodbye Romania
by Ian Curry and Maria Mayer
Warning - by visiting this site you will destroy it. Each visit will remove one pixel from these photographs. However, we will tell you a story. It’s a story about Romania, which is to say, it’s a story about change.
Beautiful. Right now it looks like […]
Collage as Cultural Practice
University of Iowa, Iowa City
March 24-26, 2005
This conference seeks to examine interventionist collage practices in all media, with an emphasis on the social, political, and legal implications of this method of appropriation. It will interrogate the political and social dimensions of collage as a practice that enables oppositional commentary across the cultural […]
things magazine on hidden cities:
There is a rather grumpy piece in the current issue of Blueprint magazine (not available on line, sadly), that decries the contemporary penchant for fetishising London’s murky and mysterious past; the axis represented by Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd, et al. The article’s gist is that by glamorising the likes of John […]
Dan Hill at cityofsound has been good enough to post all of Justin O’Connor’s Shanghai Diaries on one page. Since the last post here, Diary #5 and #6 have arrived. As usual, good stuff.
INTO THE STEALTH LANDSCAPE
by Thomas Mical, 2000
The stealth landscape operates around us, unseen. As objects, incidents, and spaces within the city are lost or disappear, the question of their duration and destination are raised. If they are reconfigured or recede into the mottled and weathered back ground textures of multiple (formal, conceptual, […]