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Book Review: Here is Tijuana!

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Fiamma Montezemolo, René Peralta and Heriberto Yepez. 2006. Here is Tijuana! London: BlackDog Publishing. 192 pp. ISBN: 978 1 904772 45
Reviewed by Nurri Kim, Do Projects
My first significant personal exposure to Mexican culture (and Mexican people) was after I moved to the United States in 2003. As a Korean educated in Japan, and with no [...]

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Cities – First Impressions of the street

Friday, April 23, 2010

Ramond Depardon’s photography, known for his depictions of street life, includes a new and compelling exhibition of photos of first impressions of the world’s most populous cities. Nicely presented in the Guardian.

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Rooted

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Adam Pańczuk – Karczeby (2008-2009)
“In one of the dialects spoken in the east of Poland, which is a mixture of Polish and Belorussian, people strongly attached to the soil they had been cultivating for generations were called ‘Karczeby’. With their bare hands Karczeby cleared forests in order to grow crops. The word karczeb was also [...]

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Animated parkour

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Parkour Motion Reel by saggyarmpit
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Portable cities

Thursday, January 28, 2010

YIN XIUZHEN
Portable City: Jia Yu Guan, 2009
Courtesy Beijing Commune
“While Beijing has been the focus of inspiration for much of Yin Xiuzhen’s work, documenting the process of deconstruction and reconstruction, Yin has since installed her work worldwide, examining cultural changes in different locales. Investigating the repercussions of globalization, with the massive changes brought about by mass [...]

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