the text and images below are posted from beijing, berlin, buenos aires, hong kong, los angeles, new york, sado island, shanghai, tokyo and zürich. there are a few of us, and this is the space in between.

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please don’t go, don’t go away


Research material from part of the PUBLIC project by Elaine W. Ho and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga. Organized as a daily series of experiments, interventions and discourses, PUBLIC aims to examine the potentiality of latency and open spaces made possible in the relations between individuals and publics. Other activities are posted here. Some are open invitations to all, others are unannounced insertions in different locations throughout Berlin. PROGRAM – intitiative for art and architecture collaborations; 22 January – 1 February 2009.

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everything on sale this time of year

wearsale_466“Okay,” he said, “everything 90 degrees.” And we became temporary helmsmen, the act of organising one’s knowledge and one’s life to be a 2nd Captain job. Here, the sea is misty, the sea is cold, the sea is snowing, but we aim for 90 degrees, give or take a few, 90 degrees today or tomorrow relative. I missed the pounding on ice, her roommate bouncing before the ice turned sweaty; it’s dangerous but not scary. No, not scary at all, love, we just go, we just go, through broken ice or slippery snow, because the thing is the thing, and let us share this thing that is not ours to keep or own. Six shirts, everything on sale this time of year, let’s get rid of them all or let them go slowly.

Wear journal is now available in Berlin at do you read me?!, Motto and ProQM. In the post, on its way to Boekie Woekie in Amsterdam.

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ISBN: 978-3-00-026619-5; IMPRINT: HomeShop; PAPERBACK: 168 pp., 18.5 cm x 25 cm, sewn binding, colour and b/w sections, paper varied (no cover). Made in the People’s Republic of China.

期刊《穿》的第一期现已出版发行。ISBN: 978-3-00-026619-5; 出版:家作坊;规格:168页, 18.5cm x 25 cm,锁线胶装,彩色;b/w部份,特种纸(无封面)。中华人民共和国印刷。

询问/订买/发行请访问家作坊的网页或联系:
homeshop [圈a] iwishicoulddescribeittoyoubetter [点] org

The first issue of Wear journal is now available. For more information, please visit HomeShop’s page. For inquiries or to order a copy, please contact: homeshop [at] iwishicoulddescribeittoyoubetter [dot] org

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old news, recently

最近何颖雅和福帝尼于我们的新录象作品《公众》参加了2008北京独立电影论坛请访问看作品多信息和片段。关于北京独立电影论坛:
www.fanhall.com | www.lixianting.org | www.cinenotes.cn

The short film “Public” recently featured at the 2008 Beijing Independent Film Festival organised by the Li Xianting Film Fund. More information and an excerpt from the film here. More info about the festival: www.fanhall.com | www.lixianting.org | www.cinenotes.cn

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on iwishicoulddescribeittoyoubetter, eyh

Who made this? asks the naive moment.
My first stir of thought has been to think of making.
The idea of making is the first and most human of ideas.
“To explain” is never anything more than to describe a way of making: it is merely to remake in thought.

—- from Paul Valéry, “Man and Sea Shell,” in The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, vol. 1 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956), p. 117.

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sous les pavés, la plage

BEFORE AND DURING AND AFTER: Three days’ thought on media culture and artificial life

…as responsible human beings, we forget (Ha, seduction!). Were we unable to, every horror and every pain experienced as the newly born would retain itself, excruciating, just as every moment of laughter and joy, but we would never recover. The mirrors of Lacan are as inevitably linked to artificial life as self and world. And forgetfulness is not so much saying no as being able to say yes again. Are you ready to rule the world?

—-From a small text written, weaving writing experiment, flow. June 2008, Saas-Fee. Read the full essay [here]. Apologies for lack of page numbers for notes/references, please write if you need more.

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a sofa, a table, a lamp, a bookshelf, a plant, a TV

a body, a living room, a vessel. “…maybe I would say all the kulturelle komponente that i have inherited…” oversea is a work-in-progress from simone, mon and e. [link to project blog] First showing at the Premio finale, May 2008 at Theatre Tuchlaube in Aarau, Switzerland. many thanks to all those who allowed us to interview you, Peter, Thom, Karin, Benji, Rahel, Nomsa, Flurin, Meret, Catja, Binh, Rudy, Lidy, Thi-Xiem and Chieu.

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forgetting “understanding the culture of collaboration”, propaganda, and a boy that looks a lot like Lucio

after and/or in collaboration with: participants of the ‘visionairs studio‘ (sng tong beng, minfu, konstantin, daniel, dirk, amit, helen, stefan, and sylvie), tino sehgal, michel houellebecq, malgven gerbes and david brandstätter (and their dancers Simone, Eva, Pedro, Ixchel and I-Fen) …and fotini

buero1.jpga series of solos later put together, a one week work-in-progress kind of workshop worked out a priori, a discussion.最后一天,他回答我,“没用啊…”buero4.jpg“and what do you think?” asks the situationist to the audience. a collective holding of breath before the girl that looks like litty speaks. “and what is it that you were expecting from our educational institutions?” he is held responsible. but, “WE were talking about” …something else. we welcome you to this situation. but now she must feel stupid.buero3.jpgregard the distinction. a series of solos that collide on occasion, when it’s a butterfly—–he holds his fingers to his lips—–‘amazing’, but otherwise, precisely unaware of the other.buero2.jpgand a series of presentations about the future, the aesthetics of work and collaboration go a long way. but she doesn’t want to talk about the fear of aging. not right now.buero5.jpgi was constantly in fear that it would be like this. two bodies curled in fear of the infinity of three dimensions turn, clockwise. they must have been over aware, acutely, but he did not like to use the word ‘execution’. a series of solos passing on occasion.lookslikelucio.jpglet’s work hard. it turns autumn again.

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