LFQ2.1 – Landfill at Living as Form
On opening day of Living as Form, an exhibition on socially engaged practices organized by Creative Time in September 2011, participants constructed individualized issues of Landfill Quarterly using...
View ArticleA0022 – OurGoods, How OurGoods Works
OurGoods, a network and bartering platform founded in 2009 by Jen Abrams, Louise Ma, Carl Tashian, Rich Watts, and Caroline Woolard, encourages the production of independent projects by helping...
View ArticleA0023 – Time/Bank, Hour Note
Time/Bank currency is backed solely by the time and labor it represents. A one-hour note equals one hour of work regardless of the work’s value in the dominant economy: whether it is skilled or...
View ArticleLFQ3.1 – Lee, Infinity Burial Project
Inside these capsules is a powdery, odorous, mixture called the “Decompiculture Kit,” a combination of biological elements that accelerates the breakdown of skin, muscle, and bone. The substance is...
View ArticleA0024-Waanders, Fishing Perches
The first time Dutch artist Hans Waanders saw a kingfisher, it was 1982. Despite its near-ubiquitous status—various species of kingfisher can be found on nearly every continent—the occurrence left him...
View ArticleLFQ3.2 – Haeg, Animal Estates
In its first iteration at the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Animal Estates summoned species that lived in Manhattan’s oak–hickory forest four hundred years ago to return to the island. Fritz Haeg nestled...
View ArticleLFQ3.3 – Escott, After the Continents Divorced
“What can I tell you my darling,” begins a letter signed by Alicia Escott and addressed to a tiny marsupial, declared extinct in 1994. One in an ongoing series of epistles that reanimates lost species...
View ArticleLFQ 4.1 – Finnegan, 8 Hours of Work
From 11 am to 7 pm on June 9, 2012, artist Shannon Finnegan sat at a desk writing the same two phrases on alternating sides of 8 ½ by 11–inch paper: “I should be working more” and “I should be working...
View ArticleLFQ 4.2 – LMPC, Artworkers Hall
Cut from sandpaper and stamped with the word “Artworker,” these membership cards were distributed at a temporary Artworkers Hall established by the Lower Mainland Painting Co. (LMPC)* during a 2011...
View ArticleLFQ 4.3 – Passacantando, MyNerva
Named for the Roman goddess of craft, commerce, wisdom, and war, MyNerva has a similarly broad purview: the exploration of corporate structures. Described by its founder, Piero Passacantando, as “a...
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