started on March 1, 2013
List of participants: Robert Fitterman, Lanny Jordan Jackson, Andy Sterling, Astrid Lorange (Australia), Madeline Gins, Matvei Yankelevich, Carol Mirakove, Chris Alexander, Eddie Hopely (Australia), Gordon Faylor, John Paetsch, Josef Kaplan, Kim Rosenfield, Klaus Killisch (Germany), Kristen Gallagher, Kristin Lucas, Lawrence Giffin, Patrick Lovelace, Sabine Herrmann (Germany), Vanessa Place, Mónica de la Torre, Yedda Morrison, Sam Winston (UK), Suzanne Treister (UK), Erica Baum, Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Guatemala)
TASK 01
A weird object. Not weird because it looks weird or says something weird necessarily. The strangeness of the project is about how people behave in relation to it. How you actually use it or feel it or engage with it is uncertain, ambiguous, ambivalent, doubtful, circumspect, circuitous, or circumvented. Either/or, Neither/nor, Both/and. Between them lies the period of the transformation of the one into the other. Undefined, irregular, unsettled, precarious. What social functions will remain in existence there that are analogous to present functions? More or less modified, more or less transformed, more or less realized. I have now come to the end, for the appendix that now follows in the program does not constitute a characteristic component part of it. Hence, I can be very brief.
Appendix
Chris Alexander
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TASK 02
“… nought but a cunning dupery of sense…” —Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Samuel Beckett.
Mónica de la Torre
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TASK 03
Penmanship – Your running hand
The root of the word cursive is the Latin cursus past participle of currere to run.
Letters do not have to be relentlessly connected.
Your running hand can have rapid legible handwriting that is semi-joined or perhaps uses few, if any joins.
The choice about joining is yours.
Erica Baum
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TASK 04
It is here, when everything has been given over to viewing that one perceives that there is nothing left to see. Finish with a good turn in the dust.
Lanny Jordan Jackson
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TASK 05
Design a badge/button/pin.
Suzanne Treister
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TASK 06
dislocation awareness
Kristin Lucas
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TASK 07
Halber Mensch (Half Man)
Halber Mensch is a studio album by Berlin band Einstürzende Neubauten (collapsing new-buildings). It was released on 2 September 1985. wikipedia, lyrics
Klaus Killisch
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TASK 08
How low can you go?
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
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TASK 09
The Gay Science
Astrid Lorange
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TASK 10
Couple and weave the human-animal’s biological processes with other ecological cycles through variants or conceptually linked ideas of shit; ineluctable results; digestion, fabrication, intervention (Arendt). And “the friend”; to or of; embarrassment of riches.
Eddie Hopely
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TASK 11
February’s task will honor the life work of our member Madeline Gins who passed away a few weeks ago. I propose that we respond to her work in any way at all. Here is the reversible destiny site again, if you find it useful: www.reversibledestiny.org
Robert Fitterman
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TASK 12
Selfie hack
Yedda Morrison
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