Jeremy Beaudry / Projects, Research & Texts

2002-12

In a state far from equilibrium

Adapts the ecological model of forest succession in order to explore the ways in which cities change over time.
Nature Study, An Ambivalent Guide

A guidebook and installation which catalog a contemplation of the ambivalence that defines humankind’s complex relationship to the natural environment.
Manifesta 8

Co-curating the European biennial of contemporary with Bassam El Baroni and Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum.
Auction House Jam

A thrilling auction of a set of generic prototypical projects that deal with notions of human geography and cultural dialogue.
Social Media for Social Change

A design research project that reimagines civil discourse in the context of social media and networked communication.
The Think Tank that has yet to be named

An artist collective that initiates site-specific conversations, performative actions, and educational projects to interrogate contemporary urban issues.
Terra Incognita

Making visible the impact of the University of the Arts on land use in Center City Philadelphia and our role as active inhabitants of these spaces.
This Was Lost, This Was Found

Mapping and marking lost clothes found on the streets and sidewalks of Philadelphia.
Place In Place Of: Berlin

A web-based project which uses the blog format to present concurrent and collaborative investigations and interpretations of Berlin, Germany.

The ARPANET Dialogues

An archive of rare conversations within the contemporary social, political, and cultural milieu.
Place In Place Of: Alexandria

A set of site-specific interventions, performances, lectures and documents created in Alexandria, Egypt that included a workshop with local art and architecture university students.
Market Walk

On the awkwardness of my reluctant public performances in Alexandria, Egypt.
A Conversation in a language I can almost understand

In Alexandria, Egypt and grasping for any semblance of communicative language that made sense: car horns.
A Berlin Chronicle

This video presents one potential, incomplete interpretation of my past as it is extracted and compiled from an archive of inconsequential digital "memories" of a past time in Berlin, Germany.
A Typology of Mess Punkt

A photographic series documenting measuring points in Berlin, Germany.
La Ville Loopy

A “loopy” meditation on the modernist architectural paradigm.
Unbinding Boundaries

A series of projects which explores the socio-spatial divisions and potential connections between two adjacent districts in central Champaign that are bisected by the north-south railroad.