2006 / Philadelphia, USA

This Was Lost, This Was Found marks lost items of clothing (textile) found on the streets and sidewalks of Philadelphia, especially in the Fishtown and Kensington neighborhoods. Small red and white arrows are deposited beside the lost items, pointing in the direction of the Coral Street Arts House. The CSAH building’s original function as a former Textile Mill is lost, but a new use for it has now been found. The process of marking lost textile items in relationship to the CSAH building connects the outside world of the city with questions of waste/reuse, loss/gain, and how to revitalize former sites of industry.
This Was Lost, This Was Found is documented at PHILADELPHIA.placeinplaceof.net and is a collaboration with J. Meredith Warner.
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.
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.
Acting as both the Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Meaning (DIM) and the Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Radical Pedagogy (DIRP), much of my practice falls under the rubric of the Think Tank that has yet to be named.
Mapping and marking lost clothes found on the streets and sidewalks of Philadelphia.
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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.
A web-based project which uses the weblog format to present concurrent and collaborative investigations and interpretations of Berlin.
A performative exploration of place, architecture, memory, provisional communities, provisional meanings, provisional monuments, the gloved hand of a construction worker swiping away gravel from a window sill...
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