Place In Place Of: Berlin
2005 - 2006 / Berlin, Germany & Philadelphia, USA
BERLIN.placeinplaceof.net began in June of 2005 during the course of a three-month artist residency at the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. J. Meredith Warner and I utilized the blog format as a rich medium to understand and document the city, and to present concurrent and collaborative investigations and interpretations of Berlin. That was Then.
This is Now. Newly re-settled in Philadelphia, USA after several years away, we have both been thinking often of Berlin—memories sparked equally by the noticeable similarities between the two cities and the inevitability of nostalgia that anniversaries can invite. Place and memory are inseparable companions: to remember is to exist is to be in some place. So it makes sense to continue this Berlin project in spite of—no, because of—living in Philadelphia and expand the field of our investigations of that city to the complex ways in which we remember it and recreate the memories of it.
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.
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.
The Think Tank that has yet to be named
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.
This Was Lost, This Was Found
Mapping and marking lost clothes found on the streets and sidewalks of Philadelphia.
A Typology of Mess Punkt
A photographic series of Mess Punkt, or measuring points, reveals an alernative cartography of the city and the memory of my experience of it.
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.
Place In Place Of: Berlin
A web-based project which uses the weblog format to present concurrent and collaborative investigations and interpretations of Berlin.
Provisonal Monument
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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- Rosemary Cubas (Community Leadership Institute) on the Philadelphia's Neighborhood Transformation Initiative
- All For The Taking Blog Archive The Community Leadership Institute and INCITE Philadelphia?s Anti-Displacement Solidarity Committee; Origins and Current Work
- 2314 N. American St 19123 - Google Maps // Former superfund site
- Pennsylvania, 2314 N. American Street | Mid-Atlantic Superfund | US EPA
- The Philadelphia Empowerment Zone // American St. zone
- New Support but Few Gains For Urban Enterprise Zones - New York Times // article from 1992 mentions American St. zone
- Velluire, Vende, Pays de la Loire, France - Google Maps // Toussaint Baudry's ancestral home. He emigrated to French Canada in 1664.
- Fiefbergen, Pln, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - Google Maps // Plambeck (Grandma Beaudry's maiden name), Klindt, Holst, and Hebbel ancestral home. Peter Plambeck emigrated to the US via Ellis Island in 1899.
- Subtopia: Getting Ready for a Radical Roundup in Denver
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