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Click on a theme in RHIZOMES to see how disparate parts of the ICI archive are joined together around a fleeting thought or by a slip of the eye or the shutter. Click on a subject in ICI CONNECTIONS to see how recurring ICI concerns coalesce around recurring themes or click on a place in the ICI ARCHIVES to see the raw material of our collections. TAGs below each post reveal hidden relationships between objects, thoughts, and interpretations. This is the place of laboratory research and play. -MORE-RHIZOMES
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Category Archives: Building as Sign
LIBRARY SHELF: Inside the White Cube
O’Doherty, Brian Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (1999) LAST LINE: “Or the gallery itself could be removed and relocated to another place.” ICI SHELF: Art Texts ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (04-23-12)
The Sign of the Masons
The main entrance of the Great Eastern Hotel in London offers a ‘sign’ that is hidden in plain sight. Even though it was left off the hotel’s official floorplan, three bricked in windows act as a visual sign for a … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: Tangled Memories
Sturken, Marita Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (1997) LAST LINE: “They stand at the juncture of memory and history, tugging by their very presence the boundaries of each.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: Melancholia and Moralism
Crimp, Douglas Melancholia and Moralism (2002) FIRST LINE: “I assert to begin that ‘disease’ does not exist.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-08-11)
We did this all…
This is our favorite photo from the documentation of our research trip to Tinkertown, an outsider artist project in New Mexico and we use it as both beacon and salvo for our own project even though (or maybe, because) it’s … Continue reading
