• Editorial Unedited2011-02-15
    — Post Series Nº 005

  • Meeting Room2011-02-15
    — The Beauty of Poison: Neon-Tragic Theatre
    The metaphor of “the choreographic” operates on vague associations with uh, movement? uh, embodiment? when it’s actually an aestheticized catch-all for the neoliberal invectives of risk and competition. With it has come a slew of disconcertingly inarticulate venturers holding talks and panels ad infinitum. This all made Steffi Hensel uneasy, so she threw a party with poison, trashy colors and her tragic consciousness. Dramatic? Precisely.
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  • Co-working2011-02-15
    — The Ideological Design of the Neoliberal State
    Since neoliberalism proposed the subsumption of the entirety of human relations in the market, imagining the social independent of economic motives and behavior seems impossible. The key to getting ourselves out of this quasi-naturalized ideological hell realm is to recognize it as such and reinvent plurality and its affects. By Dirk Schuck.
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  • A Piece2011-02-15
    — www.ThisMelancholyWhore.cu
    Spreading your legs for someone else’s political agenda is how it’s always gone down. And with the increasing production of expanded selves, identity got on all fours and whored itself out like never before, making narrating oneself in a place a strange fiction. Romina Ruíz-Goiriena in Havana, Paris, anywhere.
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  • Intellectual Trends Digest2011-02-15
    — COHESION TrendMatrix
    Systematically recombining popular texts about cohesion.
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  • Gallery2011-03-15
    — Cynthia Mason’s “f**k yes”
    In the exhibition “f**k yes,” the work of Cynthia Mason allows us to grasp an abundance of data by giving us methodical tools. Like those that we have used before, these tools are also for sorting memories, recomposing stories and merging parts and pieces from dissonant relationships.
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  • Editorial Unedited2010-09-24
    — Post Series Nº 004

  • Meeting Room2010-09-24
    THOUGHTS ON THE INTEGRITY OF YOUR PERSONAL BRAND
    Intrigued by the particularities of the Zeitgeist, Legwork invited immaterial labor virtuoso Doug Popovich, a brand and marketing communications geek and artwife based in NYC, for a chat. Images from the recent work of Alex Auriema.
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  • Intellectual Trends Digest2010-09-24
    — BRANDING BRANDING TrendMatrix
    Systemically recombining popular texts that brand branding itself.
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  • A Piece2010-09-24
    — MISTAKEN IDENTITIES, PART II
    (THE WRITTEN LECTURE)

    “Life may not be fair, but things like the Judson Dance Theater actually tried to make things a little more egalitarian.” The unfair part: shifting alliances, egos, and the careerism of art worlds. Daryl Chin offers a candid view on Judson and how to better theorize it. The written lecture.
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  • Database2010-09-24
    — VIRTUOSITY AND THE GAME
    An intimate conversation on the role of virtuosity in the experimental video games of Erik Svedäng.
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  • Co-working2010-09-24
    — PROGRAMMING EACH OTHER
    The newest addition to The Public School was recently launched in Berlin. Caleb Waldorf reveals a spectrum of meta-reflections on The Public School as an experimental way of programming.
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  • Media Monitor2010-09-24
    — MISTAKEN IDENTITIES, PART II
    (THE SPOKEN LECTURE)

    “Life may not be fair, but things like the Judson Dance Theater actually tried to make things a little more egalitarian.” The unfair part: shifting alliances, egos, and the careerism of art worlds. Daryl Chin offers a candid view on Judson and how to better theorize it. The spoken lecture.
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  • Legworking2010-09-24
    — SEVEN SIGNS FOR HORIZONTALITY
    Legwork’s collaborative instruction manual and guidebook.
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  • Editorial Unedited2011-12-22
    — Post Series Nº 003

  • Meeting Room2010-12-22
    — Michael Jackson Logo Love Poem
    The logo is a strategy of involvement in which instantaneous familiarity accrues time and again–we are already so involved in logos that moments of self-aware involvement hardly, if ever, occur. Timothy Murray talks to Judith Hamera.
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  • Intellectual Trends Digest2010-12-22
    — Killing the Author TrendMatrix
    Systemically recombining popular texts and proving that the trend of killing the author is not dead. And probably will never be.
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  • Database2010-12-22
    — Stripping Away the Visual
    How can oil spill stills be poetic? Carrick Bell talks about interest in language failure, and how images can be abstracted from their context without a claim for pure visuality.
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  • A Piece2010-12-22
    — I Need the Owl: Poetry and the Visual
    A Photo by Zoe Childerley, a poem by Kerry Featherstone, another one by Mark Goodwin. Thoughts on the difference between articulating the visual and being inspired by the visual.
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  • Co-working2010-12-22
    — The Locus of Poetry
    Ryan Nance gives us an indispensable tool for seeking an up-to-the-minute understanding of reading poetry. Some readers will concern themselves with reducing the reading process, some with adding value and usefulness.
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  • Media Monitor2010-12-22
    — The Poetry Is Always Swirling
    Legwork’s tribute to the poetic beauty of all of the Reality TV shows that have been or will ever be created on art and artists. Trong Nguyen reacts to prompts on poetics & art.
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  • Legworking2010-10-15
    — Miss South Carolina at the Iraqi Embassy
    A collaborative sound installation included in DES CHAPITRES DU CONFLIT, a project organized by the office for collaborative sustainability *COLLASUS.
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  • Editorial Unedited2010-08-05
    — Post Series Nº 002

  • Legworking2010-08-06
    — Legwork Performance Series, Edition 1: Adoption
    The creative practice of the collaborative Legwork resides in following an intuition for transcending boundaries of categorization, identification, and embodiment, any of which could be expected at any moment to materialize through a clearly defined medium.
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  • Meeting Room2010-08-05
    — When You’re Implicated, You Can’t Be Separated
    Betrayal, or generating modes of unbelonging together, is exactly what we’re after. The Implicated implicate the Implicated.
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  • Intellectual Trends Digest2010-08-05
    — The Marx TrendMatrix
    Taking off from Phil Collins, the Marx TrendMatrix draws lines between various discursive moments and random Marx relations, including an entry on the Berlin biennale, all while continuing to not have any linear narrative.
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  • A Piece2010-08-05
    — The Art Hugger
    A non-artist initiated intervention that has recently been taking place throughout museums in Chicago, prompting the question, what are we supposed to do with the art aura?
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  • Co-working2010-08-05
    — When Looking for Utopia, Don’t Look Further than Documentary
    Where does documentary belong? To the visual? The textual? The unspoken? Inspired by Berlin Documentary Forum, documentary is taken to the world of utopia.
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  • Editorial Unedited2010-07-16
    — Post Series Nº 001

  • Meeting Room2010-07-16
    — Choreographing the Way to the Right People
    On being-in-the-world, where the museum has become choreography, careers have become choreography and the art fairs are just another backdrop for this choreographing thing.
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  • Intellectual Trends Digest2010-07-16
    — The Agamben TrendMatrix
    In writing about shows and more general writings, he uncannily appears 90% of the time in the second to last or last paragraph, which leads me to think writers feel they need something deep to say at the end.
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  • A Piece2010-07-16
    — Super! I’ve Got Power!
    What would it be if I made a choir opera?
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  • Co-working2010-07-16
    — Cooking Invocation
    Two centuries ago, the French food critic Grimod de La Reynière once stated, “only the vulgar would see no more to kitchen than saucepans and no more to dinner than dishes.”
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  • Legworking2010-07-01
    — Utopia, or Tobey’s Not Here
    This is a choreography of popular artifacts, contemporary flows of utopian thought, and situational absence, stemming from the conceptual and contextual practice of Legwork.
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  • Legworking2010-06-07
    — Laboratory of Conflict
    Laboratory of Conflict workshop. Curated by Viktorija Siaulyte. May 21 – 22, 2010. At WELD, Norrtullsgatan 7, Stockholm.
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