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Unititled, (horizontal, after Rirkrit) 2025
The text for my Tak Żyjemy / How We Live project space presentation in May 2025.
Based on Rirkrit Taravanja’s Untitled (free) from 1992.
Prelinger Library : Utopian Archive
The Prelinger library is an independent archive of periodicals, ephemera, maps and books in San Francisco, California. I conducted research on intentional communities, communes, and back to the land movements as a library resident in the summer of 2023. My research was focused on best-known periodicals related to the subject, such as Communities (a magazine by and for communitarians), The Whole Earth Catalogs (pre-internet resources for practical matters such as solar technologies), and the Foxfire series, a series of how-to references for back-to-the-land skills such as wood splitting, planting, quilting, and natural medicine.
The collected materials span over a decade and are selected to show some of the different issues that come up when we intend to embody radically, live intentionally, and work together towards positive social change. How do we manage issues of the old world that infiltrate our desire to build a new reality?
The collected materials span over a decade and are selected to show some of the different issues that come up when we intend to embody radically, live intentionally, and work together towards positive social change. How do we manage issues of the old world that infiltrate our desire to build a new reality?
Bibliography:
CoEvolution quarterly
Whole Earth Catalog
Communities
Almanac of Healing
Mother Earth Magazine
FoxFire
The Alternative
The New Settler
The Modern Utopian
Vocations for Social Change
Workforce magazine
Hula Hoop / The Star
Several times most weeks I make this mind map that I call “The Star”.
It’s something I developed in a movement-based practice in Berlin, to help quiet my mind when I get overwhelmed by the great swirling mass of ideas, projects, parts of larger goals, and core values and intentions that I want in my work.
I picture myself grounded and hula hooping in the center of this star and things seem somehow contained and more manageable and I can feel more in control. It’s like those daily morning pages that people write, but I’m too tightly wound for that sort of thing. This is intuitive, but fast.
The hula hoops are an extension of the star exercise. They invite movement and are a way of physically enacting the attempt at centeredness and groundedness.
Also planned as a public outdoor work in Berlin late June 2025.
Research
Several times most weeks I make this mind map that I call “The Star”.
It’s something I developed in a movement-based practice in Berlin, to help quiet my mind when I get overwhelmed by the great swirling mass of ideas, projects, parts of larger goals, and core values and intentions that I want in my work.
I picture myself grounded and hula hooping in the center of this star and things seem somehow contained and more manageable and I can feel more in control. It’s like those daily morning pages that people write, but I’m too tightly wound for that sort of thing. This is intuitive, but fast.
The hula hoops are an extension of the star exercise. They invite movement and are a way of physically enacting the attempt at centeredness and groundedness.
Also planned as a public outdoor work in Berlin late June 2025.