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meeting notes - 10/25/2011
Excursions -
Alan - performance at Eyebeam. African American Burial Ground near City Hall Park. Business, security, place of rest/mourning/lamentation - monument, low mounds, museum. 1) looking at architecture of power, concentration camp in Poland (Eyebeam project space) 2) looking at monument downtown. Architectures of lamentation. Making private experience public. The hug as smallest space you can make. Hug <> Hut. Pia Lindman (ritualized grief). Theresa Brennan (affect). November/December - afternoon.
Excursion I: Financial District
On Thursday, November 10, members of the Urban Research Group took an excursion to three sites/conditions in lower Manhattan.
Alan Sondheim: just some thoughts occasioned by the walk
I was thinking about common threads - always a misrecognition - in relation to the sites we visited. What occurred to me was the relationship between capital and the body, between capital and materiality. The bollards, etc. are objects whose existence is only to deflect or stop other objects; as such, their internal structures are based on resistance. One might think of them as asteroids. What are they protecting? The simulacra of capital, capital flows.
Meeting Notes 11.21.11
Meeting Notes - 12.13.11
Pairing one member of the group with an external respondent - could be a field trip, dinner, discussion, presentations, etc - variable format
Focus on the early part of research phases of project, not finished work, to get feedback + sharing of knowledge
Once per month? Third Tuesdays
One more meeting off-site with internal group before year is done (drinks! next week
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