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\u00a0September 14: <\/strong><\/p>\n

The unplanned theme for this week’s objects was OBSOLESCENCE. KN brought a mix CD (am tempted to call it a MIX TAPE, an artifact from an even earlier era) that he’d carefully curated for a grad school party. “Groove Is In the Heart.” The rubber finger book page turners were added and the image inverted for maximum aesthetic effect.<\/p>\n

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CNW brought an assemblage titled “Bureaucratic Obsolescence” composed of various office supplies that have lost their utility in their original setting. A Rolodex, a “FAXED” rubber stamp, an envelope “licker,” typewriter ribbon, Texas Instruments calculators… They’ve been bricolaged into a conceptual art piece on time, bureaucracy, and capital.<\/p>\n

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September 21:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

AC brought a piece from her collection of expired camera film. Making images with expired film, whose chemicals have aged, alters the pictures unpredictably, adding an element of chance to the exercise. The contingency aspect reminded me of Benjamin in “A Short History of Photography”:<\/p>\n

“No matter how artful the photographer, no matter how carefully posed his subject, the beholder feels an irresistible urge to search such a picture for the tiny spark of contingency, of the here and now, with which reality has (so to speak) seared the subject, to find the inconspicuous spot where in the immediacy of that long-forgotten moment the future nests so eloquently that we, looking back, may rediscover it.”<\/p>\n

[“Malgr\u00e9 toute l’ing\u00e9niosit\u00e9 du photographe, malgr\u00e9 l’affectation de l’attitude de son mod\u00e8le, le spectateur ressent le besoin irr\u00e9sistible de chercher dans une telle image la plus petite \u00e9tincelle de hasard, d’ici et maintenant, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 quoi la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 a pour ainsi dire br\u00fbl\u00e9 de part en part le caract\u00e8re d’image le besoin de trouver l’endroit invisible o\u00f9, dans l’apparence de cette minute depuis longtemps \u00e9coul\u00e9e, niche aujourd’hui encore l’avenir, et si \u00e9loquemment que, regardant en arri\u00e8re, nous pouvons le d\u00e9couvrir.”]<\/p>\n

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September 28:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

HH brought objects that might be thought about together or separately: Advil Liqui-Gels, which, for someone in a thinking profession, can be indispensable, and the mock-up for a hotline postcard for the upcoming Now Is the Time<\/span><\/a> show at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC. We thought together about the hotline as a cultural phenomenon.<\/p>\n

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MH brought a manual whose audience is printers and which shows the range of typefaces available in a given slice of time. A typographic treasure from the archive…<\/p>\n

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October 5:<\/strong><\/p>\n

AC made us into children, into makers, into material meditators with Play-Doh. The smell, the texture, the color: We wondered why adults age out of this magical substance and the experimental modes it enables.<\/p>\n

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JN brought a hamsa (hand of Fatima) from Fez, Morocco. It led us toward reflections on magical objects, collecting, display…<\/p>\n

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October 12:<\/strong><\/p>\n

JG+MM<\/p>\n

FALL RECESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 26:<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 9:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 16: <\/strong><\/p>\n

November<\/strong> 23:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

THANKSGIVING RECESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 30: <\/strong><\/p>\n

December 7: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0September 14: The unplanned theme for this week’s objects was OBSOLESCENCE. KN brought a mix CD (am tempted to call it a MIX TAPE, an artifact from an even earlier era) that he’d carefully curated for a grad school party. “Groove Is In the Heart.” The rubber finger book page turners were added and the … <\/p>\n

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