We move to New York to “make it.” But what does this mean? What is it about New York that inspires people to believe this is the place where they can realize their ambitions? How do these ambitions, modeled into stories and mythologies, relate to the way we actually live right now? How are...
Silence
A critique we received from the Finnish students who came to visit was that our recent mythology pieces were too text driven—that we relied on text too heavily. Perhaps it was because our inspiration was Barthes’ text, but what would it be like to explore silence? What can we say without...
Exercises in Nonfiction
The following are two amusing activities for the UnionDocs Collaborative to consider. 1. THE TRUTH We’ve been so eager in locating and analyzing myths in our culture that we’ve lost all touch with reality. A point had been raised by one viewer during our MOMA Q&A: our collaborative...
This Year’s Feng Shui Index
“With this Tiger year’s heavenly stem being metal, gold is set to have a great run and we predict that it could break US$2,000/oz. In fact, commodities of all stripes will fair well including silver, copper, zinc and aluminum. Those regarded as ‘wood’ will also do very well: pulp and...