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“Let’s break loose”
“Can generosity itself be a reciprocal practice?” Chicago based curator Mary Jane Jacob asks in her contribution to What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art (2005). To ask this question means that the equation of generosity … Continue reading
Posted in Participation
Tagged Collective Actions, Encounter, Reciprocity, giving, receiving, compassion, art and reciprocity, Lertchaiprasert, Mary Jane Jacob, Jacqueline Baas, Buddhism, 31st Century Museum of Contemporary Spirit, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Erik Hagoort
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Face-to-face or shoulder-to-shoulder
On a fine, windy Summer day in 2008 Swedish artist Tobias Karlsson invited me to sit with him in one of the three cubicles, mentioned “Untitled”, which he presented as part of his graduation show at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie … Continue reading
If I Take Care of You Others Will Take Care of Me
For the month of July, I was an artist-in-residence at AS220, a non-profit art space located in the heart of downtown Providence, RI. The space is remarkable for numerous reasons: it began illegally almost 25 years ago, when some artists … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Economy, Participation
Tagged Artist in residence, AS220, Canada, Caroline Picard, community, Empire Street, Foo Fest, If I take care of you others will take care of me, If I take less others have more, Okanagans, print shop, Providence, Reciprocity, Rhode Island, Shepard Fairey
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Beyond reciprocity
Joseph Beuys: “If I take care of you, others will take care of me.” Stanislav Menshikov: “If I take less, others have more.” These two quotations still resonate in my mind since I attended “La chaîne est belle”; the New … Continue reading
Posted in Economy
Tagged care, community, compassion, economy, Erik Hagoort, exchange, friendship, giving, Joseph Beuys, love, Reciprocity, Stanislav Menshikov
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Handshake Games
In greeting one another there is an expectation. You put your hand out with the expectation it will be received in a reciprocal clasp. Some kind of up-down-shake is expected. They say you can learn everything about a person … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Poetry
Tagged AE Simns, Bitch Smack, Caroline Picard, Duck Hunt, First Impressions first touch, Handshake, Reciprocity, The Cold War, The Comrade, The Rifle
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Identity in Action
When I think of reciprocity, I visualize a call-and-response scenario: a give and take, or the meeting of a positive action with a subsequent positive action. In order to understand reciprocity one must therefore define boundaries: to attribute one action … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Participation
Tagged Caroline Picard, identity, Reciprocity, The Ecological Thought, Timothy Morton
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One Way Reciprocity
From 1973 to 1986 James Lee Byars sent numerous letters and postcards to Joseph Beuys. Scribbles on small pieces of paper; poems knitted in golden thread on sheets of red satin; sentences inked on rice paper resembling the stones of … Continue reading
Collective Actions Encounter
The header image of this blog shows the outcome of a 1970s event by the Moscow conceptual art group Collective Actions. Most of their actions consisted of situations in which a group of people, invited by the action’s organizers, participated in … Continue reading
Posted in Performance, Participation, Collaboration
Tagged Collective Actions, Encounter, Reciprocity, Performance
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