http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net alexandria.placeinplaceof.net > a project by Jeremy Beaudry Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:09:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With time limited and the prospect of making public performances somewhat intimidating, on the last day we agreed to end the workshop with a collaborative performance in Alexandria. We decided to make a march, in single file, through the city from the Chatby neighborhood to Kom El Dika. Our seemingly ... http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net/archives/78 The second project in the workshop required students to make an intervention within some public site in Alexandria. An intervention may consist of a slight change, alteration, mark, occupation, insertion, and/or deletion in a specific site. These actions have the potential to change a passerby's perception or use of the ... http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net/archives/67 The first project in the workshop dealt with the idea of collection, specifically using the camera to build photographic collections of various recurrent aspects of Alexandria's urban environment. Such collections constitute typologies of the city and reveal patterns and networks of meaning. Once isolated and singular elements gain significance through ... http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net/archives/44 For me, the most valuable part of the my time in Alexandria was meeting and working with the folks at ACAF as well as the students who participated in the 5-day workshop. The objective of the workshop was to introduce students to a way of thinking about Alexandria as both ... http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net/archives/41 C'mon, pilgrim. It's the first thing that came to mind... I, along with other Directors of the Think Tank that has yet to be named, have struggled with the dilemma of a rooted practice, that persistent problem of exporting to an unfamiliar place a mode of working which relies so heavily ... http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net/archives/39 A conversation in a language I can understand from jbeau on Vimeo. http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net/archives/37 Side A the table and picked it up with a sigh, and I heard him say, children horribly shrunk up in it nightshirt in an attitude half-formulated reproach on my lips---but from here on her er since I did not myself know. I took her face in my hands them and ... http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net/archives/34 In what sense does my presence in Alexandria constitute a performance? (And if it does, what does that mean? Is it even all that significant?) I think I'm wrestling with a definition of performance here. Admittedly, as a discipline with a unique history, my knowledge of performance is weak. Is performance ... http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net/archives/32 Market Walk from jbeau on Vimeo. http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net/archives/30 I'm in Alexandria, Egypt, and it's overwhelming---in a good way. And since I'm here on the government's dime, I need to do something worthwhile. I want to do something of value. I am faced with the dilemma of communication. The dilemma of determining an intended audience---not that that isn't always a ... http://alexandria.placeinplaceof.net/archives/28