Iraq Lullaby Service is a singing syndication service provided by kanarinka for Iraqi blogs during 2009, the year in which the US is to begin ending its occupation of Iraq. I sing one blog post every week (or two or three) as a lullaby to my young son in Boston. (more…)
A pair of buttons created for the Miller Block Gallery’s Campaign Buttons effort.
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Members of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things took on the role of laborers at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston as part of the programming for the exhibition The World as a Stage. The regular workers went on a paid break while the Institute took over jobs such as cleaning, cafe table bussing, elevator operating, gallery watching, performance ushering and people counting.
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kanarinka ran the entire evacuation route system in Boston and attempted to measure the distance in human breath. The project also involves a podcast and a sculptural installation of the archive of tens of thousands of breaths .
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A series of drawings that map 12 inches of weather on the human body by tracing perspiration, movement and time.
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A reverse shoplifting experiment to bring American fear & insecurity to Canadian bookstores. The Institute for Infinitely Small Things deposited over 40 copies of their self-published “New American Dictionary: Security/Fear Edition” into Vancouver bookstores & educational institutions.
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Edition of 10 Audio CDs. At a gathering about relational art practices, I used custom software to record everything that wasn’t said and compiled it on this CD.
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An installation with paper clouds and weather forecasts. Visitors are invited to remove the clouds, one piece at a time.
What would the city look like if we could rename all of our public spaces, right now? The Institute invited members of the public to RENAME places in Cambridge, MA, for the 2008 publication of a new map of “The City Formerly Known as Cambridge”.
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The Institute for Infinitely Small Things toted hundreds of “Unmarked Packages” around Chicago to poll residents about terrorism and fear in public space. The results were published as a video research report.
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A performance by the Institute for Infinitely Small Things at the Decordova Museum & Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA. Visitors were greeted with assurances that everything at the suburban museum was just fine and there was nothing to worry about.
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The Institute for Infinitely Small Things is selling its patriotism to any interested buyers. Once the sale is made, the full transfer of our patriotism to you will occur in the following way:
This book catalogs over 60 terms related to fear and security which have entered American English since 9/11, including new terms (”freedom fries”, “islamofascist”) and old terms which have been redefined (”torture”). The books are available on amazon.com for $19.95.
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A performance piece in which we dress in men’s suits, heavily made-up, and smile continuously for four hours while offering mystery packages of free samples to the audience. We can choose to give or withhold a package from an audience member. By giving freely to some and not to others, we seed product-desire, construct arbitrary hierarchies and produce competition, humiliation, and even violence.
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A proposal to do five public performances and a video documentary to research the “development” and “modernization” accompanying the rise of the tourism economy in Podgorica, Montenegro, a country on track to be part of the EU.
UPDATE: Savic Rasovic [a.k.a Pirun a.ka. Sasha a.k.a Member of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things] was invited to represent Upgrade! Boston at the 3rd Upgrade! International: Chain Reaction, Skopje, Macedonia; September 11-14, 2008. There, he performed How Do You Take Your Coffee?/Kakvu piješ kafu?, a public action in Skopje’s Old Bazaar. The Institute hopes to expand this performance to a series of actions in Montenegro.
We were told by an arts funding agency that they did not see how this was art, hence they could not fund it. Nevertheless, we still want to do the project.
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The Drift Relay was a collaborative psychogeographic experience in the form of a 24 hour exploration of San Jose. Participants drifted through new and familiar city spaces with a Glowlab coach and a mobile kit of recording tools, contributing to a collective journey of endurance and discovery with images from camera phones, audio from voice calls, and location via geocoded addresses sent by SMS.
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A mobile circus whose heyday was the NYC Marathon, 2006.
Impeach Bush outfits (unused ones) are now on sale for $10 per item while supplies last.
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The Institute for Infinitely Small Things performs corporate commands where they occur in the urban landscape. We try to perform each command as literally as possible. There have been more than 15 performances of corporate commands in the U.S. and Canada in public and private commercial, urban spaces.
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The Institute was commissioned to do a work for a public video screen in Harvard Square, an outdoor mall in Cambridge, MA. The resulting work is a video guidebook for tourists in Harvard Square which instructs them in 57 things they can do for fun, leisure and entertainment without spending any money.
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A year-long social performance and research art project bridging the Boston Center for the Arts and Berkeley Street Community Garden in the South End of Boston, MA. The project consisted of performances, potluck dinners, conversations and installations.
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People from around the world uploaded passed moments to www.funeralsforamoment.net. In May 2005, we staged funerals for the moments that had passed at the location where they originally occurred in New York City.
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A series of 11 experimental urban walks and 11 collaborative performances over 11 days in Toronto’s public spaces. The performances were based on instructions uploaded to the website by people from around the world.
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A book which catalogs 42 or 363 definitions of the term “cartography”. The original first edition of the book is a series of colored index cards in a box. It was later published by Sal Randolph as part of her project Free Press.
The printed book is now available for sale at Lulu.com.
Via a website, people from around the world submitted instructions for projects that I could do in the alley behind my house in Boston.
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An installation involving dozens of household appliances on top of women’s shoes. The work was installed in the lobby of the building in a storefront window. A video camera captured reactions from the street audience and projected them inside of the installation. At the end of the installation, the Household Creatures performed “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett. (more…)
For the exhibition “Better Homes & Guardians”, iKatun modeled the tea party of the future using stuffed animals, furniture, a mini-tea set and duct tape. (more…)
An adaptation of Dante’s Paradise for the information age. A grid of 256 LED lights responds to visitors’ sound by running the Game of Life, a software algorithm that creates complex behavior from simple rules. When there is no sound, a series of one-note symphonies plays in the space. (more…)
