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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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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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 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.
