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Iraq Lullaby Service

by kanarinka
January, 2009

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…)


It takes 154,000 breaths to evacuate Boston

by kanarinka
November, 2007

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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Drift Relay

by Glowlab
August, 2006

Drift RelayThe 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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Corporate Commands

by The Institute for Infinitely Small Things
March, 2006

RolloverThe 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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Funerals for a Moment

by kanarinka
May, 2005

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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100(11) Instruction Works

by iKatun
October, 2004

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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public alley 818

by kanarinka
December, 2003

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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