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Bibliobandido
by
Marisa Jahn for REV- with Rachel McIntire & the community
of El Pital, 2010 (ongoing)
Recently, in El Pital, a village in rural Honduras, a masked bandit calling himself
the Bibliobandido ambled through town in broad daylight, mounted on a burro... |
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The
Middles
by
Marisa Jahn for REV-, 2010
Set in the time between ancient and
contemporary Central Asia, 'The Middles' is the name of an
imagined post office for undeliverable written correspondence.
The letters found here wait in feverish limbo for their discovery,
anxious to resolve, rejoin, and renew writer with recipient. |
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10
sec 1 bayt
by
Marisa Jahn & Connor Dickie, 2009
A competition for the best 10 second poem inspired by the tradition of the two-line
poem in Tajik/Persian literature and a new art form developed by Central Asian
cell
phone
users
who subscribe to a plan where the first ten seconds are free. |
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Ticketing
Jessica Lappin
by
Marisa Jahn in collaboration with Street Vendor Project,
2010
A public art project drawing attention to the recent attempt to legislatively
criminalize food vendors in New York City. |
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Who
Makes the Rent?
by
Marisa Jahn for Center for Urban pedagogy with teens from
the College Now program at Brooklyn College, 2009
An informative and playful book designed by teens that investigates how rent
levels are set for 1 million rent-regulated apartments in New York City. |
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Where
We Are Now
by
various editors including Marisa Jahn, 2009 (ongoing)
A network and online journal with the mission to illuminate, deepen and amplify
the discourse of aesthetic and political practices in New York City. |
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Thanksgiving Dinner in 5 seconds
by Marisa Jahn & Steve
Shada, 2009
An apparatus for cooking a Thanksgiving meal using rocket-triggered lightning. |
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PleasureCraft
by Marisa Jahn & Steve
Shada, 2008
A kit for any klutz who wishes to woo a potential lover, ‘Pleasurecraft’ is
a vehicular kit that choreographs gesture and landscape to produce an outting
full of splendor and romance.
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WOW Pod
by Cati Vaucelle,
Steve Shada, & Marisa Jahn, 2009
WOW Pod is an immersive architectural solution for
the advanced WOW (World of Warcraft) player that
provides and anticipates all life needs. |
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Wearable Musical Insturments
by Marisa
Jahn & Steve Shada, 2005
Two vests sewn with an accordion-like instrument between; individuals wear them
facing each other; as the two participants embrace and pull away, their movements
generate sound. Allegorizing human relationships, the wearable instruments resemble
prosthetic devices... |
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Union
Square Partnership Sucks
by Marisa
Jahn with Rev. Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping, 2008
A parody website spoofing The Union Square Partnership, the Business Improvement
District in Union Square Park NYC that is involved in privatizing the historic
pavilion
on
the
North Side of the park. |
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Bailout
= Bullshit
protest
poster graphics by Marisa Jahn in collaboration with many
others, 2008
This poster graphic was designed as part of a campaign
protesting the government bailout of Wall Street that
took place at 4 pm, Thursday Sept 25th in New York City. |
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MetaFormances
by Marisa
Jahn & others, 2007
A correspondence-based social sculpture that mimes the protocol of business form
letters and request their recipient to perform absurd, erotic, and
illicit
behavior... |
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