The Things that Didn’t Work

27Jan09

i. 9th Floor by Robin Rhodes
ii. Happily Ever After by Ghada Amer
iii. Tabula Rasa by Jose Damasceno
i. I knew what was behind the blue walls of the freestanding public restroom situated in an empty field– New Orleans’s Times-Picayune included a brief mention of it in their coverage of Prospect.1.  When I read the write up, [...]

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The Raft of the Medusa and the Potential of Prospect.1

20Dec08

Benjamin Zeitlin’s Glory at Sea is a short film that tells the story of a rescue effort to save the drowned victims of Hurricane Katrina (featured in Wholphin 7).  To execute this mission, a cast of nameless characters create a boat from a pile of their remaining possessions: a bathtub, a rust-colored car without wheels, [...]

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