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I’ve now been with MGandhi in his jail cell since May 5th, 2009. I have been with him most days for at least one to several hours each day. On July 4th, Indepedence Day, I began a performative reading that evolved from the experience of returning Gandhi to Second Life for his post-Salt March jail [...]
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Thoughts on Gandhi in Jail and Twitter Torture
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MGandhi Performs the Torture Memos in Second Life
Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gandhi in Prison – A Performative Reenactment in Second Life
Twitter Torture
May 5, 2009- January 26th, 2010
MGandhi is currently in prison This reenactment commenced on May 5th of 2008 to coincide with the 79th anniversary of Gandhi’s post-Salt March imprisonment by the British in 1930.
I am in the midst of presenting an ongoing, durational reenactment [...]
17′ Cardboard Gandhi goes to Belgium…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve built a third 17′ cardboard Gandhi with the able assistance of the students and professors of Academie Mechelen that is just going on display in Mechelen Belgium as part of the city wide exhibition project presented by MuKHA (Contemporary Art Museum, Antwerp) entitled “All that is Solid Melts into Air”.
http://www.stadsvisioenen.be/en_0/details.asp?recid=233
The Gandhi statue will be [...]
Gandhi Goes to China, Farewell to Post-Colonialism: The Third Guangzhou Triennial
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just recently I returned from a rather extraordinary experience building the second 17′ cardboard Gandhi for the Third Guangzhou Triennial at the Guangdong Museum of Art which runs from September 6th through November 16th, 2008. The theme for the Triennial is Farewell to Post-Colonialism, which is reflected in the strong conceptual and theoretical basis of [...]
Salt March Instructable and Augmentology.com postings…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These past few weeks have been very busy – I posted an “instructable” on instructables.com on how to build a 17′Gandh avatar that has been very well received.
I was also invited to post some writing about the Gandhi reenactment work on Augmentology.com. (part 1, part 2). The first two parts of a three part [...]
Cardboard Gandhi sculpture in progres…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Here is an image of the giant cardboard Gandhi sculpture in progress. So far I have finished the head and the hands. Translating this from the small pepakura files has been a bit challenging as the program does not scale up as large as I need – so I’ve been using an overhead projector (the [...]
New Gandhi projects…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the past month I have begun to work on a number of projects as both artifacts and documents of the Salt March reenactment. As a 2008 Commissioned Resident Artist here at Eyebeam, part of the residency is a two person show here at Eyebeam that opens on June 21st, 2008. I will [...]
On joining a “real” march in NYC…
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Long delayed in writing about my experience on April 6th, 2008, walking in a march in “real life” sponsored by the NYC based “Satya Graha Forum”. The march was the inaugural event of a month of activities surrounding the production of “The Satyagraha”, the Phillip Glass opera from 1977 that was being revived by [...]
A blog review of note…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I did a lecture last week at Brown University to Mark Tribe’s students in the Department of Modern Culture & Media. This was my first opportunity to lecture regarding the Gandhi reenactment – these speaking opportunities provide a forum to talk through the ideas and concepts regarding the work. The following is [...]
200+ Gandhi reenactment screenshots of Flickr
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Take a look:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9937611@N06/sets/
These are not in any particular order at this time – watch the slide show – these are virtually all of the manually recorded screenshots I took during the march reenactment.
