Michel de Certeau and the practice of everyday life, dinner with performative lectures

This is one of the earliest (1999) projects in my practice where eating a meal together was central to collective research. De Geuzen, Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting, and I programmed and designed a performative dinner accompanied by different textual table coverings and take-home quotes related to the work of Michel de Certeau. In this respect,…

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Libraries of Shared Interest & the Mobile Library (1999 – 2010)

The Walk-in Reader was De Geuzen’s first library of shared interests or temporary archive. The space was conceived as an open public resource and a place to explore various processes of urban transformation taking place in the Netherlands. Texts, videos, urls, and other materials were collected around the themes, Mapping, Moments of Convergence, Envisioning Cultural Paradigms Across Disciplinary Boundaries and Shifting Economies.

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