hG, Spare Parts is a 3-year cycle of projects commissioned and produced by Director Eloisa Haudenschild and Commissioning Editor Steve Fagin from 2006 – 2009 that encouraged the juxtaposition of the crucial, the trivial, and the arcane. Projects included Decolonizing Architecture, A Crime Has Many Stories, and The Last Book.

This exquisite corpse project is based on Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia’s short story, La Loca y el Relato del Crimen (1975). The November 29, 2008 multidisciplinary, one-day traverse of the city of Buenos Aires was plotted with co-conspirators Judi Werthein, Sonia Becce, Alejandro Ruiz, Rosalba Mirabella, Roberto Jacoby, Fernanda Laguna, Washington Cucurto and Eloisa Cartonera.

On October 15, 2009 Washington Cucurto & Maria Gomez of Argentine collective Eloisa Cartonera were in conversation about the project A Crime Has Many Stories. Washington read an excerpt from the hG commissioned text El Hijo.

From October 14 – 16, 2009 Washington Cucurto & Maria Gomez of Eloisa Cartonera were Artists-In-Residence. Cucurto was commissioned to write his short story, El Hijo, for the hG, Spare Parts project A Crime Has Many Stories.

Donations, Fernanda Laguna and Roberto Jacoby’s project for A Crime Has Many Stories, was completed in early December. The replicas Laguna and Jacoby created were selected from the Museo de Calcos’ collection and given to the Belleza y Felicidad (ByF) art space in the community of Fiorito, a small town outside of Buenos Aires. ByF [...]

A Crime Has Many Stories is an exquisite corpse project commissioned and produced by the haudenschildGarage, based on Ricardo Piglia’s short story La Loca y el Relato del Crimen (1975). The November 29, 2008 multidisciplinary, one-day traverse of the city of Buenos Aires was plotted with co-conspirators Judi Werthein, Sonia Becce and Alejandro Ruiz. [...]