Behind the phrase that lends this exhibition its title there are two thinkers: Jean Baudrillard and Andreas Huyssen. The former defined simulation as the creation of something that “has no relationship to any reality whatsoever,” and therefore predicted the replacement of “the real” by “the virtual.” Huyssen picks up where Baudrillard left off, positing that, since reality has been lost and replaced by its simulacrum, utopia cannot exist. Hence the title, “if there is no reality, there can be no utopia.” In other words, in the age of simulacra and virtual reality, the disappearance of the real also entails the end of the utopian…

2006 – 2009

hG, Spare Parts is 3-year cycle of projects that encourages the juxtaposition of the crucial, the trivial, and the arcane

Decolonizing Architecture – Palestine
A Crime Has Many Stories – Argentina
The Last Book – United States

May 2008 selection of artists Buenos Aires, Argentina

November 29, 2008 traverse of Buenos Aires

A multidisciplinary, one-day traverse of the city based on Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia’s short story, La Loca y el Relato del Crimen (1975).

January – December, 2010

El Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Art and theory courses / seminar programs

Donations, Fernanda Laguna and Roberto Jacoby’s project for the haudenschild Garage Spare Parts project A Crime Has Many Stories, was completed in early December 2009. 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 […]

October 22, September 25, and August 25, 2005 at hG

Panels and conversations

Osvaldo Sanchez, Maurycy Gomulicki, Javier Téllez, Mark Bradford, Carmen Cuenca, Michael Krichman…