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…
Judi Werthein
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hG, Spare Parts: A Cycle of Projects by Eloisa Haudenschild & Steve Fagin

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
hG, Spare Parts: A Crime Has Many Stories in Buenos Aires

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).
supported program: C.I.A.

January – December, 2010
El Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art and theory courses / seminar programs
A Crime Has Many Stories artworks donated to Villa Fiorito, Buenos Aires

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 […]
garage talk: inSite_05 Conversations

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…