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.

A Beijing judge has told the Chinese novelist Mian Mian, who is suing Google over its plan to create an online library, to hold settlement talks. After a two-hour hearing, the court ordered both sides to talk but did not set a deadline for reporting back, according to the author’s lawyer. She is [...]

“…When I first read about the idea of Last Book project and the project invited me to be the reader…I was doing a concert at a place UFOs had once appeared…the light was too bright so I had to wear sunglasses all the time…I liked the…”

The haudenschildGarage, Spare Parts produced an homage to “the book” in the age of the conquest of the Kindle. Steve Fagin resuscitated the magnificence of the illuminated manuscript as the world turned toward darkness. To this end a one of a kind book was constructed including text, drawings, moving images and sounds. The Last Book was performed at the Schindler House in 2009.

On April 23, 2008 author Mian Mian premiered a reading from Panda Sex & was in conversation about her infamous, banned novel, Candy. One of the most important writers of China’s new generation, she has lived up to her reputation as China’s best bad girl novelist.

From April 20 – 26, 2009 Shanghai author Mian Mian was an Artist-in-Residence as part of the hG, Spare Parts project The Last Book. One of the most important writers from China’s new generation, Mian Mian has lived up to her reputation as China’s best bad girl novelist.