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.

The haudenschildGarage supports el Centro’s 2010 art and theory courses and seminar program. The work of el Centro goes beyond the frontiers of disciplines, with an emphasis on those that expand the borders of practice, genre and media.

From October 16 – 18, 2008 Washington Cucurto and Maria Gomez of the Argentine literary collective Eloisa Cartonera traveled to Tijuana to present a lecture at UABC and a two-day workshop at Epicentrico.

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.