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figurines - i have just heard about some new researches on proto writing systems and now scientists think that may go back 30/40 thousand years back while they were still hunters and gatherers using dashs and dots and crosses to mean things and pass on certain informations on little figurines for example - in so many ways we are still doing it #doing something everyday #writing systems #carving #history #communications

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material research against today - power of language

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Before is After

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i was imagining how birds might build a nest - architecture occurring in the wilds - adding few twigs at a time every time i walk by this tree - as dogs and i walk by here at least once a day if not more - doing something everyday - interventions - neighbourhood parks - politics around maintenance of a garden - what will people say if they have anything to say at all - how would they say it ???

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Instant Coffee Reading - manifestos #fivemanifestosforthebeautifulworld #instantcoffee #readings #books

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The City and The City

#readinglist #thecityandthecity

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#doppelganger #readinglist 2024 #naomiklein

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Instant Coffee builds another NOOK for #unmanned art festival @Ooigawa, Shimada City, Shizuoka, Japan

The year was 2008 when Instant Coffee was invited to build a series of NOOKS as part of Medellin Art Festival, Medellin, Colombia (it was actually called something else but my memory fails me - it might have been called Antioquia Triennale). Originally nook was architectural facsimile of one of Instant Coffee members kitchen where many dinner parties, discussions and meetings took place. Seeing it as a place of lively interaction and focus as a corner of powerful space we wanted to re-enact or bring it to life elsewhere.

Since then many other iterations of NOOKS came into existence - becoming a place to screen videos, a concert, karaoke event and dinner parties, at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle; Mercer Union, Toronto; and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver.

Here in Nukuri, Shimada City, Shizuoka - this tea growing agricultural region of middle of nowhere Japan - pristine and idyllic - contemporary art is used in different ways - in an effort to revitalize the area, Art Festival is created to boost tourism and traffic in the area adding much needed energy by bringing in artists to produce various works of art. This unmanned art festival is more than other run of the mill middle of nowhere countryside art festivals in that it uses all the unmanned train stations in the region and local volunteers and members do all the work themselves meaning the whole of area is involved in producing the work to installation and the actual celebration. <https://2024.unmanned.jp/>

Instant Coffee Nook at Nukuri is made out of recycled plywood originally used to support concrete while forming as we specifically wanted to use material that was unwanted and plentiful. This meant the recycled plywood needed to be cleaned of concrete debris and oil, before painting or other work can begin which took considerable amount of time.

Instant Coffee NUKURI NOOK with Emi Kodama, Sunny Lee and Aruma Oishi #unmannedartfestival #unmanned #nukuri #instantcoffeeartcollective #sunny #pinknoisepopup #shimada #shizuoka #artfestival

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