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#61, Spring 2009 - Second Acts
#60, Winter 2008 - Theatre as Metaphor
#59, Fall 2008 - Death of the Curator
#58, Summer 2008 - Urban Myths
#57, Spring 2008 - The Medium Needs a Massage
#56, Winter 2007 - Collectivity & Collaboration
#55, Fall 2007 - Future Perfect
#54, Summer 2007 - Role Playing
#53, Spring 2007 - Features

#61, Spring 2009 - Second Acts

Asks & Acts: Stuart Horodner
Checks and Balances: Germaine Koh
Interrupting the Imaginary Inside the Ship of My Imagination: Zoe Crosher
Dear Stuart: Regine Basha
Hunting Octopus in the Libyan Sea: Jack Whitten
Project Space: The Wire: Lucy Raven, Matthew Lusk, Adam Helms, Rachel Owens, Erin Shirreff
Music for an Open Studio: Chris Riley
My United: Dominic Molon
Act 2: 3 Days of 110: Jacinda Russell
Succulent: Jorg Jakoby
Project Space: I wish they were Prototaxites: Justin Parr
Tennis anyone?: Joe Sola
Grape Jam Not Jelly: Stephen Schofield
Work Ethic: Scott Ingram

#60, Winter 2008 - Theatre as Metaphor

Theater…Again: Shannon Jackson
Still Live: The Theatrics of the Kienholz Tableaux: Damon Willick
Project Space: Presence Study: Vishal Jugdeo
The 5 Principles of the PoLAAT: Alexandro Segade
Project Space: Study for little else: Vishal Jugdeo
She Had a Laugh Like a Beefsteak: Susan Silton
Spectral Revision: William Levitt
Scenes from Tschaicowskistrasse 17 (Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Berlin, German Democractic Republic (GDR) [Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Irak in Berlin, Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR)] 1967-2003 [1949-1990]): Walead Beshty
In A Desert In a Large Bunker Covered With Show: Liam Gillick
Art isn't easy: Sunday in the Park with George in the Twenty-First Century: David Roman
I Come to Bury Caesar: The Image of Theatre in the Imagination of Visual Art: Judy Radul

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Curatorial Space: Buoys, Props & Signs: Richard Aldrich & Lisa Williamson: Michael Ned Holte

#59, Fall 2008 - Death of the Curator

Dialogue: You Kant Always Get What You Want: Joao Ribas & Matt Sheridan Smith
At the Coed Dance: Naeem Mohaiemen
Project Space: Wall of Shame: William Powhida
Dialogue: Art as Curating Curating As Art: Jens Hoffmann & Julieta Aranda
The Bias of the World Curating after Szeemann & Hopps: David Levi Strauss
Dialogue: Waking up in Dreams: Raimundas Malasauskas & Gabriel Lester
Curing Curation: J.C. Fregnan with images by Stefan Bruggemann
Project Space: Lesser New York: Fia Backstrom
Dialogue: Curator as Producer: Michelle White & Nato Thompson
Answering a Proposition with a Question—Or, What is Wrong with This Picture?: Dara Birnbaum
Exhibition as School as Work of Art: Anton Vidokle with images by Martha Rosler
The Next Documenta Should Be Curated by an Artist & The Next Omelet Should Be Made by a Carpenter: Lawrence Weiner

#58, Summer 2008 - Urban Myths

The World: Simon Evans
Dialogue: 6 Questions for Boris Groys: Kurt Mueller
Different Drugs: Simon Evans
Silence and Void: Cage, Fuller and Urban Space: Ben Johnson
The Image of the City: Notes on Mark Bradford's Help Us and Liz Glynn's 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project: Jason Hill
Against Architecture: Kelly Baum
Project Space: Dumpster Drawings: John Beech
Curatorial Space: The City, Naked: Stephanie Snyder
Immersion in the Land of Oil: Bree Edwards
Curatorial Space: WorkSpace 08: Katrina's Wake An Exhibition/Report/Call to Leadership: Annette DiMeo Carlozzi

#57, Spring 2008 - The Medium Needs a Massage

Dear Mr. President: Randall Packer
Find us at the kitchen door: Hadley+Maxwell
The E-mail Obsessional-Compulsive Inventory (EOC): irational.org
High Entertainment: David Robbins
John Fare - The Scandal of the Missing Body (Parts): Audrone Zukauskaite
Malinowski in Miami: J. C. Fregnan
TBA: Time Based Art: Katherine Bovee
Project Space: Origami Unicorn: Ray Ogar
Dialogue: Mediums: Chris Kubick, Anne Walsh, Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens
Project Space: At Your Service: Escaping the Progress Trap: Andrea Grover
Contestational Robotics, 1998: Critical Art Ensemble and Institute for Applied Autonomy
Contestational Robotics: Addendum, 2008: Institute for Applied Autonomy
Visual Space: Apophenia in Practice: Probing the Indefinite: Anjali Gupta
On The Road and Staying Home: Michael Auping
Project Space: Sorrow Hound: Roy Stanfield, Jada Vogt and Catherine Ziedler
At Your Service: Escaping the Progress Trap: DVD

#56, Winter 2007 - Collectivity & Collaboration

Twelve notes on collectivism and dark matter: Gregory Sholette
A Collective Adventure: Michelle White
Project Space: Oradores: BASE (William Cordova and Leslie Hewitt)
Extraordinary Gestures: The Performance of Politics at the Borderland of an Absolute: Noah Simblist
Project Space: ether: Frances Colpitt and Terri Thornton
gelitin's Tantamounter: Tony Matelli
Tracing the War on Poverty: Julie Ault and Martin Beck
Tracing the Bush Tax Cuts: Julie Ault and Martin Beck
On the Afterlife of Not Getting Along: Jason Hill and Aram Moshayedi
Dialogue: Mary Ellen Carroll and Charles Renfro: Toby Kamps
A New Team Under an Old Threat: Fictional Selves and Feminist Practice in the Collaborative Work of Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy: Amy Dickson
Curatorial Space: Collecting and Collectivity: Noah Simblist and Charissa N. Terranova
Harvest: Sara Hines
Visual Space: 500X Gallery: Anjali Gupta
Dialogue: Social Sculpture: Gilbert Vicario
Reenactment of Ant Farm's Kidnapping Buckminster Fuller: Julia Wallace and Nancy Douthey

#55, Fall 2007 - Future Perfect

51.01: Raimundas Malasauskas
Past and Future in thin air . . .: Gabriel Lester
Inversions: Mariana Castillo Deball
Intervention: Gintaras Didziapetris and Goda Budvytyte
Screen.saver: David Reinfurt
In fifteen minutes everyone will be in the future: Aaron Schuster
What I am alluding to is . . .: Ryan Gander
Stanislaw Lem's short story "The Seventh Voyage," a recalled while flying over the Atlantic from Moscow to Newark, July 3, 2007: Larissa Harris
Restricted Document: Heman Chong
Future Jeopardy an Interview with Cookie Gallow: Eileen Maxson
Project Space: Pulp Sci-Fi by Denis Balk and Gean Moreno Four States by Eric Zimmerman
Dialogue: Prelude: Roberta Smith by Gilbert Vicario
Visual Space: Future Perfect by Regine Basha

#54, Summer 2007 - Role Playing

Dialogues: The Other F-word: Third-Generation Feminism and its Antecedents Rachel Cook
Encounter #1 & Withdrawal #2: The Four Transactions: Eleanor Antin
May I Help You? A Performance by Andrea Fraser: Andrea Fraser
Project Space: Purse Projects (2005-2007): Chuck Ramirez
Curotorial Space: You've Come a Long Way Baby: A Discussion with Andrea Karnes: Charissa N. Terranova
Comment for the WACK! Cell Phone Tour: Lorraine O'Grady
Notes for MOCA Gallery Talk, March 22, 2007: Lorraine O'Grady
Point of View: Misogyny as Feminism: Barbara Perea

#53, Spring 2007 - Features

The Road Trip Mapping the Republic of Contemporary Art (Notes from the Panamerican Highway): Pablo Helguera
Visual Space Selections from the Phantom Traveling Trenchcoat: Ali Fitzgerald
Dialogues Now That We Can Do Anything, What Do We Do?: Gean Moreno and Daniel Joseph Martinez
Return: A Project by Michael Rakowitz: Regine Basha
Project Space Projecting Art Lies into the Void: Chris Taylor
A Cunning Plan: Basim Magdy
Curatorial Space Public Address: Preliminary Thoughts on Alternative Systems of Distribution: Kelly Baum
Urbanism of the Imagination: Cuauhtémoc Medina
POV Agadez Chronicle Post-Colonial Politics of Space and Mobility: Ursula Biemann