Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), 5.
“Life always escapes or exceeds the powers that work so hard to contain it.” This essay began from the installation Life Always Escapes commissioned by Wysing Arts Centre, for “Generosity is the New Political,” running from September to November 2009, supported by Arts Council England and Henry Moore Foundation.
See Gerrard Winstanley, “A Declaration from the Poor oppressed People of England,” →.
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (London: Temple Smith, 1972), 15. See Natascha Sadr Haghighian, “Sleepwalking in a Dialectical Picture Puzzle, Part 1: A Conversation with Avery Gordon,” e-flux journal, no. 3 (February 2009), →.
Halsbury’s Laws of England, 4th ed., vol. 6, 177.
There is in fact a word that corresponds to this understanding of farming as the care, cultivation, and breeding of crops and animals, and the management and conservation of resources: husbandry. It was quite a surprise to me that a husband is, etymologically, first of all, a farmer.
The great charter of freedoms was originally issued in 1215, an agreement between King John and the Barons which limited the power of the king. The most important statement is perhaps the one that binds the king to the law and therefore puts him beneath rather than above it. It required King John to proclaim certain rights, respect legal procedures, and accept that his will could be bound by the law.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Discourse on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality between Men,” in The Social Contract and Discourses (New York: Everyman's Library, 1913), 192.
This is thoroughly explained in Daniel Bensaïd, Les dépossédés, Karl Marx, les voleurs de bois et le droit des pauvres (Paris: La fabrique éditions, 2007).
Peter Wollen, “Introduction,” in Visual Display: Culture Beyond Appearances, ed. Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen (Seattle: Bay Press, 1995), 9–10.
Mary Anne Staniszewski, The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998).
While this has been an underlying interest for some time, it also fits in with the wider research I have conducted for some years around the spatial conditions of ownership and display through what “support” is and could mean.
The postcards were crudely assembled into larger, fictional landscapes, and housed flat in a cabinet made of found materials.
Cambridgeshire Commons Registration Act, 1965. (see image)
Dictionnaire de L'Académie française, 1st ed., 1694.
Proceedings of the Sixth Rhine Province Assembly, third article, “Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood” (1842), trans. Clemens Dutt. First published in the Supplement to the Rheinische Zeitung, nos. 298, 300, 303, 305, and 307, October 25, 27, and 30, November 1 and 3, 1842. Signed: B., a Rhinelander. See →.
Sean Snyder, “Disobedience in Byelorussia: Self-Interrogation on ‘Research-Based Art,’” e-flux journal, no. 5 (April 2009), →.