NEW CATALOG
+ ACTIVITY BOOK

KEEP IT SLICK:
Infiltrating Capitalism
with The Yes Men

The Miller Gallery and The Feldman Gallery are pleased to announce our new exhibition catalog and Yes Men activity book, Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men.

The publication features essays, an interview, full-color illustrations, projects, and activity items including Build Your Own SurvivaBall, Make Your Own Press Passes, How Identity Correction Works, and How To Be A Yes Man.

Contributors include John Byrne, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now!, Mack McFarland, Laura Sillars, Astria Suparak, and The Yes Men.

Keep It Slick (2009), was created in connection with the touring survey exhibition and is published by Columbia College Chicago, the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Feldman Gallery at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Keep It Slick will be available in the Miller Gallery store in November 2009.

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EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY

Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism
Nato Thompson and Independent Curators International
“What could be more delightful—and unsettling—than turning loose a group of contemporary surrealists, disguised as vagabonds and artists, in the ripe fields of the hyper-real? Experimental Geography isn't about space; it is about terminal strangeness.”
—Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear and City of Quartz

A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibu’s notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories, prisons, and power plants in upstate New York. These are some of the more than one hundred projects represented in Experimental Geography, a groundbreaking collection of visual research and mapmaking from the past ten years.

Experimental Geography explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the juncture where the two realms collide (and possibly make a new field altogether). This lavishly illustrated book features more than a dozen maps; artwork by Francis Alÿs, Alex Villar, and Yin Xiuzhen; and recent projects by The Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Raqs Media Collective, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy.

The collection is framed by essays by bestselling author Trevor Paglen, Jeffrey Kastner, and editor Nato Thompson.

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BIG BOX REUSE

Big Box Reuse by Julia ChristensenAmerica is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways. When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box “supercenter” down the road, it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation; it leaves behind a changed landscape that can’t be changed back. Acres of land have been paved around it. Highway traffic comes to it; local roads end at it. With thousands of empty big box stores spread across America, these vistas have become a dominant feature of the American landscape.In Big Box Reuse, Julia Christensen shows us how ten communities have addressed this problem, turning vacated Wal-Marts and Kmarts into something else: a church, a library, a school, a medical center, a courthouse, a recreation center, a museum, or other more civic-minded structures. In each case, what was once a shopping destination becomes a center of community life.Christensen crisscrossed America identifying these projects, then photographed, videotaped, and interviewed the people involved. The first-person accounts and color photographs of Big Box Reuse reveal the hidden stories behind the transformation of these facades into gateways of community life. Whether a big box store becomes a “Senior Resource Center” or a museum devoted to Spam (the kind that comes in a can), each renovation displays a community’s resourcefulness and creativity–but also raises questions about how big box buildings affect the lives of communities. What does it mean for us and for the future of America if the spaces of commerce built by a few monolithic corporations become the sites where education, medicine, religion, and culture are dispensed wholesale to the populace?

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