Situational Tours

Crawford, Texas
August 16 - 18, 2005

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51st Venice Biennale
June 10 - 16, 2005

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Portrait of Lebanon
May 27 - 28, 2005

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Industrial Heartland
April 27 - 28, 2005

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Inside-the-Beltway
April 21 - 23, 2005

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Arthur Rimbaud

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December 11, 2005

City of Death

Three months after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the neighborhood of the 9th Ward is a wasteland of debris and death. The bodies have been removed, but the carcasses of their possessions lie strewn across this forgotten place of destruction. Its inhabitants are now buried or cast off... never to return. What remains is a City of Death, no longer the Big Easy, a portrait of America – abandonment, waste and neglect.

Posted by the Secretary-at-Large at December 11, 2005 12:47 PM

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