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    Pedro Reyes : ad usum / to be used / edited by José Luis Falconi ; contributed by Lauren Berlant [and 17 others] ; translations, Lisa Crossman, Lacey Pipkin, Joaquin Terrones.

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    • Title:Pedro Reyes : ad usum / to be used / edited by José Luis Falconi ; contributed by Lauren Berlant [and 17 others] ; translations, Lisa Crossman, Lacey Pipkin, Joaquin Terrones.
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    • Variant Title:Ad usum/to be used
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Falconi, José Luis, editor.
      Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957-2021.
      Pipkin, Lacey, translator.
      Crossman, Lisa A., translator.
    • Published/Created:[Cambridge, Mass.] : Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, [2017]
      [Cambridge, Mass.] : Harvard University Press, [2017]
      ©2017

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Reyes, Pedro, 1972-
      Artists--Mexico--History--21st century.
      Arts and society.
      Installations (Art)
      Wit and humor in art.
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Description:xi, 501 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
    • Series:Focus on Latin American art and agency.
    • Summary:For more than a decade the Mexico City-based artist, architect, and cultural agent Pedro Reyes has been turning existing social problems into opportunities for effecting tangible change through collective imagination. By breaking open failed models and retooling them with space to project alternatives, Reyes's art enables productive diversions of otherwise destructive forces. Ad Usum: To Be Used is the second volume in the series Focus on Latin American Art and Agency, which is dedicated to contemporary cultural agents, a term that is perhaps best understood through the words of Reyes himself: "changing our individual habits has no degree of effectiveness" as "progress is only significant if you start to multiply by 10, by 100, by 1,000." Rather than merely illustrate his work, this collection of images, interviews, and critical essays is intended as an apparatus for multiplying the possibilities when art becomes a resource for the common good. This full-color illustrated survey of Reyes's projects includes critical essays by José Luis Falconi, Robin Greeley, Johan Hartle, Adam Kleinman, and Doris Sommer, as well as interviews between the artist and such seminal thinkers as Lauren Berlant, Michael Hardt, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Antanas Mockus.
    • Notes:Series information from publisher's website.
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-192).
      Essays in English; portions of Reyes' text translated into English.
    • ISBN:9780674025158
      0674025156
    • Contents:Ad usum, ad hoc (or How to use this book) / José Luis Falconi
      Introduction / Hans Ulrich Obrist
      [I.] Selected works : Capulas
      Compatibility test for couples
      A house for future cavemen
      Preaching to the birds
      Cacúmenes
      Pirámide flotante
      Instant rockstar
      Sombrero colectivo
      Zik zak
      Parque vertical
      Dream digestor
      Mural (remix)
      Philosophical casino
      Leverage
      Alien report
      Palas por pistolas
      Ambigrams
      Moebius chair
      Gordian knot
      Ciclomóvil
      Surplus reality
      Baby Marx
      Solids of rotation
      Urban genome project
      Unrealized monument
      Sanatorium : Goodoo ; Cityleaks ; Epitaphs ; The Museum of Hypothetical Lifetimes
      Pico della mirandola
      Los mutantes
      Mano-sillas
      Flat statues
      Disarm
      Ear
      Melodrama and other games : Melodrama ; Minefield ; Boom ; El pelele ; Feather fun ; Mirroring
      Disarm (mechanized)
      Machine music
      Pharmasphere
      Colloquium
      Cuerpomático
      Navajas suizas
      Omniman
      pUN: The People's United Nations : #pUN times ; Blessing of the bees ; Why is it so hard to talk about population growth? ; The ghost of García Robles ; Force field analysis ; Chemotherapy for Gaia?
      The people's library
      Drone dove
      Entomofagia
      The grasswhopper
      Amendment to the amendment
      The permanent revolution
      Heads
      Spiritual speed date
      Doo-wop syllabus
      Ethnopharmacology
      Plato's cave
      Screen
      Totem
      El ekeko
      Satori
      Eunoia
      The Bobo doll experiment
      Sundial
      The birds
      Doomocracy
      The protesters
      [II.] Consultations : On agency / Antanas Mockus
      On art as therapy (and vice versa) / Javier Téllez
      On catharsis / Raphael Montañez Ortiz
      On consciousness ; On death / Alejandro Jodorowsky
      On education ; On ethics / Antanas Mockus
      On the exploitation of misery / Augusto Boal
      On freedom / Antanas Mockus
      On film / Javier Téllez
      On forgiveness / Alejandro Jodorowsky
      On humans as puppets / Lauren Berlant
      On the life of cities / Manuel de Landa
      On materials / Yona Friedman
      On mirror neurons / Alice Flaherty
      On the ontology of the puppet / Michael Hardt
      On social topology I ; On social topology II / Antanas Mockus
      On self-organization / Yona Friedman
      On serendipity / Alice Flaherty
      On sowing trust / Antanas Mockus
      On the theory of moral sentiments / Lauren Berlant
      [III.] Critical dossier : Modernism as toolbox / Robin Adèle Greeley
      Grimaces of cultural Marxism: Pedro Reyes's Baby Marx / Johan F. Hartle
      Description as prescription / Adam Kleinman
      Collective estrangement (by design) / Liz Munsell
      Agent spotting / Doris Sommer
      The end is here: a curator's tour through Doomocracy / Nato Thompson.
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