For various reasons, I’ve been hectically busy these past few days. Time only to link, not to respond even to blog comments all week… I owe several people email/phone calls/responses, but I’m sorry - I’m madly busy till mid-week and then things should quieten down a bit.
Meanwhile, another link - Dilip’s wonderful post about Akkarbaid and the Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak School.
Douglas Copeland on high school hell:
Vancouver, 2006/1970—This past spring I worked with four friends from my 1984 art-school grad class ripping apart the innards of a decommissioned high school in North Vancouver and then reassembling the bits into something new. It was for an art installation called Vancouver School. The experience opened up some old wounds and healed a few. The five of us were given an entire school that was decommissioned in June 2005. There was still homework in the desks, and lockets and retainers in the lost and found bucket. It was like old New England, where entire villages vanished, their meals still on the dinner table…(via)
