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1.10 / Mirror Image

March 11, 2010. On Monday, I stood dazed at the top of the ramp of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, left there by the final of four companions in a conversation that began when a young girl asked me what my idea of progress was.  The museum was devoid of work except for these conversations with visitors. Orchestrated by the artist Tino Sehgal, the experience was part social ritual, part entrancing performance.  I thought of both Anthony Marcellini’s and Mia Stageberg’s texts, which do similar work to convey the means by which perceptions, ideas, and actions all become palpable, for ourselves and others.  Stageberg creates an allegory of a dress, Marcellini a parable of a magpie.  Both are included here. Enjoy – PM. Next Issue: March 25, 2010.