Objects Quarterly
Volume VII: Give It Up reminder; the architecture of too much stuff; radioactive toys, etc.
Welcome to the latest edition of OBJECTS QUARTERLY, a roundup of object-related items of interest published, uh, quarterly, for supporters of The Art of Noticing. Attending to objects is a sub-theme of TAoN, and a favorite subject of mine. Revisit prior OQ issues, and other mindful materialism posts, here. While this is for TAoN supporters, I encourage you to forward OQ to potentially interested parties. Enjoy!
GIVE IT UP(DATE)
Last issue of Objects Quarterly I described the Give It Up project, the latest object-oriented collaboration from Joshua Glenn, me, and a multi-talented team that is doing way more work than I am. That project is now well underway. You should check it out, and if you are in or near Kingston, New York, or the surrounding Hudson Valley you should come say hello at the Give It Up party/wrap event September 10 at CAMP KINGSTON — I’ll be there!
As a quick refresher:
Give It Up, involves 11 Hudson Valley storytellers writing about the object they’d like to get rid of, but can’t. The objects and their stories are displayed in venues around Kingston, and the heart of the project is that we are asking the public — you! — to weigh in, responding to these stories with suggestions or encouragement. Think of it as The Moth meets Marie Kondo.
You can contribute your thoughts, wherever you are! Here are the stories.
Follow and participate via giveitupkingston.substack.com (free) and Instagram.
TOO MUCH STUFF
Speaking of getting rid of stuff, Rob Stephenson of The Neighborhoods had a fantastic post earlier this summer on a project considering how storage units constitutie A New Monumentality. (He announced the project — documenting self-storage structures as “one of the country’s ubiquitous architectural typologies” — the week of July 4: “After all, what’s more American than buying so much stuff that you need to rent extra space to store it?”)
A brief excerpt:
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