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The $100 Assignment is in Aperture's The Photographer’s Playbook Edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern

July 9, 2014

The Photographer’s Playbook
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@the_other_apartment More rugs (photos of Sohrab’s actual rugs printed on rug-like material) #theotherapartment #jonrubin #sohrabkashani #mattressfactory #creativecapital
@the_other_apartment The Other Apartment explained #theotherapartment #jonrubin #sohrabkashani #mattressfactory #museumofsohrab #sazmanab #creativecapital
@the_other_apartment Getting closer #theotherapartment #mattressfactory #jonrubin #sohrabkashani @creative_capital
@the_other_apartment Making of the corridor tiles (Pittsburgh) #theotherapartment #mattressfactory #jonrubin #sohrabkashani
@the_other_apartment Bed Side Table (BR-145) @museumofsohrab - Left: Tehran, Right: Pittsburgh #theotherapartment #mattressfactory #jonrubin #sohrabkashani made by @maxspitzer_
@the_other_apartment Installing wooden doors and windows #theotherapartment #mattressfactory @museumofsohrab
The Other Apartment in progress @museumofsohrab @mattressfactory @the_other_apartment
What do these two things have to do with each other? They are both part of the project @lenkaclaytonstudio and I are developing for the Lyon Biennale opening on Sept 18th. @biennaledelyon
The National Museum of Monuments, Ruins and Forgetting (a project in collaboration with @delpesco ) was part of an Artforum feature on the @the luminary arts #counterpublic2019 triennial.
As part of the preparation for The Other Apartment, we are fabricating all of Sohrab Kashani’s personal possessions. Here is a small sample. Amazing replication work being done by @maxspitzer_ and @erinmallea !!!! @museumofsohrab @mattressfactory @creative_capital ...... The Other Apartment is a collaborative project between Pittsburgh-based artist Jon Rubin and Tehran-based artist Sohrab Kashani that occurs in two sites simultaneously. The work features a dual site-specific space: Kashani’s apartment in Tehran, Iran, and an exact replica of that apartment and all of its contents—using a team of fabricators, handmade reproductions, and 3D printing—at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh. For the past 11 years, Kashani has used his apartment as a space for exhibiting contemporary art and as an artist residency, one of the first of its kind in the country. When the two apartments are activated in the US and Iran, The Other Apartment will house concurrent art ventures, producing exhibitions, programs, and events—in each case, every object, video, and performance that happens in one space is meticulously duplicated for the other. The Other Apartment functions as a series of theoretical and practical questions within the sad absurdity of our current political condition: What if there was more than one absolute reality; can you build a reality that functions as a loophole around national borders and economic sanctions; and what gets lost and gained in the act of that duplication?
Making replicas with the help of @maxspitzer_ @erinmallea @lilahsrubin as part of The Other Apartment, a project coming to Tehran and Pittsburgh this fall in collaboration with @museumofsohrab @mattressfactory @sazmanab #creativecapital
#Repost @sazmanab ・・・ Sazmanab ⧚ WaterDepartment is coming soon to both Tehran and Pittsburgh! Excited to be working on this new project with my buddy @museumofsohrab follow our progress @sazmanab #sazmanab #mattressfactory #tehran #pittsburgh ⧚‌⧚‌⧚‌⧚‌⧚‌⧚‌⧚‌⧚‌⧚‌⧚‌⧚‌⧚‌ سازماناب ⧚ سازماناب بزودی در تهران و پیتسبرگ! #سازماناب #مترس_فکتوری #تهران #پیتسبرگ
#Repost @counterpublic ・・・ We are in the final 48 hours of #Counterpublic2019 The triennial has evolved over its three months with new commissions, performances, publications and more. None marked the time more distinctly than Joseph del Pesco and Jon Rubin's "Monuments, Ruins, and Forgetting," which transitioned each month to a new fictive institution. Join us today and tomorrow on @cherokeestreet as we close this iconic project. @delpesco @jonrubinstudio #STLMade #cherokeestreet #callecherokee #jonrubin #josephdelpesco
#Repost @jamesxmcanally with @get_repost ・・・ Counterpublic closes this weekend after a remarkable and remarkably dense three month run. I really (really) hope those in town come out to NIC Kay’s show-stopping closing performance that will weave through the streets surrounding Cherokee Street, or party with us and ONG3 afterwards at Fellowship. This one deserves to go out with the floors shaking. We estimate that around 32,000 people have experienced this first triennial exhibition (a number that goes much higher if you include the audience for all of the outdoor installations and street banners). Long-form reviews are still to come from Frieze, Artforum, Art Papers, The Art Newspaper, Public Art Review and more following pieces from ARTnews, Hyperallergic, Informality, Sixty Inches from Center, CultBytes, and coverage from pretty much everywhere in St. Louis. Counterpublic was always meant as a kind of counter-triennial - an experiment in organizing this kind of globally-focused festival bottom-up, scaled to a neighborhood and embedded in its execution. Counterpublic was organized for less than 1/50th the budget of triennials like FRONT in Cleveland or Open Spaces in Kansas City. It was never meant to compete or compare to those or others on that scale, but re-envision what these events look like in the hands of artists and independent institutions. Despite our scale, we paid artists well beyond W.A.G.E. standards, engaged our neighbors in lasting ways, and put forth bold structures for how these increasingly common art world structures don't have to fall into the bloated patterns and easy critiques we’ve grown used to. As it closes, I think Counterpublic reached beyond the heights I hoped when I conceived of this expanded project several years ago, and offers a template I look forward to learning from as it unfurls in the future. If you haven't made it yet, you have two days left to taste, touch, hear, and feel this counter-triennial before it goes quiet. #Counterpublic2019
#Repost @alishabwormsley ・・・ THIS SATURDAY!!! There Are Black People in the Future: A Conversation about Arts, Activism, and the Future Join Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism, director and writer Ellen Sebastian Chang, and artist activist Jasiri X for workshops and a panel discussion about Alisha B. Wormsley’s There Are Black People in the Future artwork-in-residence project. Share your ideas and participate in discussion about Black Housing Futures and Human Rights and the Arts. Children’s workshops will be provided by Assemble. For more information, visit: thereareblackpeopleinthefuture.org. This event is FREE and open to the public. Please register at http://www.pittsburghartscouncil.org/public-art/public-art-events/event/683 Presented by artist Alisha B. Wormsley, in collaboration with Jon Rubin and the Office of Public Art. This project is generously supported by The Heinz Endowments.
#Repost @thecmoa ・・・ "This is one tiny segment of one museum in the world. Thrilling to imagine the millions of other untold stories still waiting." . From Storyboard Issue 2: a Q&A with artists Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin about their installation in the 2018 #CarnegieInternational. Fruit and Other Things, their project, featured artists painting the titles of 10,632 previously rejected submissions by hand in alphabetical order in the Forum gallery. . Visitors could take the paintings home—free of charge—and submit photos of the works on display in their houses to fruitandotherthings.com. A substantial gallery of these photos can be seen in the "collectors" portion of the website. . Jakob, Nate, Sarah, and Brett, Pittsburgh, PA. From Fruit and Other Things. #CMOAstoryboard #fruitandotherthings @lenkaclaytonstudio
#Repost @counterpublic ・・・ The final cycle of Joseph del Pesco and Jon Rubin’s “Monuments, Ruins, and Forgetting” opens tomorrow at 2pm with a solo brass performance. Find the letterpress posters, printed at @leadgraffiti around Cherokee Street. @delpesco @jonrubinstudio #nationalmuseumofforgetting #cherokeestreet