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Aug 18 - Sept 26, 2006

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Believe in America
July 4, 2006

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Saddle Up Your Horses
July 2, 2006

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The Culture War
August 18-20 2005

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Reclaiming the Pavilion
June 10-16 2005

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Resistance & Liberation
May 25 2005

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Industrial Heartland
April 28-29 2005

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Inside-the-Beltway
April 22 2005

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Arthur Rimbaud

Dead Poet-Laureate of the
US Department of Art & Technology

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Situational Tour
Reclaiming the Pavilion

::: 51st Venice Biennale
June 10-16 2005 :::

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Freedom is advancing from Washington, DC
to the Piazza San Marco!

06/10 The Approach to Venice 03:31 PM	Searching for the Biennale 04:02 PM	Is it the Mona Lisa? 04:04 PM
City of the Imagination 04:06 PM	And Decay... 04:08 PM	We consult with a local guide 05:24 PM
And take to the streets 07:14 PM	In search of the elusive Venice Biennale 07:16 PM	Does it really exist? 07:18 PM
Or is it already virtual? 07:25 PM	Perhaps I can dial it up? 07:27 PM	Could this be it? 09:05 PM
Yes, the Pavilion from Mars 10:35 PM	A new Nation of Aliens! 10:45 PM	Mystical Beings who have transcended Art 10:46 PM
Transforming the space 10:47 PM	I penetrate deeper into the darkness 11:05 PM	City of shadows and light 11:14 PM
And translucency 11:18 PM	Still deeper in search of the Biennale 11:35 PM	06/11 The search continues for the Biennale Lost 02:29 PM
WPS1 barge has sunk in the Grand Canal 02:30 PM	Harush Schlomo is still afloat 02:31 PM	Perhaps the Biennale has died? 02:45 PM
When Santa must beg for love 02:47 PM	With the Biennale gated 03:30 PM	We question the local intelligentsia 03:49 PM
Mona is amused as we turn back 05:15 PM	We wander the Piazza San Marco 10:35 PM	Deeper into the shadows 10:37 PM
Dispirited, discouraged, dissolving... Biennale? 11:49 PM	06/12 Moment of desperation: Office of the Ticket 12:31 PM	Only to find the Biennale is a hall of mirrors? 01:31 PM
A casino for the rich? 01:43 PM	We penetrate deeper, immersed 01:51 PM	To begin the Reclamation of the US Pavilion 02:08 PM
Only to witness the Mars Attack 02:15 PM	They block the entrance 02:16 PM	They invade the work of Ed Ruscha 02:18 PM
They critique his depiction of urban deterioration 02:19 PM	US DAT has inserted itself into the Biennale 02:48 PM	06/13 The process of virtualization 03:15 AM
Penetrating the mediational space 03:54 AM	Into the blueness 04:08 AM	Plunging deeper 04:40 AM
Sensing self 04:41 AM	Bound inside 05:28 AM	Ingestion, transformation 05:44 AM
06/14 Something's rotten 02:13 PM	Seething sediments of frenetic mental activity 02:27 PM	Matter and mind are at odds 03:49 PM
Reason breeds mania 04:04 PM	We've entered the realm... 04:38 PM	Omnipotent fantasy 06:03 PM
06/16 Empire Runs Its Course 06:42 PM