Window Dressing?

28th January 2022The Library of the FutureAndrew Carnegie, Book Works, Carnegie International, Fiona Jardine, Lucy Skaer, Muriel Spark, Rosalind Nashashibi, Sarah Tripp, WindowsMinus Plato

By the end of the [18th] century the ‘window attitude’ of women marked their status. Upper-class women were not to be seen at the front of the window or to be seated in an open window, acts from which lower-class women were not yet restrained. – Manfredo Di Robilant, Niklas Maak, Rem Koolhaas, AMO, Harvard […]

Empty Daybook – Rosalind Nashashibi on 20 May 1986

10th June 2019UncategorizedEmpty Daybook, Rosalind NashashibiMinus Plato

A twelve-year-old girl is walking home from school. She is in uniform and wears black, pointed shoes. She lets herself in with a key, hangs up her coat (drops it?), and turns on the TV. Some time later, her mother gets home from work. The girl says: – I’m not going back there. I’m not […]