4 documents
# 61
Disco Parallax
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
I counted.
Twenty-eight seconds green
Two seconds yellow
Thirty-seven seconds red
One second yellow
And again
Twenty-eight seconds green
Backlight
The traffic light turned one hundred this summer, on August 5. I learn this from the “Innovation” section of the Siemens website. Apparently, the first electric traffic light was put in operation in Cleveland, Ohio. Its control signals were operated by a police officer who sat in a little shack at the intersection and rang…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2015
Category
Migration & Immigration, Technology, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Europe, Police & Prisons, Color
# 17
What’s the Time, Mahagonny?
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Right now I feel that I’ve got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.
—Baseball pitcher Bo Belinsky
1. The great cities in our day are full of people who do not like it there 1 [Enter a Letter]
My roommates and I received a letter in the mail the other day. It was addressed to “The owners of: [address of our building].” I opened it and it said:
Real estate urgently needed!
Dear Owner,
Are you considering selling…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2010
Subjects
Housing & Real Estate, Privatization, Germany, Commodification
# 05
Sleepwalking in a Dialectical Picture Puzzle, Part 2: A Conversation with Thomas Keenan
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
For my Night School seminar that took place at the New Museum in New York in October 2008, I invited Avery Gordon and Tom Keenan to each have conversations in Whole Foods, a huge organic supermarket around the corner from the New Museum. The original plan had been to hold the entire seminar there instead of in the museum’s auditorium, but this plan failed when the supermarket refused to grant us permission. Instead, we held our conversations there and documented them using wireless…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2009
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Photography, Image, War & Conflict
Subjects
Translation, Media Critique
# 03
Sleepwalking in a Dialectical Picture Puzzle, Part 1: A Conversation with Avery Gordon
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
For my Night School seminar that took place at the New Museum in New York in October 2008, I invited Avery Gordon and Tom Keenan to have conversations in Whole Foods, a huge organic supermarket around the corner from the New Museum. The original plan had been to hold the entire seminar there instead of in the museum’s auditorium, but this plan failed when the supermarket refused to grant us permission. Instead, we held our conversations there and documented them using wireless microphones…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2009
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Nature & Ecology, Labor & Work, Communism, Economy
Subjects
Commodification, Food & Cooking, The Commons