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Recipes for an Encounter
Editors: Marisa Jahn, Berin Golonu, Candice Hopkins, Curator

Contributors: Adrian Blackwell, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Center for Tactical Magic, Max Goldfarb, Karen Hakobian, Janice Kerbel, LIGNA, Vahida Ramujkic, Francisco J Ricardo, Noa Treister, Jaime O’Shea, The Shakers of Enfield, Matt Volla, Sharif Waked & Molly Keogh

Western Front
Release Date: Fall/Winter 2009
cultural studies, social anthropology, literary studies, and political science.



byproducts: on the Excess of Embedded Artistic Practices

YYZ Books, Toronto
Fall 2009
Editor: Marisa Jahn

Contributors: A Constructed World, Tejpal Ajji, Paul Ardenne, (translated by Emmanuelle Day with Lisa Larson Walker), Artist’s Placement Group (Barbara Steveni/John Latham), Grant Arnold, Au Travail, Gina Badger & Adam Bobbette, Larry Bogad, Vincent Bonin, Andrew Boyd, Joseph del Pesco, Peter Eleey, Kent Hansen/democratic innovation, Luis Jacob & Mr. Peanut (Vincent Trasov/John Morris), Michelle Jacques, Janez Jans1a, Tomas Jonsson, Michelle Kuo, Lev Kreft, Adam Lauder, Kristin Lucas, Camille Turner, Mammalian Diving Reflex (Darren O’Donnell/Natalie de Vito), Steve Mann, Antanas Mockus, N.E.Thing Co. (Ingrid Baxter, IAIN BAXTER& ), Kathleen Pirrie Adams, Reverend Billy (William Talen/Savitri D.), Pedro Reyes, Felicity Tayler, Merve Unsal, Pauline van Mourik Broekman & Josephine Berry, The Yes Me
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Shopdropping: Studies in Reverse Shoplifting
Pubisher: The Collective Foundation
April 2007
Edited by Marisa Jahn & Steve Shada
Contributions by Terri Cohn, Alan Moore, Robby Herbst, Steve Lambert | introduction by Marisa Jahn & Steve Shada | Catalog essay ("The Paradox of Likeness") by Marisa Jahn
http://www.mucketymuck.org

A catalog contextualizing the work featured in "Shopdropping," an exhibition curated by Pond that explores projects that involve placing artwork into places of commerce.





   

Where We Are Now: Locating Art & Politics in NY
Issue #3: Aftermath

Editors: Berin Golonu and Marisa Jahn
Contributors: Johan Lundh, Tina Gerhardt and Robert S. Eshelman, Alan Smart, Megawords, Taraneh Hemami, E. Tammy Kim, and Maureen Connor
Launch: May 10, 2010 at Bluestocking Books

Issue #2: Speculating on Change
Editors: Joseph Grima, Marisa Jahn, Carin Kuoni
Contributors: Tom Angotti, Celine Condorelli, Melanie Crean, Bryan Finoki, Beatrice Gibson, Carlos Motta, Andrew Ross, Ben Shepard, Mark Tribe, Merve Unsal
Launch: Oct 17, 2009 at Storefront for Art & Architecture

Issue #1: The Aesthetics & Politics of Intimacy
Editors: Marisa Jahn & Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Contributors: Svetlana Boym, Rene Gabri, Joseph Grima, Ed Halter, Jill Magid, Dave Rankin & Marisa Jahn, Mary Anne Staniszewiski

Launch: June 28, 2009 at New School


http://www.wherewearenow.org




THESIS FOR MS AT MIT

MetaFormances: The Hermeneutics of Play in Language, Art, Life

Masters of Science thesis (Visual Arts Program, MIT)
May 2007

Jahn, Marisa
(in collaboration with Ronnee Holmes, manager of FlutterFetti Fun Factory; my mailman; Josh Greene; strangers in Boston/Tokyo/San Francisco/Philadelphia; a pervert; a Dutch man; a pinata maker; a lover of cars; various fetishists; and more...

Thesis readers: Ute Meta Bauer &l Francisco Ricardo & THE FBI!!!

http://www.marisajahn.com/art/MetaFormances/book/book.htm

Miming the protocol of business form letters, the letters request their recipient to perform absurd, erotic, and illicit behavior in order to transform the letter into something else. As I see it, the recipients' correspondence signals their readiness to play, to accept their role in the transubstantiation of the letter, to believe in the metaphysical force of the delicate printed word, their complicity in extending a joke.


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"Pedagogy of the Hot Tub: Notes on the Institute for Social Research in the SF Bay Area"
Jahn, Marisa & Joseph del Pesco.
Proximity Magazine Issue #2, Chicago, Fall 2008
A review of project initiated by Christian Jankowski with students at the California College of Art that meditates on the aestheticization of '60s-inspired collectivism.

http://proximitymagazine.com/2008/12/pedagogy-of-the-hot-tub/


"Allora & Calzadilla" @ CCA Wattis Center & SFAI Walter and McBean" (Nov - Jan /08)
Jahn, Marisa.
Shotgun Review, San Francisco, 1/5/2008
A review of works by the artist collaborative Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla — videos that slip between simple observations and allegory...a museological presentation of ethnographic artifacts of war...theatricalizing the gallery experience so that the visitor becomes a spectator inculpated in the production of war...

http://www.shotgun-review.com/archives/wattis_institute_at_cca/allora_calzadilla.html


"On Being an Exhibition" @ Artists Space (10/12-12/8/07)
Jahn, Marisa.
Stretcher, San Francisco, 10/30/2007
A review of works by Germaine Koh, Isola & Norzi, Chadwick Rantanen, Chris Kubick and Anne Walsh
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/e2_a/2007_10_29_e2_archive.php


Shopdropping: Three Case Studies
Jahn, Marisa.
Crosswalks, April 2004

A precursor to the later essays I wrote and co-wrote about the notion shopdropping, this article contextualizes the work of Zoe Sheehan Saldana, Packard Jennings, and Conrad Bakker.

http://www.pipsworks.com/crosswalk/ships/ss_shop.html


The Way Things Could Work: Prisoner's Inventions Project Finds Inspiration in Prisoner's Everyday Designs
Jahn, Marisa.
Clamor Magazine (Bowling Green, Ohio), January 2005

A review of an exhibition and book by the collaborative art group Temporary Services who collaborated with a prisoner named Angelo to document the do-it-yourself knick knacks, devices, and methods invented by prisoners to go about their daily lives.

http://www.marisajahn.com/samples/Prisoners_Inventions.pdf





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