Byproducts: On the Excess of Embedded Artistic Practices
YYZ Books & REV-,
Winter 2010-2011
Editor: Marisa Jahn

Byproduct presents texts from a variety of artists, activists, curators, and interdisciplinary thinkers that interrogate projects by cultural practitioners “embedded” in industries, the government, and other non-art sectors. Working with the physical systems and symbolic languages of these institutions, these cultural agents develop projects—or “byproducts”—that produce meaning contingent on their hosts. Whether the works are explicitly polemical or instrumentalized by their hosts is up for debate…

Contributors: A Constructed World, Tejpal S. Ajji, Allan Antliff, Paul Ardenne, Grant Arnold, Artist Placement Group (Barbara Steveni), Au Travail / At Work, Gina Badger, Kadambari Baxi, Ingrid Baxter, IAIN BAXTER&, Claire Bishop, Adam Bobbette, Lawrence Bogad, Andrew Boyd, John Seely Brown, Ian Clarke, Maureen Connor, Natalie De Vito (Mammalian Diving Reflex), Joseph del Pesco, Connor Dickie, Peter Eleey, Experiments in Art and Technology, Kent Hansen (democratic innovation), Kate Henderson, Luis Jacob, Michelle Jacques, Marisa Jahn, Janez Jans¹a, Janez Jans¹a, Janez Jans¹a, Tomas Jonsson, Lev Kreft, Michelle Kuo, Lisa Larson-Walker, Adam Lauder, Kristin Lucas, Steve Mann, Antanas Mockus, Amish Morrell, Joshua Moufawad-Paul, Darren O'Donnell (Mammalian Diving Reflex), Michael Page, Kathleen Pirrie-Adams, Reverend Billy (Billy Talen and Savitri D.), Pedro Reyes, John Searle, Michel Serres, Josephine Berry Slater, Matthew Soules, Felicity Tayler, The Yes Men, Vincent Trasov (Mr. Peanut), Camille Turner (Miss Canadiana), Etienne Turpin and DT Cochrane, Merve Ünsal, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Stephen Wright

Recipes for an Encounter
Editors: Marisa Jahn, Berin Golonu, Candice Hopkins
Winter 2009/2010

An interdisciplinary exploration of the anticipatory nature of recipes together with their promise of what will unfold, take place, be consumed...

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.

Shopdropping: Studies in Reverse Shoplifting
Pubisher: The Collective Foundation
April 2007
Edited by Marisa Jahn & Steve Shada

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

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

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.