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Space Poem #11.1 (The Equator Has Moved), 2025. Installation detail, Dia Beacon © Bill Jacobson Studio, New York

The Equator Has Moved: Renée Green at Dia Beacon

April 9, 2025
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Courtesy of Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas.

Wetland Games

April 7, 2025
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Lydia Yan’s poster project highlights the e-waste crisis in Guangzhou, China, urging reflection with the question: “What do we feed our children?”
Image: Adelaide Zollinger

Transversal Design for Social Impact

February 20, 2025
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Slow Walking in Lisbon, 1995. Film still

Come Closer: Renée Green’s São Paulo Auroras

October 14, 2024
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Zhanyi Chen, Artificial Satellite Astrology, 2023. A horoscope of Hurricane Katrina, drew using the positions of meteorological satellites instead of planets. Courtesy of the artist.

Zhanyi Chen’s Artificial Satellite Astrology

August 22, 2023
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Christopher Joshua Benton, The Author Cooks a Bean Pie, 2022. Courtesy of Christopher Joshua Benton.

Christopher Joshua Benton in 2023 MIT Thresholds Architectural Journal

May 2, 2023
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Renée Green. Contact. Installation view, FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, moCa Cleveland. Image: © Field Studio

Contact: Arcs of Relation

September 13, 2022
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Renée Green. Space Poem #1, 2007. Installation view, ICA Boston, 2021-2022. Image: Liza Voll

Circulating Circuits

February 17, 2022
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Nida Sinnokrot, Jonah’s Whale, 2014.
Steel, gypsum, Styrofoam, carpet, vinyl, conduit, aluminum, foam, fabric, 1200 × 480 × 240 cm. Photo: Chris Franken.

Office Hours: Nida Sinnokrot for Art & Education

November 23, 2021
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Aarti Sunder, Kannada Ghost Story

Class of 2021: Aarti Sunder

August 30, 2021
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Po-Hao Chi’s “Performative Aramono,” 2020. Presented at Chung Hsing Cultural and Creative Park, Taiwan.

Class of 2021: Po-Hao Chi

August 26, 2021
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Gif from video, shot in Tultepec Mexico. Chucho Ocampo’s “Expect People to be Exhausted,” 2020.

Class of 2021: Chucho Ocampo

August 24, 2021
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