The Bureau of Longitudes: Volume I

The Bureau of Longitudes: Volume I

Susana Eslava, Christopher Squier, and Carolina Magis Weinberg

The Bureau is an exploratory office of Dissolve, functioning as a site for archiving accounts of place, organized by each topic’s degrees of latitude and longitude. This project might be imagined as a cyclical catalog of the globe, or perhaps an encyclopedia in the round. Over the past year, the Bureau has delved into research on the absurdities and contradictions of globally-organized space.

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Crossings (X): Use of Certain Letters of the Alphabet

Crossings (X): Use of Certain Letters of the Alphabet

Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai

34.101630° N, 118.326684° W

Crossings (X) explores the interchangeability and the permutability of the X. As symbol, letter, mark, X is an ever-expanding signifier that intersects concepts of unknowability, gender, I/You relations and borders. The piece is inspired from the book of logic puzzles, Satan, Cantor and Infinity, by Raymond Smullyan.

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Where the Sun Casts No Shadow

Where the Sun Casts No Shadow

Maio Alvear

0.002222° S, 78.455833° W

The misplaced touristic spectacle of the Mitad del Mundo near Quito, Ecuador (mis)situates the poetic wanderings of Maio Alvear, whose mysterious text-essay plays with the dis/appearance and loss of certain words, phrases, and their shadows. This text requires exploration of a digital nature.

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Mar-a-Lago: Where Each Day is a Holiday, a Photographic Essay

Mar-a-Lago: Where Each Day is a Holiday, a Photographic Essay

Amanda Walters

26.67694° N, 80.03694° W

In an essay examining the architectural trappings of both leisure and power, Walters’ photo essay on Mar-a-Lago explores pan-Mediterranean revivalism, a style combining the Eurocentric tendencies of the US bourgeoisie with a pan-tropic twist through its expression in the domestic tropical destination of South Florida.

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