cura: 1. spiritual charge: care. 2. to restore to health and soundness, to bring about recovery: cure. 3. Root of the word “curator” in Latin; one who is responsible for the care of souls, later, one in charge of a museum, zoo, or other place of exhibit. 4. instrument with two or three strings that is used in folk music. 5. small sparrow. 6. the name of a short story written by Cevat Sakir Kabaagacli, also known as the Fisherman of Halicarnassus (A Flower Thrown to the Sea from the Aegean, 1972). 7. “The double sense of cura refers to care for something as concern, absorption in the world, but also care in the sense of devotion” Martin Heidegger

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Suggested Readings/ Pelin Tan

http://tanpelin.blogspot.com
www.oppositionalarchitecture.com
www.slowfood.com

Marcus, George E. and Myers, Fred R. The Traffic in Art and Culture.

Kwon, Miwon. One Place After Another, Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, The MIT Press.

Kester, Grant H. Conversation Pieces/ Community & Communication in Modern Art, University of California Press, 2004.

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