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, in this most strange and ludicrous undertaking, setting up a market in th=
e courtyard of the Rice University Anthropology Department, on the other si=
de of the Sculpture Department. The market displayed ready-mades, hundreds =
and hundreds of small banal or partly unknown/unknowable [?] ready-mades, t=
hings, potions (witchcraft?), spices, cloth, tools, relics, many small arti=
facts, rocks, pebbles, dried food, amulets, heaven knows what. The market w=
as open, its "boundaries" (un)defined by a sort of plastic skin, painted li=
ke parchment,  discolored by additional markings and weather, flapping in t=
he wind, a thin permeable membrane, resonant with curious questions I overh=
eard, there to here, here to there, from folks trading and bartering.


Johannes Birringer