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28/8/2008

Your Town, Inc.

Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

What happens when Wal-Mart moves out, leaving behind massive and drearily generic buildings amidst acres of paved land? Rather than focusing on multinational retailers for their relentless, smothering expansion, artist and writer Julia Christensen chooses to focus on community, and is optimistic about our ability to move on. She has researched and documented the ways that American communities have creatively adapted and transformed these mega stores into more constructive uses - while asking her audience to think critically about what a landscape of reused big boxes actually means for our future. And she offers a response to the big box concept: Christensen created an architectural installation, providing us with a starting point and a site for discussions about urgent issues like sustainability, public space, car dependency, and corporate ownership. Curated by Astria Suparak.

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