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DETROIT, I.E. INFRASTRUCTURE
Mitch Cope and Lynn Crawford, Eds.
Spring 2006
soft cover, staple-bound
80 pages, 9 x 6"
Price:$10.00  sold out

Excerpt from editors' introduction:
"Proliferation is precisely what was on the table last spring (2005), when a group of Detroit-based artists, writers, and architects, decided to assemble and publish a cultural arts journal, reflecting things in Detroit and around the world that interested us. We wanted to make something that would surprise, inform, and document. We equally hoped to establish lines of connection between the Detroit Metro area and the international community. We hope we have done so in this debut issue of Detroit, i.e.

From Ron Day°s essay, ´Notes on Infrastructure and Development,° to, Berlin-based, Ingo Vetter°s observations, ´Notes on Detroit,° to Danielle Aubert°s design, to Harry Mathews° sestina, ´CrÏme Brulee,° to Bill Harris° story, ´DeWitt meets Picasso,° to various artist°s fantasies of a use for the old Tiger Stadium, you will find assorted, astonishing, riffs on the theme of infrastructure. While soliciting and editing material, we learned about the establishment of MOCAD, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and they learned about us. MOCAD is an urban-edged, interdisciplinary, multi-eyed, extension into music, painting, instillation, sculpture, design, craft, architecture and literature. Rooted in downtown Detroit, it functions as non-institutional institution. Thrilled by the emergence of this new, much needed, addition to our city, we were also struck that both the museum and Detroit, i.e. share a similar focus. We agreed that MOCAD should publish the journal. In this issue, we include an interview with Klaus Kertess, the New York- based curator of MOCAD°S first exhibition, Meditations in an Emergency (scheduled for October, 2006), and Andrew Zago, the museum°s architect."

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