Zelig Kurland

The New Regionalism
(site recordings and photographs : in progress)
A project that asks what the way we order food at the Taco Bell restaurant chain can tell us about the future of regional cultures and dialects as globalization truly goes global.
Mental Health/Communal Living
(photographs : in progress)
An exploration of the clinical and residential infrastructure of "community-based" mental health services.
Civil Affairs
(photographs : 2003 - 2004)
Originally conceived as an examination of budgetary politics in Oregon, this series of photographs examines the role of government-funded social infrastructure in a society that idolizes individualism.
West Virginia
(photographs and text: 2003)
Documentation of unusual and exemplary places in West Virginia for the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Land Use Database.
Can You Hear the Green?
(photography and sound installation : 2001)
Two chambers that use site recordings to demonstrate the expectations evoked by landscape photography.
The Noiseways Project
(web site : 2000)
Photographs and recordings from iconic places in the New York metropolitan area intended to demonstrate the importance of sound in determining the "quality" of a place.
Places
(photographs : 1995 - 2000)
Miscellaneous observations about placemaking and the built environment.
The Best Dressed Man in Williamsburg Contest
(fashion show : 1999)
A lighthearted sendup of arts-fueled gentrification.
Mink Shoals
(LP : 1997)
Album of Judeo-Appalachian instrumental music.
 

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