Collective for a Socialist Architecture Proletarian Building Exhibition Primary Information architecture and performance

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The juxtaposition of artworks with documents taken from popular culture and the history of primatology gives the reader an insight into what the science historian Donna Haraway has termed the 'primate order' — a hall of mirrors reflecting the scientific and cultural projections that turned the ape from an instrument of humanity’s self-definition into an integral element in testing out the possibility of reconstructing human 'nature'

like Walker Evans in his famous New York subway series

Following one from her 2012 publication

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Collective for a Socialist Architecture Proletarian Building Exhibition Primary Information architecture and performanceThe Proletarian Building Exhibition took place in Berlin in 1931 and was developed by the Collective for a Socialist Architecture, who intended it to stand in opposition to the German Building Exhibition. Wohnungsfrage has revisited original historical documents and made them the focus of discussion in a conference run in conjunction with the project bauhaus. Research into individuals like Arthur Korn, Alexander Altberg, and Hermann Duncker and their