Episode 1: Stephen Wright - a podcast by Can Altay

Stephen Wright is a writer and gardener based in France. He currently teaches the practice of theory at the European School of Visual Arts. As the title of his book "Towards a lexicon of usership" suggests, his writing focuses on the politics of usership, as well as other modes of cultural production that do not necessitate artworks, authorship, or spectatorship.

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Stephens’s extensive vocabulary deserves further reading. To learn more about piggybacking, 1:1 Scale, Artworlds (art-sustaining environments), Coefficient of art alongside many other mind opening concepts you can download a free copy from Arte Utils website.

Raivo Puusemps mayorship at Rosendale, New York resulted with the dissolution of the town and its amalgamation with a larger municipality. The documentation regarding the process of this work compiled in a publication and was published by Highland Press in 1980’s iniative of Paul McCarthy. http://makinguse.artmuseum.pl/en/raivo-puusemp/

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Episode recorded on Zoom in April 2020. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Sarp Renk Özer. Released from MÇPS Studios.

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