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The Waiting Gardens of North

A house with a date palm will never starve

The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)

The invisible enemy should not exist

May the obdurate foe not be in good health

The Ballad of Special Ops Cody

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

For us, the living

The flesh is yours, the bones are ours

Imperfect Binding

Geniza for Ostia

What dust will rise?

May the arrogant not prevail

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

White man got no dreaming

The Visionaries

Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy

(p)LOT: Proposition I

Romanticized all out of proportion

Climate Control

MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

The Waiting Gardens of North

A house with a date palm will never starve

The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)

The invisible enemy should not exist

May the obdurate foe not be in good health

The Ballad of Special Ops Cody

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

For us, the living

The flesh is yours, the bones are ours

Imperfect Binding

Geniza for Ostia

What dust will rise?

May the arrogant not prevail

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

White man got no dreaming

The Visionaries

Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy

(p)LOT: Proposition I

Romanticized all out of proportion

Climate Control

MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

Folder: PROJECTS

The Waiting Gardens of North

A house with a date palm will never starve

The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)

The invisible enemy should not exist

May the obdurate foe not be in good health

The Ballad of Special Ops Cody

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

For us, the living

The flesh is yours, the bones are ours

Imperfect Binding

Geniza for Ostia

What dust will rise?

May the arrogant not prevail

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

White man got no dreaming

The Visionaries

Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy

(p)LOT: Proposition I

Romanticized all out of proportion

Climate Control

Working from a complete set of the 150-hour audio tapes generated during the shooting of Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s documentary Let It Be , I created a series of cascading narratives of the rise and fall of The Beatles, pinpointing the precise moment

But there was, oddly, a more direct connection: those 1969 rehearsals were supposed to lead to their first live performance in three years, and Paul McCartney’s dream was for The Beatles to make their triumphant return with a concert in North Afric

The band ultimately reached an impasse; Ringo and George vetoed the final proposal. The epic concert in the “exotic location” would not materialize, and the compromise was a short and sweet and pathetic rooftop concert one chilly afternoon in Londo

The Breakup culminated in a recreation of that final concert, three decades later, against the backdrop of the Old City and the Dome of the Rock. Members of the celebrated Palestinian band Sabreen—who met at university in the early 1980s and bega

The songs were selected and ordered to form a kind of poem about collaboration and collapse, and about dreams that cannot be deferred indefinitely. TWO OF US THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD DON’ T LET ME DOWN GET BACK LET IT BE

Live in Jerusalem 2010 is a deluxe gatefold vinyl LP recording of Sabreen's concert published by Bidoun. The cover concept for refers to Live Peace in Toronto 1969 , an album documenting a September 13, 1969 performance by the Plastic Ono Band a

The Breakup was also a multi-facted multimedia event at Lombard Freid Gallery, New York, September 6–October 17, 2012, featuring drawings, memorabilia real and imagined, and radio broadcasts, as well as the limited edition release of Live in Je

Referring to the uniforms and medals worn by The Beatles on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band—their seminal 1967 album, released just days before the start of the Six Day War—four shadow boxes upholstered in the same colored satin

Fastasy items, from unreleased Beatles albums to proposed Palestinian currency are presented in a vitrine with handwritten captions on glass.

MR_Inshallah at Sabratha_03.jpg

MR_Study for The Breakup_Fantasy Objects (detail)_02.JPG

MR_Study for The Breakup_The Summer of Setback (detail)_06.JPG

Working from a complete set of the 150-hour audio tapes generated during the shooting of Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s documentary Let It Be , I created a series of cascading narratives of the rise and fall of The Beatles, pinpointing the precise moment

But there was, oddly, a more direct connection: those 1969 rehearsals were supposed to lead to their first live performance in three years, and Paul McCartney’s dream was for The Beatles to make their triumphant return with a concert in North Afric

The band ultimately reached an impasse; Ringo and George vetoed the final proposal. The epic concert in the “exotic location” would not materialize, and the compromise was a short and sweet and pathetic rooftop concert one chilly afternoon in Londo

The Breakup culminated in a recreation of that final concert, three decades later, against the backdrop of the Old City and the Dome of the Rock. Members of the celebrated Palestinian band Sabreen—who met at university in the early 1980s and bega

The songs were selected and ordered to form a kind of poem about collaboration and collapse, and about dreams that cannot be deferred indefinitely. TWO OF US THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD DON’ T LET ME DOWN GET BACK LET IT BE

Live in Jerusalem 2010 is a deluxe gatefold vinyl LP recording of Sabreen's concert published by Bidoun. The cover concept for refers to Live Peace in Toronto 1969 , an album documenting a September 13, 1969 performance by the Plastic Ono Band a

The Breakup was also a multi-facted multimedia event at Lombard Freid Gallery, New York, September 6–October 17, 2012, featuring drawings, memorabilia real and imagined, and radio broadcasts, as well as the limited edition release of Live in Je

Referring to the uniforms and medals worn by The Beatles on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band—their seminal 1967 album, released just days before the start of the Six Day War—four shadow boxes upholstered in the same colored satin

Fastasy items, from unreleased Beatles albums to proposed Palestinian currency are presented in a vitrine with handwritten captions on glass.

MR_Inshallah at Sabratha_03.jpg

MR_Study for The Breakup_Fantasy Objects (detail)_02.JPG

MR_Study for The Breakup_The Summer of Setback (detail)_06.JPG