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Kaliningrad seems full of holes by Joachim Koester
Like Passaic, Kaliningrad seems full of 'holes', as well as tunnels and empty spaces. A vast number of entrances to a psychic space and network of tangled paths rumored to accommodate even a pack of wild boar and a secret subterraneous city. Compared to New York City, which seems tightly packed and solid, Kaliningrad is filled with hollow spaces, and those holes in a sense are the monumental vacancies that define, without trying, a challenge to stasis and control. Empty plots, which are infused with additional meaning when contrasted with the newly built, the finished. This makes for archaeology of the modern or the recent; the memory-traces of an abandoned set of futures.
*The Italicized text is a verbatim quote from Robert Smithson's essay "The Monuments of Passaic" published in Artforum 1967.
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