Alice Notley said “No one lives in a country,” so I said take the chairs, take the books, take the house. I was leaving America. Everyone came over then—took my lamps, my thrift store coats, drove off in my old car. The house plants that went away were taller than men. The country I was…

As the artist and the curator of this project, both living in diaspora, we have each in our own practices been working through some of the concerns raised by this project. By the Means at Hand is a new articulation of our ongoing investigations into systems of interaction and new relational economies between people, objects,…