Dejan Lukic
June 22, 1973. Frankfurt am Main.
Born into a lower middle-class family.
Single-child.
Parents “Gastarbeiter”.
Grandmother’s cuisine.
1978 - 1988. Zagreb.
Elementary school.
Communist pedagogy.
Sneaks into movie theaters.
Barely reads.
Sports.
Basketball. Waterpolo. Diving.
Strong allergies to pollen and certain foods.
Friendships, freedom of the childhood.
Apolitical.
Family lineage, irrelevant.
Every year, Adriatic Sea.
1988 - 1994. High-School.
Dread.
Collapse of communism.
War.
Reading begins.
Immediately, impeccable taste.
Collected works of Kafka.
Literature, philosophy, anthropology, art.
Mystical vision.
Cultivation of a specific taste.
Decides to leave Croatia.
1994 - 1996. Vienna.
First scholarship.
Dread.
Non-refugee, but without papers.
Secret affinities with A.
2. Bezirk.
Sees no art.
Buys a beautiful coat which frames him.
Feels neither Slavic, nor Germanic.
Neither Latin, nor cosmopolitan.
1996 - 2001. Leuven, Flanders.
Second Scholarship.
Catholic University of Leuven, BA & MA.
Philosophy institute.
Phenomenology. Theology.
Anthropology. Psychology.
Exotic.
Pantheistic.
2001 - 2009. New York.
Third scholarship.
Columbia University, doctorate.
Surging, quietly.
Finds school easy.
Phantom-like when at university.
Alive when in the city.
Secret affinity with J.
Starts teaching. Likes it.
2009 - 2013. Reed College.
Visiting position.
Overcast.
Food.
Student-intensity.
Space.
Lecturing.
Writing.
Secret affinity with J.
VC starts.
2013 - present New York. Again.
School of Visual Arts.
Lecturing.
Writing.
Secret affinity with Adriatic plants.
Keeps fashionable discourses at bay.
June 22, 1973. Frankfurt am Main.
Born into a lower middle-class family.
Single-child.
Parents “Gastarbeiter”.
Grandmother’s cuisine.
1978 - 1988. Zagreb.
Elementary school.
Communist pedagogy.
Sneaks into movie theaters.
Barely reads.
Sports.
Basketball. Waterpolo. Diving.
Strong allergies to pollen and certain foods.
Friendships, freedom of the childhood.
Apolitical.
Family lineage, irrelevant.
Every year, Adriatic Sea.
1988 - 1994. High-School.
Dread.
Collapse of communism.
War.
Reading begins.
Immediately, impeccable taste.
Collected works of Kafka.
Literature, philosophy, anthropology, art.
Mystical vision.
Cultivation of a specific taste.
Decides to leave Croatia.
1994 - 1996. Vienna.
First scholarship.
Dread.
Non-refugee, but without papers.
Secret affinities with A.
2. Bezirk.
Sees no art.
Buys a beautiful coat which frames him.
Feels neither Slavic, nor Germanic.
Neither Latin, nor cosmopolitan.
1996 - 2001. Leuven, Flanders.
Second Scholarship.
Catholic University of Leuven, BA & MA.
Philosophy institute.
Phenomenology. Theology.
Anthropology. Psychology.
Exotic.
Pantheistic.
2001 - 2009. New York.
Third scholarship.
Columbia University, doctorate.
Surging, quietly.
Finds school easy.
Phantom-like when at university.
Alive when in the city.
Secret affinity with J.
Starts teaching. Likes it.
2009 - 2013. Reed College.
Visiting position.
Overcast.
Food.
Student-intensity.
Space.
Lecturing.
Writing.
Secret affinity with J.
VC starts.
2013 - present New York. Again.
School of Visual Arts.
Lecturing.
Writing.
Secret affinity with Adriatic plants.
Keeps fashionable discourses at bay.
Joshua McCarty
California. August 20, 1990.
Born of walnuts and creeks.
Moves three times.
Rides giraffes in a maternal land of oak.
Questioning [always]...
Sunshine, energy, play.
Germany. 1998-2006.
Moves three times.
"Third culture kid."
Ecumenical chapels.
Fear and insecurity.
Colorado. 2006-2010.
Never moves.
Deleusions of grandeur.
Portland, OR. 2010-present.
Moves three times.
BA in Religion, Reed College.
Mutation and expansion. Life in affinities.
Thickening liaisons in kitchens.
In motion.
Collaboration with S and genealogy.
Collaboration with J.
Formations of multiples.
California. August 20, 1990.
Born of walnuts and creeks.
Moves three times.
Rides giraffes in a maternal land of oak.
Questioning [always]...
Sunshine, energy, play.
Germany. 1998-2006.
Moves three times.
"Third culture kid."
Ecumenical chapels.
Fear and insecurity.
Colorado. 2006-2010.
Never moves.
Deleusions of grandeur.
Portland, OR. 2010-present.
Moves three times.
BA in Religion, Reed College.
Mutation and expansion. Life in affinities.
Thickening liaisons in kitchens.
In motion.
Collaboration with S and genealogy.
Collaboration with J.
Formations of multiples.