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bricolage

a construction or assemblage made from whatever materials are at hand

Sightings:

Lashed-together leftovers; you've heard it all before

The tinkering instinct
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Using what's already there
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Making sense of your world

Scavenging for empirical trash
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Art you can sit on

Tom Sachs:
Bad boy's art (explore for more "Tokyo avant garde culture")
Repairing as art (explore for more "luminous personae" interviews)
The Andy Warhol of foamcore

Bits of Derrida and Dewey
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An artful homicide

Bric-a-blog

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