We woke up bright and early Saturday morning (only losers with "jobs" go out on the weekends and besides, blinis aren't really our thing) and made our way up to Lincoln Center for the second day of the Semi-Permanent conference. Honestly, in retrospect, Charlie White was enough. We now, unequivocally, love him. We mean his work. Bad unbeige, bad.

So we strolled in to the soundtrack of Liz Diller's dulcet tones only to discover that the lecture (at least the part we convinced ourselves to stay for) was pretty much an exact replica of a talk she gave at the Cooper Union about six to eight to ten months ago (our addled memory gets spotty around mid-2005) about the ICA currently under construction up in Boston. Gems included discussion of the neutrality of the white wall as a fulcrum for resistance. Because it's obviously definitely not like they used a white wall because that's kind of the color that every single gallery wall (unless it's all unwrapping the typical idealizations of the gallery as "space" or "place" or "wall" or "surface" and recontextualizing the post-critical as irreverent spacemaker you get the point) is. Nope. This was hella theoretical. There was also a claim in there somewhere that the ICA's harbor location was Boston's only civic space.

Thank TK for Sidekick. "Um, City Hall Plaza? Fanueil Hall? Kenmore Square? Harvard Square? The Boston Common? Fenway Park?"

Awkward.