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Overview

  • 5 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Learning Arabic (North Levantine)
  • 31, Female
  • Member since 2014
  • No occupation listed
  • BFA in Sculpture
  • From Oconomowoc, WI
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Working with refugees in athens and creating an artist book about architecture of immigration detention centers on the greek islands

ABOUT ME

I'm an interdisciplinary artist jumping around between Chicago-Istanbul-Athens. I work with refugees abroad and sleep on my sisters couch in order to save money in Chicago. Hopefully I'll be enrolling in graduate school next year for museum studies.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've met the most amazing people on this site and I love to be proved wrong (well sometimes).

Interests

Public art, public spaces, and public policy. I'm interested in the politics of public squares from Taksim to Tiananmen. How they fuel political debate or repress it.

see my work here-- www.margarethalquist.com
blog --- http://coilandembrace.tumblr.com/

  • writing
  • literature
  • poetry
  • contemporary art
  • wine
  • boating
  • politics
  • reading
  • blogging
  • drawing
  • hiking
  • film
  • museums
  • sculpture

Music, Movies, and Books

The Mars Volta, Le Butcherettes, Lamb of God, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Gorillaz, The Pixies, Buckethead, Primus

Any book by Albert Camus, Mark Z Danielewski, David Foster Wallace,
Contemporary poetry is the shit. Maggie Nelson, Anne Carson, Ariana Reines, Mary Ruefle, Claudia Rankine
basically any book published by Semiotext

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen a volcano erupt from a distance while on a boat off of Italy. Backpacked across mainland China. Lived in an activist office in the West Bank.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I have an extensive knowledge of contemporary art and wine across the world. Also play guitar and am interested in western and eastern philosophy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Palestine, Russian Federation, Sweden, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Palestine, United States

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