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“Use your imagination.” Printed atop the Blue Book—the small stapled exam booklet long used for secondary-school and university-level handwritten exams in the U.S.—the phrase was meant to encourage critical thinking. Introduced in the early-20th century, the booklet faded with the digital shift and has recently returned as a hedge against AI-assisted cheating. Yet the imagination line feels oddly placed on an exam, which is meant to test knowledge, not invention. Years after filling those pages, “Use your imagination” reads less as inspiration than permission to bullshit: a slogan that quietly trained generations to admire elaborate displays of nothingness.
Display, transmission, tricks, secrets, symbols—these are themes we discussed with Sophie T. Lvoff while she prepared her solo presentation Crazy Boots. The work stems from reading forty-seven books during her pregnancy and postpartum period, as well as reflecting on containment—the gestating body, a book and its content, a bottle…
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“Use your imagination.” Printed atop the Blue Book—the small stapled exam booklet long used for secondary-school and university-level handwritten exams in the U.S.—the phrase was meant to encourage critical thinking. Introduced in the early-20th century, the booklet faded with the digital shift and has recently returned as a hedge against AI-assisted cheating. Yet the imagination line feels oddly placed on an exam, which is meant to test knowledge, not invention. Years after filling those pages, “Use your imagination” reads less as inspiration than permission to bullshit: a slogan that quietly trained generations to admire elaborate displays of nothingness.
Display, transmission, tricks, secrets, symbols—these are themes we discussed with Sophie T. Lvoff while she prepared her solo presentation Crazy Boots. The work stems from reading forty-seven books during her pregnancy and postpartum period, as well as reflecting on containment—the gestating body, a book and its content, a bottle…
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