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.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

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

Intereses

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

Música, películas y libros

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

Algo increíble que he hecho

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.

Qué puedo ofrecer a los anfitriones

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

Países que he visitado

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

Países en los que he vivido

Greece, Palestine, United States