Aleksandra Mir: Swiss Institute.(New York)

Naming Tokyo, 2003-, the most recent product of Aleksandra Mir's ever-growing conceptual cottage industry, demonstrates both the artist's numerous strengths and her particular limitations. The piece seen here is the second part of a project originally commissioned by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris; like all the prolific New Yorker's best work, it's informed by a generative interest in social systems and a fondness for offbeat forms of dissemination.

Combining the enduring appeal of maps as sites for theoretical play and a cheerfully wayward brand of activist zeal, the project was ...

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