San Rocco 12: clients
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The issue with the client is that the reasons why clients should pay for architecture (i.e., the reasons why rich or powerful individuals could become clients) seem to be disappearing. In fact, architecture corresponds to a singular mixture of exhibitionism and shame that leads people to try to acquire public renown (and at the same time erase the memory of how they used(...)
San Rocco 12: clients
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The issue with the client is that the reasons why clients should pay for architecture (i.e., the reasons why rich or powerful individuals could become clients) seem to be disappearing. In fact, architecture corresponds to a singular mixture of exhibitionism and shame that leads people to try to acquire public renown (and at the same time erase the memory of how they used to make money) by contributing to the construction of the spaces of public life. And while there is no shortage of exhibitionism nowadays...
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These are the fragments Francis Upritchard has shored against her ruins. Thrift store pots have been remade as canopic urns, ancient Egyptian repositories for the organs of the dead. A gift from a relative, an unwanted wedding present or a memory of a day out, even the tackiest ornament once played a small symbolic function in someone’s life. Now they have been detourned(...)
Francis Upritchard: human problems
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These are the fragments Francis Upritchard has shored against her ruins. Thrift store pots have been remade as canopic urns, ancient Egyptian repositories for the organs of the dead. A gift from a relative, an unwanted wedding present or a memory of a day out, even the tackiest ornament once played a small symbolic function in someone’s life. Now they have been detourned to reveal the underlying purpose of all that frantic personalising and decorating of domestic space, the fabrication of memories to set against death.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Zin Taylor: the crystal ship
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Zin Taylor tells the story of how a crystalline form was created using a series of landmarks in a neighborhood in Antwerp, Belgium. This story begins in the winter of 2006 when the artist finds an invitation for an exhibition by Marcel Broodthaers dated 1969. Taylor visits the present-day site of the exhibition, gallery A379089, and searches for evidence of this curious(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
October 2008, Toronto and Brussels
Zin Taylor: the crystal ship
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Zin Taylor tells the story of how a crystalline form was created using a series of landmarks in a neighborhood in Antwerp, Belgium. This story begins in the winter of 2006 when the artist finds an invitation for an exhibition by Marcel Broodthaers dated 1969. Taylor visits the present-day site of the exhibition, gallery A379089, and searches for evidence of this curious historical exhibition by the late Belgian artist. Although the gallery has long since closed, Taylor begins exploring the neighborhood invoking the memory of Broodthaers.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This issue is dedicated to the politics of memory and forms of ritualized mourning in art and culture. Rather than focusing on an analysis of an ostensibly universal emotion or general state of affairs, the contributions look into the concrete and diverse practices of engagement with loss and grief as a continual challenge to society. Issue #126 addresses questions of(...)
Texte Zur Kunst 126: mourning
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This issue is dedicated to the politics of memory and forms of ritualized mourning in art and culture. Rather than focusing on an analysis of an ostensibly universal emotion or general state of affairs, the contributions look into the concrete and diverse practices of engagement with loss and grief as a continual challenge to society. Issue #126 addresses questions of loss and mourning in the context of racist and right-wing violence. At the same time, it draws attention to the transformative powers of grief.
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Appropriated Landscapes explores the landscapes of Southern Africa, through photography and video from artists including David Goldblatt, Santu Mofokeng, Jo Ractliffe, Penny Siopis and Guy Tillim. By examining the effects of war, migration, colonisation, industrialisation and ideology on South Africa, Namibia, Angola and Mozambique, this book reveals the varied histories(...)
Appropriated landscapes : contemporary African photography from the Walther collection
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Appropriated Landscapes explores the landscapes of Southern Africa, through photography and video from artists including David Goldblatt, Santu Mofokeng, Jo Ractliffe, Penny Siopis and Guy Tillim. By examining the effects of war, migration, colonisation, industrialisation and ideology on South Africa, Namibia, Angola and Mozambique, this book reveals the varied histories of these regions and their peoples. Landscape - both in Southern Africa and beyond - shows itself as ultimately a construct of the mind, composed as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.
Photography Collections
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This is the second book in the series TOO MUCH: Romantic Geographic Archive. This series focuses on archiving individual memory of place, providing invaluable documentation of a world in a state of flux. This book is the second edition of the past issue by TOO MUCH, The Himalayas, by photographer and traveler Naoki Ishikawa, which catalogues his work from 2011 to 2018 of(...)
TOO MUCH, The Himalayas. Naoki Ishikawa
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This is the second book in the series TOO MUCH: Romantic Geographic Archive. This series focuses on archiving individual memory of place, providing invaluable documentation of a world in a state of flux. This book is the second edition of the past issue by TOO MUCH, The Himalayas, by photographer and traveler Naoki Ishikawa, which catalogues his work from 2011 to 2018 of climbing the highest peaks in the world. This new edition includes 300 of Naoki’s photographs and his most recent expeditions to Kanchenjunga and Amadablam.
Photography monographs
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This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology? examines the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory and opens up the sedimented(...)
Jussi Parikka : What is media archaeology?
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This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology? examines the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory and opens up the sedimented layers of contemporary media culture. The author contextualizes media archaeology in relation to other key media studies debates including software studies, German media theory, imaginary media research, new materialism and digital humanities.
Epistemology
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"Confabulation" is a drawing together through storytelling. Fundamental to our perception, memory, and thought is the way we join fractured experiences to construct a narrative. Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture weaves together poetic ideas, objects, and events and returns you to everyday experiences of life through juxtapositions with dreams, fantasies, and(...)
Architectural Theory
September 2018
Confabulations: storytelling in architecture
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"Confabulation" is a drawing together through storytelling. Fundamental to our perception, memory, and thought is the way we join fractured experiences to construct a narrative. Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture weaves together poetic ideas, objects, and events and returns you to everyday experiences of life through juxtapositions with dreams, fantasies, and hypotheticals. It follows the intellectual and creative framework of architectural cosmopoesis developed and practiced by the distinguished thinker, architect, and professor Dr. Marco Frascari, who thought deeply about the role of storytelling in architecture.
Architectural Theory
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Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. In Of What One Cannot Speak, Bal leads us into intimate encounters with(...)
Doris Salcedo's political art: Of what one cannot speak
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Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. In Of What One Cannot Speak, Bal leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo’s art, encouraging us to consider each work as a “theoretical object” that invites—and demands—certain kinds of considerations about history, death, erasure, and grief.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Cavalcade en cyclorama
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Cavalcade en cyclorama, lister des éléments qui ont un lien entre eux, même ténu, même absurde, ne jamais s’arrêter, ne jamais se répéter, comme dans Freeing the Memory (1976) de Marina Abramovic, une suite de mots, un fil continu, sans fil conducteur, un conducteur de locomotive, un chemin de fer, suivre la track, dérailler, perdre la carte, déparler, ne plus faire sens,(...)
Cavalcade en cyclorama
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Cavalcade en cyclorama, lister des éléments qui ont un lien entre eux, même ténu, même absurde, ne jamais s’arrêter, ne jamais se répéter, comme dans Freeing the Memory (1976) de Marina Abramovic, une suite de mots, un fil continu, sans fil conducteur, un conducteur de locomotive, un chemin de fer, suivre la track, dérailler, perdre la carte, déparler, ne plus faire sens, sauter du coq à l’âne, cocorico, de l’humour con, un poème idiot, écrit en public en huit jours, par Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf.
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