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This project, by the CCA’s 2022-2023 Emerging Curator Clarissa Lim Kye Lee, engages with collectives in the Malay Archipelago with aims of developing a shared toolkit for art and cultural workers globally. Through a series of workshops held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2024, this project looks to Malaysian collective ecologies and their relationship to their urban environments for ways to reinscribe a concern for the social in contemporary art and architecture.
Making Mamak: Collective Ecologies of Urban Space
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This project, by the CCA’s 2022-2023 Emerging Curator Clarissa Lim Kye Lee, engages with collectives in the Malay Archipelago with aims of developing a shared toolkit for art and cultural workers globally. Through a series of workshops held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2024, this project looks to Malaysian collective ecologies and their relationship to their urban environments for ways to reinscribe a concern for the social in contemporary art and architecture.
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Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
CCA Bookstore
14 February 2010 , 3pm
Peter Galison: Waste-Wilderness
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Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his current project – writing and filming about nuclear waste sites and the future of land. “As they are usually understood, ‘wasteland’ and ‘wilderness’ are opposites; when they merge on the sites of decommissioned weapons lands, when land is at(...)
CCA Bookstore
PHCON2002:0016:006
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Binder documents Gordon Matta-Clark's personal and professional correspondence prior to his death in August 1978, as well as correspondence addressed to Jane Crawford, his widow, and Holly Solomon, the art dealer responsible for selling Matta-Clark's work following his death. Additionally, the binder includes exhibition catalogues and reviews, periodicals, memorabilia, photographic materials, and published interviews. Documents related to the following projects are included: The Caribbean Orange (1978); Untitled Cutting (Summer 1978) for Alanna Heiss's Twentieth Century Ruins; Jacob's Ladder (1977); Office Baroque (1977); Plaza Culturale (1977); and Untitled Cutting (Museum of Modern Art) (1978). Binder contains textual records, photographs, slides, and reprographic copies.
1978-1980
Reviews, Announcements, Catalogues 1978-80
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PHCON2002:0016:006
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Binder documents Gordon Matta-Clark's personal and professional correspondence prior to his death in August 1978, as well as correspondence addressed to Jane Crawford, his widow, and Holly Solomon, the art dealer responsible for selling Matta-Clark's work following his death. Additionally, the binder includes exhibition catalogues and reviews, periodicals, memorabilia, photographic materials, and published interviews. Documents related to the following projects are included: The Caribbean Orange (1978); Untitled Cutting (Summer 1978) for Alanna Heiss's Twentieth Century Ruins; Jacob's Ladder (1977); Office Baroque (1977); Plaza Culturale (1977); and Untitled Cutting (Museum of Modern Art) (1978). Binder contains textual records, photographs, slides, and reprographic copies.
1978-1980
Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
Main galleries
27 March 1991 to 26 May 1991
The Filter of Reason: The Work of Paul Nelson
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Paul Nelson (1895–1979), American architect, film set designer, painter, critic, and educator, taught and practised architecture in the United States and France for over fifty years. Nelson was a central figure in the development of functionalism in the 1930s and 1940s, which rejected the Beaux-Arts language in favour of technological and functional expression. The Filter(...)
Main galleries
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
13 May 2010 , 7pm
Isola and Norzi: Conshelf II
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Artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi discuss Jacques Cousteau’s Conshelf II underwater base and their own project Liquid Door, which proposes to revive the dream of living underwater by making Cousteau’s Starfish House inhabitable. Based in New York, Italian-born Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi have collaborated since 2003, pooling their backgrounds and interests in art(...)
Paul Desmarais Theatre
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Lionel March fonds
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The Lionel March fonds, circa 1957-2017, documents the work and activities of architect and professor Lionel March. The records within this fonds illustrate March’s architectural career, representing five professional and personal building projects, including the 1964 Whitehall plan; as well as his academic career in research and teaching, spanning England and North America, most notably March’s work with the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies (now the Martin Centre) and his research at UCLA. The fonds is largely composed of books from March’s library, textual records, slides and photographs, and drawings.
circa 1957-2017
Lionel March fonds
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The Lionel March fonds, circa 1957-2017, documents the work and activities of architect and professor Lionel March. The records within this fonds illustrate March’s architectural career, representing five professional and personal building projects, including the 1964 Whitehall plan; as well as his academic career in research and teaching, spanning England and North America, most notably March’s work with the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies (now the Martin Centre) and his research at UCLA. The fonds is largely composed of books from March’s library, textual records, slides and photographs, and drawings.
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circa 1957-2017
photographs
DR2012:0012:089:003
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Ring binder containing slides of photographs taken at the following exhibitions of Melvin Charney's work from 1970 to 2000: - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978 (22 slides, including 3 duplicates); - 49th Parallel, New York City, 1984 (3 slides); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 1990 (13 slides of the installation "In flight... Selavy"); - Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, 1983 (11 slides of the installation "Pliny on my mind"); - Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal 1991 (76 slides of the series "Parables and other allegories", including 31 duplicates); - Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, 2001 (20 slides, including 17 duplicates); - Musée des arts contemporain, Montréal, 2002 (70 slides, including 35 duplicates); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 2002 (13 slides). Binder labelled: MC EXHIBITIONS / 1970-2000
1978-2002
Photographs of Melvin Charney's exhibitions
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DR2012:0012:089:003
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Ring binder containing slides of photographs taken at the following exhibitions of Melvin Charney's work from 1970 to 2000: - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1978 (22 slides, including 3 duplicates); - 49th Parallel, New York City, 1984 (3 slides); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 1990 (13 slides of the installation "In flight... Selavy"); - Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, 1983 (11 slides of the installation "Pliny on my mind"); - Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal 1991 (76 slides of the series "Parables and other allegories", including 31 duplicates); - Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, 2001 (20 slides, including 17 duplicates); - Musée des arts contemporain, Montréal, 2002 (70 slides, including 35 duplicates); - Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, 2002 (13 slides). Binder labelled: MC EXHIBITIONS / 1970-2000
photographs
1978-2002
born digital
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4025 digital file(s)
AP174.S1.2001.D1.009
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Contains photographs of an early Carbon Tower study model, 2002; the Extreme Textiles exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, 2005; the 1:125 scale 3D Systems model on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2006-2007; and the 1:50 and 1:125 scale 3D Systems Carbon Tower models, 2013-2014. Original directory name: "MODEL PHOTOS". Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed), Canon RAW, DS_store file (MAC), Tagged Image File Format, Adobe Photoshop
2002-2014
Photographs of 3D Systems models and exhibits
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AP174.S1.2001.D1.009
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Contains photographs of an early Carbon Tower study model, 2002; the Extreme Textiles exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, 2005; the 1:125 scale 3D Systems model on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2006-2007; and the 1:50 and 1:125 scale 3D Systems Carbon Tower models, 2013-2014. Original directory name: "MODEL PHOTOS". Most common file formats: Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed), Canon RAW, DS_store file (MAC), Tagged Image File Format, Adobe Photoshop
born digital
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4025 digital file(s)
2002-2014
AP197.S2.059
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The box contains VHS tapes that Kenneth Frampton was either involved in or may have used for research. VHS tapes include: Works of Shingu (1990-1992); Alvar Aalto: a vision of a better world (1998); Mies van der Rohe Pavilion award for European Architecture (1995); David by Moneo: A Place for Art at Wellesley College, a Geovision, INC. Production (1993); and Louis Kahn: Silence and Light, Michael Blackwood Productions. Several VHS tapes are unidentified. A negative roll depicting the Palais Royale is also included in this box.
circa 1990-2000
VHS tapes about the works of architects and architecture
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AP197.S2.059
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The box contains VHS tapes that Kenneth Frampton was either involved in or may have used for research. VHS tapes include: Works of Shingu (1990-1992); Alvar Aalto: a vision of a better world (1998); Mies van der Rohe Pavilion award for European Architecture (1995); David by Moneo: A Place for Art at Wellesley College, a Geovision, INC. Production (1993); and Louis Kahn: Silence and Light, Michael Blackwood Productions. Several VHS tapes are unidentified. A negative roll depicting the Palais Royale is also included in this box.
circa 1990-2000
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AP168
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The Neil Denari Interrupted Projections project records, 1994-2004 (predominant 1994-1996), document the development and installation of Denari’s show “Interrupted Projections” at Gallery MA in Tokyo, Japan. The archive consists of original born-digital files and a small amount of physical material, including drawings, transparencies, slides, and promotional materials.
1994-2004
Neil Denari Interrupted Projections project records
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The Neil Denari Interrupted Projections project records, 1994-2004 (predominant 1994-1996), document the development and installation of Denari’s show “Interrupted Projections” at Gallery MA in Tokyo, Japan. The archive consists of original born-digital files and a small amount of physical material, including drawings, transparencies, slides, and promotional materials.
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1994-2004