madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media investigates popular social media clips documenting construction work by those present on site. Inspired by the rise of the creator economy, contractors, builders, and tradespeople have started to record and share their skills, creativity, and concerns with a digitally connected community of peers, clients, and(...)
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social media, TikTok, Instagram, architectural photography, construction workers, labour, skills
June 2024 to October 2024
madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media
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madskills: Self-Documenting Construction on Social Media investigates popular social media clips documenting construction work by those present on site. Inspired by the rise of the creator economy, contractors, builders, and tradespeople have started to record and share their skills, creativity, and concerns with a digitally connected community of peers, clients, and(...)
Octagonal gallery Keyword(s):
social media, TikTok, Instagram, architectural photography, construction workers, labour, skills
Empire
The exhibition presents Empire, a visual essay by American artist John Gossage on the relationship between architecture and power. Gossage’s photographs of government buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. are juxtaposed with images of Egypt taken by German chemist Hermann Vogel in 1868, exposing the parallel actions of governments, over a century apart, in(...)
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8 December 2005 to 12 March 2006
Empire
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The exhibition presents Empire, a visual essay by American artist John Gossage on the relationship between architecture and power. Gossage’s photographs of government buildings and monuments in Washington, D.C. are juxtaposed with images of Egypt taken by German chemist Hermann Vogel in 1868, exposing the parallel actions of governments, over a century apart, in(...)
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Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
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26 March 1997 to 1 June 1997
Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light
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Richard Pare – Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light explores the relationship between the work of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, one of the major protagonists of a new sense of poetry in the architecture of our time, and the work of British photographer Richard Pare, pioneer in the study of the place of photography in the representation of architecture. Rather than to(...)
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Figuring Territory
The exhibition presents a work by American artist Lewis Baltz that provokes critical thought on the relationships between architecture, landscape, and photography. The New Industrial Parks is part of a monographic series developed in the 1970s (The Tract Houses, Maryland, Nevada and Park City) that deals with wide-ranging cultural and philosophical questions about(...)
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18 April 2002 to 29 September 2002
Lewis Baltz: The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California
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The exhibition presents a work by American artist Lewis Baltz that provokes critical thought on the relationships between architecture, landscape, and photography. The New Industrial Parks is part of a monographic series developed in the 1970s (The Tract Houses, Maryland, Nevada and Park City) that deals with wide-ranging cultural and philosophical questions about(...)
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White Walls and Black Tiles
White Walls and Black Tiles
Taro Cai and Peter Sealy on how travel photography reframed Chinese garden aesthetics
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1 feuillet: Appel de candidatures 16 feuillets: Document "Manifestation d'intérêt-portfolio" 1 carte d'affaire 1 copie couleur d'un dessin 1 photographie: vue de maquette noir et blanc, 20 x 25,5 cm Dépliants sur l'artiste Michel Lagacé jusqu'à 23 x 30 cm 3 feuillets: Entrevue avec Michel Lagacé photocopies 15 feuillets: Notes manuscrites préparatoires au document "Manifestation d'intérêt-portfolio" 8 photocopies d'articles de journaux 8 septembre 1989- 11 août 1990 Lettre de Stanley Abercrombie à Jacques Rousseau 25 mai 1992 notes: croquis de Jacques Rousseau à l'endos 1 feuillet: Croquis à l'encre 15 x 23 cm 5 feuillets: Plan, coupe et élévation de l'Église paroissiale de Rimouski ozalid et photocopies 10 feuillets: Correspondance entre Mme Odile Hénault et Jacques Rousseau 15 au 21 mai 1992 12 feuillets: Notes manuscrites
"Manifestation d'intérêt-portfolio"
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1 feuillet: Appel de candidatures 16 feuillets: Document "Manifestation d'intérêt-portfolio" 1 carte d'affaire 1 copie couleur d'un dessin 1 photographie: vue de maquette noir et blanc, 20 x 25,5 cm Dépliants sur l'artiste Michel Lagacé jusqu'à 23 x 30 cm 3 feuillets: Entrevue avec Michel Lagacé photocopies 15 feuillets: Notes manuscrites préparatoires au document "Manifestation d'intérêt-portfolio" 8 photocopies d'articles de journaux 8 septembre 1989- 11 août 1990 Lettre de Stanley Abercrombie à Jacques Rousseau 25 mai 1992 notes: croquis de Jacques Rousseau à l'endos 1 feuillet: Croquis à l'encre 15 x 23 cm 5 feuillets: Plan, coupe et élévation de l'Église paroissiale de Rimouski ozalid et photocopies 10 feuillets: Correspondance entre Mme Odile Hénault et Jacques Rousseau 15 au 21 mai 1992 12 feuillets: Notes manuscrites
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British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
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7 December 2006 to 25 March 2007
Victor Burgin: Voyage to Italy
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British conceptual artist Victor Burgin has been influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the still and moving image. Commissioned by the CCA, Voyage to Italy comprises two series of black and white photographs and an evocative video that engage the timeless beauty and lasting resonance of a nineteenth-century Carlo Fratacci photograph of Pompeii in the CCA(...)
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In 1929, Ilse Bing bought a Leica camera and started a photographic career that took her from Frankfurt to New York via Paris. While still in Frankfurt, she was commissioned by architect and urban planner Mart Stam to undertake a photographic survey of the modern buildings that were being erected in the city, including the Henry and Emma Budge-Heim H-block building. Built(...)
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5 September 2013 to 5 December 2013
H-BLOCK: Social Housing – Ilse Bing
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In 1929, Ilse Bing bought a Leica camera and started a photographic career that took her from Frankfurt to New York via Paris. While still in Frankfurt, she was commissioned by architect and urban planner Mart Stam to undertake a photographic survey of the modern buildings that were being erected in the city, including the Henry and Emma Budge-Heim H-block building. Built(...)
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Sounding Towers
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20th century, 21st century, Carlotta Darò, Chabolovka, communism, communisme, El Lissitzky, Emily Thompson, Geoff Manaugh, Ilia Chashnik, Karin Bijsterveld, Lenin, Lénine, Lissitzky, photographie, photography, radio, Richard Pare, Sabine von Fischer, Sensations urbaines, Sense of the City, Shabolovka, Soviet Union, Susan Buck-Morss, technologie, technology, tour, tower, Union soviétique, Vitebsk, Vladimir Shukhov, XXe siècle, XXIe siècle
23 July 2012
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