Tag: Architecture

“Wir meinen: die Selbstrasierer sind die Helden alle Zeiten und Länder”

Photographs and documentation of actions and installation, video

Developed as a commission for the McKinsey & Co. offices in Frankfurt (2006), published in Informal Architectures: space and contemporary culture (Black Dog Publishers, 2008)

Dieter Rams, designer whose domestic furnishings and appliances made the Braun company famous, lives on a mountain on the edge of Frankfurt, in a house he designed which functions like a living museum to his own products. Taking his living/working environment as a kind of role model for collective production, we developed models for co-habitation in the studio as well as in-situ, staking out his house from the woods across the street. Eventually we made it inside to interview him.

 

World Portable Gallery Convention 2012

Exhibition realized in cooperation with Eyelevel Gallery, September 2012.

The World Portable Gallery Convention 2012 was an international convention on portable galleries and alternative spaces hosted by Eyelevel Gallery during the month of September 2012.

Against the backdrop of the construction of a massive $164-million convention centre in downtown Halifax—and therefore a huge emphasis on the economic potentials of convening and networking—the project celebrated the variety of spaces artists and others have initiated with the smallest of means.

Investigations were thereby conducted into topics including scale, autonomy, mobility, intimacy, as well as transitions from alternative to established, and the pathways between DIY and entrepreneur.

For a PDF of the book (size: 80 mb) documenting the project, click here

Smaller-size excerpts:

Introduction
Radical Napkin Theology

For more details on the project, click here

For a specially-edited issue of CTRL+P online journal, click here

Installation view, from left to right: Museum of Mental Objects (Judy Freya Q. Sibayan); Nasubi Gallery (Ozawa Tsuyoshi) showing Ken Lum; background: Gallery Deluxe Gallery (Paul Hammond and Francesca Tallone) showing Chris Foster; foreground: Reduce Art Flights (Gustav Metzger).

DIY MoMO Guidelines for the Museum of Mental Objects.

Nasubi Gallery showing Ken Lum.

Gallery Deluxe Gallery showing Chris Foster’s Convoy.

RAF campaign making appearances across the city.

Installation view, from left to right: Coat of Charms (Hannah Jickling) showing F* Mountain; Nanomuseum (Hans Ulrich Obrist) showing the shop (Vitamin Creative Space) presented by Matt Hope.

 

Out on the town: Coat of Charms showing F* Mountain’s Observer of Beautiful Forms; Nanomuseum making an appearance on morning TV.

Alopecia Gallery (Gordon B. Isenor) showing Duke and Battersby’s Heroin Song.

Installation view: Feral Trade Café (Kate Rich)

Velcro Gallery (Craig Leonard with Beck Osbourne) showing Open Call.

P.R. Rankin Gallery (Elizabeth Johnson and Michael McCormack) collected after-hours phone messages.

Michael McCormack introducing the panel “Expose Your Self.”

MediaPackBoard (Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas) on a tour around the Nova Centre construction site.

Site of the Nova Centre, circa September 2012.

Cultural Proposal

In collaboration with Ragunath V.
Correspondence, photography and architectural model.
Frankfurt am Main, DE, 2006.

An art museum was proposed for a miniature train set in the Frankfurt train station to its owners and an architectural proposal was made in collaboration with Ragunath V.


Architectural rendering of the proposed Kunsthalle, whose structure morphs between letters borrowed from the font of the Frankfurt street car’s digital signage.

LOG

In collaboration with Ragunath V
Sculpture with sound and programming components
Shown at Explum 08, Murcia, Spain (2008)

A sculpture and media piece made in collaboration with architect Ragunath V, it consisted of a log produced from a parametric computer script and laser cut, and a sound component. Inside the sculpture were two speakers that emitted a “call”: an appropriated simulation dinosaur roar changed periodically and continuously. The speaker cables led to a laptop connected to the Internet; the sound altered parametrically with data collected from a website selling reproductions of artworks.