Objects on Plinths

a burned justice (Jannis Kounellis) at Brandhorst Museum, Munich

where they also had

a paint splattered parrot (Jannis Kounellis)

Amore, (Jeff Koons)

a dog, (Rosemarie Trockel)

a grave (Cy Twombly)

 outside the Musee de l'art moderne de la ville de Paris, AIDS (General Idea)

on the street in St Germain, a hair roller building (Sylvie Fleury)

(it's not a building but it looks identical to my Tube House, so maybe it is)

 at the Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, a monitor playing a video of a solar power boombox abandoned at the North Pole, (Joanna Malinowska) 

then at Pinakotek der Moderne in Munich, 

a tortured head Georg Baselitz)

somebody whose name I forgot to jot down

another nobody kneeling, crawling

a slave, (Henri Matisse)

a scatter of letters (Alix Delmas, also from ECLV

as curated by great Paul Ardenne)

in Versailles, a building on a marble piece of paper, 

eventually on top of a plinth, 

eventually rounding off a list that could only fnd closure with

the uber-object on a plinth, Hans Haacke's Condensation Cube. 

An empty plexiglass box with some H2O 

that goes from mist to drops over and over again.

Suns and Thoughts (for DLD11)

and here's a selection from Slideshow #2

Superstudio

Hans Holein

Laurids Ortner

unknown

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Andrea Branzi

Phillipe Rahm

Gianni Pettena

Peter Cook

unknown

Guy Rottier

me

Clouds and Moons and Buildings (for DLD2011)

Here's a few of the slides from "Clouds and Moons and Buildings", one of the two slideshows I put together for DLD11 (Arts), as curated by Johannes Fricke Waldhausen and Hans Urlich Obrist

Buckie Fuller

Ugo la Pietra

Friedrich St Florian

Yves Klein

Piranesi

Diller Scofidio +Renfro

Guy Rottier + Yona Friedman

Haus-Rucker-Co.

yours truly

Speedism

more Haus-Rucker-Co

Nigel Coates

Zund Up (which is actually Hans Hollein)

and Guy Rottier of course. And if anybody knows where to find better scans of Rottier, and especially the Architecture d'occasion that I put in my 2008 slideshow, do let me know

Ever Clouds Domino @ DLD11

Here's a short talk on the Cloud House which seems to be getting attention anew. In the talk, I attempt to connect the idea of the domino frame as a template which people "fill up with their lives" as similar situation to todays "cloud computing lifestyle where we constantly upload our "life" onto templates such as facebook, flickr, twitter and tumblr. Finally the way that the Dom-ino frame was used in the south mediterranean, as an ephemeral structure to be completed at will, and to be constantly updated as a building, related to the current internet constant customization of cloud pages (google themes, gmail themes, facebook setting etc). And of course how it is all put together into a single memorable object.

Watch live streaming video from dldconference at livestream.com

and here's the entire Ever Clouds panel, as moderated by Hans Urlich Obrist, featuring among others the great Hubert Damisch (Philosopher), Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro)
Hans Magnus Enzenberger (Poet) and Mr Tomas Saraceno (Artist)

Two Buildings

We're super soon starting constuctin on two buiding renovations 

in the the Keramikos-Metaxourgio area with Iasson Tsakonas and the Oliaros team.

The buildings, after succesfully being used for the Re-Map KM project extensively, 

are now being renovated, each in collaboration with an artist, 

who has developed an approach for the so called "blind" facades of the buildings.

On Leonidou 11, Angelo Plessas' "MeLookingAtYou.com" mural extends to the front of the building 

and becomes part, 

if not entirely all the architecture.

on Keramikou 51, two alternating shutter systems make up the facade: 

The fabric tents of the apartment buildings 

and the wooden shutters of the neoclassical/vernacular housing found in the area.

on the sides, norwegian artist Matias Faldbakken 

brings his "book scans" series to a logical conclusion: 

Scans of "dead" or inactive areas in books are placed in the "blind" 

or inactive side facades.

Team on Angelidakis studio has included:  Alexandros Papadias, Sotiris Vasiliou, Nana Stathi, Dimitris Sylaidos, Eirini Anthouli, Minas Konstandinou, Pavlos Bakagianis

Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan, and other destinations

"Through the windshield the road stabbed the horizon, 

causing it to bleed a sunny incadescence."

"One couldnt help feeling that this was a ride on a knife
covered with solar blood."

"Time is devoid of objects when one displaces all destinations"



"The steady hiss of the air-conditioner in the rented Dodge Dart might have been the voice of Eecath - the god of Thought and Wind."


"Timelessness is found in the lapsed moments of perception, in the common pause that breaks apart into a sandstorm of pauses." (our plane looped)

maybe we head for The hypothetical continent of Cathaysia (1971)

or Atlantis

all images from Robert Smithson's Collected Writings, edited by Jack Flam. Excerps from "Incidents of Mirror-Travel in the Yucatan, 1969)