antepress @ Whitechapel, Saturday 21st November 2009

I will be performing a text at Volatile Dispersal:
Festival of Art Writing at Whitechapel Gallery as part of the Known Unknowns, organised by Francesco Pedraglio.




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Luke Fowler

antepress hosts Word Play @ Whitechapel Gallery 19th November 2009

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/45/product_id/348?session_id=12581493050feb885ff0fbf78808e40a8f444036b3

This Is The Lake Of Our Feeling

I was having a conversation with Landscape Architect Apasia Kouzoupi in Athens with regards to a lake she is working in Greece, with with some students:

There was a lake in the mountains, that was two metres shallow in many parts, and every time it rained the boundaries of the lake would shift in and out of the landscape. The lake teemed with freshwater fish, and many years before the fishermen from the surrounding area moved onto the lake, building small floating platforms with conical dwelling structures on them.

The shallow lake also provided an ideal habitat for mosquitos, and because illness transmitted by the mosquito bites was rife in the area, the lake was eventually drained by the authorities to remove the problem. The entire unique socio-architectural tradition of lake dwelling was eradicated, and passed into the memories of the people who lived in the area.

Recently, due to infrastructural demands, a reservoir has been created in the area, and so the lake was replaced. Fish are being reintroduced, and rivers diverted to feed the water supply. The local people think of it as their lake returned, but the lake is now a reservoir, with a civic function. It's re-emergence is estranged from the original common ownership and use, the dwellings cannot return, and the dwellings have forgotten how to return, but the people still think of it as a lake replaced, even if it has become the image of a lake that holds them at the shore.

Athens

Bartlett: Thomas Hillier

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/emperors-castle.html

THIS.
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CASE STUDY HOUSES

Office for Subversive Architecture

http://www.osa-online.net/de/frameset/zenset.htm

Case Study Houses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_study_houses

to follow.

The Rooming House Madrigals

Paul Sietsema

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_10_41/ai_103989800/?tag=content;col1

antepress @ FormContent

On Saturday 19th September 2009, 12-6pm, antepress will be presenting recent works and discussing strategies for collaborating with FormContent in fostering a dialogue between various exhibition formats and what constitutes art writing. This relationship will culminate in a publication released in 2010.

FormContent is a curatorial project space, initiated in 2007 by Francesco Pedraglio, Caterina Riva and Pieternel Vermoortel in London’s East End. Its mission is to create a space in which to experiment with ideas and exhibition formats, to foster an active collaboration between artists and curators while challenging their roles.

Virginia Woolf ebook - The Waves

http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201091.txt

On leaving

______Clear views faced forwards, wide to the horizon.
___There were bone-rimmed holes, milk-coloured, and rust-rimmed

_____________________________________________They built a shell

__Succulent eyes were pulled backwards through these burrows, and narrow architectures were popped away from limb by limb.

The crisp edges of doorways form fades.

____________________________ Now it is brittle

____________________________ brittle waiting to be ground down, or smashed into fine sand beaches amongst all the other husks coughed up on the shore

______________________________________________All movement had been lateral

_______________________________________________________________________________________

Clear views faced forwards, wide to the horizon
There were rimmed holes, the rust-red eye-stalks of cannons watch blankly against blinkers

They built a shell knocked into the rocks and waited soft in the shadows for hard things to come and split them, flame licks and the mosquito whine of engines

Succulent eyes were pulled backwards through these burrows, and narrow architectures were popped away from limb by limb.

The crisp edges of doorways form fades.

_______________________________________________________________________________________

Newfoundland

Time-geography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsten_H%C3%A4gerstrand

Heterarchy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop

On Bridges

Legible HD version: http://www.vimeo.com/5016446

How Buildings Learn -

How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand, James Runcie
1997, 180 min.
6-part BBC series

Location of A Circle - Sol LeWitt

Lewitt, Sol, “The Location of a Circle”, in Ann Demeester, Will Holder, Dieter Roelstraete (eds.), F.R. David: “The Stuff & Nonsense” Issue, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, 2007, pp. 45-7

To unravel the planar knot of the diagram in language can be agonising – we can refer to Sol LeWitt’s The Location of A Circle from 1974. Cut loose from the illustration, it becomes an obfuscating horde of points played out amongst their relationship to other points in a narrative that positions them in a buzzing field of nested associations. In isolation this reads as a hermeneutic translation rather than a model for a heuristic process. LeWitt challenges the relationship between an idea as diagram and the art it produces.

orphaned pavilions

I can't remember where I found this.

AH (thanks Gemma): ‘The Hut Project’, 2005, Fold-Down Expandable Structure, Wooden Pallets, FM Radio Transmitter
http://www.limoncellogallery.co.uk/pages/thppics.asp

Sheds.

Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

http://www.yhchang.com/

allotment

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Diagrams

pan 2

To punch a disc in the space, create ghost-sculptures which examine the impossibility of repetition and return. If the edges of a pan are joined seamlessly, there is still a virtual spiralling in perception. We cannot return to point a) but we can replay it, and watch it accumulate.