The instructions for Pierre Huyghe‘s ‘Influenced’ (2011)
Monthly Archives: February 2015
E.J. Pace
‘The descent of the Modernists’ (1922) by E.J. Pace.
A Fundamentalist Christian cartoon portraying Modernism as the descent from Christianity to atheism, first published in 1922 and then used in the book ‘Seven Questions in Dispute’ by William Jennings Bryan.
Le Corbusier
‘Villa Savoye’ (1929) by Le Corbusier.
Considered by many to be the seminal work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, this house is seen as one of the ultimate ‘machines for living’.
Le Corbusier with a model of Villa Savoye.
The construction of the house.
Jesse Wine
Jesse Wine, ‘Young man red (eating)’ (2014)
glazed ceramic and steel, dimensions variable (figure 350cm tall)
William Pope.L
William Pope.L, ‘The Great White Way, 22 miles, 9 years, 1 street’ (2001-ongoing). From the larger series ‘eRacism’.
People who are forced to give up their verticality are prey to all kinds of dangers. But, let us imagine a person who has a job, possesses the means to remain vertical, but chooses momentarily to give up that verticality? To undergo that threat to his/her bodily/spiritual categories—that person would learn something. I did… Now I crawl to remember. – William Pope.L