Matteo Rubbi, ‘Blackboards’ (2011)
Through a workshop involving two primary schools, a physicist and some artists, the young pupils attempt to portray the complexity of the world as it is described by quantum mechanics.
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Philip Ewe at Flat i
Philip Ewe‘s performance for PLATOON at Flat i, London, last Friday (October 2).
A performance event of bombastic proportions and mobile limits. Stretching inside oneself and outside oneself – this was a one man apartment-based battle with questions and answers and then more questions…
E-1027
Le Corbusier painting a mural on Eileen Gray‘s E-1027 house.
While staying as a guest in the house in 1938 and 1939, Le Corbusier painted bright murals on its plain white walls, sometimes while nude. Infuriated, Gray considered this a defacing of her work and deemed the murals outright vandalism.
Whether he painted his murals out of admiration for Gray’s work or out of jealousy of her accomplishment we still don’t know.
Bernard Tschumi
From ‘Advertisements for Architecture’ (1976-77) by Bernard Tschumi.
Tschumi illustrated several of his early theoretical texts with Advertisements for Architecture, a series of postcard-sized juxtapositions of words and images. Each was a manifesto of sorts, confronting the dissociation between the immediacy of spatial experience and the analytical definition of theoretical concepts.
Renata Lucas
‘Ontem, areias movediças’ (Yesterday, Quicksands), by Renata Lucas for documenta 2012.
An invisible pyramid structure spread across Kassel, with fragments of the corners in four basements of the C&A store, a parking garage, the Fridericianum and the Gebrüder-Grimm-House. Accompanied by videos in different locations along the lines showing Kassel as a dessert-city.
Thanks, Amelia Groom!
