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Dangers in the Air: Aerosol Architecture and Invisible Landscapes

It was a long and arduous process, but a short post on this blog slowly grew and morphed (with the expert supervision of editor John Knechtel) into an article for Alphabet City: Air, which comes out this month.

Places / Design Observer, led by its stellar editor, Nancy Levinson, ran an excerpt of it today. I’m indebted to Nancy for making the shorter piece into a clear read, but any errors or confusions are my very own! The image to the left comes from In The Air by Nerea Calvillo and collaborators at the Medialab Prado, discussed in the piece. This project served as the trigger for thinking about particles as architectural materials. Check it out on Design Observer and order your copy of Alphabet City, a wonderful alternative publication!

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In/un-stable domesticity

For your clippings files, my friends: a recent news item I wrote for Frame Magazine on “Stability”, a work by Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley, reflecting “the tradition of experimental performances-cum-architectural interventions that revolve around making changes to daily life.”

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Ernesto Neto at Park Ave. Armory

We went to see the Ernesto Neto installation (“anthropodino”) at the Armory drill hall last Saturday. Warning: photos, while I’ll offer some here for some context, are futile. What completes this piece is, for one, the smell of spices hanging from spermatozoa-like sacks, which also seem to correlate to different color zones in this gossamer being. Another dimension is the play spaces that the structure accomodates, although it seems more useful to children than anyone else.

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COLL…

The San Francisco Collage Collective, an entity that I sometimes partake in, has a show—Defiant Optimism—coming up at Galleria Extraña in Berkeley, California. Please join us for the opening or visit the show. More info clicking through the image above…

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Activity off the charts in the SF Collage Collective blog

\ “Fish in the Lake” by B.Y.

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The Bhutto Puzzle continues…

p1000439i.jpg   Luis sent new images to follow the progress of his Bhutto collages seen here last week. I also noticed one site that kindly linked to that post and called these collages “puzzles.” That word is very appropriate. As I was mentioning before, these works ask the viewer to try to follow a complex chain of causality; to try to piece together the true moments of U.S. power and influence.  Continue reading

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Optical Borderline: Housing Development Project

gw466h349.jpgfrom: Repuesto  Continue reading

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white orbit

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