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My show is going to be hosted by Atelier Mankouche at their office on Felch St. They’ve got a very nice space and I’m pleased that they’re helping me out.
I’m realizing that in order to keep myself going I need to take an inventory of what I’ve done so far and start to figure out what I’d like to have in my show. So, I think a portion of this week is going to be dedicated to beginning that process and printing things that haven’t yet been printed.
Things are hanging from the ceiling, I still don’t have pictures… maybe tomorrow night I’ll haul my camera stuff to studio and do it. I’m considering what I want the purpose of the space to be and thinking also about the notion that an image can be a registration of activity. I think that I need to really inhabit the shifted space in some way and since it’s a studio space it probably should have work made in it. So, I’m thinking about making some drawings on the desk in different orientations (i.e. hanging desk, desk on wall, desk upside down) and seeing what comes of it. A registration of disorientation.
For more formal documentation of the activity… architectural plan, elevation, section.
Also, maybe I’ll make some furniture sculptures to deal with the previously mentioned low end of the scale.
Theme word for the next while: displacement. Theme sentence: To the degree to which we are unable to live with failure, we adjust.
Time Log: 12 hours
Jobs Applied For: 3
Currently Reading: Architecture Studio, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Freakonomics, The Cyberiad
I’ve started an installation in one of the studios which involves moving the room’s contents to 3′ above the ground plane. Why am I doing this? Well, the logic goes something like this: I want to create a space where the normal order of things breaks down & people become uncertain as to how to interact with the space. When we walk into a room we automatically understand (because of experience, embedded cultural knowledge, etc.) that a chair is for sitting in, a table is for working on, a trashcan holds trash. These object associations operate on the smaller end of the scale spectrum of a room; the larger end being that we stand on the floor, the ceiling is above us, the walls surround us. The plan is only the generator because we walk on the floor. By shifting the floor plane up 3′ you disarm the assumptions that we make about how to interact with a space.
So… I’m hanging things from a ceiling and soon I’ll take some process shots and eventually I’ll make some architectural drawings.
Time Log: I’m not sure… I haven’t been keeping track
Jobs Applied For: 2
Currently Reading: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Freakonomics, The Cyberiad
