Category: (un)built

Thamizh Futurism

Adhavan Sundaramurthy All images courtesy the artist.   தேர் திருவிழா (A Tamil Juggernaut that carries the Architectural Past, Present and the Future), 1’4″ X 1’4″ X 1’4″, 2019. There’s a significant absence of consideration as to how our history may…

Psychosomatic Texture Maps and Floorplan Stickers

Jeff Carter The Michael Reese Hospital campus in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood once included eight buildings with known design collaboration by Walter Gropius, built between 1947 and 1959. As the founder of Germany’s Bauhaus school of design (1919-1933), Gropius is widely…

trans-form: a study for liminal meanderings

Gupi Ranganathan A site and time specific mural drawing project conceived and created for the Simmons University Trustman Gallery Anteroom Space, Boston MA, 25 March – 5 August 2019. trans-form: a study for liminal meanderings, 2019, Video of site and…

Unreliable Landscapes

David Cowlard An asynchronous timing is in play. The Downtown Shopping Centre opened on 30 April 1975. It was the only mall in the Auckland Central Business District and boasted 80 stores over three floors. It closed forty-one years later…

Unbuilding

Ryan Riss This is what happens when one unbuilds a drawing. Unbuilding elicits an act or a movement. It is more action than the thing. It is more about living life than the life lived. Unbuilding is about being as…

Cardboard Constructions

Richard Maloy Cardboard Structure, City Gallery Wellington, 2010, Cardboard, masking tape, paint. Image courtesy of the artist and City Gallery Wellington. This series, documentation of Richard Maloy’s cardboard constructions works brings together for the first time this ongoing body of…

Single Use

Heidi Schwegler All images and video by and courtesy of Heidi Schwegler. Designed – Manufactured – Consumed – Tossed Though ubiquitous, you’ve probably never thought about how polystyrene is made (a material frequently mistaken for Styrofoam). In the ‘pre-puff stage’,…

Pangea: A Multimedia Epoch

Hannah Newman The following poems are sourced from direct, indirect, and altered quotes from the cited sources. Hannah Newman, Lumps That Leak / Soft Bodies, 2021, epoxy clay, flocking, smartphones, charging cables, single-channel videos, vinyl, and paint. Image courtesy Mario…