AA Inter5 09/10

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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:01:00 +0000

Graham Portfolio 2.0

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:09:43 +0000

gksmith:

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:57:00 +0000

gksmith:

Trailer of “Los Angeles plays itself” Welcome to...

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:31:31 +0000

Trailer of “Los Angeles plays itself”

Welcome to LA…

Los Angeles plays itself is a fantastic film directed by Thom...

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:26:09 +0000

Los Angeles plays itself is a fantastic film directed by Thom Andersen in 2003.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379357/

The whole sequence is dedicated to Enrique and his house for an actor.

The final scene is dedicated to the car who went to see the house of Vincent Gallo… with a Holywood twist…

Happy New Year

S&G

interogation

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:54:04 +0000

Succouring Joe

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:31:01 +0000

Joe: “Ermm, can I take a photo of you, Sergeant?”

Sergeant Cohen: “NO! … “but thanks for asking.”

LAX disruptive utopia

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:23:31 +0000

Mulholland Dr., last night.

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:27:44 +0000

Lautner’s Garcia Residence, 1962. Formerly owned by Vincent Gallo.

“We don’t stop here!”

If you can't beat it, join it.

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:24:32 +0000

Mark Rappolt's task.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:36:11 +0000

Controlled Chaos

The brief is as follows:

Word length: 1,500 words. You WILL be marked down for going way over this.
Deadline: Monday February 8, 2010

The text will be written in the first person.

The object of the exercise, which we will call ‘Controlled Chaos’ is to look at and understand the ways in which architecture and interventions within it can act as a re-enforcing and as a critical tool of the operations and mechanisms of society at large. You should think carefully about how the control of people and their thoughts benefits social cohesion and how a relaxing of those controls (the carnival; comedy; the vacation) can be equally important. Throughout the essay, how these two things are expressed in architecture and objects. For example, you might look at traffic lights and how their presence allows traffic to flow as quickly and safely through a city as possible, but then imagine that if there were one day per year when the traffic lights were turned off, drivers would have to interract socially with each other and learn lessons about cooperation, attentiveness and courtesy.

The essay should be structured in two halves. Not necessarily literally - you don’t have to ‘do’ part 1 followed by ‘doing’ part 2, but the essay should give equal weight to both parts.

1. Objective: stick to facts

Using the texts we looked at as a base (but not quoting large passages from them), describe (explain how you observed it working) and analyse a method of architectural and/or psychological control that you observed during your trip to LA: this might be immigration at the airport; traffic restrictions; US restrictions on drinking in public places; the boundary between public and private space (say a gated community or the privatised public space of a shopping mall); Disneyland; or a privileging of private (automobile) transport of public (buses), etc. Let me know what you have selected before you begin the task, but, as Georges Perec would say, avoid trying to take on something so big that you have no chance of describing it properly.

2. Subjective: move to fantasy

Examine how this is a) beneficial to the socio-urban environment (ie. immigration prevents terrorists from entering the country or economic migrants ‘stealing’ jobs that could be taken by America’s own underprivileged classes) and b) how the rejection/undermining of it may be beneficial to that environment (ie. if America presented itself as a more welcoming and tolerant place at immigration people would be less inclined to terrorise it). And consider how this system could be improved (like in the traffic light example).

We will have two sessions in January to help this task. The first will look at some of the texts we did not manage to cover this term; the second will be a discussion of your own texts and the directions they are taking. Contact me at any time if you have questions. And have fun with it.

Best wishes,

Mark

A selection of performance images

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:26:00 +0000

Kaja. would he?

Nathaly. Running between the worlds. An eternal loop.

The guys

Again, Kaja.

In and out of the Parallels.

Anna. Fare Well. The solution

Fire. Water. Wood, Ashes. Anna. The cycle.

Rula. Oil, Copper, Phone box, Car spare dealer.

3, 2, 1, Performance.

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:33:00 +0000

COMING SOON…

December 11th 2009

Disintegration of the Projection

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:19:20 +0000

Disintegration of the Projection

Hoody in Abney Park

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:48:00 +0000

Hoody in Abney Park

objet petit x

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:09:00 +0000

In the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, objet petit a stands for the unattainable object of desire.

objet petit a is sometimes called the object cause of desire.

I secretly recorded the phone conversation between my laptop and him.

My laptop calls him objet petit x.

Desire causes voyeurism.

voyeurism causes Desire.

Hollow glasses.

voyeurism without voyeur.

the absense of the agent.

“Eyes fall on you.

There is no figure.

‘no one’ gazes at you.”

shelter 1.

Ghost. Hollow. Outline.

Shelter 2.0.

The loop of the vision.

The shape of the vision.

Shelter 2.1

The materialisation of the 2.0.

Shelter 3.0 (β)

Automatic production of the indications of voyeurs behind the wall.

Under construction.

The site.

Brydges Place.

The narrowest alley in London.

Video

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:46:40 +0000

Inference

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:42:00 +0000

THE MAKE

The conversation that started it all… I did all the talking, except for a few ‘yeahs’ and ‘true’s along the way…

The conversation was like the film ‘Persona’ by Bergman, where one person is mute, and the other is forced to do all the talking. I got interested in how to project a person into a space, and even more interested in how one person gets projected onto another…

THE UNMAKE

MY FACE on HER FACE.

MY FACE on MY FACE.

HER FACE on MY FACE.

HER FACE on HER FACE.

HER FACE projected into the negative of MY FACE.

(The project progressed to a stage where both the projection and the projection plane were both detatched from the real. ie, the the virtual image projected on a virtual version of my face… i liked this notion that the ethereal could be projected.. and also what started to emerge was the tension between the two entities…)

The Remake

The Shelter became a Freudian projection space. The idea that in analysis, the client projects his deepest desires and fears onto the analyst, became the setting for a shelter made of paper, where the tension that exists between the analyst and the client, became the tension between the real and the hyperreal.

The Shooting

This theme of tension, will be the key to the performance… stay tuned.

Weaver Of Dreams

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:59:13 +0000

Persuasive grooves of the telephone conversation on desire, were engraved onto an LP record, designed for 33rpm stereophonic reproducers.

Deeper and deeper and deeper,gliding down through the emotions on the telephone conversation by amplifying them into a “Mountain”.

Climbing up on the top of the “Mountain” by remaking it into a shelter for the WEAVER OF DREAMS, who weavs the dreams comletely not in relation to the other side,who is indifferent to everything that is happening outside.That is why it is all about the interior,about a space which is acoustically like being high above in open air,because there are no reflections of sound waves from walls,floor or ceiling,where he can expose his personality and noone can hear. Everything is absorbed.

JooHyun Cho (Joe)

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:28:00 +0000

DESIRE

DESIRE IS STATEMENT

DESIRE IS FEAR

DESIRE IS ETERNAL

DESIRE IS MONUMENTAL

DESIRE IS PROTECTION

DESIRE IS FREEDOM

DESIRE IS HOODY