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17/03/2011
25/10/2010
WAY OUT (YLE)
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Photograph by Maija-Liisa Juntti
Photograph by Maija-Liisa Juntti
The "WAY OUT | 11 experiments and explorations"exhibition is being much talked about. Yle, Finland's first radio station dedicated an article to that event.
WAY OUT (BACK TO BASICS)
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photograph by Timo Halko
The "WAY OUT | 11 experiments and explorations" exhibition goes into winter quarters. It will be on display from 22.10.2010 to 16.01.2011 at Rovaniemi Arktikum (Lapland, Finland), a scientific centre for interpretation and research on Arctic cultures.
Arktikum
22.10.10-16.01.11 Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00
Opening event 21.10.10 18:00
Arctic Centre
Pohjoiranta 4 Rovaniemi Finland
21/03/2010
13/03/2010
WAY OUT
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We are glad to invite you to the exhibition "WAY OUT | 11 experiments and explorations"
A group of students escaped from the civilization to ind inspiration up north in Lapland. This experience in the cold Lappish winter led them to interpret their personal points of view into concrete works of art. "Way Out" gathers eleven experiments from one shared exploration.
Atski Gallery (8th floor)
16-26.03.10 mon-fri 9:00 to 16:00
Opening event 16.03 from 16:00 | after party in Kipsari from 18:00
Aalto University | School of Art and Design
135C Hämeentie Helsinki Finland
Adèle Arnaud | Timo Halko | Antti Kienanen | Kim Lê | Joanne Lin | Lauri Löppönen | Johanna Nieminen | Aivi Ojala | Vincent Vergain | Juho-Pekka Virtanen | Gerrit Wigger
Coodinators: Maarit Mäkelä | Simo Puintila
11/03/2010
SHABASHNIK
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"Shabashing" was a free market anomaly in a planned socialistic society. Because the shortage of productive workers jeopardized the completion of five-year plans, collective farms and factories were allowed to hire freelancers (shabashniks) and offer liberal pay based on performance. Teams of shabashniks were universally hated by collective farmers and factory workers, but were tolerated. In the Rusian language, "shabashnik" is particularly negative. Few years ago, shabashniks' activities were still considered going against the socialist moral. Supposedly, shabashniks were parasites taking advantage of momentary difficulties in the planned economy; their huge incomes woke resentment in the collective sector workers and employees and they often appeared as "antisocial elements'.
Partly from: K. Malfliet, La nouvelle loi sur le travail individuel en URSS in RIDC, Paris, 1988
TRIBUTE TO N. SUTYAGIN
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"The biggest undiscovered potential of being in the periphery is the liberation from the established consensus."
M. Jørgensen in Northern Experiments, The Barents Urban Survey 2009
M. Jørgensen in Northern Experiments, The Barents Urban Survey 2009
Dominating the skyline of Arkhangelsk, a city in Russia's far northwest, the 13-story Sutyagin house is belived to be the world's tallest wooden house. Constructed by Nikolai P. Sutyagin over 15 years (starting in 1992), without formal plans or a building permit, the structure deteriorated while he spent a few years in prison. Condemned by the city as a fire hazard, the house was pulled down in spring 2009.
"Shabashnik" is a replica based on the few remaining pictures found on the Internet.
12/01/2010
MY SON IS A CONNOISSEUR
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I told you here, but one speaks elsewhere about this:
"Vincent Vergain, student of the Malaquais School of Architecture in Paris, created this model in a workshop entitled "City in a Suitcase". Vincent created this playful 3D representation as a critique on the passive, 2 dimensional way in which we absorb famous architectural works through images in books and magazines.
I told you here, but one speaks elsewhere about this:
"Vincent Vergain, student of the Malaquais School of Architecture in Paris, created this model in a workshop entitled "City in a Suitcase". Vincent created this playful 3D representation as a critique on the passive, 2 dimensional way in which we absorb famous architectural works through images in books and magazines.
The model turns the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan into something of a child's "shape sorter" toy. Why just nurture your kid's spacial awareness when they can be an architecture connoisseur too?!"
Sam Dunne, from www.core77.com (design magazine)
11/01/2010
PARISIAN UNCANNY
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Simon Boudvin, Hausmann, 2005
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"How the Uncanny Leads to Critique - Digitally modified photographs of Paris"
This theorical essay questions contemporary photographs, particularly digitally modified ones, and their role in the way inhabitants, visitors and users perceive Paris.
You can download here for free the collection of essays written by students from both Paris-Malaquais School of architecture in Paris and Columbia University in New-York.
Simon Boudvin, Hausmann, 2005
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"How the Uncanny Leads to Critique - Digitally modified photographs of Paris"
This theorical essay questions contemporary photographs, particularly digitally modified ones, and their role in the way inhabitants, visitors and users perceive Paris.
You can download here for free the collection of essays written by students from both Paris-Malaquais School of architecture in Paris and Columbia University in New-York.
10/01/2010
CITY IN A SUITCASE
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Architectural spaces are in general reduced to images, projections of volumes on planes. What an absurdity! Think a second about what architecture loses when we flatten it on a glossy magazine's corner!
How to balance the loss? How to pass the image in order to show more, to show what is the project's core?
Let's change the medium! Let's represent a three-dimension by another three-dimension!
Though, can we reach, thanks to modelling, the image's level of abstraction? We have to discard superfluity, keep exclusively what is meaningful. Reach the core of the space.
Fit the project in a suitcase
Reduce it
Retain only the essential
Keep the concept
Naked
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Architectural spaces are in general reduced to images, projections of volumes on planes. What an absurdity! Think a second about what architecture loses when we flatten it on a glossy magazine's corner!
How to balance the loss? How to pass the image in order to show more, to show what is the project's core?
Let's change the medium! Let's represent a three-dimension by another three-dimension!
Though, can we reach, thanks to modelling, the image's level of abstraction? We have to discard superfluity, keep exclusively what is meaningful. Reach the core of the space.
Fit the project in a suitcase
Reduce it
Retain only the essential
Keep the concept
Naked
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