Informal architectures : space and contemporary culture

Kiendl, Anthony Frank, 1968- (Added Author). Walter Phillips Gallery. (Added Author). Plug In ICA (Gallery) (Added Author).

Summary: "lnformal Architectures is a compilation of new and classic writing and visual art exploring spatial culture in modernity post-9/ll. The work gathered here creates an alternative perspective on the built environment through contemporary culture. Particular attention is paid to spaces that are in some way temporary, contingent, marginal or fictional in order to critically analyse the meaning of art, and to provide a tenable counter-narrative to architecture's dominant ideologies concerning technological imperatives and the monumental." "This book examines theories of space from descriptive, analytic and creative perspectives in art, theory and literature and features works and text by such internationally acclaimed artists as Dan Graham, Marjetica Potrc, Gordon Matta-Clark, David Hoffos, Jimmie Durham, Luanne Martineau, William Pope.L and Rita McKeough."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9781906155339
ISBN: 190615533X
Physical Description: print
207 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 29 cm.
Publisher: London : Black Dog Publishing, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Based on an exhibition of the same name held at the Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, 22 June-23 September 2007 and Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 3 May-28 June 2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction / Anthony Kiendl -- Informal Architectures: Space in Contemporary Culture / Anthony Kiendl -- Space/Perception -- Popular Science / Patrick Keiller -- Center for Land Use Interpretation -- Emptiness and Imagination / Marie-Paule Macdonald -- Wir Mienen: die seldstras ierer sind die heiden aile zeiten un lander / Knowles Eddy Knowles -- Bungalow Blitz: On Art, Architecture and Curating / Aoife Mac Namara -- Research Photographs / Kim Adams -- Termination of View / Bernie Miller -- Corner Pieces (Banff) / Lance Blomgren -- Death by Chocolate: Dan Graham in Conversation with Anthony Kiendl -- Consumption/Ruin -- Post-Peasant Architecture: The House Bunica Built, a Case Study / Donald Goodes -- itourist? Notes on the Affective Economies of Holocaust Tourism / Paul Antick -- Evacuations: De-colonising Architecture / Eyal Weizman -- What Isn't There / Elle Flanders -- Lida Abdul: An Informal Architect / Sara Raza -- Land fills and Lifescapes: The Transformation of New York's Fresh Kills / Joel McKim -- William Pope.L in Conversation with Anthony Kiendl -- Monument/Ephemerality -- Politics of Informal Production / Andrea Phillips -- Goldfinger Project / Arni Haraldsson -- Ruptures on the Architectural Grid: Brian Jungen's Treaty Project, Metis Road Allowance Houses and other Models of Inhabiting the 'In-between' / Candice Hopkins -- Temporary Territories / Marjetica Petre -- Tent Embassies: Collapsing, Australia and Architecture / Gregory Cowan -- Ex Urbus / Andrew King and Angela Silver -- Portable Architecture: Design Workshops at Domaine de Boisbuchet / Robert Kronenburg -- Architecture of Motion / Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy -- Eating Architecture / Rita McKeough -- Between the Furniture and the Building (Between a Rock and a Hard Place) / Jimmie Durham -- Caravans are Cool / Sean Topham.