56 pages, 6″ x 9″, perfect binding, full-color interior ink
This catalog gathers the work of four projects that took place at SUPERFRONT from Fall 2008 to Spring 2009. Support SUPERFRONT with your purchase for $24.95 or download for 99 cents. Available at the opening 4/30 for a reduced $20 – one night only!
ARCHEOGRAPHY IV
April 30 2009 – June 30 2009
Opening Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 6-9 PM
Performance 7PM
Live Architecture Network with Biba Bell
Organized by Mitch McEwen and Movement Research Festival 2009: ROLL CALL
SUPERFRONT architecture gallery and project space is proud to present ARCHEOGRAPHY IV, a performative installation produced in conjunction with Movement Research Festival 2009: ROLL CALL. The exhibition features new works of architecture and performance conceived collaboratively by Live Architecture Network and choreographer Biba Bell.
This multi-disciplinary exhibition is on view from April 30, 2009 through June 30, 2009. Live performance will take place in the installation Thursday, April 30th at 7PM
JAMES COLEMAN & CARLO MARIA CIAMPOLI of Live Architecture Network, a collective of young architects that works between Barcelona, Boulder, and Brooklyn, have designed an installation specifically for this one evening of performance. Constructed of 1,000 feet of elastic and fixed to the gallery walls through digitally fabricated tracks, the installation creates undulating planes for observation and movement. Both the audience and choreographer, Biba Bell of URISOV, will navigate this soft-scape terrain. The installation will remain on view at the gallery, following the one evening of performance, through June 30, 2009.
ARCHEOGRAPHY IV is the fourth and final installation of the ARCHEOGRAPHY PROJECT series at SUPERFRONT, which has presented the combined work of architects and choreographers since October 2008. The investigation presumes that precepts of movement may act authoritatively upon architecture and, conversely, that architecture may operate within a logic of performance.
ARCHEOGRAPHY II (A VOID)
December 13 2008 – ongoing
Opening Saturday, December 13th, 2008 (online)
Ping Kwan
Organized by Mitch McEwen and MonstaH Black, SUPERFRONT
SUPERFRONT gallery is proud to present A VOID, an online exhibition designed by Ping Kwan and inspired by his collaboration with a Brooklyn-based choreographer. This “virtual” installation is on view from December 13, 2008 onward at http://www.superfront.org/AVOID.htm . ARCHEOGRAPHY II (A VOID) is the second of a series of Archeography Projects curated by SUPERFRONT, which will present the combined work of architects and choreographers through May 2009.
Due to a severe accident, the planned choreography could not be developed or performed. Thus, the performance is twice displaced, first away from the body of the performer and second away from materiality itself. A series of images delineate shimmering walls that ricochet, twist, and collapse, dividing (a representation of) the gallery space into an unpredictable series of events. Various sound collages float on- and offline, just as the sounds they are composed of float in and out of earshot. As in Georges Perec’s lipogrammatic novel A Void, written without using the letter “E,” the absence of what is gone heightens the experience of what remains.