Something About Rooms And Walls

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Apr 09

Triple whammy April 30th: archeography IV, Movement Research Festival, and the catalog release

Please join SUPERFRONT for the opening of the 4th and final ARCHEOGRAPHY Project, as well as the publishing of the The Archeography Project Series catalog, which documents all 4 projects in the series – over 50 pages of architectural experimentation, with essays by contributors in New York and Berlin.
SUPERFRONT is proud to present….

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.

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Dec 08

Something About Rooms and Walls

 

SUPERFRONT PRESENTS
SOMETHING ABOUT ROOMS AND WALLS (click for catalogue)
ANTHONY GROSS, FARRAH KARAPETIAN, ARIANE LOURIE, MITCH MCEWEN, PROXY, COKE URBANO

7 MARCH – 25 APRIL, 2008

SUPERFRONT, a storefront architecture gallery and project space, presents SOMETHING ABOUT ROOMS AND WALLS, an exhibition of recent work in various media by Anthony Gross (London), Farrah Karapetian (LA), Ariane Lourie (New York), Mitch McEwen (SuperFront), Coke Urbano (Madrid), Proxy (New York). This group show of built prototypes, works on paper, and architectural media is on view from March 7 through April 25 at Superfront in Brooklyn, NY.

Can walls think? Are rooms obsolete? What can architecture and art teach each other about rooms and walls?

The subject of rooms and walls serves here to stake out a territory without disciplinary boundaries. In architecture, as the formalism of the past 15 years has concerned itself primarily with topology and continuous space, rooms and walls have become almost passé. Yet, in art’s return to installation and object-oriented work, we see the physical space of the gallery revisited as a contemporary concern.

As contemporary currents in art revisit built architecture as a concern, echoing the 1960s and 1970s, young architects look to theoretical unbuilt architecture of the same time period. These tensions – between built and unbuilt, material and theoretical, art and architecture – underpin the works presented here. Proxy’s wall protoype, digitally generated from New York City 311 complaint data, points to the capacity of building material to store and communicate information. Farrah Karapetian’s photogram installation investigates a similar notion of storage and transfer with entirely analog tactics.

Anthony Gross, an architect by training, founded the temporarycontemporary art space in London. This is his first show in New York. Ariane Lourie teaches at Yale School of Architecture and is working on several publications with Eisenman Architects. Mitch McEwen, curator of the group show, teaches Visual Studies at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning and practices urban design. Coke Urbano, an artist trained as an interior designer and member of the Collectivo Casablanca in Madrid, converts the walls here into a child-like game of interactivity.

Whether a game that becomes a wall or a computer script that becomes a tool of fabrication, these works develop conceptual play that encounters and reconfigures the materials of building. Opens evening March 7, 2008 6pm – 8pm.