Bains::Connective

[lilia]

14-05-2007

Subjective Architecture meeting

Lilia Mestre, Edurne Rubio, Laurent Liefooghe, Els Van Riel, Renato Nicolodi, Miek, Emmanuelle


Some ideas evocated during the conversation /

Renato Nicolodi showed his work.
- monumental concrete pieces between architecture and sculpture inspired by classical architecture (scale models: possibility to walk on them)
- site specific works
- the concept of sacrality
- monument for a memory, a collective architecture which alludes, refers to our different cultures
- these sculptures include a “black hole”: non-space, negative space
- they function as a mirror
- they play on monumentality: they can have a narrative aspect, they are fictive monuments
- they are un-problematic-monuments because they don’t refer to reality

http://ronmandos.resourcestudio.nl/artist/biography/10/renato_nicolodi

http://www.galeries.nl/mnkunstenaar.asp?artistnr=24001&vane=1&em=&meer=&sessionti=341722221

Laurent Liefooghe talked about the story he wrote on those who can’t belong to European Union: “borders of Europe”.
- negative spaces with scary aspect, like a no man’s land, also the space where everything is possible, outside of every code
- it could be a metaphor for the exile of the artists: architects are looking for spaces where they could escape, pure spaces, non-perverted spaces, (not to be assimilated to the anthropological theory of “non-lieu”)
- parallel between architecture and a story, which is a monumental construction


On their works (their architectonic vision on the ancient swimming pool of Forest):
? Laurent Liefooghe talked about a new material (a sort of silver paper, quite transparent) he discovered recently and which could create an interesting effect. Tensed as a screen into the swimming pool, it could reflect the space, and lightened in a specific way, it could create water effects. It can as well be the support for the projection of the making of the model of the swimming pool. These crossed effects play as a double “mise en abîme” of the swimming pool within the space itself, perceived in three different ways (directly and indirectly as a reflection or as a projection).

? Edurne Rubio has found two archived pictures presenting the swimming pool in the 30’s. It seems to her that it could be a good medium to start her work. She will film them, giving the impression that she’s in the space. This movie could be completed with a theatrical dimension created by a fictive conversation happening between people.



References /

• books

? Michel Foucault, Surveiller et punir, in which he explains what is the Panopticon, a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveiller_et_punir


? Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (L’éloge de l’ombre)
In Praise of Shadows (???? In'ei Raisan?) is the title of a short book on aesthetics by the Japanese author Junichiro Tanizaki. First published in 1933, the essay consists of sixteen sections that discuss traditional Japanese aesthetics. Comparisons to light and darkness are used to contrast Western and Asian cultures; while the West, in its striving for progress, is presented as continuously searching for light and clarity, the subtle and subdued forms of oriental art and literature are seen by Tanizaki as an appreciation of shadows.

• Artists
? Michel François
http://www.kfda.be/en/node/86
During the KunstenFestivaldesarts : An installation called Studio accompanies the screening of the film. A weapon attached to an object-mirror disappears beneath the intense, dazzling lights of ten projectors, echoing all the viewpoints encountered. Michel François has been given carte blanche at La Raffinerie as part of Flowers.

? Rachel Whiteread
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Whiteread
A British artist, the first woman to win the Turner Prize.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/whiteread.htm

? Alberto Burri, Il Grande Cretto, Gibellina, Sicilia
Land Art
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Burri
http://hipercroquis.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/alberto-burri-el-cretto-de-gibellina-lava-blanca/

? Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Peter Eisenman
http://www.holocaust-mahnmal.de/en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe

• Movies and TV reality
? Yaël André, Dame à chats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya%C3%ABl_Andr%C3%A9
? Second life
http://secondlife.com/




Report written by Lilia Mestre and Emmanuelle Nizou.

[charlotte]

This seems a very interesting magazine to me. You have to subscribe and pay in order to get it....
Here is the link http://cgj.sagepub.com/current.dtl
there is also a text on Sebald, the author who was mentioned in the first meeting.