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Shrapnel Contemporary · 1M ago

Beam me up, Scotty! (Os Idos de Março)

This was a banal industrial corner under Williamsburg Bridge. Many would be disencouraged to walk the lesser-seen parts of Brooklyn’s hippest hood to reach the place from the nearest subway station. Particularly on a wet, gray afternoon like that of … Continue reading →
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Shrapnel Contemporary · 2M ago

Salon des Refusés #02

Penguin Pool, Berthold Lubetkin, London Zoo, 1934. Via PostalesInventadas. Park Life* A final blow to the mythology of concrete as the ultimate, universal modern material took place in 2004, when the last remaining penguins in Berthold Lubetkins’ Penguin Pool at … Continue reading →
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Shrapnel Contemporary · 3M ago

The Performative Turn

In the world of art, as in literary studies or the social sciences, one has got used to successive turns* by which tendencies metamorphose into one another. Over the last decades there were the linguistic turn, the cultural turn, and, … Continue reading →
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Shrapnel Contemporary · 4M ago

Other Little Magazines # 22 – Rainbow of Archizines

When Disegno arrived at my doorstep around the last days of December, I browsed through its tactile, lushious pages and decided that this was it. With so many new things* piling up, I absolutely had to do a round up … Continue reading →
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Shrapnel Contemporary · 4M ago

Welcome to the New World

No. This post is not yet another tribute to Terence Mallick – although I did offer The New World* dvd to my brother over Christmas. Neither is it a sardonic bienvenue into the harshest year the Old World is about … Continue reading →
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Shrapnel Contemporary · 5M ago

What Used to be Called Public Space

As I delivered my nominations for the 2012 European Prize for Public Space, and as the classic thinker of the corresponding sphere was suddenly raging, I felt the urge to go back to a book that reassesses, if not indeed upturns, … Continue reading →
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Shrapnel Contemporary · 6M ago

Performance Towards Participation

This week I take part in the El Arte és Ación/Performance & Arquitectura multifaceted event in Madrid. With an amazing array of participants, this will present, instill and again put to discussion the emergent connections between current practices of architecture … Continue reading →
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Shrapnel Contemporary · 6M ago

On the Drive of Writing (and Reading)

© Pedro Gadanho, Untitled (Tallinn Winter, 2011).  Soundtrack here. “13. Translator Richard Howard writing on Roland Barthes reminds us of the latter’s fierce determination to assert “the pleasure we must take in our reading as against … Continue reading →
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Shrapnel Contemporary · 7M ago

Two or Three Things I Learned From Her

Recently I went to the city where the International Court of Justice has its seat. At breakfast I mused at the unexpected juxtaposition of an early Rem Koolhaas, an outmoded Richard Meier and a bunch of slumlike shelters put up overnight by … Continue reading →
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Shrapnel Contemporary · 7M ago

Other Little Magazines #22 – The Unclassifiable

As I’ve briefly mentioned in my last Other Little Magazines post, there’s an enormous amount of extraordinary magazines piling in my desk that certainly deserve an urgent reference. Harvesting through them all, I now decided to pick on the unclassifiable … Continue reading →
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