Absence as Presence: Notes Taken On... (no. 1)

19 May 2008

Notes Taken On... (no. 1)

Notes taken on a program for the 37th seasonal recital of the Nancy Meehan Dance Company, May 17th 2008:

NO CANON, NO FORM
NEW ART; CONSTANTLY CHANGING ART; ART AS CONSTANT CHANGE
CONSTANT CRITIQUE AS CREATION
IDEA V. PRODUCTION; TRANSLATION & EXECUTION
CONDITIONED RADICALISM = JUST A DIFFERENT SET OF EXPECTATIONS
JOHN CAGE IS NO LONGER REVOLUTIONARY
EVERYDAY SYMPHONY

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I'm a renegade architect, a dysfunctionalist utopian visionary. I see patterns in the city and like to write about them. I like syncopation. I think the only interesting thing about rigidity is crossing it at an oblique diagonal. I think that it's an utter sham that contemporary architectural education starts with the modernist movement. I'm vehemently not a classicist. I believe in the beauty of play, the beauty of constraints, of limits. I'm wary of automation, but can see the appeal. I'm trying to find something elusive. I've been studying architectural theory and history for a while and am somewhat frustrated with the state of the field. I believe that old lessons can be relearned and reapplied. I believe that every architectural decision requires a rigid justification: precedent and formalism just don't cut it. I believe architecture must be radically rethought; I believe architecture is in serious danger of losing its roots and its reality in the earth. This is a place for critique and creation, for hypotheses about the city and its buildings, for techniques of creation, for hunting down that elusive property of meaning, a place of play and experimentation.

This is a place for catastrophe.

Absence as Presence

19 May 2008

Notes Taken On... (no. 1)

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