so i bother lee all the time on google chat and we end up having these super long, back and forth theoretical, philosophical and gossipy conversations. since i am always bringing stuff up he suggested i post some of the references.

to me one of the most interesting aspects of disembody is the possibilities of interaction provided by an architectural gesture. and although i am not sure that authorship in art can be shared without parsimony i am pretty sure human experience can be, to a certain extent, communitarian. and creating a space that frames and contextualizes this could be a really great experiment. i have been reading up a lot on the significance of architecture as a state of mind. you know the “home is in the head” thing, so obviously that involves a lot of matta-clark. a couple of his projects can be looked as parallel to disembody: the anarchitecture collaboration project that he developed with many other artists and the food restaurant he opened.

food was the restaurant he opened in soho for the then nascent, loft dwelling art community. it literally and metaphorically nourished its patrons.

anarchitecture consisted of a collaboration between “a dozen of well known young artists, coming from a range of disciplines, (whom) began meetings to produce a series of collaborative proposals. (…) as an attempt at clarifying ideas about space which are personal insights and reactions rather than formal sociopolitical statements.”

here is a pretty good article about it:

anarchitecture

some of my matta-clark favorites:

slivers

conical

next time: more stuff.