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Wednesday, 15 September 2010

The Aesthetics of Garbage & Venetian Mirrors

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A tract taken from an early chapter in Michel Tournier’s “Gemini”, in which the main character, the owner of a refuse disposal company ...
Sunday, 7 February 2010

"Degrees Of Enclosure"

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Below is the text I wrote for a film that will be showing during the "Architectural Playgrounds" show at the Ron Arad Retrospectiv...
Thursday, 5 November 2009

The Piled-Up Exoticism of Flaubert's Carthage

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I recently mentioned Flaubert's violently exotic novel Salammbo , about the Mercenary revolt in Carthage after the First Punic War , i...
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Sunday, 25 October 2009

A Room Returning From The Sum To Its Parts: Marguerite Yourcenar's Abyss

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Pieter Janssens Elinga, Room in A Dutch House. The Hermitage Museum. This is the point in the book “ Zeno of Bruges ” (or “The Abyss”) by ...
Sunday, 11 October 2009

Breaches, and Other Places

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A storied proposal about architecture as a democracy of institutionalised reification, told from the perspective of one of its citizens. ...
Monday, 5 October 2009

A Bedchamber and a Boudoir, Balzac's Architectures of Pleasure.

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Here are two spaces described in two of the three novels that make up Honore De Balzac’s ‘History of The Thirteen’ , books written at the ...
Monday, 14 September 2009

The Fight Between Utility, Pleasure, Morals and Desire in Mlle De Maupin and Its Preface

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Using the popularity of History novels in 1830s Paris, Theophile Gautier wrote a book that was ostensibly about the historical figure Mlle d...
Saturday, 5 September 2009

Extracts From Cezanne-Picasso Exhibition

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These are two extracts taken from the Musee Granet's exhibition about Cezanne's influence on Picasso, showing now in Aix-En-provenc...
Monday, 17 August 2009

Interview for the Exhibition "Parallel Cases" at the Rotterdam Biennale 2009

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I was kindly Invited by Karel Wuytack to be interviewed by two of his students, in order to take part in a textual exploration of t...
Thursday, 4 June 2009

Bad Taste: Applied, Reflexive and Camp

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There is Taste that is bad because it is defined by people who conform to or are active within a given taste (taste here being distinct from...
Tuesday, 2 June 2009

Extracts from "Relational Aesthetics" by Nicolas Bourriaud

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These are from a wonderful collection of essays/articles, of which "Towards a policy of forms" was the one I found the most arrest...
Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Text Written For "Text Fields" installation "TF002"

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Text Fields SITE TF002 is an exploration of the liminal zone that lies between the kind of quotidian space through which one wal...
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