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October 18, 2005
Wk 5: Rodchenko
Rodchenko’s work is so strong in its simplification of form in terms of a distillation of structure to its simplest elements which is a perfect segue to modular building. This modularity seems most possible once you know the function and context for a given form.
This week I was struck by the relationship between the way Rodchecko approaches constructing his sculptures and programmatic logic. In both construction and logic processes are broken down to their essential objects and actions.
Wk 6 Borges
Borges obscure and scientific narrative led down a path of insecurity similar to some of Nabakov’s writings--it begs questioning the narrator. The indefinite world that Borges describes, matched with dense language created the sense of a slippage of reality.
Applying these concepts to physical space while working with modularity in building my model kept me adapting whatever I was working on this week.
This all made me want to create works that are not only functional for today but imagine the applications to the as yet unrealized.
Pierre Huyghe’s moving/migrating walls or room piece, ‘Streamside Follies’ at Dia does this to some extent—shifting the walls/room in a way that we have not asked walls to do. http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs/huyghe/streamside/
Posted by Kati London at October 18, 2005 08:03 PM