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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11135/
This two-part exhibition explores the figure of the stranger in contemporary art, architecture, and cultural life. Works respond to
apocalypse in the modern sense, simply making the world uninhabitable, generic. Exhibition curated by Aaron Levy, Slought Foundation. The second iteration will take place at The Rosenbach Museum & Library from July to September, 2003.
Gans & Jelacic’s Extreme Housing ameliorates living conditions for those persons permanently if internally displaced from the
economic and geopolitical order. Lars Wallsten’s Pictures of crime catalogues the violence that empties out the city, marking the
dissolution of the public and private. Katrin Sigurdardottir’s Untitled suspends the urban landscape in water, producing
uninhabitable landscapes at once desirable and desolate. Aaron Levy’s Kloster Indersdorf series revisits an orphanage in 1945
and recasts the photographic address as a signifier of abandonment. Gregg Lambert’s Of Strangers: Notes on statelessness
reexamines continental philosophy and public culture through the figure of the stranger.
Works include:
Gans & Jelacic, Architecture and Design: Extreme Housing
Lars Wallsten: Pictures of crime
Katrin Sigurdardottir: Untitled, 2001-2003
Aaron Levy: Search String: Kloster Indersdorf
Gregg Lambert: Of Strangers: Notes on statelessness and intimacy
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Deborah Gans and Matthew Jelacic are partners in the office Gans & Jelacic, Architecture and Design. Their work in the fields of industrial design and architecture has been exhibited at RIBA, London, IFA, Paris and the Van Alen Institute in New York City. Their recent investigation into disaster relief housing has won international awards and a grant for development from the Johnny Walker Fund. Both Gans and Jelacic are Professors in architecture at Pratt Institute in New York. Deborah Gans is the author of The Le Corbusier Guide (Princeton Architectural Press) and the editor of a forthcoming book The Organic Appproach (Architecture/John Wiley- London).
Lars Wallsten was born in 1957 in Stockholm, Sweden, where he currently resides. He has exhibited in individual and group shows throughout Scandinavia, including the 1999 exhibition "Modern Times II" at the Hasselblad Center, Sweden. Recent projects including "Pictures of Crime" and "Crimescape" engage his earlier work as a policeman. Along with Chris Burden, Zbigniew Libera and Olav Westphalen, he was the subject of an extended feature in a recent issue of the bilingual magazine "Index" on Art and the Law. (click here to preview the "Pictures of Crime" series)
Katrín Sigurdardóttir was born in 1967 in Reykjavik and currently lives in New York. Her work examines distance and memory and their embodiment in and through architecture, urbanism and cartography. She has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the United States, including the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, the Icelandic National Gallery of Art, Iceland, the Victoria Miro Warehouse, London, the Centre d´Art Contemporaine á Séte, France, and the Hannover Kunstverein, Germany. She received a 2002-2003 fellowship through the Icelandic National Endowment for the Arts, and was a finalist for the Carnegie Art Award in 2002. Recent lectures on her work in the United States include Colgate University and Middlebury College. She is currently preparing for a solo show with Galleria Maze, Torino.
Gregg Lambert, Associate Professor of English & Textual Studies, Syracuse University, has written extensively on contemporary philosophy and literary theory, as well as on psychoanalysis, ethnography, religion, aesthetics, and current debates around the fate of the Humanities in the contemporary university. In addition to numerous articles and chapters on these subjects, he is the author of The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Continuum, 2002), Report to the Academy ("Critical Studies in the Humanities," Davies Group, 2001), and Return of the Baroque: Art, Culture, and Theory in the Modern Age (also forthcoming from Continuum Books in 2003).
Internal Links:
http://slought.org/content/11159/
http://slought.org/images/Wallsten/
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