pause…………
Grieghallen - Bergen, Norway
courtesy of monoskop - click for pdf
Brutalism [redacted] – Social Art Practice and You
It has come to our attention that a new and ‘innovative’ art practice is coming to the area. It is an organisation that engages in… wait for it: ‘Social Art Practice’.
This post is not about this particular organisation, it about the very existence of such organisations. It is about the artists,…
Fine documentary on an abandoned city project, by Chris Bevan Lee
(courtesy of www.dirtymodernscoundrel.blogspot.co.uk/)
Greenwich Aggregates - a short hörspiel work
A London (film) noir. From the gravel pits of the peninsular, stretching across the city - an ongoing psychic melodrama…
For there is a great plan afoot,
explained by E.J.Carter and Erno Goldfinger:
“Planning is really nothing more than organisation”
the pre-dictated organic growth of the ring
(Decentralisation)
commerce and buying and office centred
into giant zones of housing and light industry
can be erect’ / imposed
around and around
with roads and circles, circuses, services.
The structure of the acalephs, medusa or sea nettles
Or be the form of fingers,
Some who were functioned into hands
and the gestures of spiders declared:
A residential rearing enablement for millions
in its Beveridge parallel.
For they will want more blood not less.
We ask: you acquiesce.
Bill Griffiths - The Trauma Of The City: The Awakening (excerpt), 1999
lilian baylis school (2013) - annalisa sonzogni
Annalisa’s new site-specific photographic installation - Identikit - is being held inside the former Assembly Hall of the Lilian Baylis Old School (London SE11) before its final refurbishment. 6 March - 20 March, 2015.
new brutalist image
an impressive tate britain exhibition on the collaborative work (1949-55) between photographer nigel henderson, architects alison & peter smithson, orup engineer ronald jenkins and sculptor eduardo paolozzi. click for link…
image: hunstanton school, photographed by nigel henderson
Benjamin Rowley – Optical Sound Film No. 2, 2014 [source]