Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Marquise, 2006
Artist: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (born 1965 in Strasbourg, France; lives and works in Paris, France and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Materials: HD film, color, stereo, sound; 5 min. Description: “For her contribution to the 2006 São Paulo Biennial, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster used the work of Oscar Niemeyer as a starting point for an exploration of the relationship […]
Florian Pumhösl, Programm, 2006
Artist: Florian Pumhösl (born 1971 in Vienna, Austria; lives and works in Vienna). Materials: Film, 16 mm; back projection; color and sound; 7 min, 49 sec. Description: “The 16mm film is a portrait of the Casa Modernista, one of the first modernist buildings in São Paulo, constructed in 1927 by Gregori Warchavchik (1896–1971). Warchavchik was […]
Ann Lislegaard, Crystal World (after J. G. Ballard), 2006
Artist: Ann Lislegaard (born 1962 in Norway; lives and works in New York City, USA and Copenhagen, Denmark). Materials: 3D animation; no sound. Description: “Crystal World (after J. G. Ballard) is a 3-D animation about a journey to an abandoned hotel in a wilderness that is slowly crystallizing. As the animation moves through architectural spaces that […]
Corey McCorkle, Tower of Shadows, 2006
Artist: Corey McCorkle (born 1969 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Film; 3 min. Description: “Tower of Shadows, as a final meditation on the incontestable utopian poster-city of [the twentieth century], in spite of and perhaps because of the abject state of its incompletion, serves as a […]
Ursula Mayer, Interiors, 2006
Artist: Ursula Mayer (born Ried im Innkreis, Austria; lives and works in London, England and Austria). Materials: Super-16 mm transfer on DVD; color and black and white; 3 min 10 sec. Description: “The film Interiors (2006), portrays two women wandering through the London home of architect Ernö Goldfinger and his wife Ursula, a house, which was […]
Terence Gower, The Polytechnic, 2005
Artist: Terence Gower (born 1965 in British Columbia, Canada; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Digital video, 8 min 20 sec. Description: “This video is composed of photographs of Mexico’s Instituto politecnico nacional taken upon its completion in 1964. The video animates the still images using zooms and pans and takes the viewer […]
Louidgi Beltrame, Brasilia/Chandigarh, 2008
Artist: Louidgi Beltrame (born 1971 in Marseille, France; lives and works in Paris, France). Material: Video; sound; 26 min Description: “Two architects dreamed of building the ideal city: Oscar Niemeyer created Brasilia in the middle of the Brazilian Mato (Savanna). Le Corbusier went to India to build Chandigarh. Both cities sit like futuristic, concrete mementos […]
Dorit Margreiter and Rebecca Baron, Poverty Housing. Americus, Georgia, 2008
Artist: Dorit Margreiter (born 1967 in Vienna, Austria; lives and works in Vienna, Austria). Rebecca Baron (born 1968 in Baltimore, USA; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA). Material: Installation of 35mm film; color; sound; 13 min 58 sec. Description: “In the film installation Poverty Housing. Americus, Georgia filmmaker Rebecca Baron and artist Dorit Margreiter address […]
Caspar Stracke, Rong Xiang, 2008
Artist: Caspar Stracke (born 1967 in Germany; lives and works in New York City, USA). Material: Color video; sound; 8 min 34 sec. Description: “Rong Xiang is a work on architectural replicas, piracy and its consequences. It is a comparison of Le Corbusier’s chapel Notre Dame Du Hautin Ronchamp, France with its exact replica in […]
Luis Úrculo, Covers/Versions, 2011
Artist: Luis Úrculo (born 1978 in Madrid, Spain; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico). Materials: HD video; color; 6 min 41 sec. Description: “Covers is an investigation about architecture as a consumption object or souvenir and its relation with the domestic non-specialized language of everyday things. The work is a reconstruction and review of […]
