Coming soon: A Short Visit

A Short Visit, RODEO, Art Athina, May 22nd

Two Views: Module 856

Yesterday I bumped into this:
Enzo Mari's Module 856,
from the Biennale of San Marino 1967.
Somehow fascinating

YouTube VeeJay for the Moment

Just contributed a video to Felix Burrichters' New York Times Blog Moment.


Great Klaus Nomi who was really the inspiration for this:

Some chairs I met today

Great family of conference chairs from the Carteco archives
they've been to parties
they've been grey and packed
and fuchsia with aquamarine and gold trim and grey,
and there was even a golden bamboo but thats coming soon

This months Pin-Up

Brand new issue of PIN-UP just arrived

with fab post memphis paranoia hotel Estela by Luis Venegas
Fabulous stacks by lovely Marcelo Krasilcic
perfect sunsets by Ann Woo
perfect Freudian slippery by Madelon Viesendorp
interviewed by Beatriz Colominaand my personal favorite, amazing furniture stacks by Florian Slotawa,
profiled by lovely Felix Burrichter of course

Dolmen, Quoit or the Dragons' House

Always been fascinated with Stonehedge and Dolmen Houses, and today I found out that in Greek they are called Δρακόσπιτα (Dragonhouses), which makes everything so more interesting and urgent. Dolmens are also called Quoits or Cromlechs, it all depends where they are, but here's a few cool examples...
typical cromlech
Dolmen
Stonehedge
of course
the most famous Dragon House in Karystos
looks totally livable
almost comfortable
little dolmen
great rocks

Random Island Memory Blast

Browsing through the photos hard-drive,

looking for island ideas,
here's maybe a few

a marble hut
a stone hut
a white rock hut
if only this was a building

Three Mile Island

After Kevin Roche, somehow I googled 3 Mile Island, the nuclear disaster groundsand this amusement park proposal came up
classic 70s photo
radiogramm
demolition
rebirth?

College Life Insurance

I was always somehow fascinated by the work of Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo
this popped up in a book on minimalism. Not sure what to think here

The Stockholm Underground

Stockholms' tunnelbana are lovingly dressed up as faux natural caves.
starting off from the airport with a simple grey cave
with the occasional screen of course
moving on to Stadshuset, getting all theatrical with abandoned bombs
and faux structures emerging thru the faux rock
yellow mysteriesRadhuset with white faux cracks
and ending up in Fridhemsplan,
a white-grey rock with Jackson Pollock-esque paint splatters
plus the prerequisite inexplicable object
and a wooden seagull (why?) flying through clouds of green spray paint.

Parco dei Mostri

I was randomly looking for Herbert List pictures

and I came across this really great one

taken at Parco dei Mostri in Bomarzo, Italy.

searching for more monsters

Then somehow randomly a friend mentioned the hall of giants

at the Palazzo del Teand from there somehow to Dutch painter Carel Willink
who painted the monsters of Bomarzo

and more

Limassol Sunday (with Christodoulos)

This past weekend in Limassol we passed the gates of orange juiceto soda-bottle Parthenons
enchanted forests in hotel lobbiesDorothy's white brick road to bunker 80's beach resorts whose logos resemble castles or letterswe looked at sea platforms
and more resortsand white wallsand minarets that always look like rockets

Teleport Fargfabriken

Just back from Sweden, and the inauguration of FF Norr, in Ostersund. Teleport Fargfabriken, the first show is a massive 80-artist exhibition cataloguing the past and perhaps future of Fargfabriken, curated by Jan Aman and CM von Hauswolf. Instead of choosing the best of, Jan poured everything in the mix, weird project next to weirder project, a random history that suddenly becomes crystal clear. Back in January when he asked me to design the show, I proposed a system for Fargfabriken instead: A set of identical, universal exhibition wall modules, cast randomly about the space as a curators toy; making a labyrinth that is also minimal and a ruin or maybe austere and always whatever. Daniel Daboczy, Fia Palmgren, Matti Molin and Karin Englund spent weeks carefully putting everything together. The opening was a blast, and by the end of the weekend I saw a thick pile of that weeks' newspaper clippings, which is quite a bit for a small town up in the frozen north. Here's my highlightsthe legendary "dog" performance by Oleg Kulig (Interpol, Fargfabriken 1996), during which he attacked members of the audience, sending some of them to the hospital with real bites.

And they thought it was just art.

This piece generated one of the first mass email protests...
everybody was against it, though it looks just amazing today.Annika Larsson POLIISI
great wall drawing by Jesper Waldersten
Francois Roche R&Sie ArchitectsTobias Bernstrup and Mai Ueda performed
view of the space
explosive tube fire by Carsten Nicolai

parallel to the exhibition, the was the New World Bank conference, which brought to Ostersund Malcolm MacLaren, Noreena Hertz, Daniel Birnbaum, Bill Liao, Veronica Valk, yours truly, and many more
opening crowds
great Natalie Djurberg
Angelo Plessas

great sketch furniture by FRONT
I wanted the the place to be like a bombed out ruin, but thats not so possible when you have to inlcude more than a 100 works..
we included a model of the design in the show, and I'm hoping for future ruinations
and the super cool catalogue

Internet Suburbia is here

Just received the sample copy of my first book, Internet Suburbia,

by the super-nice people at DAMDI Architectural publishing,
Korea.Featuring an original essay by Yorgos Tzirtzilakis,
and additional texts by Maurizio Vogliazzo and Memos Filippidis.

240 pages, hardcover, 46 projects, color, part of the Design Documents series.

some projects that are published for the first time, like Angelo house

and lots moreglobal distribution ideabooks.nl
isbn 9788991111325, DAMDI, Idea Code 08128

Other cool titles of the DD series incluce Francois Roche + R&Sie, Juergen Mayer H, Greg Lynn, Cero 9 , NL Architects and many more

Random Thursday

Emilio Ambasz lamps
some fight
the magician
french zoo architecture
Kusama Color People

(I hope I'm not too old) to love the Duloks!

and I cant get this song out of my head for the last six months, its getting scary



even though they seriously need some video

Orange and Dark

Here's another weird shopping mall the sky was too blue so I had to delete it from the photos,
that day it had snowed, and after the mall we went walking by the beach
the pigeons were freezing by the water, some miserable cats walked around
everything was quiet

Under Construction in Ostersund

The Walls are under construction in Ostersund
they might not be concrete
maybe they will be grey
arranged like a video game
for Teleport Fargfabriken

Last night at the Angelo Foundation

Roland and Roy
Roy and Leo
Leo and Bombs
Oliver and Angelo
Venia and Vilma

Accumulations of Kusama

I'd been researching Yayoi Kusama's accumulations
but I mostly found some pics of her looking fabulous as alwaysthen some tulips

an accumulation couch

and some more accumulations

and a Soul under the Moon

, and they've been lying around forever in the blog folder
and I was thinking how to make this make sense,
but then why would a Kusama post have to make sense anyway?