Date Added:
[June 8, 2012]
Archi-space:
[black room]
Objects free you, objects tie you down: which do you believe? Your new shoes are on the table, the ladder is being walked underneath and that horseshoe is hanging the wrong way round. It’s all in the mind and in our cultures, yet it pushes our behaviour in peculiar directions. Objects are activated by narratives that are created surrounding them, and what happens when the objects are removed from the ideas? Don’t whatever you do, open that umbrella inside.
This is a conversation that took place between Alison Carlier, Richard Layzell, Amy Davies and Matthew Harrison. It started at 3:30pm on March 23rd 2012, and is still going.
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Date Added:
[June 8, 2012]
Archi-space:
[black room]
“Objects are the clasps on the pockets of space” said Malcolm de Chazal. What do the lines between objects look like; can they be tied together with string or would that tie them down? In the process of mapping we erase what is there. Are objects what they are because of their connections? Hosted by Galen Riley.
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Further Reading:
Sens-Plastique – Malcom de Chazal
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Date Added:
[June 6, 2012]
Archi-space:
[black room]
Is everything now so conceptual that we are forgetting what it feels to actually make something? David Hockney offers a relief to view his output in which there is more concern for making than meaning. And what of skills; they have had to reshape themselves as demand is for brands over high quality craftsmanship. We talk about aura…has the value of quality been subverted?
This is a conversation that took place between Jos Boys, Alison Carlier, Rose Martin and Eugene Nyee Macki,. It started at 4:15pm on March 23rd 2012, and is still going.
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