tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62422644920846194602024-03-14T17:35:55.654+01:00BUU: Bureau for Unstable UrbanismBureau for Unstable Urbanism is proposed as a trans-national network of individuals and groups involved in a variety of practices that engage in different ways with contemporary urban space, actually or conceptually. The project was initiated in Bergen (Norway) but is not specific to any country or city. The notion of “unstable urbanism” is an undefined yet resonant term to describe ways of thinking about or acting upon changing urban phenomena.BUUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12559305718286290056noreply@blogger.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-38719801828162149642017-01-28T17:16:00.000+01:002017-01-28T17:16:17.855+01:00Damage report / 28-01-2017<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Report filed by field operative QBJ. Observation made in the outskirts of ***** city. Evidence of intercepted techno-archeology operation. The abandoned vehicle was approached with caution. </span><br />
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This article really relates to the hypothetical destruction of urban spaces. It is of course, 'Ballardian':<br />
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<br />Brother Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04053649697784530751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-70130915944173947842017-01-18T13:41:00.000+01:002017-01-18T13:45:30.921+01:00Extract from an on-going Report<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If you revel in the pornography of ruins, this is a good time to be alive. Lucas loves to wander through the ruins of the Houses of Parliament on a wet day. Today he’s in the Commons, admiring the fungi aggregating on the green leather upholstery. He walks slowly down the central aisle, avoiding the pools of brackish water that have gathered under those rents in the roof. He pauses at the bench where Prime Ministers used to flaunt their indignation and tears off a clump of soft brownish matter. Is it edible? Could it be harvested for its psychedelic qualities?
At the same time, he’s wary. Although the elderly security guard patrolling Millbank seems to tolerate his solitary visits to this dangerous site, waving him through the sagging barrier with a quick nod, he is in a Dead Zone without official clearance. If caught, there could be consequences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And there’s a deeper unease fermenting in his mind, which makes him drop that lump of fungus. He might have blundered into another time-trap. He could become a captive of the Archons. His Gnostic soundings have certainly hit bottom, he’s in a prison of corrupted flesh, dead man in a rotten body already. Or imprisoned in the decaying infrastructure of yet another virtual universe, a stone planet honeycombed with crumbling Gothic vaults and cracking pillars.
No, he’s drifting again. Be careful what you think, it might just happen. The quantum wave function might collapse into anus mundi yet again., to admit more nonsensical shit from the Polyverse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But according to urban myth this place was once a house of power and ritual. Even now in his sixties he dimly remembers his Marxist mum and her mutterings in front of an old monochrome telly, after yet another State Opening. <i>Those swine adorned with pearls!</i>
It is hard to believe that the old Queendom was directed by the chortles and jeers of men popping up and down waving pieces of paper to guarantee war in our time, their time, their lost tranche of time in which so many disasters occurred - not mention the ensuing horrors of the Qliphothic Rupture.The perversity of the unleashed Polyverse ripped up the comfortable consensus about reality-models and took us briefly into the Chaosphere, according to various conflicting accounts. But we don’t talk about that. It was/is unthinkable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Perhaps he should follow the guidance of the National Management Party and try Focused Forgetting therapy, with neuro-electronic assistance. Harriet downstairs thinks it could become compulsory but the girl’s paranoid.
Nevertheless this has been a risky excursion, another psychogeographical expedition into his theatre of memory, for he has to create a viable link with at least one strand of his past. He takes a final look at the tarnished Mace on the Despatch Box. Nobody wants it now, not even the looters. Inexplicable. It’s time to go home, to home-base.</span>Brother Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04053649697784530751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-15897458840294065832017-01-17T17:24:00.002+01:002017-01-17T17:24:09.122+01:00Plug and play.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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JWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948418044973045608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-26379478190947157252017-01-17T10:25:00.003+01:002017-01-17T10:32:18.421+01:00The Diorama, London<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Diorama, in Regents Park. An early Victorian pre-cinematic entertainment, related to Panoramas and similar visual constructions. During the eighties it was frequently used as a venue for performances, experimental film and video art screenings, concerts, parties and other activities. The building (behind some very expensive terraced houses) appears to have been empty and unused for some time.</span><br />
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THE Diorama, on the eastern side of Park-square, Regent's-park, was exhibited in Paris long before it was brought to London, by its originators, MM. Bouton and Daguerre; the latter, the inventor of the Daguerréotype, died 1851. The exhibition-house, with the theatre in the rear, was designed by Morgan and Pugin: the spectatory had a circular ceiling, with transparent medallion portraits; the whole was built in four months, and cost 10,000<i>l</i>.</div>
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The Diorama consisted of two pictures, eighty feet in length and forty feet in height, painted in solid and in transparency, arranged so as to exhibit changes of light and shade, and a variety of natural phenomena; the spectators being kept in comparative darkness, while the picture received a concentrated light from a ground-glass roof. The contrivance was partly optical, partly mechanical; and consisted in placing the pictures within the building so constructed, that the saloon containing the spectators revolved at intervals, and brought in succession the two distinct scenes into the field of view, without the necessity of the spectators removing from their seats; while the scenery itself remained stationary, and the light was distributed by transparent and movable blinds-some placed behind the picture, for intercepting and changing the colour of the rays of light, which passed through the semi-transparent parts. Similar blinds, above and in front of the picture were movable by cords, so as to distribute or direct the rays of light. The revolving motion given to the saloon was an arc of about 73º; and while the spectators were thus passing round, no person was permitted to go in or out. The revolution of the saloon was effected by means of a sector, or portion of a wheel, with teeth which worked in a series of wheels and pinions; one man, by turning a winch, moved the whole. The space between the saloon and each of the two pictures was occupied on either side by a partition, forming a kind of avenue, proportioned in width to the size of the picture. Without such a precaution, the eye of the spectator, being thirty or forty feet distant from the canvas, would, by anything intervening, have been estranged from the object.</div>
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The combination of transparent, semi-transparent, and opaque colouring, still further assisted by the power of varying both the effects and the degree of light and shade, rendered the Diorama the most perfect scenic representation of nature; and adapted it peculiarly for moonlight subjects, or for showing such accidents in landscape as sudden gleams of sunshine or lightning. It was also unrivalled for representing architecture, particularly interiors, as powerful relief might be obtained without that exaggeration in the shadows which is almost inevitable in every other mode of painting. The interior of Canterbury Cathedral, the first picture exhibited, in 1823, was a triumph of this class; and the companion picture, the Valley of Samoa, equally admirable in atmospheric effects. In one day (Easter Monday, 1824), the receipts exceeded 200<i>l</i>.</div>
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In viewing the Diorama, the spectator was placed, as it were, at the extremity of the scene, and thus bad a view <i>across </i>or <i>through </i>it. Hence the inventor of the term compounded it of the Greek preposition <i>dia, </i>through, and <i>orama, </i>scene; though, from there being two paintings under the same roof in the building in the Regent's-park, it is supposed the term was from <i>dis, </i>twice, and <i>orama; </i>but if several paintings of the same kind were exhibited, each would be a <i>Diorama. (Black.)</i></div>
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<i><br /> </i>Although the Regent's-park Diorama was artistically successful, it was not commercially so. In September, 1848, the building and ground in the rear, with the machinery and pictures, was sold for 6750<i>l</i>.; again, in June, 1849, for 4800<i>l</i>.; and the property, with sixteen pictures, rolled on large cylinders, was next sold for 3000<i>l</i>. The building has since been converted into a Chapel for the Baptist denomination at the expense of Sir Morton Pete, Bart.</div>
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Dioramas have also been painted for our theatres by Stanfield and Roberts, the Grieves, and other artists. Other Dioramic exhibitions have been opened in the metropolis. In 1828, one was exhibited at the Queen's Bazaar, Oxford-street; in 1829, the picture was "The Destruction of York Minster by Fire," during the exhibition of which, May 28, the scenery took fire, and the premises were entirely burnt. In 1841, there was exhibited at the Bazaar, St. James's-street, a Diorama, of five large scenes, of the second funeral of Napoleon; but, though most effectively painted by members of "The Board of Arts for the Ceremony," and accompanied by funeral music by Auber, the spectacle excited little interest. At Easter, 1849, was opened the Gallery of Illustration, in the large saloon of the late residence of Mr. Nash, the architect, No. 14, Regent-street, a series of thirty-one Dioramic pictures of the Over. land Mail Route from Southampton to Calcutta; the general scenery painted by T. Grieve and W. Telbin, human figures by John Absolon, and animals by J. F. Herring and H. Weir: in picturesqueness, aerial effect, characteristic grouping, variety of' incident, richness of colour, and atmosphere skilfully varied with the several countries, this Diorama has, perhaps, scarcely been equalled; it was exhibited between 1600 and 1700 times, and visited by upwards of 250,000 persons.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/resources/theatres/show/428-diorama-arts-centre">http://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/resources/theatres/show/428-diorama-arts-centre</a><br />
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The site is currently for sale, with images that do not resemble the one above:<br />
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<br />JWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948418044973045608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-14107890235415429722017-01-17T08:57:00.000+01:002017-01-17T08:57:24.999+01:00BUU 2017 and Udon Thani, Thailand 2016<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BUU reawakens. In 2017 new initiatives will be launched. The Bureau will announce its intentions and insert its inventions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 2016 The Bureau travelled to various cities around the world, but its activities were extremely low-key, almost imperceptible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Quantum Brothers, on the page and off the page, have materialised and dematerialised, have emanated and will resonate through paratextual propositions and revisited Ballardian landscapes. 101 reasons to be curious.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11248539244848135516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-33194482024942393792014-04-17T10:22:00.000+02:002014-04-17T10:22:59.977+02:00Abandoned shopping malls in America<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Reposted from <a href="http://failedarchitecture.com/fa-bookmarks/completely-surreal-photos-of-americas-abandoned-malls/">Failed Architecture</a> website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 32px;">"This </span>blog post by <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/completely-surreal-pictures-of-americas-abandoned-malls">BuzzFeed</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 32px;"> features some incredible imagery from redundant shopping centers in the United States. The series of photos reminds us of how quickly capital moves through space, temporarily settling in places where it offers the highest returns. Obviously resulting in the constant construction of, among others, new shopping malls, and leaving many of them to rot away. The post by BuzzFeed has been incredibly popular on social media over the last week, reaching an audience far beyond the small group of architecture geeks. Once again, this emphasises the widespread fascination with urban and architectural decay, which we have been discussing </span><a href="http://failedarchitecture.com/capturing-transcience-urban-exploration-photography/" style="background-color: white; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(218, 75, 75), rgb(218, 75, 75) 2px, transparent 0px); background-position: 0px -1px; border: 0px; color: #202020; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">in another article</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 32px;"> recently. Most photos are sourced from the blogs </span><a href="http://architecturalafterlife.com/" style="background-color: white; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(218, 75, 75), rgb(218, 75, 75) 2px, transparent 0px); background-position: 0px -1px; border: 0px; color: #202020; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Architectural Afterlife</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 32px;"> and </span><a href="http://detroiturbex.com/" style="background-color: white; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, rgb(218, 75, 75), rgb(218, 75, 75) 2px, transparent 0px); background-position: 0px -1px; border: 0px; color: #202020; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Detroiturbex</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 32px;">, which are both worth following as well."</span></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11248539244848135516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-8045590181482284892014-02-01T10:59:00.004+01:002014-02-01T10:59:53.837+01:00Rotting mansions and Ballard interviews<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today's items of interest from the web and the media; at <a href="http://www.ballardian.com/extreme-metaphors-intro">Ballardian</a> there's a piece on the publication of a collection of JG Ballard interviews, and in the online Guardian a report on a street of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/inside-london-billionaires-row-derelict-mansions-hampstead">rotting mansions</a> in Hampstead.</span><br />
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<br />JWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948418044973045608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-2683401173293668412014-01-02T14:49:00.001+01:002014-01-02T14:49:09.412+01:00Skateboarders for the South Bank<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From The Guardian, 1 January 2014.</span><br />
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<br />JWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948418044973045608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-37819101672009922442013-12-24T10:06:00.001+01:002013-12-24T10:06:27.110+01:00December 2013, wake up BUU!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUU has been dormant for the past year. As the end of 2013 approaches it's maybe time to revive the blog… two more objects observed in the local environment, Møhlenpris, Bergen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the spirit of BUU's various photographic expeditions, see Alec Shepley's "<a href="http://alecshepley.tumblr.com/skipology">Skipology</a>" and visit <a href="http://replace-project.blogspot.no/">Re:place</a> for recent activities.</span><br />
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A small selection of images from walking tours in Bergen 2012.</div>
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Lost, abandoned, forgotten things.</div>
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Surfaces that look like art.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">obsolete advertising for consumer electronics</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bjarne Blakstad's dead cassette machine</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">amphibious vehicle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">De.collage, street art</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To see a man about a dog in the window / colour fields</td></tr>
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<br />JWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948418044973045608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-17093312933558879012012-12-08T22:25:00.004+01:002012-12-08T22:26:25.575+01:00Photos, December 2012Some images to keep this (sleeping) blog alive. No special narrative here, just a random selection of recent photos.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">red stripe triangle at Sydnesplass, University of Bergen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mystery sculptor in the woods, an assemblage that changes periodically</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shard from the Tate Modern roof</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Destination London: empty</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Blackfriars Ghost Bridge reflected</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dead decks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dead spa</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But butt butt</td></tr>
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<br />JWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948418044973045608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-4592833293858645482012-05-17T23:09:00.002+02:002012-05-17T23:09:43.373+02:00Secret Soviet Citieshttp://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/secret-soviet-cities.html<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paul A. Green grew up in London. He studied at Oxford and the University of British Columbia, on the MA Creative Writing Programme. He’s worked as a radio presenter, teacher, used-book operative and as Lecturer in Media at the Royal National College for the Blind. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His poetry has appeared in magazines ranging from New Worlds to Poetics Journal, while he’s appeared over the decades in pubs, clubs, colleges and festivals, often in musical or multi-media collaborations. Recordings have been broadcast on CBC, WFMU-FM and Resonance-FM or disseminated on-line by culturecourt.com.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plays performed include The Dream Laboratory (CBC Radio), Ritual of the Stifling Air (BBC Radio 3), The Voice Collection (RTE), The Mouthpiece (Resonance-FM), Terminal Poet (New Theatre Works) and Babalon (Travesty Theatre), an evocation of occultist/rocket scientist Jack Parsons. Recent short fiction includes The Poets of Radial City in Unthology 2, published by Unthank Books. His first novel The Qliphoth was published by Libros Libertad in 2007. A sequel awaits publication.</span></div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cranes in the mist. A cold, icy, misty winter's morning in Bergen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">More images <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/jayjaywel/BergenWinterSolstice2011">here</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Francis McKee in the catalogue to Psycho Buildings (Hayward Gallery (2008):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"We live in a world increasingly determined by transience and cities of the 21st. century are in a constant state of flux. Now, cranes have becomes a permanent feature of the landscape as this accelerated process endlessly reshapes every city."</div>JWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948418044973045608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-13425504043316294172011-11-01T17:28:00.001+01:002011-11-01T17:28:50.360+01:00Radial City News<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today the Hereford cell of Bureau of Unstable Urbanism releases a version of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Beginner's Guide to Radial City</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, featuring a random selection of shorter texts and images from the Quantum Brothers' intermittent project. It can be accessed as a </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginners-Guide-Radial-City-ebook/dp/B0061PU31Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1320164799&sr=1-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kindle e-book</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Synchronicitously, Unthank Books today publishes </span><a href="http://www.unthankbooks.com/bookshop.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Unthology 2</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, featuring Brother Paul's story </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Poets of Radial City</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"UNTHOLOGY No. 2 showcases established writers on great form and introduces exciting new voices. Its thirteen stories depend upon choices voluntary or otherwise, incarcerations and manic episodes and moments of doubt and transcendence. A man on his stag night encounters a woman who threatens all his certainties. The most ridiculous Health and Safety rules ever infect a company HQ. The complete lexicon of the poets of Radial City is finally made available. These are resonant tales for anxious times."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Contains writing by: Joshua Allen, Sarah Evans, Shanta Everington, Paul A. Green, Lander Hawes, Ian Madden, Melissa Mann, M. Pinchuk, Stephanie Reid, Ashley Stokes, Nick Sweeney, Tessa West and Charles Wilkinson. Also available as a </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unthology-No-2-ebook/dp/B0060M0UMU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1320164502&sr=1-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kindle e-book </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and as an i-Book</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></span>Brother Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04053649697784530751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6242264492084619460.post-1091599134891004652011-09-14T09:27:00.003+02:002011-09-14T09:30:33.350+02:00PLACEHOLDERS: a research seminar at KHIB<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Car installations - crashed or otherwise - seem to be this year's thing at international exhibitions. After the crashed cars in the sculpture exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery (see post below) comes a a car crash opera in the <a href="http://www.crash-passiveinterview.c3.hu/installation_images.html">Hungarian</a> pavillion at the <a href="http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/54iae/">Venice Biennale</a>, using one crashed BMW and a video recording of two opera singers in the back of a taxi performing a <a href="http://www.crash-passiveinterview.c3.hu/record01.html">libretto</a> that is, or sounds like, the transcript of a police interview.<br />
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An upcoming festival of time-based art the <a href="http://www.pica.org/tba/tba11/default.aspx">Portland Institute for Contemporary Art</a> also features <a href="http://www.pica.org/festival_detail_new.aspx?eventid=724">installations</a> by artist Jesse Sugarman with cars rendered undriveable and transformed into sculptural installations, as well as a video projection by James Benning featuring <a href="http://www.pica.org/festival_detail_new.aspx?eventid=778">cars driving through concrete tunnels</a>.<br />
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The theme of the summer could be "J.G. Ballard drives again". The soundtrack? A mix of multiple versions of "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QErPDNcj4">Warm Leatherette</a>".<br />
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Founded in 2004, The Los Angeles Urban Rangers are dedicated to equipping themselves and others to ask questions about the abundant and often unseen complexities of everyday places, whether freeway, neighborhood, park, office park, or living room. Sara Daleiden, Therese Kelly, Jenny Price, and Emily Scott are the core members of the group, which is headquartered in Los Angeles. Recent projects include a series of public "safaris" and interpretive tools elucidating Malibu's contentious public-private coastline (included in <i>Actions: What You Can Do With the City</i>, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal; <i>Open City: Designing Coexistence?</i>, 4th International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam;<i>Performing Public Space</i>, La Casa del Túnel, Tijuana; and <i>Just Space(s)</i>, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 2007–10); a trail system through the only "wild" plot in Almere, the Netherlands, as a project for Museum de Paviljoens, 2008–10; and a tour of the Whitney Museum from an eagle-eye perspective for the 2008 Whitney Biennial with Fritz Haeg's <i>Animal Estates 1.0.</i> The collective also participated in the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, which included a residency that launched this most recent phase of their <i>Public Access 101</i> series, focused on Downtown L.A.</span></div>JWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12948418044973045608noreply@blogger.com0