Through April 14
The surrealist’s parlor game “Exquisite Corpse” ruptures the logic of commensurability underpinning the notion of the single drawing: Multiple authors produce compound images of unlikely wholes. We might call such images chimeras. During the child’s game “Telephone” a whispered message mutates as it’s passed-on from person to person: Each interlocutor, willfully or not, breaks and then refashions the original. In Bruce Nauman’s 1967 image Composite Photo of “Two Messes on the Studio Floor,” the artist creates new work via a translation of the old: detritus is first flattened, then rolled into a fresh image capable of conjuring fresh associations.
“5x5 Chimeras” draws upon these influences together with the long tradition of the cut-up technique, of plunderphonics and the anti-narrative history of literary modernism in pursuit of new and renewed avenues for architectural speculation. The chimerical images and objects proposed by “5x5 Chimeras” seek to instrumentalize techniques of architectural description, representation and production to emphasize the strange and contingent qualities of architectural schema and thus help to illuminate those dank crevices between works where the most productive of contemporary architectural practices might just thrive.
Working towards a rhetoric of architectural syllepsis, “5x5 Chimeras” hopes to invoke faculty members’ diverse conceptions of possibility in architecture today to produce a body of new work which assumes such differences to be one means by which revised agendas in contemporary architecture might be identified, pursued, and debat
Exhibitors
- Maya Alam
- Amber Bartosh
- Theodore Brown
- Lawrence Chua
- Angie Co
- Sekou Cooke
- Greg Corso
- Lawrence Davis
- Benjamin Farnsworth
- Lydia Kallipoliti
- Elizabeth Kamell
- Molly Hunker
- Xiaoyin Li
- Jonathan Louie
- Kyle Miller
- Anne Munly
- David Shanks
- Andreas Theodoridis
- Fei Wang
