Proposal for a Discotheque

Christoph Meier, 'Proposal for a Discotheque', 2009
steel, paint, flourescent tubes, in KIOSK, Ghent

Christoph Meier, 'Setting#14', 2008
16mm-Projector, Super-8-Projector, 3 Slide projectors

sand giants

white-out

White-Out Studio is a small artist-run exhibition space in Knokke-Heist. Artist Raphaël Buedts made two exhibitions in this space in 2008. Zoom in to catch the 'white-out', hazy feel of the photos.

animal life

Before choosing photography as the medium for artistic work, Jochen Lempert (Moers, Germany, 1958) dedicated himself intensely, between 1979 and 1989, to the practice of experimental film within the Schmelzdahin collective. In parallel to this activity, between 1980 and 1988, he studied biology at university. Both activities influenced his photographic work, which was immediately distinguished by his choice of subject matter: animal life. 
More to discover in this great book.

'Blaumeise'

'Rotkehlchen'
part of the series 'Vogel in der Hand'

for sale by color

christmas trees

Dialogist Kantor
Collection cabinet d'amateur n° 3

have a glittering and brilliant 2012

city of hemispheres

Antfarm, Pillow for the Whole Earth, 1969

Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, Clouds Manufactured, 1968

Raimund Abraham, Living capsule, 1966

Superstudio, City of Hemispheres, 1971

Richard Buckminster Fuller, Shoji Sadao Dome over Manhattan, ca. 1960

Superstudio, Flooded Florence, 1970

dummies to the rescue

how to rescue a 350 kilograms heavy horse

Yona Friedman

Ville Spatial project spanning across the horizon, with Yona Friedman and dog

Yona Friedmans House, by Michel Mallard Studio, 2011

Hans Ulrich Obrist: Who are the philosophers and thinkers who gave you ideas? Was Foucault an inspiration for you? Or Deleuze?

Yona Friedman: I have had one very important intellectual guide: my dog. A dog spends its whole life improvising. Improvising in every situation. 

With the following statement opens Yona Friedman his latest publication: Architecture with the People, by the People, for the People, 2011:

< I chose this title as it paraphrases Lincoln's definition of democrazy, a definition that is just but seldom implemented. If I had to qualify my approach to architecture, I see it as “democratic” in the sense of Lincoln’s interpretation. Architecture has to be conceived with the people, materialised as much as possible by the people. The term “for the people” is evident. This does not mean that the architect has no role in the process: he can provide ideas, techniques, new aesthetics – which will get validated only with the people, by the people, for the people. By the way, architects are also people…belong to the people. > Yona Friedman.

Eisenstein

wave a happy christmas

Dear leader

kim jong-il

poetin

hitler

Interfunktionen

Interfunktionen, periodical, black-and-white, various sized volumes, 10 volumes, published by Heubach, Cologne. 
Interfunktionen was started by Friedrich (Fritz) Heubach after a march in 1968 on the occasion of Documenta, when Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell and others went to protest the closedness of the exhibition. Heubach was inspired by Vostell’s magazine Decollage. More interesting anekdotes here. Thanks to Specific Object / David Platzker for the images.