15,297 research outputs found
Food
No full textFrom 1971-1973, Gordon Matta-Clark opened and operated a reastaurant, Food, in Soho, Manhattan. It was conceived as a single piece of conceptual art, a restaurant run by artists for artists and a meeting place for the exchange of ideas and collaboration.full view, Tina Girouard, Carol Goodden, and Matta-Clark outside of Food before restoration, 197
Food
No full textFrom 1971-1973, Gordon Matta-Clark opened and operated a reastaurant, Food, in Soho, Manhattan. It was conceived as a single piece of conceptual art, a restaurant run by artists for artists and a meeting place for the exchange of ideas and collaboration.interior, Views of the kitchen, dining areas, patrons, and menu at Foo
Food
No full textFrom 1971-1973, Gordon Matta-Clark opened and operated a reastaurant, Food, in Soho, Manhattan. It was conceived as a single piece of conceptual art, a restaurant run by artists for artists and a meeting place for the exchange of ideas and collaboration.full view, Advertisement for Food, published in Avalanche, Spring 197
Splitting and Doubling: Spaces for Contemporary Living in Works by Gordon Matta-Clark, Kurt Schwitters and Gregor Schneider
No full textThe thesis addresses the question of dwelling as a challenge and concern in the twenty-first century. It does so on the basis of three works of art, all exercising radical spatial reconfigurations of existing residential buildings. The thesis argues that these works created in the twentieth century bring strategies forward for a contemporary living space of interest today. Furthermore, that the agency of the artistic gesture exceeds the scope of the architectural work when addressing the subject of home and house in critical ways. The importance of this engagement lies in an incompatibility observed between ideas about dwelling and the experience of the contemporary age. A prevalent desire for a permanently settled and stable living space is at odds with increasingly transient and nomadic present-day lifestyles – the thesis asks how come such concepts without application endure.
Literary works, concerned with the process of modernisation in the twentieth century, are called upon to qualify this problem of dwelling in our time. While the texts provide insight into the dialectics of the modern, the chosen works of art unfold three living spaces settled in the moment of their making. When answering the immediate contextual setting with an environment for living beyond conventional building practices, Gordon Matta-Clark’s Splitting (1974), Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau (1927-37) and Gregor Schneider’s HAUS u r (1985-today) give clues to the nature of the contemporary dwelling. As a living space beyond conceptualisation, this dwelling does not require a whole house to be held in place nor does it rely on walls for spatial differentiation. Instead, a framework for coexistence is articulated as a space of resistance to the forces of the modern, threatening to render all dwellers homeless. The thesis challenges the contemporary architect with the task of participating in the creation of this space
A. Gordon to Walter McKenzie Clark, July 19, 1901
No full textIn a letter of July 19, 1901 to Walter McKenzie Clark, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, A. Gordon is writing on behalf of W. W. Stringfield. He is informing Clark of a few historical errors, most notably that it was not Major Graham who was the last man in N. C. to leave the Confederacy. Gordon explains that a month after Appomattox, on May 9, 1864, a battalion under Lieutenant Colonel James R. Love of the 69th North Carolina Troops had a skirmish with some federal troops in Haywood County N.C. On May 10, the military district of Western North Carolina surrendered.delet
Bingo (photocollage)
No full text"Working with student volunteers, he limited his intervention to one lateral facade, which he divided into nine roughly equivalent rectangles, progressively removing them until only the center panel was left. In the photograph of that stage, this ninth rectangle appears uncannily suspended, hovering on the implied pictorial plane, behind which the rooms and stairway present themselves in a quasi-anatomical dissection."Photocollage in black and white of house at various stages of its deconstruction."Working with student volunteers, he limited his intervention to one lateral facade, which he divided into nine roughly equivalent rectangles, progressively removing them until only the center panel was left. In the photograph of that stage, this ninth rectangle appears uncannily suspended, hovering on the implied pictorial plane, behind which the rooms and stairway present themselves in a quasi-anatomical dissection."
(Diserens, Corinne, Ed. Gordon Matta-Clark. New York: Phaidon, 2003. Pages 86.)full vie
[catalog] Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark : pioneers of the downtown scene, New York 1970s.
No full textCollaborators and friends, Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, and Gordon Matta-Clark were at the cutting edge of Manhattan's burgeoning downtown art scene during the 1970s. This catalogue examines the crossover of these artists' practices and the influence of their work on each other.Includes bibliographical references.Collaborators and friends, Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, and Gordon Matta-Clark were at the cutting edge of Manhattan's burgeoning downtown art scene during the 1970s. This catalogue examines the crossover of these artists' practices and the influence of their work on each other
Graffiti Truck
No full textTruck was spray painted by residents of the South Bronx. Matta-Clark cut a section from the back of it, and exhibited the section and the rest of the truck at the "Alternatives to Washington Square Art Fair" on Mercer St., New York. Matta-Clark organized the show in protest to the Washington Square Art Fair's refusal to allow graffiti artists to enter.full view, Residents of the South Bronx spray paint Matta-Clark's truc
Geography and the Enterprise in Higher Education initiative: problems and potential.
No full textThe book includes all twelve papers given at a conference held in Lancaster in 1991 on the Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative. This chapter evaluates the EHE Initiative as it was constructed and implemented in the Department of Geography at Lancaster University using "enterprise dissertations". These were placement-based undergraduate research dissertations, somewhat ahead of their time for geography
Commencement | Clark, Kenneth Bancroft | Gordon, [Abraham] Lincoln
No full textGordon and Clark at podiu
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