Built an ark
“Kea Tawana built a wooden ark on city vacant land in Newark, New Jersey in 1981. Fed up with city neglect of the neighborhood since the 1967 riots, Tawana decided to create a massive structure – ninety feet wide and three stories high – using scavenged material. The ark served to provide hope and symbolize renewal. Unfortunately, the city decided to raze the structure, stating that its presence did not comply with code.” More here. Followed by Mark Bradford who has built an ark for New Orleans in LA after the hurricane ‘Katrina’. To research locations like these, check outsider-environments.
Art & architecture
Explore the visual world of Matthieu Gafsou and feel the borders between nature and man-made environments melting. Tell mum nothing is okay.
Maps & wrecks
Japan after the terrible earthquake and tsunami would be a perfect terrain for Nigel Peake’s wreck studies and psychological maps. Tough his work is joyful in essence: On his maps the surroundings are re-ordered by their personal and imagined meaning. In his drawings of wrecked houses he is attracted by their sculptural qualities when the elements of the structure are re-ordered. Phantasy beats reality.
For more radical cartography you must see Harold Fisk´s mapping of the mississippi river.
John Hawke
Minimal environments by John Hawke / NYc. He also intervenes on the streets, and you need a hawke´s eye to recognize.
Jote
About Jote “Creating I am trying above all to respect the spirit of the place. It is for me particularly important because surroundings are one of components of the structure of my works. On architecturalisation of space influences a game of the colour, shapes, lines. I’m trying to find the meaning in the space in which very plain can create that space. Minimalist in its expression forms fit well in the industrial space. This creates the impression that the plane image is intertwined with the environment.” The photos are from his ‘letters’ series.
Maya Hayuk’s diamonds
‘Guitar parts’ 2008 by Maya Hayuk. 5 colored screen print on lenox paper, size 22 x 40 ”, edition of 30. Available from thinkspace gallery for $350.
If you’re watching this video with your child, be prepared to answer some questions about female body parts.