Recent & Selected Projects
The Simulacrum of Restoration
©Rene Burri, Magnum
Derived from a long-running project on the restoration of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, a new collalborative image-text work with Angus Carlyle probes our own archives as well as those made available online since we last conducted any in-depth research.
Two unused fragments…
E1027: “We can't reproduce the corner cupboard because the original is in the Pompidou and the Musée de France will say that you can reproduce what you like if it doesn’t exist anymore but if it exists, it's a fake.” (Benton)
You know the story of Jeannot’s knife? The case of the corricolo is exactly similar. It is forbidden to build new ones, but it is not forbidden to put new wheels to old bodies, and new bodies on old wheels. By those means the corricolo becomes immortal” (Dumas)
Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice - New Edition
A collection of responses from over 40 leading contemporary composers and artists who were invited to represent aspects of their creative practice with words, and in particular, the spoken word, for the printed page. First published by RGAP 2008, this new Uniformbooks edition is available again, £30.00.
Further details and order direct from uniformbooks
The accompanying Audio CD / download is available from Gruenrekorder
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