ARCHITECTOORALOORAL
10/09 — 16/10/2010
Åpning 10/09 kl 19:00

Petter Ballo, Philippe Fix, Gordon Matta-Clark, Shane Munro, Ryan Siegan-Smith, Zin Taylor, Marianne Vierø

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(Hidden, or in limited view). “Wow/shit!” Etc.

Pause.

”Yes. It’s a beautiful space. (At least in that direction).”

The condensed story is finely tuned and adjusted through rows of accompanied first entries, (“and what a contrast, etc.”)

But to keep things fresh one would try to alter the synopsis a tiny bit every time: Introduce other facts rather than the imperative. (Buried log cabin facade/How to get pigeons out alive.) Though this proves difficult when the tracks are already laid out.

Little house: Old. (1840s, not 1857.) Back space: 1937.

Epitomization of Scandinavian Modernism, etc.

(Apparently one of the earliest lumberyards in the city center, and now one of the last remaining. [Someone said, this claim has never been checked.])

House cut in two – in effect an amputation (to allow a driveway). And never really patched up again. Basically left as a mess, (but not visible from the street).

The following questions will come up:

• Do you rent it? Yes
• Does the crane work? No (Obviously not)
• How did you find it? Accidental
• Does it get cold in the winter? Yes
• Will you eventually paint it? No

And usually a couple of suggestions that are humbly rejected. And then always dreamy remarks on the infinite possibilities of the space.

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Dickens coined the term and put it in the mouth of Joe Gargery, an illiterate blacksmith from the marshes, where buildings are built and not drawn. Experiencing profane city architecture for the first time, he finds it disappointing, delicately drawn architectural imagery and real life facades hardly corresponding.

Addressing the same disparity between plan and execution, dream and factual possibilities, the building is taken as a point of departure. In all its potential.

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