Architecture
Imperial War Museum North
Manchester, England
Daniel Libeskind
Concept: a globe shattered into fragments and then reassembled as an iconic emblem of conflict.
The building is the interlacking of three shards representing earth, air and water.
Earth--generous and flexible museum space.
signifying the open
earthly realm of conflict war
Air-----dramatic entry.. observatories education space
Water-platform for viewing the canal
complete with a restaurant, cafe, deck and performance space
*" invent new connections between the building and its surroundings and become an instantly recognizable memorable place of encounter."--D. Libeskind
Interlack...network....link...connection...assemable...volume...shapes
Painting
Sol LeWitt
SF MOMA...entrance
TATE Liverpool...art room

Fit so well on either side of the black granite staircase that LeWitt had become wallpaper.

Repeat...colour...pattern...attract viewers...
whirlpool...permutation...combied..inverted...continue...unlimited
Installation
Dale Chihuly
Victoria and Albert Museum
combined...transparent...shapes..colour...layers...unit...natural concept...
Eventually, ten years pass, and the pair are now in their late teens, continuing with their game of dares, even to the expense of their emotional health. Long periods of time pass by dare of both Sophie and Julien, and the story ends with both characters in the mid 30s, married to separate spouses and Julien with two children. Ten years have passed since Sophie proclaimed that ten years would pass until they spoke again. And as the anniversary of the day nears and arrives, Julien is consumed with the thought of seeing Sophie again. They unite later that night, setting off a series of events that leads to their ultimate fate.
object..connection...memory..record...play game...relationship...test...commitment
Invisible City
Italo Calvino
Cities & Desire. 5
From there, after six days and seven nights, you arrive at Zobeide, the white city, well exposed to the moon, with streets wound about themselves as in a skein. They tell this tale of its foundation: men of various nations had an identical dream. They saw a woman running at night through an unknown city; she was seen from behind, with long hair, and she was naked. They dreamed of pursuing her. As they twisted and turned, each of them lost her. After the dream, they set out in search of that city; they never found it, but they found one another; they decided to build a city like the one in the dream. In laying out the streets, each followed the course of his pursuit; at the spot where they had lost the fugitive's trail, they arranged spaces and walls differently from the dream, so she would be unable to escape again.
This was the city of Zobeide, where they settled, waiting for that scene to be repeated one night. None of them, asleep or awake, ever saw the woman again. The city's streets were streets where they went to work every day, with no link any more to the dreamed chase. Which, for that matter, had long been forgotten.
New men arrived from other lands, having had a dream like theirs, and in the city of Zobeide, they recognized something from the streets of the dream, and they changed the positions of arcades and stairways to resemble more closely the path of the pursued woman and so, at the spot where she had vanished, there would remain no avenue of escape.
The first to arrive could not understand what drew these people to Zobeide, this ugly city, this trap.
‘Invisible Cities’ is an amalgam of many elements, memories, signs, language, fears and desires, all floating somewhere in space and time, dream and reality. What is to be and what is yet to come. Assuming forms to only then disappear.
dream...path...follow mind...trace..arrangement...