{"43866":{"#nid":"43866","#data":{"type":"event","title":"How to Disappear Completely","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOBJECTs \u0026amp; FABRICATIONs \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Eis an innovative exhibition that features six full scale spatial inventions, fabricated by architecturally trained artists.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group show includes work created by Amy Landsberg, Sheri Schumacher, Mark Cottle and MonicaPonce de Leon with Tr istan Al-Haddad. The relationship between use, meaning, and fabrication is ev ident not in representations, models, plans, or drawings, but in the reality of the built objects themselves.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Cottle\u0027s \u0022How to Disappear Completely\u0022\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eartist\u0027s statement\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022How to Disappear Completely\u0022 reconstitutes the canonical image of the Shroud of Turin -- derived from the internet -- back into full scale in columnar beaded curtains.  Fashioned by hand from paper clips, together with digital printouts on photocopy paper, each of the eight cylinders measures roughly eighteen inches in diameter by twelve feet high.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThese art installations explore architecture\u0027s first gesture -- making enclosure -- working from the textile as the basic material : the drape that covers and comforts the human body, the carpets that clad the building [in, for example, Semper\u0027s version of the primitive hut], and \u0022the cloths of heaven\u0022 -- \u0022the draped universe\u0022 of medieval Christian and Muslim cosmology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhereas architecture tends to become building, my artistic investigations with textiles -- in relation to covering, draping, and comforting -- underline the ephemeral, open-ended nature of these gestures.  Indeed my question is how architecture and textiles inform and implicate each other in terms of compression and expansion of space through time.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMy installations engage our longing for the \u0022other\u0022.  Working with ephemeral remains : flight safety cards, travel posters of Mecca, calendars depicting Hindu deities and Japanese scenery -- together with digitally-derived images of the distant, absent body : da Vinci\u0027s Vitruvian figure on the Italian one-euro coin, paparazzi photos of Brad Pitt, the Shroud of Turin, an amateur nude posted on an internet personals site -- the work registers multiple trajectories of desire and loss.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPaper leavings -- cut into slips, folded and strung on paper clips, compressed into beads, dispersed into curtains -- become porous screens enveloping the body of the beholder -- rendering tangible the traces of the elusive and inaccessible -- much as Walter Benjamin in \u0022The Storyteller\u0022 described a pot made by hand, and the crossover point when the fingermarks of the maker and the gripping fingers of the holder intertwine at the moment of use.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMy work explores spatial and tectonic patterns as they presence themselves on the surface of experience, investigating the relationship between the making of artifacts -- operating on material from above the surface -- and the development of organisms -- emerging from below the surface.  Put another way, I am interested in the borderline area where patterns of geometry and of growth encounter and interfere with each other.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecent work addresses the interaction between pattern and surface more explicitly with digital drawings that start from three simple mathematical tiling patterns : an Archimedean tessellation of squares and triangles, a double hexagonal grid [which produces pentagons], and a basket-weave -- overlapping, scaling, and morphing them into each other to develop fluid figures across the surface of the wall, itself tiled into 11x17 sheets of photocopy paper.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe drawings do not expect geometry to order, explain, or represent the material world.  Rather, in their fugitive figurations they test it as an instrument of perception.  Further, they question the interpretation of ornament, exaggerating repetition and variation in order to encourage an oscillation between the decorative and the incantatory.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022How to Disappear Completely\u0022 reconstitutes the canonical image of the Shroud of Turin -- derived from the internet -- back into full scale in columnar beaded curtains.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Cottle"}],"uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2010-08-03 15:22:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:47:58","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2008-02-11T09:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2008-03-10T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2008-03-10T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2008-02-11 14:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2008-03-10 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2008-03-10 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/arch","title":"Georgia Tech College of Architecture, Architecture Program"}],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"5712","name":"atlanta architecture"},{"id":"5583","name":"atlanta art"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"6029","name":"mark cottle"},{"id":"167198","name":"southern polytechnic university"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1792","name":"Arts and Performance"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECollege of Architecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=tw117\u0022\u003EContact Teri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-385-2156\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}