THE FUNAMBULIST
The Funambulist is a daily architectural platform edited by Léopold Lambert.Its name is inspired by a reflection on the line as the architect's medium. In fact, this line on the white page that ends up spliting two milieus from one another, controls the access of the bodies. The act of walking on the line (funambulist is another word for tight-rope walker) thus becomes an act of freedom. It also refers to Philippe Petit crossing illegally the space between the two towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 and the funambulist in Nietzsche's Zarathoustra who dies peacefully as he died from the danger he dedicated his life to.
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Search Results for: arakawa
# ARAKAWA/GINS /// Reversible Destiny Loft in Action: A Tentative Report from a Resident by Shingo Tsuji
Reversible Destiny (Mitaka) Lofts – In Memory of Helen Keller /// Photograph by Shingo Tsuji (2013) When I visited the Reversible Destiny Foundation‘s Mitaka Lofts (see previous article) in Tokyo last year, I encountered one of its resident, Shingo Tsuji, … Continue reading
# ARAKAWA/GINS /// Architecture of the Conatus: “Tentative Construting Towards a Holding in Place”
Ubiquitous Site – Nagi Ryoanji by Arakawa + Gins (1994) “If persons are sited, why do philosophers inquiring into what constitutes a person, or, for that matter, into the nature of mind, rarely, if ever, factor this in?” “Philosophers considering … Continue reading
# ARAKAWA/GINS /// The counter-biopolitical Bioscleave Experiment as imagined by Stanley Shostak
The interior domestic terrain of the Bioscleave House by Arakawa + Gins As I recently started a whole section of the blog’s archives dedicated to the work of Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, I will be regularly writing new articles … Continue reading
# ARAKAWA/GINS /// Domesticity in the Reversible Destiny’s Architectural Terrains
Twice during the last year, I had the great chance to stay over in Reversible Destiny‘s architectures. Along with good friends, we spent the last few days of 2011 at the Bioscleave House in Long Island, and more recently stayed … Continue reading
# PHILOSOPHY /// Letter from Jean-Francois Lyotard to Arakawa and Madeline Gins
The following letter has been written by French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard to Arakawa and Madeline Gins in 1997. Their answer is readable in the fantastic book Reversible Destiny: We have decided not to Die published by the Guggenheim Museum in … Continue reading
Posted in Arakawa/Gins, Architectural Theories, Books, Philosophy
# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// Dislocative Architecture: An essay by Ed Keller about the work of Arakawa and Gins
photo: Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro, 1993-95 After writing myself an essay about the work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins that I claimed, could be read in a celebration of Spinoza’s philosophy (Architectures of Joy), here is another essay, … Continue reading
# PHILOSOPHY /// ARCHITECTURES OF JOY. A spinozist reading of Parent/Virilio and Arakawa/Gins’ architecture
Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro Park by Arakawa & Madeline Gins ARCHITECTURES OF JOY. A spinozist reading of Parent/Virilio and Arakawa/Gins’ architecture By Léopold Lambert (December 2010) In the middle of the XVIIth century, Baruch Spinoza revolutionized theology by … Continue reading
Posted in Arakawa/Gins, Architectural Theories, Essays, Philosophy, Spinoza
# THE FUNAMBULIST PAMPHLETS /// Twelve First Volumes to be soon Published by Punctum Books
I am happy to announce that the twelve first volumes of The Funambulist Pamphlets, a series of small books collecting articles written for the blog, will be published by Punctum Books as part of the CTM Documents Initiative series all … Continue reading
Posted in Books, The Funambulist Pamphlets
# SPINOZA /// Episode 7: Applied Spinozism: Architectures of the Sky vs. Architectures of the Earth
Architecture of the Sky (Milan Trade Fair Building by Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas) versus Architecture of the Earth (Japanese playground photographed by Munemi Natsu) This article will be somehow similar to the text Architectures of Joy I wrote in 2010 … Continue reading
# SPINOZA /// Episode 4: The World of Affects or why Adam got Poisonned by the Apple
Today is the fourth episode of the ‘Spinoza week’ (which will last a bit longer than a week as you probably already understood) and the third article dedicated to the exploration of Spinoza’s conceptology. Today’s text will be (once again) … Continue reading
Posted in Deleuze, Philosophy, Spinoza
# SPINOZA /// Episode 1: The Marxian Reading of Capitalism through a Spinozist Conceptology
Today, I am starting a series of articles about 17th century Portuguese-Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza and thus dedicates to his work a ‘week’ like I did two years ago for Gilles Deleuze and last year for Michel Foucault. The first … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Philosophy, Politics, Spinoza
# GUEST WRITERS ESSAYS 35 /// DIY Biopolitics: The Deregulated Self by Russel Hughes
extracted from The Mechanisms of Meaning by Arakawa & Madeline Gins, New York: Abbeville Press, 1971. Today’s guest writer is Russel Hughes who recently finished his dissertation, DIY Biopolitics: The Deregulated Self at the RMIT (Melbourne) and, while waiting for its … Continue reading
# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// The Reversible Destiny Archives
The Reversible Destiny Foundation, created and sustained by Madeline Gins and Arakawa, has new online archives on which many of the concepts and projects they invented along the years are being explained and illustrated. As an introduction, I can maybe … Continue reading
# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture
Breathing Room by Kayt Brumder (2009) / Excerpt from Imperfect Health Before starting this article, I would like to say that I am well aware that what might distinguish this blog from others is the fact that architecture is only … Continue reading
# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// A Subversive Approach to the Ideal Normatized Body
Body Measurements by Henry Dreyfuss Associates. MIT Press, 1974. A year ago, I wrote an article which was exploring how the modernist theories had implemented the ideology of what I called an ideal normative body. In a nutshell, this oxymoron … Continue reading
# GUEST WRITERS ESSAYS 19 /// Two Questions for Seher Shah by Alexis Bhagat
Seher Shah Object Relic This week’s guest writer is Alexis Bhagat., co-author with Lize Mogel of An Atlas of Radical Cartography (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press) whose upcoming Spanish publisher is nobody else than our friends of dpr-barcelona. Alexis’ … Continue reading
Posted in Architectural Theories, Essays, Fine Arts, Guest Writers Essays
# GUEST WRITERS ESSAYS 18 /// Twin (Technology/Art Induced) Architectural Daydreams by Esther Cheung
Strangle Poise Lamp from the Red Goods collection by James Chambers (2010) After a month of absence on the Funambulist, the guest writers series is coming back with its 18th opus written today by Esther Sze-wing Cheung, principal of ESC … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Fine Arts, Guest Writers Essays
# GUEST WRITERS ESSAYS 17 /// Dissolving Minds and Bodies by Hiroko Nakatani
Human Writes by William Forsythe (2005) /// Photograph by Julian Gabriel Richter Today’s essay has been written by Hiroko Nakatani in a way that allies scientific rigorousness and the subjectivity of an architect who finds in these experiments, a way … Continue reading
# INTERVIEWS /// Architectures of Joy: A Conversation Between Two Puzzle Creatures [Part B]
Arakawa + Gins, Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa),2004, photo: Léopold Lambert Today, I release the second part of the conversation I have been recently having with Madeline Gins about the Reversible Destiny Foundation co founded with Arakawa. While the first … Continue reading
Posted in Arakawa/Gins, Architectural Theories, Interviews, Philosophy
# INTERVIEWS /// Architectures of Joy: A Conversation Between Two Puzzle Creatures [Part A]
Arakawa + Gins, Yoro Park – Site of Reversible Destiny, Gifu,1995, Photo Trane DeVore It has been several months now that I started an oral and written conversation with Madeline Gins, co-founder with Arakawa of the Reversible Destiny Foundation that I … Continue reading
Posted in Arakawa/Gins, Architectural Theories, Interviews, Philosophy
