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Welcome to the thirteenth issue of The Funambulist Magazine, which marks the beginning of our third year of publication. This issue, dedicated to queer and feminist perspectives on interior spaces, intervenes as a rupture in the “macropolitical” scale of the last five issues in order to favor a smaller, yet equally important, scale of spatial...

Health as not merely what keeps a body from dying but as the most incarnate level of bodily politics.

In the last week, I was lucky enough to present The Funambulist Magazine in Tokyo (October 7 at Vacant) and Hong Kong (October 13 at Kubrick) along with friends Christina Yi and Momoyo Homma on the one hand, and Tings Chak and Sonia Wong on the other (see the two posters at the end of this...

I am happy to announce that on October 7, at 7:30PM, The Funambulist contributors Momoyo Homma, Christina Yi, and myself will present the magazine at VACANT in Tokyo. This presentation will particularly focuses on the latest issue (#07 HEALTH ISSUES) in which both Momoyo and Christina have an article. Christina wrote a guest column about...

After the first year of existence of The Funambulist Magazine that examined the politics of militarized cities, the suburbs, clothing, prisons, structurally racist designs, and objects, I am delighted to begin this second year with an issue dedicated to health-related political struggles. This 7th issue opens with a new recurrent section entitled “Political Walks” that asks...

Momoyo Homma is the Director of the Architectural Body Research Foundation (Arakawa + Gins Tokyo office). She studied and graduated from Musashino Art University before moving to Costa Rica in 1993 where she worked as a full-time professor at Casa del Artista (San Jose, Costa Rica). She then worked as an assistant program director, project “Al MARGEN” by ILPES...

Still of Only the Bad Sleep Well by Akira Kurosawa (1960) HOMAGE TO GRAVITY: Architecture and the Body /// An exhibition proposal for the 2013 Young Curator Program at the Canadian Center for Architecture (translated from original French) My proposal is based on an axiom in the form of a definition of architecture. My intuition...

This article is intended to continue a specific part of the research started with Weaponized Architecture: the consideration of a normative body when creating objects and architecture (see other articles at the end of this one). In order to do so, I would like to particularly examine the work of American industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss (1904-1972)...

Otto Lilienthal in 1893 A good way to articulate thoughts consists in a dialogue with friends; that is what I intend to do here, by basing my reflection about the Spinozist body on the article written yesterday by anthropologist Gastón Gordillo (see our Archipelago conversation) on his blog, Space and Politics. Entitled “Passion for Terrain,” his...