Through Bodies and Buildings: Architecture of Gender and Sexual Dissidence
He Shen 何珅 , Juan Barcia Mas (eds.)
Through Bodies and Buildings examines architecture as a spatial apparatus that organizes bodies, regulates desire, and structures collective life, while exploring how gender non-conforming and sexually dissident bodies challenge and transform these regimes.
By placing artistic, architectural, and theoretical positions in dialogue through essays, artistic contributions, and archival material, the publication proposes a theory-practice framework in which gender and sexual dissent are thought of as a spatial method: a way of unsettling architectural grammars by exposing their limits and breaching their logics, and of opening spaces of subversive possibility in which other forms of life, relation, and inhabitation may begin to appear.
ISBN: 978-90-836575-5-4
Publisher: Set Margins' publications
Price: 25.00 €
Silicon Forest: the Understories of Data and Forests
Futurefarmers, Elizabeth Thomas (Eds.)
Silicon Forest: the Understories of Trees and Data is a transdisciplinary gathering conceptualized by the artist collective Futurefarmers that examines the reciprocity between ecology, technological futures, and consumption. The resulting book expands this research both in content and in form, documenting Futurefarmers’ first solo exhibition in the Pacific Northwest at the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
The artists employ a typographic method they call “deforestation,” in which all of the “o”s are removed from the text and reappear as a cloud of letterforms on the cover. This visual gesture both challenges and animates the critical reflections found in essays by media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers.
ISBN: 978-1-915609-98-4
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Price: 28.00 €
