THE PROCEEDING PROCEDURE:

event of ongoingness in the spirit of Arakawa and Gins – Glasshouse Gallery Williamsburg Brooklyn, June 2014

 

 

 

 

THE DISCUSSIONS:

We will be posting here the audio recordings from our daily themed discussions:

Day 1: Introductions

– recordings will be posted soon for:

Day 1: Procedurality

Day 2: Landing Site Theory / Biotopology

Day 3: Procedural Architecture

Day 4: The Architectural Body

 

4-Day Event at the Glasshouse art/life workspace in S. Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

 

THE INVITATION:

 

THE PROGRAM:

 

TOPICS:

Day 1: Procedurality

What did A+G add to art? Beyond abstraction, minimalism, conceptualism and ‘pataphysics. – Procedurality: Where did it come from and where might it lead?

Exercise led by the Senselab (Mike Hornblow)

Day 2: Landing Site Theory and Biotopology 

What is this art-science of sited awareness that underlies their strategy to stop dying in its tracks? – Philosophy, psychology, pathway to transhumanism?

Exercise: Alan Prohm

Day 3: Procedural Architecture

What makes a work of architecture procedural? How does a procedural work work? Can procedural architecture treat autism? – And how will procedural architecture proceed?

Exercise: Jondi Keane

Evening Program: talk, performances and reversible destiny film festival with a procedural dinner prepared by the Senselab. Special thanks to Joke Post, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Jondi Keane, Mike Hornblow, George Quasha, Chuck Stein, Bob Bowen, Don Byrd, the Senselab team and cooks, and Marie-Dominique Garnier and Momoyo Homma from afar. Hosted by Alan Prohm.

Day 4: Architectural Body

What is the full range of the body’s capabilities? How are these activated in architecture? What other practices can be drawn on for growing the architectural body?

Performance: Daria Fain – Exercise: Erin Manning with George Quasha

 

EXERCISES: DISCUSSIONS IN MOVEMENT AND ACTION

 

EVENTS & PERFORMANCES: a Festival of In-/confluence

 

THANK YOU

Thank you to everyone who came and contributed.

Special thanks to Joke Post and the Reversible Destiny Foundation, Jondi Keane, Erin Manning and the SenseLab, Bob Bowen, Jake Kennedy, Mike Hornblow, Marie-Dominique Garnier, George Quasha, Chuck Stein, and Daria Fain for sharing their work, and to our hosts Lital and Eyal at the Glasshouse Project, Brooklyn.