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1 Species of spaces and other places by George Perec

2 What is psycho-geography?
The study of the effects of the physical environment on peoples feelings and behaviour. It is an approach to geography that emphasizes playfulness and “drifting” around urban environments.

3 George Perec In his book he talks about the spaces around him such as the bedroom, streets, countryside and other places as well.

4 What I looked at? I looked at the streets and everything around me.
I also thought about the times I had to move houses and how each room was different.

5 Pictures

6 Ken’ichiro Taniguchi About My Sculpture
I use the lesions in porous street surfaces or in the cracked walls of buildings as the source for my curious, seemingly organic formations in hard yellow plastic after the tracing. These are, in turn, cast one-to-one in PVC. In large-scale photographs, we then see the finished works custom-fitted in the original cracks. The wound is healed, the state of perfection restored. My objects, which are equipped with hinges so that they can be folded together and opened up again, change their appearance depending on the desired arrangement. One point of reference is, of course, Origami – the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The yellow objects in hard PVC are, in some cases, presented as pictures against a white background, or as free-standing sculptures on plinths and, in yet other cases, as large-scale, room-filling installations.

7 Some of his work

8 Francis Alÿs Alÿs’s work starts with a simple action, either by him or others, which is then documented in a range of media. Alÿs explores subjects such as modernising programmes in Latin America and border zones in areas of conflict, often asking about the relevance of poetic acts in politicised situations. He has used video projection and film but also spreads his ideas through postcards. Painting and drawing remain central to his work too. Alÿs moved to Mexico City in the mid 1980s at a time of political unrest, and lives there now. He began to make work which recorded everyday life, for example making slide works showing people sleeping on the streets or pushing mobile shopping stalls.

9 Reference http://ec-gallery.com/kenichiro-taniguchi


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