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Ericson & Ziegler:
During their decade-long collaboration (1985-1995), Kate Ericson
and Mel Ziegler produced some of
the most influential conceptual art
projects of the time. Among their
witty and stimulating installations
and outdoor projects was Camouflaged History, a house painted in
a U.S. Army-designed camouflage
pattern using 72 commercial paint
colors included in the municipally-approved “authentic colors” of
historic Charleston, South Carolina.
The commercial name of each paint,
commemorating an aspect of the
city’s history, is also painted on the
house, revealing and illuminating
the lingering Civil War-era past of
the region.
America starts here,
Edited by Ian Berry and Bill Arning, MIT Press
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Empathy, (Amie Siegel):
Amie Siegel ‘s movie is primarily
concerned with the psychoanalystic drama between an actress and
her shrink. But as a background of
this multilayered narratives stand
a modernist setting, home of confessions, authoritarian relationship,
gender conflicts. Previously interested in the economic and symbolic
circulation of Le Corbusier furniture,
Amie’s interest focuses on modernism as the model of scientific domesticity.
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E. 1027:
This enigmatic code is the name of a
modernist house built by Eileen Grey
in the French Riviera for her platonic
love with Jean Badovici. It has been
the ground of a vernacular conflict
between Eileen and Le Corbusier about ‘Three women’, a graffiti
realized by the latter inside the
house. Considered an architectural
violation of the modernist dogma for
Eileen, this drawing was a metaphor
of her relationship with Jean.