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Leaks, floods, spills; gutters, guts, irrigation;
basements and ceilings (thesis temporarily)
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Statement of Intent Expected Work (Exhibition Plans)
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This page and its sub-pages are intended to organize research and planning for a final body of work that has been developed over the last year. The various images and texts below have been accumulated or produced between any time from Spring 2019, to within the last 24 hours before final critique. In addition, a number of sub-pages contain writing and images related to other projects or research interests. This main page contains a table of contents, a general statement about our body of work, and at its core, sets of writing, notes, and images related to each project. Please click on things and scroll through as you please! All content remains incomplete at their time of publishing.
Curtis' family's basement leak, December 2018 |
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Please take this Google Form survey on your experience with leaks, floods, spills; gutters, guts, irrigation; basements and ceilings and let us know where you think this body of work should go! https://forms.gle/zG1KYMwE5L5H1Yoc7 Thank you ! 風景! |
Statement of Intent
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1. Water flowing through the trees on a rainy day, creating several small streams. |
Expected Work (Exhibition Plans)
Gutter System
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[wet toys, small wet artifacts and plants irrigation pipes from Home Depot to piece and match, connect different elements, make little interruptions in between pipe joints bases/supports? punch holes in gutters and downspouts, throw objects in them]
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urban water management strategies - how is water controlled and supplied? |
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Rain gutters… system of mitigating the inevitable downpour of rain… Streamlining fluids and mobilizing them to work in favor of human needs, to ease daily life, provide safety, integrity of the building Irrigation, watering and draining, flood prevention, wastewater collection, toilets, drinking water, sinks, baths, footbaths, pools, saunas; a building’s rain gutters as directly connected to all of these - first point of contact for fresh rain Different levels of desire to also control how visible, visually pleasing/coherent the water systems are; markers of class, resource access, provisionality |
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Various water mitigation systems in Korea, |
architectural photographs/renders from Bibliowicz Gallery, | and images from 2018 basement flood, caused by roots growing into the neighborhood water main and blocking the outflow of water from the home. |
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Subverting the function of the gutter - bring the gutter inside, with an uncertain direction of flow |
To allow easy drainage of rainwater, Korean buildings typically have high-pitched roofs. These prove sturdy during monsoon season, enough to resist the weight of snow in winter. They are also quite high, facilitating air circulation during warmer months. Ancient roofs consist of wooden beams which are tiled (giwa) over a layer of earth to provide extra insulation.
What does it mean to be “In The Gutter”?
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Abbas Akhavan, Study for a Garden: Fountain, 2012, oscillating water sprinkler, Image via Catriona Jeffries |
Follow Your Dreams (Frame)
In a small cafe across from Cornell in Rome’s studios, there is a piece of decorative art above the cashier:
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[How does one "follow their dreams"? See below in “Do What You Love (Confucius)” to read more about our thoughts on this.] |
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Work will exist as
CNC method
More handsy method ?
What kinds of materials can we embed into whatever is used to sculpt the frame? |
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These motivational messages sort of traffick in a similar affect as entrepreneur/business-guru-type profiles and their content, which themselves traffick in a similar affect as motivational Joker quotes, which are the among the most angsty-incel-dude things you could find anywhere; the point is, this whole thing is a slippery spectrum.
antonio gramsci was like "eyyy i a go to da prison!!! i a write da notebooks!!!! ohhh"
— thot chocolate (@shreyabasu003) April 14, 2020
does architecture ever seem off to you?
Bamboo Scaffolding
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Over the course of install (and early stages of exhibition dates), collectively build a modest bamboo scaffolding frame in the garden pit of Bibliowicz gallery (Rationale??? Thinking about labor, upwards mobility - physical and metaphorical - rapid urban development, limitations of space, precarious structures, ...... some some some metaphor here Not unlike table structures we build during preliminary research and planning for projects; larger interconnected framework built by/around community which then supports the expansion of an internal structure (???) 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u222reV_yMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhhjqDWf95E cnn interview/demo, watch the language used by reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvCuX-oY4_c , jackie chan rush hour 2 "chinese bamboo is very strong" (bamboo never fully snaps?) |
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"In ancient times, when modern materials were unavailable, Chinese people use bamboo for all sorts of construction : scaffolding, huts. Even large buildings may be constructed out of bamboo. Its theory is the same as above, and the practical construction is shown below:"
Originally, the rope to wind around is also made from bamboo : peeling very thin slices, using a sharp knife, from bamboo. Nowadays, people in Hong Kong use synthetic rope, which is made very strong in the longitudinal direction. In the wild, we may use tree branches instead of bamboo, and vine instead of rope. Climbing vine are very common in the wild, and most of them are very strong longitudinally. If you live in a city, you may find some pieces of tree branches, or even used broom-stick, and COPPER WIRE, those electric wires used in home (there are 2 wires inside, colored red and black, usually. There is no need to take away the insulation). And practice making miniature huts, platforms, shelters, etc. If you live in Hong Kong, or happen to pass by or travel here, have a look at the bamboo scaffolding, and see the workers' handiwork."
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sketches renders etc. here
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Cheonynyongsa temple in Korea also exemplifies a traditional approach of building walls by packing earth into moulds about 40 cm in thickness, or by applying mud to a bamboo framwork.
One way to strengthen the mud is to mix in straw. It was also sometimes turned waterproof by adding water that was boiled with seaweed. Windows were made with wooden slats. |
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Shower Basin (Clogged Hair)
Leftover from fall semester
(Did not finish, but hoped to incorporate this back into our final show)
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| Documentation of incomplete maquette from Fall Thesis Group Show |
Shower caddy from Irene’s apartment bathroom, following renovations the caddy was left in the hallway
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Following the pivotal … turn … The The scene amounts to a In Parasite, the entire segment of the Kim family returning to their flooded home is briefly noted with a single line in Wikipedia’s plot summary. [In the reality of the production, this pivotal scene was the reason the set had to be built separately as its own shower-basin of sorts, to be rained and poured in.] [... (demands more attention … Amidst all the … A few seconds are given to a shot of Ki-Taek, the father, plucking a small framed award off the wall. Meritocracy A moment of spent saving evidence of merit Amidst Proof of excellence, achievement, a marker of value The award is half full of the same sewage water which rises around the family (Award belongs to Kim Chung-sook, the family matriarch The image of a framed award, half full of sewage water |
Bench Bed
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My mother - or my father - once shared with me some unclear story of how she had to sleep on a bed made from cinderblocks and a wooden plank; I have some vague, distant memory of being told to me in a heated moment of scolding over something, I cannot recall. Whether this story was true - if my mother actually lived this, if these are the exact structural details that were shared, if this story was shared at all - is a mystery. But this image has stuck with me as some sort of moment, of negotiating class identity, as immigrants, as parents to children. However true or untrue, what does it mean to share a tale of struggle and hardship to your children, who have known little else other than a comfortable, middle class life in a place that has always been their home? Why share these stories - does it teach the children something, or moreso reflect the anxieties and uncertainty that undergird the upward mobility an immigrant family is meant to aspire to, and perhaps achieve a semblance of? |
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Resin Slippers
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A pair, or multiple pairs, of house slippers (Asian) cast in improperly mixed, unset resin (less hardener, more sticky). |
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Will they be tempting to try on? Hopefully someone will wear them on their bare feet! |
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Various purposes of slippers:
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Also apparently womens feet should never be cold?
My mother always tells me that I should never have cold hands and feet. Still not completely sure why, though!
It seems that many of my other asian / korean female friends have heard this growing up too.
I generally retain a lot of body heat, though - I feel that i'm a very heated person inside - so I like to put my feet on cold things.
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slippers are quite strange, uneasy little creatures of the home... honorable, half-accomplished, uncomfortable emblems of domestic space if you were invited into someone's home, would you accept their request - to take off your dusty shoes, and wear instead these soft, clean shoes indoors? |
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(remember you can't keep them, you must leave them at the door when you leave!!) |
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 Rubber Mat Mona Hatoum 1996 Silicone rubber
1 x 23 1/2 x 31 1/4 inches (2.5 x 59.7 x 79.4 cm)
Images via ICA Boston
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"Do What You Love", “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life,” Confucius Meme Quote Wallpiece(???)
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“There’s little doubt that “do what you love” (DWYL) is now the unofficial work mantra for our time. The problem is that it leads not to salvation, but to the devaluation of actual work, including the very work it pretends to elevate — and more importantly, the dehumanization of the vast majority of laborers. Superficially, DWYL is an uplifting piece of advice, urging us to ponder what it is we most enjoy doing and then turn that activity into a wage-generating enterprise. But why should our pleasure be for profit? Who is the audience for this dictum? Who is not? By keeping us focused on ourselves and our individual happiness, DWYL distracts us from the working conditions of others while validating our own choices and relieving us from obligations to all who labor, whether or not they love it. It is the secret handshake of the privileged and a worldview that disguises its elitism as noble self-betterment. According to this way of thinking, labor is not something one does for compensation, but an act of self-love. If profit doesn’t happen to follow, it is because the worker’s passion and determination were insufficient. Its real achievement is making workers believe their labor serves the self and not the marketplace.”
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We intended to critically engage with this saying (and its many variations) as a way to try and grapple with having spent four years in a BFA program and supposedly, a future life of working in the arts. What did it mean to have enrolled in an art program because we (as high schoolers) loved making art, and were either afforded the massive privilege to continue, or were willing to shoulder the insurmountable financial risk involved? We have yet to develop a coherent answer to our own predicament, and that of thousands of other visual and performing arts students which graduate each year. But in this moment of symbolic gestures (insert applause) to valorize our “heroes”, who are ostensibly doing their work because they love it and love keeping us afloat, and not because essential workers are forced to by wage exploitation and the now-exposed fragility of Western societal structures, this capitalist adage continues to resonate, ringing hollow like the pots and pans we hear, each and every evening. [Note: We do not hear pots and pans in Ithaca. Maybe in New York City they are still doing this, though it feels like some people who were banging pots and pans have decided to congregate in public spaces as the weather has gotten nicer.] |
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Miya Tokumitsu’s writing on “doing what you love” has served as a critical introduction to this phrase specifically, and all the discourse on labor and love which it opens up. A short essay edition is published here on Jacobin, while an interview with The Atlantic on her book “Do What You Love: And Other Lies About Success & Happiness” can be found here. Of particular interest to us was Tokumitsu’s brief mention of the quote’s attribution to Confucius. The sage advice supposedly spoken by Confucius actually (and not actually at all) goes “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”. Tokumitsu locates this false attribution in a “misty, Orientalized past”, perhaps one of inscrutable wisdoms, hard work, piety. What follows is a directionless diagram intended to link these ideas. |
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In 2020 You Will Be (Instagram Filter)
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These who-what-etc. questionnaire filters are pretty popular - if we recall correctly, the “In 2020 You Will Be” filter was one of the first to take off.
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Instructions on how to get the 2020 filter: https://www.elitedaily.com/p/heres-how-to-get-the-instagram-2020-prediction-filter-to-reveal-your-future-19769365
Shrine
There seems to be this tradition of Korean high schoolers / college students bringing various gifts, stuffed animals, notes, snacks to their peers’ art receptions or showcases, and leaving them in mountainous piles like a celebratory shrine for their achievement.
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For a while now, we've been curious as to what a 'thesis' might mean for us. Common practice is that this 'thesis' manifests as a physical final show. Is that meant to be a grand, cherry-on-top exit for seniors?
Anyhow, this signifies a sort of end and a new beginning, or rather, the beginning of an end. Congrats, until next time~
졸업 축하합니다!
Supplemental Tactics
Doing stuff to windows
Tape, mark making, etc.
Fake realestate signage… ?
Oishi bowl
Goldwin smith windows?
Ramen noodle fixes
-jugs, plant pots
Tubs, buckets, etc.
Soap pieces
fruit fly traps
Water jugs
Teabags in things
Night lights (other simple plugin bits)
shelves
Mounting on the grate door bibliowicz
On instant noodles
All These Ideas, Nothing To Show!
I’m Upset!
On another note I got one of those slope day breakfast sandwiches in 2019 with the intention of using it for a sculpture; I kept it, fully wrapped and in airtight storage for a whole year until it turned spongy but then we had to leave studios so now there is a year old Jimmy Dean English Muffin breakfast sandwich somewhere in a landfill
Looking to learn how to code webpages properly, how to purchase and operate a domain, looking to learn audio engineering,
Home Midnight Crisis / Midnight Crisis Commemorative T-Shirts / Don't Tell Anyone, I'm Seeing This Guy / She Went To The Student Union Building For The Free Bamboo Plants / Summary Posters (2019) / Towards a Quieter Life (Karaoke) / Untitled (Variations on a Korean Folk Song) / The Lizzie McGuire Movie 2: / Uncle Boy's Landscaping Catalogue / Reading Room (2018)
