Letters

21 January 1982 Dear Kelly, Enclosed is a copy of Window Room Furniture. As we discussed, it is my belief that exposing this project and the search surrounding it is more appropriate for Oz than simply photographs or drawings of my own work

Bad Press: dissident ironing

Installation piece; dimensions vary.18 white shirts are ironed into varied shapes and displayed on ironing boards. A thin line of text, taken from a 1950's manual on how to press shirts for packaging, ran around the room at the same height as the top of the ironing boards.full view, man's torso; white shirt; arm's akimbo

Bad Press: dissident ironing

Installation piece; dimensions vary.18 white shirts are ironed into varied shapes and displayed on ironing boards. A thin line of text, taken from a 1950's manual on how to press shirts for packaging, ran around the room at the same height as the top of the ironing boards.full view, five views of a folded white shir

Bad Press: dissident ironing

Installation piece; dimensions vary.18 white shirts are ironed into varied shapes and displayed on ironing boards. A thin line of text, taken from a 1950's manual on how to press shirts for packaging, ran around the room at the same height as the top of the ironing boards.full view, folded white shirt with unusual fold

Bad Press: dissident ironing

Installation piece; dimensions vary.18 white shirts are ironed into varied shapes and displayed on ironing boards. A thin line of text, taken from a 1950's manual on how to press shirts for packaging, ran around the room at the same height as the top of the ironing boards.installation view, installed at the Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, 199

Bad Press: dissident ironing

Installation piece; dimensions vary.18 white shirts are ironed into varied shapes and displayed on ironing boards. A thin line of text, taken from a 1950's manual on how to press shirts for packaging, ran around the room at the same height as the top of the ironing boards.full view, white, folded shirt; Japanese text in backgroun

Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio : Flesh 1 : Architectural Probes

This book issues from a transdisciplinary studio that seeks to incorporate architecture, the visual arts, and the performing art, as the members have done here on the theme of flesh. Teyssot's essay plays on the ambiguity of the phrase "body of architecture", sometimes emphasing body, sometimes architecture. Diller and Scofidio take up the theme of deviants and the legal definition of buttocks. Biographical notes. Circa 100 bibl. ref

Capp Street Project, 1987-1988

While founder Hatch introduces the Capp Street Project and its goal to support public art, Brew comments on the installations by the 11 American artists who participated in the project in 1987 and 1988. Statements by some of the artists. Biographical notes

Visite aux armées : Tourismes de guerre = Back to The Front : Tourisms of War

For the presentation of an installation in Normandie through which architects/artists Diller and Scofidio question the fabrication of the aura and the authenticity of American historical tourist sites, the texts (including one short story) probe the multi-levelled connections between war and tourism, the D-Day landings of 1944, the hyper-mediatisation of conflicts, the history of perspective, the function of memorials, etc. Biographical notes on the artists and the five essayists. 109 bibl. ref

Queues, Rendezvous, Riots : Questioning the Public in Art and Architecture

The product of an exhibition exploring the notion of "the public" in art and architecture, accountability, and the manner in which meaning is constructed, reinterpreted and assimilated, this anthology presents six artists' projects in conjunction with six essays investigating topics including: vandalism during the French revolution; monumentality and the functional form; and the collapse of communism, ruins, and revisionist history. Biographical notes on contributors. 82 bibl. ref