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Alex Schweder |
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Peescapes, 2001 |
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Peescapes view the removal of our bodily waste as a poetic opportunity. Each pair of urinals consists of one male and one female urinal. These diptychs use terms commonly associated with the choreography of water such as a fountain, dam, and aqueduct to sensualize urine as it flows to the drain. These terms are used to inform alterations to the interior landscapes of urinals to aesthetisize rather than economize the removal of pee. |
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| Lovelorn Walls , 2003-2004 Vitreous china 84 x 36 x 57 inches |
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Fabricated during a residency at the Kohler plumbing fixture factory in Wisconsin, Lovelorn Walls acknowledges the use of vitreous china for the seemingly dissimilar uses of plates, toilets, and architectural tiles. This installation is located in the bathrooms at the Tacoma Trade and Convention Center. Here, the toilet partitions made from ceramic blocks imply edibility through utensil like spigots that appear on a few of the blocks. Those with this protrusion have deflated slightly and the space between them turns from a line into a pocket. In these voids, a few quiet moments of caulk were applied with a cake decorator to imply sweetness. |
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A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day, 2007 |
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Description A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day is the third work in series I call Edifice Events. This body of work understands buildings as very slow performances; each installation accelerates the time in which flux is perceptible in out built environment. Edifice Events encourage their viewers to see space that changes within a timeframe closely related to that of our bodies. By doing so, a reading of the relationship between occupying bodies and occupied space as permeable rather than discrete is suggested. As indicated in the adjacent floor plans, A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day stuffs the first floor rooms of an 800 square foot house into a building envelope of a 500 square foot bungalow. The red lines in the adjacent drawings indicate the origional outlines of the 5 clear vinyl forms in this installation. Through this misfit, an architectural space results with deformations, writhings nad contortions as the rooms inflate and readjust to their volatile adjacencies. Although the timed “score” of fans turning on and off remains the same for every performance, the material and architectural result of the vinyl sacks is different each time that the rooms fall upon one another in different configurations during the deflations. In addition to examining the relationship of the individual components of a whole to one another, this work sees the relationship between architecture and landscape to be one of time as well as space. Commonly, buildings are perceived as objects that sit stably upon a site. A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day, whether a viewer sees a landscape or a building no only depends on where they look, but also when. |
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