Loris Greaud - Tremors Where Forever (frequency of an image, white edit)

Loris Greaud - Tremors Where Forever (frequency of an image, white edit)

Altermodern - Tate Britain, 2009

Greaud's works frequently have multiple incarnations, projects become re-assessed and developed into a complex weave. He is best known for his ongoing project 'Cellar Door', which has been displayed internationally, existing as an opera, installation, architectural project, and even brand of 'taseless sweets', the project creates a deja vu like scenario as the viewer attempts to resolve the situation.

For Greauds 2009 installation at the Tate Triannale curated by Nicolas Bourriaud he conducted a neurological experiment to record his own brain activity for thirty minutes whilst in deep thought about the Cellar Door international project. The recorded brain waves were then converted into electrical frequencies which were then transmitted to a series of boxes attached to the gallery floor. Arranged in a symmetrical pattern similar to the layout of the cortexes of the brain Greauds cerebral wanderings became physical as the pulsating boxes emitted a drone like frequency. 

David Byrne - Playing the Building

David Byrne Playing the Building

Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005

Playing the Building is a sound installation by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. In Playing The Building the entire building resonates as a muscial insruments triggered via an organ which visitors are invited to play. Metal beams, fixtures, fittings and supporting structures are activiated via wind, vibration or percussive striking.

Tim Ivison & Julia Tcharfas - Metropotamia

Tim Ivison & Julia Tcharfas - Metropotamia

2011, Hilary Crisp Gallery, London

Metropotamia by Tim Ivison and Julia Tcharfas was an assemblage of fragmented architectural models. Mostly constructed in the gallery space the scaled down utopian monuments were a playground for the resident alley cats for the duration of the show. 

The title 'Metropotamia' refers to one of the many rejected titles by Thomas Jefferson for the Ohio Country, an area haunted by the post-industrial decay of lower Michigan and Detroit. The damaged models and references to visionary social ideology placed on a grid on the gallery floor explore how value and determination are highly subjective. 

Manfred Pernice - Tutti

Manfred Pernice - Tutti

2011, SMAK Ghent

Pernice's practice often revolves around ideas of architecture and presentation. His work employes distinct motifs with overt reference to interiority and domesticity.

Tutti currently showing at SMAK in Ghent (until 8/1/12) includes a large-scale cylindrical sculpture split into four quadrants. A structure which he has used many times before in his work has become a way to articulate and readdress the content which within it, and to reflect on the relationship between architecture, sculpture and visual art.

Bruno Taut - Glass Pavilion

Bruno Taut - Glass Pavilion 

Cologne Werkbund Exhibition 1914

Taut was a prolific German architect, and was best know for his theoretical work and the brightly coloured prismatic dome of the Glass Pavilion built for the 1914 Cologne Werkbund Exhibition. Working alongside Walter Gropius (founder of the Bauhaus school) Taut introduced the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, a Total artwork including elements of painting, sculpture, music to create an "all encompassing architecture".

Taut was particularly famous because of his devotion to colour and glass. The Pavilion was accompanied by an essay written by Taut outlining the potential of different types of glass, and how the material might be used to orchestrate human emotions and assist in the construction of a spiritual utopia.

The Pavilion had poems by Paul Scheerbart written around its sides which included examples such as -

"Coloured glass destroys hatred." and "Without a glass palace, life is a conviction". Scheerbart also went on to publish a range of books about Tauts work most notably 'The grey cloth'.