Sreshta Rit Premnath,
Matthew Metzger,
Dan Levenson,
et alLuis Camnitzer, Sean Raspet, Joanne Greenbaum, Blithe Riley, Tyler Coburn, Sheela Gowda, Blank Noise, Lise Soskolne, [14 More...]
A city square is occupied by hundreds of shouting voices, and transformed by hundreds of sleeping bodies building together a polis for action as well as a home for repose. High-rises are erected and builders hunch and squat in tight quarters, catching breath between shifts. As houses are boarded up, the occasional scene of an underground bench occupied by a bundled figure under blankets becomes more frequent.
Shifter’s 21st issue, Other Spaces, considers the body as a site where architecture’s traditional polarities of private and public collapse. This polarity, mirrored in the distinctions we draw between individual and social freedoms and ...
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