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10/11/2000

Mixer and Terrain

Henry Urbach Architecture, New York

Mixer transforms a concrete mixer into an intimate media cocoon. The most recent construction by LOT/EK, Mixer offers a contemporary meditation capsule at once connected to, and separate from, the world beyond its thin steel walls. The hollow mixer, about 8-ft. in diameter and 10-ft. tall, provides a readymade vessel that LOT/EK adapts to accommodate lounging, viewing, listening, and dreaming.

Fitted with advanced technological equipment, Mixer reaches beyond the enclosure of the vessel to networks of information beyond. Inside the capsule, viewers recline on plush, blue foam and gaze up towards a ring of monitors that serve as electronic windows. Remote controls enable those inside to sample and mix different audiovisual input‹much like a DJ in a mixing booth from a range of sources including satellite television, playstations, digital video, and surveillance and sound systems. Two surveillance cameras, one on the outside of Mixer and another on the roof, import live footage of the gallery interior and the surrounding city to further mix inside and out.

LOT/EK is the New York studio of Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano. As they traverse the territory that joins art, architecture, and entertainment, LOT/EK's projects comprise architectural commissions, interior and exhibition designs, and public art installations. Their TV-TANK has been exhibited nationally and included in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, and their TV-LITE belongs to the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Current projects include a new building for the University of Washington, several galleries in New York, a shop in Seoul, and a multimedia gallery for the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Their recent book, Mixer: Installation and Assembly Manual, with an essay by Mark Robbins, will be simultaneously released by Edizioni Press. Mixer has been produced with generous support from Joystick Nation.

Terrain is an unprecedented exhibition of two related projects by visionary architect Lebbeus Woods: notebooks from the period 1975 -2000, and Terrain, a recent suite of works on paper. Woods believes that architecture is a form of knowledge and drawing a mode of research, and he aims, through drawing, to propose alternative evolutions of the present cultural situation. His notebooks, the most direct and spontaneous record of this research, mix travelogue and personal reflection with sketches and inventions. Fragments of the notebook sketches and writings reemerge in the Terrain drawings-ten abstract works, executed in ink, pencil, pastel and print, that fuse text with crystalline visions of imagined terrains.

Lebbeus Woods was born in 1940. After working in the office of Eero Saarinen, he entered private practice and, in 1976, made a decisive turn towards advanced design research. Co-founder of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture and longtime professor at the Cooper Union, he currently teaches at Pennsylvania State University. Woods has exhibited, lectured on, and published his projects internationally. His most recent book is Radical Reconstruction; others include AnArchitecture: Architecture is a Political Act (Academy, 1992); Centricity (Aedes, 1987); and OneFiveFour (Princeton Architectural Press, 1989). His drawings belong to many private and institutional collections, including the Getty Research Institute, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Applied Art (MAK) in Vienna.

GALLERY ONE: Mixer by LOT/EK
GALLERY TWO: Terrain by Lebbeus Woods

Henry Urbach Architecture 526 West 26th Street NYC NY 10001 tel: (212)627-0974 image: LOT/EK

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