Pirates of The Condominium
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This is an ongoing project begun Dec. 2021 as a "newspaper", which can take the form of any sort of multiply printed object (usually printed as a zine, with comics). Pirates is a reaction to development and gentrification, and deeper issues surrounding the privatization and ownership of space. It is also investigating connections between materials, such as glass, steel, concrete, bricks, and other units that things are made of, in an architectural sense, and relating this to structural elements in a narrative- words, images, memories, repetitions. In this way it is a sort of "concrete poetry comic" that is solidifying in time.
A key aspect of this work has to do with the function of the NEWSPAPER as a physical object that serves many community functions. The Newspaper contains usually an attempt at "NEWS" or truthful stories, and for this employs "journalists" who are professional gatherers of truth. This attempt to keep digging at the solidified, homogenized status of things (as in materials) is a form of architectural undermining that reminds me of the way that cracks can appear in a building's structure.
If newspapers have some sort of fealty to the concept of truth, condominiums especially but buildings and private property generally, depend on a sort of calcification of the falsehood of private property and ownership, a separateness, a glass wall that can't be seen through.
A 16mm film with this name is being produced in June 2022, with volunteer actors, which will extend the investigation.
An ongoing subscription comic/roleplaying game Subscribe to the Patreon for $5!
This is an ongoing project begun Dec. 2021 as a "newspaper", which can take the form of any sort of multiply printed object (usually printed as a zine, with comics). Pirates is a reaction to development and gentrification, and deeper issues surrounding the privatization and ownership of space. It is also investigating connections between materials, such as glass, steel, concrete, bricks, and other units that things are made of, in an architectural sense, and relating this to structural elements in a narrative- words, images, memories, repetitions. In this way it is a sort of "concrete poetry comic" that is solidifying in time.
A key aspect of this work has to do with the function of the NEWSPAPER as a physical object that serves many community functions. The Newspaper contains usually an attempt at "NEWS" or truthful stories, and for this employs "journalists" who are professional gatherers of truth. This attempt to keep digging at the solidified, homogenized status of things (as in materials) is a form of architectural undermining that reminds me of the way that cracks can appear in a building's structure.
If newspapers have some sort of fealty to the concept of truth, condominiums especially but buildings and private property generally, depend on a sort of calcification of the falsehood of private property and ownership, a separateness, a glass wall that can't be seen through.
A 16mm film with this name is being produced in June 2022, with volunteer actors, which will extend the investigation.
Cover of March 2022 issue
Cover of April 2022 Issue
Production still from 16mm film
Production still from 16mm film