Currently Obsessed: SEVDALIZA

For her latest interdisciplinary project “That Other Girl”, Sevdaliza teamed up with Pussykrew discovering their mutual passion and corresponding references for 3D technology.

In this video, Sevdaliza has fallen victim to her own creation of a safe vacuum. Submissive to deep-rooted emotions and assumptions, Sevdaliza finds herself imprisoned in her own paintings and sculptures. Can she remain unflawed? She has become nothing more than a statue surrounded by surreal environments. Identity becomes a game, however she remains in control of the computed bodies. She breaks the stereotypes of gender roles and constructs to manifest a different notion of cyborgian identity. Sevdaliza’s husky vocals float over a mechanical bed that excites masculine energy and sexual adrenaline. As the song continues, a rhythmic tension builds slowly into a chaotic climax. Every retribution becomes more intense and personal, yet she isn’t able to break from that obscure statue of a woman.

 

directed by Pussykrew
concept by Sevdaliza and Pussykrew
produced by Pussykrew
MUA Celine Bernaerts
music produced by Mucky
co-produced by Sevdaliza

Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships Between Architecture and Site

by Caroline O'Donnell (Author)

“A snippet from Ingraham’s Foreword:

“…O’Donnell’s book provides very sharp insights into what it might mean to draw, as an architect or urban designer, in order to draw out, in an ecological sense, the ‘missing perspectives’ of diverse and com­plex contexts in past, contemporary, and future architectural work.””

Niche Tactics aligns architecture's relationship with site with its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment.

Bracketed between texts on giraffe morphology, ecological perception, ugliness, and hopeful monsters, architectural case studies investigate historical moments when relationships between architecture and site were productively intertwined, from the anomalous city designs of Francesco de Marchi in the sixteenth century to Le Corbusier’s near eradication of context in his Plan Voisin in the twentieth century to the more recent contextualist movements. Extensively illustrated with 140 drawings and photographs, Niche Tactics considers how attention to site might create a generative language for architecture today.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Niche-Tactics-Generative-Relationships-Architecture/dp/1138793124

Interview with Routledge : https://www.routledge.com/posts/494

OUT OF HAND: MATERIALIZING THE POSTDIGITAL

"In today’s postdigital world, artists are using these means to achieve levels of expression never before possible – an explosive, unprecedented scope of artistic expression that extends from sculptural fantasy to functional beauty.  'Out of Hand' will be the first major museum exhibition to to consider the impact of these new, revolutionary methods of computer-assisted manufacture on fine art, design, and architecture, and will introduce the public to the imaginative expression that these emerging processes enable."

 
 

Volume, Dror Benshetrit, 2009

Subdivided Column, Dror Bes & Michael Hansmeyer, 2010

 

Mathematical Model 009: Surface of revolution with constant negative curvature, Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2006

 

WheelsClawsTeeth, Elena van Gent, 2006

 

Cape and Skirt, Neri Oxman + Iris van Herpen, 2013

Hyphae Pendant Lamps, Nervous System, 2013

 

PHOTOS:  BRENT-SOLOMON.COM