JUNKSPACE
by Tori Lawrence
"Junk-space is the residue mankind leaves on the planet. The built product of modernization is not modern architecture but Junkspace. Junkspace is what remains after modernization has run its course or, more precisely, what coagulates while modernization is in progress, its fallout."
- Rem Koolhaas
To accumulate without regard to composition
Product of the encounter between escalator and air conditioning:
No form, just proliferation.
Be regular in this canned utopia. An ornamental community.
More is More:
As irregular topographies are bulldozed into a flatness, I feel a destabilization, an ungrounded transience of always traveling through somewhere. Art historian Miwon Kwon states that “we are out of place all to often” and that “the intensifying conditions of such spatial undifferentiation and departicularization – fueled by an ongoing globalization of technology and telecommunications to accommodate an ever-expanding capitalist order – exacerbate the effects of alienation and fragmentation in contemporary life."
Tori Lawrence is a choreographer/filmmaker and the 2019-20 Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer at Middlebury College. She creates site-specific multimedia performances and analog/digital dance films. Her environmentally-based work inspires an imaginative and sustainable way of looking at, thinking about, and using space. She has been awarded grants from Lighton International Artists Exchange and NEFA to fund her recent dance film projects. She has been awarded artist residencies and fellowships at Yaddo, Djerassi, Playa, Brunakra, Ucross Foundation, Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation, Dance Ireland, and Budapest's Workshop Foundation. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa.
headshot by Rewa Bush
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