Solicited: Proposals - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, James Taylor-Foster

Contributors Maria Lind, Shirley Surya, Prem Krishnamurthy, Federico Martelli, Vasıf Kortun, Gilly Karjevsky, Rosario Talevi, Mpho Matsipa, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Molemo Moiloa, and more…

What happens in an architecture exhibition? What, and who is it for? What does it do, and how does it do it? Solicited: Proposals is a shared effort to parse the architecture exhibition, to untangle and rethink its meaning and its potential for today. Through the lens of a single element, each contribution seeks to reimagine the architecture exhibition: what it allows for and does not allow for; what it enables, what it disables; what it constructs and deconstructs.

Solicited: Proposals is a project initiated by ArkDes and e-flux Architecture.

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16 essays

The Horizon

Civil Architecture

The horizon is present in every exhibition. Most times it is simply an afterthought, a subliminal line that follows the viewer through the gallery, an…

The Guide

Space Popular

For visitors, the audio guide is a crucial point of access to the ideas and imaginations behind an exhibition. It is a friendly voice, arriving somewh…

The Moment

Maria McLintock

The neoliberalization of public services and austerity-led stripping of government finance towards the operation of museums across North America and…

The Weather

Lev Bratishenko and Melanija Grozdanoska

Exhibitions are environments of rigid climatic control. The ideal interior weather for artworks and artefacts require temperature and humidity to be k…

The Caption

Mika Savela

Captioning is anything but a routine curatorial task. There are styles and tendencies, even existing criteria for excellence, with annual awards given…

The Brief

Anna Livia Friel and Marco Provinciali

The brief, a specific genre of architectural writing, constitutes one of the necessary starting points for any architectural project, defining its obj…

The Interpretation

Esther Choi

The will to influence is at the core of any exhibition. —Bruce W. Ferguson1 The making of culture relies on interpretation for its own validity. …

The Budget

Jia Yi Gu

Having served as director of two Los Angeles-based non-profit organizations dedicated to architectural exhibitions, I am often implicated in the makin…

The Queue

Mpho Matsipa, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, and Molemo Moiloa

Western cultural institutions like the museum often presuppose an orderly spacing of time. The queue, in this sense, is anticipatory, but almost alway…

The Outdoors

Gilly Karjevsky and Rosario Talevi

Architects are often taught that everything is architecture. That they are educated in a discipline with no boundaries, which reaches all aspects of l…

The Threshold

Vasıf Kortun

A decade and some years ago, I was preoccupied with the question of laying out the fundamentals for a new institution, an institution for the present….

The Object List

Federico Martelli

I once designed the exhibition for the collection of an important museum. The brief was simple: we were asked to work with the relationships between a…

The Timeframe

Prem Krishnamurthy

This contribution is intended to be listened to. The exhibition is open only at specific hours, from dusk to midnight. During these periods, you …

The Collection

Shirley Surya

It is timely to write a self-reflexive account of building the permanent architecture collection at M+, a museum for visual culture encompassing visua…

The Seating

Maria Lind

You are most likely sitting down while reading this. If not, please look for a place near you where you can take a seat and spend a moment. This text …

Editorial

Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, and James Taylor-Foster

Dear reader, What happens in an architecture exhibition? What, and who is it for? What does it do, and how does it do it? Solicited: Proposals is a s…

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Architecture, Exhibition Histories, Curating, Institutional Critique

Solicited: Proposals is a project initiated by ArkDes and e-flux Architecture.

Contributors

Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, and James Taylor-Foster Editorial
Maria Lind The Seating
Shirley Surya The Collection
Prem Krishnamurthy The Timeframe
Federico Martelli The Object List
Vasıf Kortun The Threshold
Gilly Karjevsky and Rosario Talevi The Outdoors
Mpho Matsipa, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, and Molemo Moiloa The Queue
Jia Yi Gu The Budget
Esther Choi The Interpretation
Anna Livia Friel and Marco Provinciali The Brief
Mika Savela The Caption
Lev Bratishenko and Melanija Grozdanoska The Weather
Maria McLintock The Moment
Space Popular The Guide
Civil Architecture The Horizon

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