4 documents
# 65
La Ville Souvenir
Ernesto Oroza and Gean Moreno
What would happen if every souvenir shop and stand was invaded by an abstract souvenir, something that everyone, even children, recognize as a malefic mass? And what if this mass all of a sudden was to be acknowledged by a baffled population as a proper sign to identify the city by? What if, magically eliciting little hostility, the souvenir was simply accepted and reproduced, despite the diffuse disgust and pointed fear that it generated in everyone? Imagine hundreds of thousands of malefic…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Subjects
Commodification
# 58
“Un solo palo no hace monte”: Notes on the Otherwise’s Inevitable Infecundity
Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza
Once Upon a Time
Hamlet is seated on a throne. He’s bent and wasted. An imperfect Hamlet, frozen in place; history stretches between him and us like an unbreachable wall. His left hand holds up a fallen brow. All is dark around him. Foreboding. Tenebrous. The only light on the set is absorbed by the deep furrows on the prince’s hands. This is the wrong way for a film to start. 1 From the very beginning, it forces us to retune our understanding of the subject, to perk up in…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2014
Category
Film, Capitalism
# 18
Generic Objects
Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza
1.
By generic objects we don’t mean objects that affect a kind of generic quality—brilliantly commonsensical and ordinary objects that come from the rarefied space of the designer’s studio, and draw their value from that space. We mean really generic—milk crates, plastic buckets, shipping containers, wooden palettes, traffic barricades, decorative concrete blocks, urban trash cans and dumpsters, rubber tires, scaffolding, Scotch tape. It’s not that any of these aren’t designed,…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2010
Category
Design, Aesthetics
# 06
Learning from Little Haiti
Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza
It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at others in fits and starts: an urban process in which things designed for one particular function are used for another. A standard stock of materials suddenly confronts a logic of construction that reinterprets it completely in uses and contexts that were never imagined for it. At times, this combinatorial propensity—even promiscuity—lying dormant in various artifacts and materials is fired up to such a degree that the apparent…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2009
Category
Urbanism, Music, Economy, Migration & Immigration
Subjects
Public Space