November 1, 2019, 6pm
Lubbock, TX 79410
USA
Join Roundhouse Platform at Texas Tech University College of Architecture for Public Programming: City Similes, an experimental screening series with images of architecture from the public domain—some re-presented, some reprogrammed. The series hosts a double feature on November 1 with Phoebe Webster, Jack Stewart-Castner, Martin Hitch and Neal Lucas Hitch.
Philadelphia Is Layered Like A Collage
Visuals sourced, sampled, and remixed by Phoebe Webster & Jack Stewart-Castner with Roundhouse Platform, accompanied by a soundtrack modified from Philadelphia Housing Association’s 1941 documentary A Place To Live.
A densely layered chronicle of the city gridded, then infinitely interrupted, Philadelphia Is Layered Like A Collage explores the boundless sources of repetition and difference in the City of Brotherly Love. The dynamism of the city is traced across layers, from the base layer of historical survey maps, planning commission grids, and housing association photo-catalogs, to virtual walkthroughs of domestic interiors via real estate databases and screen captures in Google Streetview. Manifesting in an immersive and interactive installation, the event represents layers of the city superimposed on an array of screens while cycling through multiple formats—projected in maps, photos, and videos.
The Southland Isn’t Somewhere, But Everywhere; Scaleless Like Suburbia Everywhere Else
Performance, production, and pigmentation by founders of I/Thee Martin Hitch & Neal Lucas Hitch, alongside visuals remixed by Roundhouse Platform. Text from “Introduction à une critique de la géographie urbaine,” “Project d’embelissement rationel de la ville de Paris,” and “Positions Situationistes sur la circulation.”
Taking the form of a performance in projection and pigmentation, The Southland Isn’t Somewhere, But Everywhere; Scaleless Like Suburbia Everywhere Else uses contemporary methods for imaging historical maps to explore sprawl in the municipalities surrounding Los Angeles across and beyond scale. The performance explores the scale of the somewhere city in destinations like Downtown and Santa Monica and scale of the everywhere city in the suburbia stretching from Alhambra to Watts by remapping pieces of urban fabric. With parallel repetition in lines of code and lines on maps, a collection of Sanborn maps of the Southland are sampled, scanned and projected by a robot while buildings, streets, sidewalks, and “specials” symbols are traced, pasted, or corrected on screens, then printed live. Accompanied by a mélange of textual fragments, rendered to speech, from the Situationist International’s manifesto and Guy Debord’s essays.
Details
Who: Phoebe Webster, Jack Stewart-Castner, I/Thee, Roundhouse Platform
When: November 1, 6–8pm
Where: TTU COA, Lubbock, TX 79410
Tickets: Free, open to all
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About Public Programming
Public Programming is dedicated to supporting work in the creative commons by contemporary architects and artists. The series aims to investigate changes in the commons of the urban and cultural sphere and facilitate public engagement with works of critical and creative archival research. The screenings in the 2019 season respond to a shared theme: City Similes.
About Roundhouse
Roundhouse is a curatorial platform investigating urban change. It aims to facilitate public engagement with site-specific histories through site exploration, archival research, publication and exhibition making. Curation is a project of Noémie Despland-Lichtert and Brendan Shea.
About TTU COA
Texas Tech College of Architecture aspires to advance the knowledge, discipline, and practice of architecture through innovation, creative teaching, research, regional and global engagement, and scholarship.
