MSCTY_EXPO UKNOWN PLEASURES
MSCTY_EXPO [ZONE 001]
UNKNOWN PLEASURES
CURATED BY NICK LUSCOMBE + CLARE FARROW
Introduction
DIVE IN TO THE PHUTURE!
Fellow Expo obsessive James Greer and I have been mapping out our plans for MSCTY_EXPO over 12 months now, and we are very happy to be bringing the very first zone, whereby we have partnered with the London Design Festival as well as curator and writer Clare Farrow [clarefarrowstudio].
MSCTY had the pleasure to be invited to work with Clare and OPPO earlier in 2020 to bring a specially commissioned soundtrack to the architecture of Kengo Kuma's Bamboo Ring installation, which will be part of Milan Design Week 2021.
Previously, MSCTY has largely worked to bring architects together with sound artists and composers through our extensive networks, pretty much independently – so it's been fun to invite Clare to co-curate this relaunch. Clare has also written an essay for us with her thoughts on some of the wonderful work featured on our website, and there's also a fantastic piece looking back at the history of Expos by Rebecca Morrill and Guy Tindale.
So, MSCTY_EXPO...the very first zone. Please dive in and explore!
— Nick Luscombe
PAVILIONS
Imaginary Sonic Visions by Bill Fontana is a sonic response to Enrique Sobejano and Fuensanta Nieto’s unrealised design for NCCA Moscow: New National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow – Competition Finalist.
IMAGINARY SONIC VISIONS
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
w/ Bill Fontana
Hannah Peel created her track by following the flow of Lily Jencks’ drawing. (The Horizon: your steps are a metronome. 30 minutes, 23 July 2020.)
THE HORIZON: YOUR STEPS ARE A METRONOME.
30 MINUTES, 23 JULY 2020.
LILY JENCKS w/ HANNAH PEEL
Loraine James presents a visionary sci-fi dreamscape for Ab Roger’s cocoon-like structures.
LIVING WITH BUILDINGS
AB ROGERS
w/ LORAINE JAMES
Meditations on “Theatrum Mundi”, is a sonic response in 12 movements by Yuval Avital to Daniel Libeskind’s “Theatrum Mundi”, 1983, a series of 12 abstract works (paper, collage and paint on board) that give visual form to a premonition of the future as a city besieged by an unknown infection. The composition interprets the visual artworks as ‘mandalas’ and their titles as poetic vectors.
THEATRUM MUNDI
DANIEL LIBESKIND
w/ YUVAL AVITAL
Akrafokonmu/Soul washer's badge was written, performed and produced by Chisara Agor in response to Elsie Owusu's A Gallery for Returning Treasures.
A GALLERY FOR RETURNING TREASURES
ELSIE OWUSU
w/ CHISARA AGOR
PiM.studio Architects, A music hall in the Alps, Valsolda, Italy, 2019 – competition
ARCHITECTURE MEETING NATURE MEETING SOUND
PiM.studio
w/ mcconville
Yuri Suzuki re-imagines Richard Roger’s Zip-Up House as a musical instrument created via acoustic simulation of the space.
ZIP-UP HOUSE
Richard Rogers
w/ Yuri Suzuki
Further Reading
Words by Clare Farrow, Rebecca Morrill + Guy Tindale.