Bunker, Konjic, B-H, photographed in spring 2011 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Month: September 2011
The Power of Fantasy, BOZAR, Brussels, 2011 – photographs taken during the installation.
Love Among the Ruins
In autumn 2008 Kobas Laksa and Nicolas Grospierre invited visitors to the Venice Architecture Biennale to stay at the Hotel … More
Life in the Shadow of Monuments: Philippe Chancel’s North Korea
I wrote this piece for the Photographers’ Gallery in London a few years ago. Philippe Chancel’s images of North Korea … More
Socialist recreation? Amateur film and photography in the People’s Republic of Poland and East Germany
This piece was published in a book which is very difficult to find, so I have posted my contribution below.
Design Beyond Art
Here’s a review of two exhibitions – ‘Telling Tales‘ at the V&A and ‘Super Contemporary’ at the Design Museum. Both exhibitions … More
Progressing Backwards
This piece was written for Thomas Thwaites to appear in a publication about his Toaster Project. It will stay posted … More
Unmonumental monuments
This text appeared in the catalogue for the Steirischer Herbst festival, Graz, 2010
Personal Search
Here is a discussion of an undeservedly obscure Polish film, Rewizja Osobista / Personal Search, 1972. It was commissioned by the … More
Well Mannered Anarchists: The Design Research Unit
Written for Creative Review, this piece looked at the career of the ‘DESIGN RESEARCH UNIT’, the subject of an exhibition … More