This essay is a transcript of a talk given in Zakopane in late 2014. It will appear in a…
Every Single Crash – Filip Berendt’s art
This text was written to accompany Filip Berendt’s show at L’étrangère, London in 2015. Working in Taiwan a few years…
The Choreography of the Console: The Design of Electronic Environments and their Operators in the Cold War
This talk was given in Zurich at ETH in autumn 2014. In the late 1950 and 1960s a new kind…
Interview with Herito magazine
In May Herito published an interview with me on socmodernist architecture in Eastern Europe – you can read it here.
Staging for the End of History: Avant-garde Visions at the Beginning and the End of Communism in Eastern Europe
In 1967 Stanislav Kolibal, the Czech artist, was commissioned to design the August-September cover of Výtvarné Uměni (Fine Arts) (fig…
A Little Music: Sound Works by Wojciech Bruszewski
This essay will appear in 2015 in a book reviewing the work of artist Wojciech Bruszewski. In 1982 Wojciech Bruszewski…
Empty Plots – Art and Environment in Latvia in the 1970s
This short essay was written for a publication accompanying the Visionary Structures exhibition at BOZAR, Brussels, opening in January 2015.…
Echo Translation
In his book La voix au cinéma (The Voice in Cinema), Michel Chion coined the word ‘acousmêtre’ to describe a…
Design Exhibitions Today – Answers and Questions
This piece appears in Disegno magazine, 7, 2014. Design museums and galleries have long been in the business of…
Review of Liverpool Biennial 2014
This review appeared in Frieze, Sept. 2014. You can imagine the bemusement when the commission arrived. British artist Chris…
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