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i have made the following selections:
2 or 2
3 or 3
4 or 4
7 they are all terrible
8
10 or 10
11
14
17
18
21
24
25
28 or 28 both are terrible
29
31

please comment on all.

tagged: 31houses, publicity

comments:

2. you are on your own here!
3. i’m partial to the ‘model’ image, since it shows our diverse aptitudes, but the dwg image looks more like the shit we do.
4. any drawing w/ a squid is always preferable.
7. what house is that?? i’ll have to look into it.

10. spock.
28. that was supposedly one of my ‘rush jobs’; i think either of yours are good; maybe the one w/ the whale?

for 07, i guess the axon is the ‘best’. it is a little difficult to see what is going on there, though; it looks like two red boxes. the nuances of stench that enable to falconer to function are lost.

hmm, i guess i approve of the other choices - how do i know?? i figured you might go for one of your dwgs for house 31.

1
5 or 5
6
9 or 9 (can’t really see 2nd one?)
12 i guess?
13
15
16 or 16 ugh.
19
20
22 or 22
23
26
27
30 or 30

5
9
16
22
30

[quote comment="11421"]30 [/quote]

what!!

what!!

you heard the man!

5: youre on your own, i dont even remember seeing yours, did you just post it?
9: exploded.
16: im afraid i would say mine.
22: twin towers?
30: i dont care, the plan is pretty fresh.

do we have an artists’ statement for this piece? i need to send one to the organisers.

i feel like we have written hundreds of those. is there one available somewhere else?

i guess this one is suppose to be about the house-a-day?

ashley wrote:i only casually perused the archives for the previous events, but the
idea of just picking something that one already does, then doing it 31
times seems lame. ie, ‘photograph a day’ or ’sketch of my friend a
day’, are bullshit and don’t teach us anything about the passage of
time, or approaching the same problem w/ multiple strategies. i had
some ideas along these lines, but they would not be collaborative, like
maybe finding objects in the street and constructing a chair, or
copulating w/ a different person every day (need more collaborators),
or removing a different piece of a machine (bike?) and still having it
function, or calling someone an ‘limber dicked cocksucker/cunt’ in
public every day of the month and noting the results.

considering what we already do, and maybe
celebrating/pushing/publicizing that, i thought we might start each day
with an image (photograph, drawring, bric-a-brac), then swap it back
and forth, each time making usual changes. perhaps we can set out 6 or
7 (i wasn’t in that kulper studio), types of actions we can take
(erasure, 31 marks,

maybe we could have a goal in mind for each day/image (and the month),
like a each day is a room for a 31-bed motel, or, we can just see
where the pix take us and produce some visual gibberish.
what are your thoughts?

jt wrote:
before i read the rest of the email i wish to declare that i am not finished with birnbeck, the section i am working on is on my table… i have just chosen to focus on writing for a little bit

ashley wrote:
i didn’t finish the email, anyway
‘drawring’ is supposed to be ‘drawing’

and ‘types of actions we can take (erasure, 31 marks,’
is supposed to be ‘types of actions we can take (erasure, 31 marks,
invasions, labeling, other stuff like that)

jt wrote:
hail!!! let me think about it, i am game though…

you want our statement to insult the other participants? i guess thats what our moda07 statement did.

hmm, i’m not an artist. what have we stated in the past? ‘we want to build cities’? ‘we draw it like we see it’
?

do we still believe this?

‘The work.group’ is a shorthand acknowledgment of both the protean framework through which the members of the group scratch their marks and the disparate body of artifacts which serve as contributions to the public domain. The work moves beyond traditionally singular office productions through a more viral practice of decentralized collaboration. The pregnant branches of the wrk.grp are manifold, representing the interests and specialties of the members, the multinodal structure of the inter- and extra-office communications, and the fostered coaxial interference of the surrounding community.

The work.group has proposed projects in Kingman, Monument Valley, Cimmeria, Freiburg, and Okefenokee.

i guess. it sounds less clear than something like this moda spiel:

This body of work will develop a position on the built world and its impact on lifestyle. We declare that the new insular live/work communities, the gestures at urbanizing suburban models of consumption, and target marketing are not at the will of the people and are not for the good of the people. We believe that people are not born stupid. If we cannot give people their lives back, we will then fantasize about how we would reclaim our own.

i wish that were about houses

hmm, the ”The work.group’ is a shorthand acknowledgment…’ text seems to be the rant that was up at green line cafe, so i guess there is precedent; it was probably in some publication of ours, too. is it tired to use it again next week?

i wrote the first draft of that moda thing. if you pen one for this i will comment on it. or use the protean thing, that is a catch-all.

id like to see some of the other artist statements:

my growing toenails indicate that i am still alive.

i am currently crafting an email to the folks who run this show. since i am a tight ass, they are going to let me in early to hang our stuff. anyway, i already pasted the protean text in there, b/c i am ready to move on.
i do wish it somehow ‘addressed’ the 31 daily routines, however. i guess we just did the stuff in the protean text 31 times.

is it too late to pick sites for all of these houses? i thought i might include them on the house spec sheets. some of them might already have sites, like the drift house. if you had any sites in mind, list them here; otherwise, make something up?

31 house - teddy roosevelt n.p.
house - poissy, la france
weather house - monument valley
apex predator house - savannah, ga
7 year house - cleveland, oh
house divided house - runnymede, md
home away from home house - kingman, az
sharon johnston house - marfa, tx
barker house - irvine, ca
house taken over house - buenos aires, argentina
dead poolhouse - san diego, ca
love conquers all house - okefenokee swamp
house 07 sins - central park east
house of cookies - black forest
midden house - philadelphia, pa
scale house - Versailles, la France
trompe l’oeil house - turbine gallery, uk
victorinox house - my back pocket
pre-fab house - off site
kulper [deleted] house - the isle of lemnos, Archipelago
casa del fascio - london, oceania
casa cimmeria - cimmeria
hider-in-the house - your local community
badlands tree house - enchanted highway, nd
aromaticus rusticolus house - brest, la france
heywood ‘p’ floyd house - Mare Crisium
norwegian wood (heidi-) house - rjukan, Kongeriket Norge
guns, germs, pink steel seraglio - omaha beach, la france
drift house - v/a
kling klang haus - tucumcari, nm
bear house - twin hollows, pa

provided known sites above.

roger

changed a couple of things:

north dakota = nd
brest = brest, la france

changed a couple of things:

maryland = md
texas = tx
california = ca
pennsylvania = pa
the isle of lemnos = the isle of lemnos, Archipelago

omaha beach is la france too?

it is, but i think it can stand on its own - like ‘the outback’ or ’siberia’? maybe you can put ‘normandy’?

also, if we are using ‘la france’ for what the french call france, should we also use whatever the norwegians call norway?

norge!

can you look up argentina on wikipedia, too? is it l’argentina or something?

i dont know, there arent any good argentinian black metal bands.

changed a thing:

london, uk = london, oceania

bass.