In Städsbørough to present a paper on The Master’s influence upon their practice, two workers attempt to make multiple rendezvous throughout the week from 27 Apr to 03 May 2009. Both newbies in the city and armed with incomplete and nonobjective maps, the workers schedule meetings at what would be a city’s archetypal points of interest:
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prepare to empty your wallet or max out your credit card in support in philadelphia’s city kitties: “On Friday, May 30 from 7pm – 10pm, City Kittiesand Project SAFE will hold a silent art auction and opening party at Studio 34 in West Philadelphia.” more details are available here.

the work.group has made available one hot piece for auction at the fund raiser to benefit the urban cat rescue organization:

the print - limited to a run of three (3) - is a product of some unbound photoshop gimp tennis taking place over 10 days in may of 2008, hand placed within the finest extruded aluminum frame available at value village in 2004. a gallery for each step of the process is available for viewing.

you don’t dream, for they don’t come true for you, not anymore. now, The wrk.grp’s 31 houses comes riding through with hope. this collection of more than 90 drawings illustrates the salient aspects of 31 homes of various styles, from a witch’s cookie kitchen to a sophisticated freeze-dried house to an hollowed-out international style ranch. Each design includes usefully allusive floor plans, or section drawings, or elevations, or perspectives, as well as a description of the particular life script that gave it birth. Keeping in mind that a chief priority for a small home is often lack of identity, most of the plans incorporate some idiosyncratic element that you can hang your hat on. There are dozens of plans suitable for every environment and deviance in the world. The designs are all a direct result of the unhinged collaboration of two thinkers who make up for their lack of communication with their delight in obvious conflict and reverence for cinema and rock music. Contact the wrk.grp to be fitted for your dwelling. you may weep tonight but you wont lie awake.

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HO!
Having accepted the Fun-A-Day challenge thrown down by Philadelphia’s Artclash Collective,
the work.group has passed the month of January 2008 executing the design of 31 houses - a house a day.
Having succeeded heroically in this task, the work.group hereby issues an urgent summons to witness its triumph
at the presentation of ‘house-a-day’ as part of the 4th annual Fun-A-Day exhibition.

Fun-A-Day 4
4522 Baltimore Avenue
West Philadelphia
http://www.artclash.com

if you have the fortune to live some place other than metroatlanta, you still can witness the work.group blowing atlantic station’s mind; to enjoy this experience virtually, simply click here and wait half an hour for the images to download to your machine.

clear your calendar, wednesday night, june 6th. as we never seem to announce it in time for you wrk.twnks to buy your plane tickets, please find with a kind window of notice, your summons to appear at the museum of design for the work.group’s 2nd bout with the esteemed institution as part of ‘the design prescription.’ having learned the ropes 2 years ago we merely seek to percuss the cheek of the casual exhibition-goer with the silken glove of our wit, a suitably delicate trifle amidst the farce of those who see design as the panacea to hyper-obesity and flock-logic. we just want to have a good time and work our asses off.

for those of you fortunate enough to learn wtf gerhard richter has to do with hdm’s candy warehouses, or how horny some other guy gets for alberti whilst waiting for his watercolours to dry, you may have had the opportunity to peep 66.6% of the current work.force at the acsa conference in center city philadelphia at the psfs building on saturday morning breaking off a live performance of the feature article, the completist. special thanks to brian ambroziak for his gracious, heartfelt, and satisfying inclusion of ‘the completist’ into his paper session, and special thanks to robert kelly for coming out to show his support. see you in the slide library!

Dear Designer,

Thank you for your submission to “Depicting Design” at BAC Gallery. We appreciate your time, effort, and unique perspective on this theme. Regretfully your entry has not been included in this exhibition. It has been a difficult process for the curators, choosing 21 designers out of so many applicants. The work is all excellent, creative and diverse. This is only one of many shows we will be having in our gallery, with different themes, materials and curators. We look forward to seeing your work in future exhibits.

Thank you again,

BAC Gallery Coordinators

as you know, i care very much about the endeavours of the wrk.grp and i want it to persist and grow and become more fruitful. i would like to initiate a discussion through the lens of roosevelt, which is not complete yet, about why the first phase of this project failed, which it clearly did, and how our working methods, our communications, and our expectations of one another can be tailored to make our productions satisfying to us and productive to the community we are seeking to contribute a different voice to. i know you all have both concerns and goals, share them.

on these bound blue lines, with such clear definitions, on this stack of cards i will write, in words, what could not be writ in the haphazard lines and shades of the draughtsman’s pencil, the cad jockey’s click, at least not by fragments of people, barely speaking, and not over the months that eclipse into earlier darkness, when they arrive home to their desks in darkness to cough out shapes, not so quickly as those craven predetermined rote forms, i wanted to see architecture itself, as a practice, ruined, and what it wrought ruined, and i wanted it to slide onto the paper in such a way as to belie its infancy, i wanted it immediately ancient, with us erased, so that the ruinous history given to the people all at once could be immediately claimed by them, broken down, individuated, owned by anybody but me, i wanted this nightly sacrifice of my own time, my sleepless hours, my self worth to be pushed toward so much nothing that i could not be blamed for it, all of these years working out backwards why i should not have the power to put something before you, but done in the only way i know how, through perpetual creation that now continues in these cards where i sift through the ruins of an aspiration that never got to the point where it could be broken down again, by time, and by someone other than me, i give myself two weeks.