Yesterday, I went to the University of Michigan Museum of Art. They have an exhibit by an artist named Jakob Kolding. I am not in love with the aesthetics of his work, but I love the ideas in the work.
Here is quote from the curator of the show:
"Jakob Kolding’s work revolves around the experience of life in the contemporary built environment, particularly the relationships and contradictions that emerge between how architectural spaces are planned and how they are actively used. His collages, drawings, posters, and mixed-media sculptures incorporate a wide range of source material, sampling and mixing the visual idiom of modernist art and architecture, the language of sociological inquiry, and such popular cultural forms as hip-hop and electronic music, skateboarding, and soccer"
I find this to be especially relevant to the course. Along these same lines, I was in Adrian over the weekend attending the opening for Barb Miner's exhibit when I drove by a former Hollywood Video store which is now being used as one of those temporary Halloween stores. I think a series on the re-use of the Hollywood Video buildings would be great. Not only does it speak to the re-use of buildings, but to how digital technology is literally changing the physical landscape. It might also be interesting to just focus on all the temporary Halloween stores that pop up in vacant buildings. The former Circuit City on Monroe Street is a good example of that. Food for thought.
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