"Federal" & the architecture of politics
I regret to say that this post is probably one day too late. On Tuesday, June 29, NYC's Storefront for Art and Architecture will open the exhibit Federal, a 24 hour film and series of photographs by Mary Ellen Carroll. The subject of this exhibition is The Federal Building in Los Angeles, designed in 1969 by architect-turned businessman-turned architect Charles Luckman, and has been referred to as "the embodiement of bureaucracy."
From Storefront's website:
United States national security in the post-World Trade Center socio-political landscape focuses on surveillance and counter-surveillance, observing the need to protect these symbols of the Federal government's authority and the public's access to them. Over a period of several months Carroll accumulated a labyrinth of bureaucratic paperwork and media attention in order to gain permission to document the structure in this prolonged manner.
1 Comments:
The film will actually be screened July 28th - July 29th, not June. So in fact your post is fortuitously a month early, not a day late!
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