| "...Transgressinon is an action which involves the limit, that narow zone of a line where it displays the flawh of its passage, but perhaps also its entire space in the limit it crosses... Transgression does not seek to oppose one thingto another, nor does it achieve its purpose through mockery or by upsetting the solidity of foundations; it does not transform the other side of the mirror, beyond an invisible and uncrossable line, into a glitaring expanse... its role is to measure the excessive distance that it openes at the heart of the limit and to trace the flashing line that causes the limit to arise..." Michel Foucault |
| Transgressive Architecture |
| Publications: Architects� Journal, 1 March, 2001 � Rogers in �Social Cleansing� Furor; Time Out 27 june01, - Bed Linen art fights social cleansing; Art Monthly Jul-Aug 01, - Now you see it� The Big Issue March 01, - Blair�s Top Architect Richard Rogers Slams Zero Tolerance On the Streets of Britain; Metropolis Nov 01, BD 14 March, - Dirty Laundry; Evening Standard 29 March 01 � Sex has its place in public: Lord Rogers. ; The Guardian, 8, August 01 � Planners told to leave cities alone. Archis � March 2002 - Untitled |
The Bad Sheets Installations 03-07 2001 The critique within the research The Dead Zone & The Architecture of Transgression led last year to the formation of Transgressive Architecture group a collective of architects and artists. The group was inspired by urban nomads' transgressive tactic and worked in the media of installation, interventions, film, education, and architectural / urban design. The first two projects, which were carried out in 2001 and 2002, was a critique of the social urban cleansing of public spaces in London, and tested the boundaries of several urban public spaces, and opened them up to various activities. The Bad Sheets unauthorized public art installations, carried out between March and June 2001, were the first work by the TA. The Bad Sheets installations drew their inspiration from the everyday practices of some of these marginalized communities, questioning the meaning and uses of public space and challenging the social cleansing carried out by London's local authorities. The installation was formed by 10 bed-sheets - printed on one side with images of urban nomads and on the other side with a zoning coded planning map. The Bad Sheets were folded to a size that resembled an open sleeping bag or a tombstone. One of the Bad Sheets, stained with what looked like blood, was printed with a quotation from Richard Rogers's book Cities for a Small Planet: "The Physical and intellectual accessibility of the public domain is a litmus test of society's values: inclusive and thriving public spaces foster tolerance and radical thought". By installing the Bad Sheets in public spaces, the boundaries of public and private, art and everyday life objects, politics, architectural production, memory, identity, and language, were transgressed. More about the Bad Sheets project can be found in the article G. Doron, "untitled", In Archis, 02.2002 Moreover, the Bad Sheets succeeded in opening a space for these issues and communities not only in the public places But also in the press, and in the architectural discourse. |
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