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<strong>AADR</strong> | 15<br />

ISBN 978-3-88778-412-6<br />

English<br />

212 pages | size 19 x 24,5 cm<br />

hardcover<br />

numerous colour and b/w illustrations<br />

DE 32,– E | AT 32,80 E<br />

Introduction by Hélène Frichot,<br />

Associate Professor, KTH Stockholm<br />

Foreword by Lori A. Brown,<br />

Associate Professor,<br />

Syracuse University<br />

Performing Matter<br />

Interior Surface and Feminist Actions<br />

Julieanna Preston / Wellington<br />

About this book<br />

Performing Matter inquires about the material constitution of interiors<br />

as sites of political protest and ethical exchange. By forwarding feminist<br />

agency and a concern for the emancipation of interiors and their surfaces,<br />

this work oscillates between practical aspects of building construction,<br />

material properties, making processes, and embodied knowledge concerning<br />

interior materiality and spatiality.<br />

“Julieanna Preston captures and mobilises the vibrancy of interior<br />

life in a book of delightful wit and light strength of matter.<br />

Configured in four ’suites‘, she shows the capacious interiors and<br />

spatial designs that a performative material practice enables for<br />

the contemporary designer. Throughout these performative acts,<br />

enriched conceptual, physical and digital transversal relationships<br />

are constructed, so that the design languages, materials, together<br />

with the traditional and<br />

advanced technologies available for use, resonate with poetic<br />

and ethical expressions of human and nonhuman life.“<br />

<br />

Dr Peg Rawes, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, London<br />

About the author<br />

Dr Julieanna Preston is a spatial artist and designer working through<br />

sculptural objects, performative installations, interior interventions,<br />

building renovations and speculative furniture designs. Her projects are<br />

developed via a spatial-writing and transdisciplinary creative practice<br />

and have been exhibited at such events as the Arts Festival in Auckland<br />

and Whirlwinds, UCL, London. She has edited Interior Atmospheres<br />

(Architectural Design, 2008), Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (Wiley,<br />

2006), Interior Economies (IDEA, 2012); and has published in Feminist<br />

Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture (Ashgate,<br />

2011) and After Taste: Expanded practice in Interior Design (Princeton<br />

Architectural Press, 2011). Julieanna teaches at the College of Creative<br />

Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.

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