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ZAPP URBANISM REVIEW
Issue 29
Zapp Urbanism - Since 2001
Andrew MacNair, Publisher/Editor
Johanna Post, Managing Editor
Noemi Biel, Distribution
Zapp Urbanism Review is a publication of the
Manhattan Studio in collaboration with the
Elvis Zapp Urban Film Festival Projection Project
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Table of Contents
Johanna Post - Cover: New York Collage
Don Byrd - Bioscleave House Forward
Linda Hogan - Standing Rock Protest
Cyril Christo - Save the Elephants
Richard Sheryll - Deep Ocean Sampler
Henry Rueda - Rodolfo Agrella Planes
Phillip Baldwin - Sousveillant Selfies
Thom Puckey - Cruel Light and Slow Becoming
Eran Chen - Manhattan Grows
Mitch Joachim /New Lab - 3D City Map
Andrew MacNair - Pollock’s Threshing Floor
Adrian Nivola - Flying Machines
Fred Licht - Goya’s Way of Flying
Thomas Wensing - Governors Island Park
Steven Holl - Iowa Visual Arts Center Opens
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Body Tatoo 2 by Peter Donders, Belgium.
Bioscleave House Goes Forward
Don Byrd
The Bioscleave House in Easthampton, Long Island, New intent of exploring all possible procedures toward living
York, is a home for another kind of living. A place at once with the greatest intensity.
of play and profound meditation, it is a philosophical
house that disrupts the ordinary comforts of ordinary
The Bioscleave House opens the space of well being
living and poses questions of how to live. Ordinary daily
that is beyond comfort. There is no good place to put a
questions — of, say, how to get from the bedroom to the
television or any of the machines that are made to live in
bathroom — become both philosophic questions and
the place of the living. The architectural work to which
plans of physical and meditative practices. Every step is
Arakawa and Gins devoted themselves for the last twenty
a question not only because the footing is uncertain but
years of their lives is the continuation and completion
also because the spaces into which one steps are always
of the conceptual painting, videography, sculpture, and
in some measure illusory.
writing that they had done from the beginning. Biocleave
House is one of the concluding monuments of perhaps
The visionary artists Arakawa and Madeline Gins, who the most profound artistic collaborations of the Twentieth
designed the house, with the office of the Architectural Century. This unique house—a rare example of an art
Body Research Foundation, for friend and client Angela that allows all of the arts to incohere together as dynamic
Gallman, created a living laboratory in which high theory and participatory monument—must be rescued, rebuilt,
and the daily business of preparing breakfast or taking and opened as a living laboratory that poses the deepest
questions about life as a procedure that unfolds as
a bath join. The house is the result of intensive artistic
research into not giving in. Life in the Bioscleave House is