Furniture is Something Soft
Between You
And The House





by Jasmin Blasco
SIT AMRT 3598—34




Modernism: why it sucks.


A mediating entity, Furniture is Something Soft Between You And The House invites viewers to lower their gaze and share their personal space. Continuous with the design philosophy of the Schindler House, the piece invites viewers to engage with each other in small groups in unprescribed floor-bound activities reminiscent of both the camping trips that inspired Schindler and his wife Pauline and the activities that occurred in the House Of Dust during its CalArts era: hanging out, laying down, talking, making out or just being high on the floor. In this way, the work operates as an apparatus for revealing the visitors’ roles as both viewers and performers.

By challenging the visitors to engage in with each other in a quasi-intimate space, the piece reflects a conception education that is social and embodied. Studying, an activity important to both Schindler’s architecture(each room is a studio) and Alison Knowles’ House Of Dust(a house for students), is though of as a multimodal practice that includes mimetics, listening through the body and the lexicon of body language. Further interrogating the question of embodiment and knowledge, Slow Reading Club led a group performance during which multiple bodies performed a curated selection of texts.

About AShd:

This exhibition springs from The House of Dust, a seminal yet under-recognized late 1960s work by Fluxus artist Alison Knowles. Originally called The Play House, this intermedia piece serves as an entry point into contemporary investigation of the relationships between architecture, technology, and performance.  In a text titled Shelter or Playground, Rudolf Schindler described his house as a “Playground” that “grows with its inhabitants” and where “life will regain its fluidity”. Today, the house open its doors to contemporary artists who have been invited to produce site-specific works, responding to both architectures by Schindler and Knowles and translating them into multiple performative forms.

Curated by Maud Jacquin, Anna Milone and Sébastien Pluot, this group exhibition is the result of a collective research effort initiated by Art By Translation (TALM Angers & École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy) with the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and France Los Angeles Exchange (FLAX), in collaboration with CalArts.





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Another hot take nobody asked for





by Jasmin Blasco
SIT AMRT 3598—34




Modernism: why it sucks.


A mediating entity, Furniture is Something Soft Between You And The House invites viewers to lower their gaze and share their personal space. Continuous with the design philosophy of the Schindler House, the piece invites viewers to engage with each other in small groups in unprescribed floor-bound activities reminiscent of both the camping trips that inspired Schindler and his wife Pauline and the activities that occurred in the House Of Dust during its CalArts era: hanging out, laying down, talking, making out or just being high on the floor. In this way, the work operates as an apparatus for revealing the visitors’ roles as both viewers and performers.

By challenging the visitors to engage in with each other in a quasi-intimate space, the piece reflects a conception education that is social and embodied. Studying, an activity important to both Schindler’s architecture(each room is a studio) and Alison Knowles’ House Of Dust(a house for students), is though of as a multimodal practice that includes mimetics, listening through the body and the lexicon of body language. Further interrogating the question of embodiment and knowledge, Slow Reading Club led a group performance during which multiple bodies performed a curated selection of texts.

About AShd:

This exhibition springs from The House of Dust, a seminal yet under-recognized late 1960s work by Fluxus artist Alison Knowles. Originally called The Play House, this intermedia piece serves as an entry point into contemporary investigation of the relationships between architecture, technology, and performance.  In a text titled Shelter or Playground, Rudolf Schindler described his house as a “Playground” that “grows with its inhabitants” and where “life will regain its fluidity”. Today, the house open its doors to contemporary artists who have been invited to produce site-specific works, responding to both architectures by Schindler and Knowles and translating them into multiple performative forms.

Curated by Maud Jacquin, Anna Milone and Sébastien Pluot, this group exhibition is the result of a collective research effort initiated by Art By Translation (TALM Angers & École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy) with the MAK Center for Art and Architecture and France Los Angeles Exchange (FLAX), in collaboration with CalArts.





Praesent bibendum a elit non efficitur. Etiam et velit vitae quam aliquet fermentum. Quisque sit amet nulla dictum, cursus erat a, tempus est. Sed laoreet, magna eget mattis tincidunt, felis tellus vestibulum augue, in lobortis mauris risus eu nunc. Vivamus sed condimentum leo. Nunc efficitur, magna condimentum gravida egestas, ligula mauris posuere neque, sit amet sagittis dui velit vitae neque. Donec in dapibus arcu. Aliquam efficitur suscipit magna, vel pretium mi. Aenean nisl nulla, porttitor interdum enim nec, sagittis suscipit mauris. Quisque malesuada ullamcorper lacus, nec posuere odio egestas vel. Suspendisse potenti. Ut volutpat pharetra orci, ac bibendum nunc vulputate in. Praesent porttitor venenatis lacus sed mollis. Nulla varius leo nec porta tempus. Nunc orci enim, bibendum in gravida eu, pretium eu purus. Sed vestibulum quam sed eros malesuada hendrerit. Praesent pellentesque ipsum non commodo congue.

Nam et metus malesuada:

  1. Leo aliquet facilisis in in enim. In consequat orci
  2. Eleifend, feugiat eros eu, lobortis purus.
  3. Curabitur facilisis
  4. Gravida ipsum a tempus. Vestibulum pharetra magna
  5. Ultricies, sem tellus ullamcorper
  6. Elit, sed porttitor nisi libero non dui. Aenean
  7. Porttitor arcu sem. Sed id ipsum felis vivamus
  8. Sit amet eleifend ligula.

Aenean nisl nulla
Porttitor interdum enim nec

Sagittis Suscipit