Floor Is Uneven. Does It Slope?

In 1987, artist and poet Madeline Gins and her partner, painter Arakawa, formed an architectural office pursuing the radical conviction that architecture would provide humanity with the necessary tools to overcome death. Taking their work as a broad provocation, this title aims to swallow and masticate the duo’s thought into a collective fan fiction work. Contributors speak about Gins and Arakawa through their own practice, thinking about what the pair might mean to their individual fields.Their wide variety of theories investigated how a person might interact with their environment, and how that environment might condition and enhance the body to increase its capabilities—through a constant undoing and unsettling of subject formation.Less a book about Gins and Arakawa than a book after them, it tries to seed their work to various fans—writers and makers indebted to the duo’s thinking or suspected to be enthralled by it.
ISBN 9788867493982. Mousse Publishing. pb. 128 pages. 10 b/w ills. 15 x 27 cm.
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