"Project Three : Nancy Huang"

TD Centre by Mies van der Rohe

Don’t be afraid! ...to Fuck Mies van der Rohe
By Nancy Huang

This gallery was designed to showcase the works of Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois works of art showed a lot of erotic subject matter but I didn’t design the gallery because of this. I designed it because of what she said: “An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.” Bourgeois was not afraid of the human body. She was not afraid about speaking her mind. She was proud to be a woman. Her message was not about sex or about promiscuity; it was about not being afraid. It was about female expressiveness in a male dominated world.
In the design of the gallery, I placed this gallery on top of the TD center, a building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. I chose this building because I found something very interesting about its design. Unlike the enclosed and almost secretive structures of other buildings, the design of the TD center is meant to expose the insides and make them viewable on the outside. Much like Bourgeois’ expressive spirit, this building announces what is held internally to the world.

"Exercise Seven: Louise Bourgeois: Nancy"

Louise Bourgeois Website

Quote:
“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Cumul l, 1969. Marble, 20 1/16 x 50 x48 1/16 inches (51 x 127 x 122 cm). Musee National d’Art Moderne, centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

"Exercise Six: An Exquisite Corpse: Nancy Huang"

"Project two( Part one): Richmond st and Bay st: to York st: Nancy Huang."

"Exercise Five: First Canadian Place by Nancy."

Inside the Adelaide Club (gym): A man came down the elevator and said that he had put his hand through a pane of glass. He was bleeding badly and spewing blood everywhere because he had cut an artery. The gym member who came and helped the man is a surgeon and went to the hospital to perform surgery on the injured man. If the gym member was not there than the man could have died.

2 men died of heart attacks between the TSX tower and First Canadian Place ( not the same time)

On the 72nd floor on New Year ’s Eve a man died of a heart attack, a contractor.

Construction work related: a piece of metal falling killed a man.

A girl attempted suicide by cutting her wrists on the 24th floor.

Voyeurism in the washrooms by homosexuals

Celebrities come to present: Justin and Colin, Debbie Travis, David Usher, Chantel Kreviazuk.

FCP presents fashions shows organized by FCP clothing retailers.

In the Duke of Westminster (bar): Wrestler, Brett Hart didn’t what to sign autographs because he just wanted to be left alone.

"Exercise Four: Corner Reading Summary (Don Mills group)."

DRIFT
The Situationists were a European group of artists and activists in the 1950’s and 1960’s. They aimed somehow to disrupt any form of what they took to be the dominant regime or capitalist power. They drew from Dadaist practices, and later influencing other conceptual art movements such as Fluxus and performance art. The Situationists advocated a series of works that increased public consciousness and promoted direct action and systematic participation in everyday life. They were less interested in art objects and stylistic concerns but more with the engaging life situations and social formations. Guy Dubord is a key Situationist theorist who made a series of maps, or psycho-geographic guides of Paris by walking aimlessly around the streets and alleys of the city, turning here and there wherever the fancy took him and recorded these wanderings. The result of the map would reflect subjective, street level desires and perceptions rather than just a normal map we usually see. This activity became known as the dérive, or the dream-like drift through the city, mapping alternative itineraries and subverting dominate reading and authoritarian regimes. What is interesting about the dérive is the way in which the contingent, the ephemeral, the vague, fugitive eventfulness of spatial experience becomes foregrounded in place of the dominant, ocular gaze. If mapping had been traditionally assigned to the colonizing agency of survey and control, the Situationists were attempting to return the map to everyday life and to the unexplored, repressed topographies of the city. Earth-artist Richard Long shares little of the political and strategic agenda of the Situationists, his systematic play with maps and landscapes is very much in the same vein as dérive. Sometimes he will draw an arrow-straight line across a terrain and embark on the mission of walking it in actuality. It is important to understand that the primacy of both Long’s and the Situationist’s use of maps belongs to their performative aspects, that is to the way in which mapping directs and enacts a particular set of events that derive from a given milieu. These various practices of “Drift” use maps as instruments for establishing and aligning otherwise disparate, repressed or unavailable topographies; they are ‘set ups’ that both derive from and precipitate a series of interpretive and participatory acts. Their highly personal and constructive agency makes them quite unlike the detached work of conventional map-makers. All in all, drift discloses hidden topographies within ruling, dominant structures in an attempt to re-territorialize seemingly repressed or spent ground.


Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain"

LAYERING
Layering is to lie something or place it on or over something else to produce thickened surface. It is basically having different layers for individual and independent sections of a map and when it’s laid on top of each other it shows the relationships among the different parts. Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas were the first architects to develop this strategy. These kinds of montage and layering are also found in contemporary rock music genres. Combining different types of music with each other and trying to create new possibilities for new kind of music.
Another character of layering is its individuality the way that it can have different interpretation, uses and transformation through time. Just like a gymnasium floor that has different colour lines for marking a territory for different sports. Architect Peter Eisenman and landscape architect Laurie Olin developed a series of new composition made from whole series of local maps. It resulted in landscape and building maps to merge in to one large fractured ground-plane. A few significant events, such as the Gold Rush, the creation of the Campus and the ‘rediscovery’ of the museum led to the emergence of 7 key figures. These figures consist of discrete shapes, created by many layers. Eisenman, also created ‘scaling’ which is an important step in the manipulation of figures , which plays with a un-conventional reading of the relationship between form and intention. Tracing out repeated copies of the scaled overlays creates new analogic relationship (between the 7 key figures). The best combination is created when the overlapped layers don’t take precedence over each other and reveals new information, such as relationships and how culture organized itself. Einesman’s method of using layers are originally related to text however, others use it to anticipate future programmes which leaves little room for change. Nonetheless, both methods have the same goal of creating a heterogeneous environment. By throwing out traditional notions of centering, bounding, imparting meaning…etc, mapping becomes not only data collection and site survey but more involved on the level of design.

VOCABULARY
Subverting 1: to overturn or overthrow from the foundation 2: to pervert or corrupt by an undermining of morals, allegiance, or faith

Contingent 1 likely but not certain to happen 2: not logically necessary 3 a: happening by chance or unforeseen causes b: subject to chance or unseen effects : UNPREDICTABLE c: intended for use in circumstances not completely foreseen 4: dependent on or conditioned by something else 5: not necessitated : determined by free choice

Ephemeral 1 : lasting one day only 2 : lasting a very short time

Fugitive 1: running away or intending flight 2: moving from place to place 3 a: being of short duration b: difficult to grasp or retain c: likely to evaporate, deteriorate, change, fade, or disappear 4: being of transient interest

Valorization 1 : to enhance or try to enhance the price, value, or status of by organized and usually governmental action 2 : to assign value or merit to

Milieu 1: the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops

Inchoate 1: being only partly in existence or operation ; especially : imperfectly formed or formulated

Disparate 1 : containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements 2 : markedly distinct in quality or character

Poignant: 1a: pungently pervasive b: painfully affecting the feelings 2a: deeply affecting b: designed to make an impression 3a: pleasurably stimulating b: being to the point

Iteration 1: the action or a process of iterating or repeating: as b: a procedure in which repetition of a sequence of operations yields results successively closer to a desired result

Analogic: 1 : of, relating to, or based on analogy 2 : expressing or implying analogy

Superimposition: To lay or place (something) on or over something else.

Autonomous: having autonomy; not subject to control from outside; independent.

Engender: To procreate; propagate

Project one (Part Two): Don Mills

"Exercise three: Nancy Huang."

"PROJECT ONE: PART ONE: DON MILLS STATION: Nancy Huang."

FAIRVIEW MALL : Central place of social gathering.

TRAFFIC: Rush hour! Don Mills and Sheppard.


PARKING LOT: I observed alot of space for parking.

APARTMENT BUILDINGS: There are many apartment buildings that tower the area.



VEGETATION: All the apartment buildings have beautiful well maintained flower beds and nice front lawns.

"Excerise two: Nancy Huang."

"Exercise One: Nancy Huang."

I AM the PRESENT and the FUTURE but most importantly I am NOW.
Where do I see myself in 10 years?
I can’t even see myself tomorrow let alone ten years because everyday is new with unavoidable new problems to solve and new gifts to cherish. The inevitable good and bad events that happens in life shapes life and how we live it.
Translation: I have no idea about what’s going to happen but it’s going to be a crazy ride.
BUT if I were to guess…I would be saving the world from destroying ourselves and the planet with my art as well as with the vast number of degrees and diploma that I have accumulated over the years about psychology, philosophy and world religions.
Or
DEAD! because we destroyed ourselves: with greed, hate, world hunger, and pollution, etc, etc, etc.

It’s true, humans are fundamentally flawed but together we have so much power in that we can change it all right now (except for humans being flawed part although we can try.)