Title: THe portmanteau exhibit: play with the rules
Location: priscilla fowler fine art gallery, Las VeGas, NV
Date: October - December 2019
Client: Priscilla fowler fine Art Gallery, ACSA
CATEGORY: PRAXIS
Project Type: built
Program: exhibition
SIZE: 1,520 SQ FT
Narrative (Synopsis):
“In its 1991 Tourisms: Suitcase Studies installation at the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, the design studio Diller + Scofidio broke the boundaries between art, architecture, and design and explored the relationships between bodies, geographies, histories, and technologies. Taking inspiration from this playful, yet powerful approach, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) asked contributors to its 2018 Fall Conference to propose designs that manifested at the scale of a carry-on suitcase.” Organized and curated by Prof. Alberto de Salvatierra from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) School of Architecture—with the assistance of Oscar Delgado—and the Priscilla Fowler Fine Art Gallery, The Portmanteau Exhibit: Play with the Rules was first curated at the Milwaukee Art Museum by Jasmine Benyamin, Nikole Bouchard, Whitney Moon, Kyle Reynolds, and Mo Zell from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) School of Architecture & Urban Planning.
The thirteen examples on display exemplify a range of responses, which can be further distilled into three topics:
Form, Meaning, and the Legacy of Architectural Production
Edward Becker’s Camouflage: Architectural Origins Everywhere and Nowhere; Alberto de Salvatierra, Joshua Vermillion, and Samantha Solano’s GLEEcerin: Notational Models; Matthew Au and Mira Henry’s Hedges of the World: Folio Edition; Joseph Altshuler, Zachary Morrison and Lily Hernandez’s Seeing Double: The Portmanteau Portmanteau; and Greg Snyder’s A Meditation on the Portmanteau: Overnight Bags for Architecture.
Architectural Agency in the Public Sphere
Lindsay Harkema’s Border Game; Pascal Hachem and Rana Haddad’s Piiiiissssst; Justine Humble’s #nofilter;); Christopher Falliers and Antje Steinmuller’s All covered with… (Co-drawing the future city); and Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann’s Baggage.
Architects as Problem Solvers
Greg Spaw and Lee-Su Huang’s Contra-Band: Hidden in Plain Sight; Gabriel Kaprielian’s Design as Play! The Sea Level Rise Board Game; and Dongsei Kim’s Undoing the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
