insertions into ideological circuits

these objects are only relics. the work itself has no materiality. and it is ephemeral. it only exists when someone is interacting with it.
– cildo meireles, "interview"

montage and simultaneous presence. to redo the whole design every time. the instrument is the distracted gaze. the gaze which follows your head as it turns to talk to someone at your side or that looks for someplace to rest. it resembles the zig-zag of a fly buzzing about the middle of a room. the distracted gaze fixes these points and reconstructs a conjunctive fabric. there are no transitions.
– enric miralles, "el Interior de un bolsillo"

... the fortuitous encounter of an umbrella and a sewing machine on an operating table.
– comte de lautréamont

[more examples here]

libeskind, student work 1

libeskind, student work 2