Bas Princen / Group XX, May 05 - Sep 05

GLASS, CONCRETE AND STONE, IT'S JUST A HOUSE NOT A HOME

9/23/05 to 9/25/05

MAK Center at the Mackey Apartments, 1137 - 1141 South Cochran Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

The work of Topalovic & Princen focused on observing and describing “anti-cities”: wild cities, shrinking cities, leisure cities. A conceptual pilgrimage to Los Angeles, the “historical” capital of anti-cities, was at the core of their investigations. "Sunday Canon" by architect Milica Topalovic was a non-narrative video installation which observed the transformation of scenery in-between events — a religious service and a multimedia show taking place in Anaheim’s Crystal Cathedral, known for its worldwide broadcast of the Hour of Power. Not showing the actual on-air programs, but the shadow that they cast, the video looked into the daily routines of the Cathedral staff. Through their mundane, unconscious movement, slowly and repeatedly, a church was dismantled into a media-spectacle space, and the other way around. Also at the Crystal Cathedral, public space designer Bas Princen photographed the intertwining patterns of its media technology infrastructure with its glass-filled contemporary architecture. He exhibited these large format photographs, titled "Utopian Debris," as well as other photographic abstractions of the suburban city. In addition, he printed a small book of 12-15 photographs.