White House Redux

In response the the Storefront Architecture and Art competition to redesign the White House, I opted to look at the architecture of the Managerial Landscape, which is inherently extra-territorial by design (and Desire), to examine the structure within which affect is legislated. The recommendation of the report is the creation of a new department (alongside that of Homeland Security), relfecting the textual boundaries of legality within which the Executive Office is housed.

DEPARTMENT OF POESIS AND SEMANTIKOS

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Page 4 Outlining the textual perimeter of action possible within the constitution and within the creation of the Executive Office of the President

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Page 5 Outlining the creation of the Department of Poesis and Semantikos (DOPAS)


Biography

The contingency of normality is the focus of Reed’s artistic and textual practice. Normality can only be apprehended as a given reality through social consensus, and this consensus is inherently plastic, malleable. The play with the plasticity (potential) of the normal, both conceptually and materially, constitutes the foundation of her practice. Reed’s (often) obsessive works [...]