Nonspheres IV - Luis Berrios-Negron July 19th - August 18th PROGRAM Berlin

Dear Shaded Viewers,

When I was in Berlin earlier this month I visited PROGRAM.

PROGRAM is a nonprofit project aimed at testing the disciplinary boundaries of architecture through collaborations with other fields. Initiated in 2006 by Carson Chan and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, PROGRAM provides a discursive platform for artists, architects, critics and curators to explore ideas through exhibitions, performances, workshops, lectures, and residencies.

Nonspheres IV is the latest iteration of Luis Berríos-Negrón’s ongoing investigation into the contemporary tension between nature and technology. This project takes the built shape of a digitally generated lattice. This simulation of a carbon tetrahedral lattice fills the entire gallery, suggesting a continuous yet remote set of relationships intended to incite what Freud calls oceanic feelings, or the infantile sensation of boundlessness between the ego and the outside world.

Still, living displaces false sentiments
And now, when shrill pups are prodded to drown,
I just shrug, 'Bloody Pups'. It makes sense:
'Prevention of cruelty' talk cut ice in town
Where they consider death unnatural
But on well-run farms pets have to be kept down.

Excerpt from Early Purges, Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney 1966

Later,

Diane