100% Authorship
Find work that outplays the paradigm. Meditate on the charm of the egg. Designed to eradicate the relationship between the object and author by eliminating them both, this course makes sure that the final product is illegible. In this weekly meeting nothing of value nor visibility will be generated. Forget Institutionalized Procedures. Look carefully, but at the horizon, and from the edge of your field of vision. Eliminate the binaries between the stroke of the pen and the built world. Mingle fate and authority. Gesamkunstwerk arbitrariness. Find the limits of architecture with superimposition over categorization, noisiness over reductionism and making that which dissolves the moment it’s confronted with analysis. Do nothing intensely. We will do nothing: no grades/fast tracked/no work/monofixated/weekly, annually, minutely, daily, hourly, infinite/ai generated blank page/produce no value/language is antagonistic/you are the protagonist. 100% authored.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Chapter 2: This Will Kill That, Victor Hugo, 1831. Silence: Lectures and Writings, John Cage, 1961. Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord, 1970. Burden of Dreams, Les Blank, 1982. The Course of the Knife, Frank Gehry, Coosje van Bruggen, and Claes Oldenburg, 1985. Lovers, Teiji Furuhashi, 1994. MoMA QNS storage facility, Michael Maltzan. 2002. The Neutral, Roland Barthes, 2005. The Undercommons, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, 2013. Kunstbibliothek, Sitterwerk, 2013. Manifesto Architecture: The Ghost of Mies, Beatriz Colomina, 2014. Pierre Huyghe, LACMA, 2014. Public Knowledge: Selected Writings, Michael Asher, 2020. Mubi theater, Armature Globale, 2021. Humpty \ Dumpty, Cyprien Gaillard, 2022. On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End, Ben Ware, 2024. The Met: Fly Higher. A Conversation between Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg, 2024. C-Span Book Volume 1, Armature Globale, 2025. Crisis Formalism, Flash Art Volumes 002, edited by Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg, 2025. Wildflower Studios, Bjarke Ingels Group, 2025.