HAIKU:
big grey cement blocks
An angry old disposition
Faner Hall is crap
Here are some photos of Faner
"And so the building will exist forever and ever as a perpetual symbol of flipping off hippies, and flipping off mother nature and keeping normal people safe. Yeah eventually it will need repair, it isn't made out of diamond but so what? It needs less repair than most of SIUC's other buildings."
GENERATION X (EXHBITION- WHAT GENRATION ARE YOU ALL?)
SOME GREAT NAMES:
inside/outside
dead ends
labyrinth
coming and going
"ugly and impractical"
concrete
light and concrete
mapping faner
cartography
lightshow
opacity
concrete/variations
Addressing Concrete (could allude to dealing with facts as well as speaking to a wall- or to someone with power.) it could also mean going up against something, but also besieging it or begging/beguiling
Faner fact or fiction
opacity
collectivity
Mike K's research:
Some food-for-thought about some of the ideas behind, within, around, and about Faner Hall (completed 1975).
1967, The SIUC Campus Before Faner Hall (and the Student Center, and a bunch of other stuff).
Old Main (just right of #7), home of the College of Humanities (now Liberal Arts), burned "under unusual circumstances" on June 8, 1969. SIUC's administrators made the conscious decision to break from traditional university campus architectural styles when they replaced it. Why?
Fun facts:
This was the 2nd "Old Main" at SIU to burn (the first was in Nov, 1882).
There was actually a time when SIU had too many students.
Here's WSIU's In Focus presentation of a news broadcast that aired the day of the 1969 Old Main fire:
mms://odc.wsiu.org/infocus08/if_304_oldmain.wmv
Not sure how this video link will play for you, it's a streaming Windows media file.
article source:
Jordan, Mitch (2010) "Faner Hall: Faux Pas and Follower?," Legacy: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 4.
Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/legacy/vol10/iss1/4
Faner sounds good with me.
So does Comm.
Tetsuya
In thinking about a title for the exhibition, Sarah made a comment about how the building was built in similar sections, but with variations to each section. The two words that came to mind for me once I heard this were "concrete" and "variations"... "concrete variations" is an interesting play on words, I think. Also, the word "light" is interesting in terms of referencing weight and juxtaposing it to the word "concrete".
ReplyMike K's research:
Some food-for-thought about some of the ideas behind, within, around, and about Faner Hall (completed 1975).
Old Main (just right of #7), home of the College of Humanities (now Liberal Arts), burned "under unusual circumstances" on June 8, 1969. SIUC's administrators made the conscious decision to break from traditional university campus architectural styles when they replaced it. Why?
Fun facts:
This was the 2nd "Old Main" at SIU to burn (the first was in Nov, 1882).
There was actually a time when SIU had too many students.
Here's WSIU's In Focus presentation of a news broadcast that aired the day of the 1969 Old Main fire:
mms://odc.wsiu.org/infocus08/if_304_oldmain.wmv
Not sure how this video link will play for you, it's a streaming Windows media file.
article source:
Jordan, Mitch (2010) "Faner Hall: Faux Pas and Follower?," Legacy: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 4.
Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/legacy/vol10/iss1/4
Faner sounds good with me.
So does Comm.
Tetsuya
Considering the timeline and class discussions about the exhibit, it seems that currently the most successful theme for the show has been for everyone to respond to the space of Faner Hall. Mike's collection of facts (and fiction) regarding Faner's history certainly provides enough information for everyone to find a jumping off point for their work.
ReplyDelete(thanks Mike for the research)
Having said this, I understand the challenges this idea presents: How do we fit our current work into this theme? Should I create new work just for this exhibit? How will the work be installed, viewed and otherwise exhibited in a non-traditional (public) space? (some city & state codes may prevent certain ideas from being realized, etc.)
Or maybe the response, or theme, needs to be more open. After reading Tetsuya's paper for this week, I can see "simulation" being a common thread among much of the work produced this semester. However, I am only considering our work and not that of the other class.
I think 557's involvement will help narrow the focus of this process.
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ReplyDeleteI can't figure out how to edit this.
DeleteIn any case I am still in favor in having a theme in addition to responding to Faner.
Here are my theme ideas after reading Faner article:
Re-creation
inside/outside
dead ends
labyrinth
coming and going
"ugly and impractical"
concrete
light and concrete
mapping faner
cartography
Alexa