A City(ies) that walked, The Archigram Space Program, curated by Rubens Ghenov and Cooper Holoweski
September 6 - September 29, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 2013, 6pm -10pm

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PHILADELPHIA, PA-

Please join Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia in collaboration with FJORD, as we present our September exhibition, A City(ies) that walked, The Archigram Space Program, curated by TSA member Rubens Ghenov and Cooper Holoweski.

In 1961 a British architectural group dispersed their ideas into a publication called Archigram I. The journal was made by an office duplicating machine. The following eight and a half publications became a conglomerate of theoretical proposals, poetry, manifestos and collages using pop culture, futuristic and consumer imagery showing experimental work. Their interests lay in cybernetics, robots, invention, high technology, consumerism, space capsules, art, balloons, movement, Americana and a notion of endless future resources amidst other things. The amalgamation of imagery and collage aesthetic infused with the architectural milieu produced an undiscovered alloy. Archigram’s avant-garde modus operandi continues to widely affect though periodically furtively. It remains a major influence that permeates the aesthetics of many artists, including those who have found their way to Archigram due to interests in similar issues, agreeably or not.

“A City(ies) that walked, The Archigram Space Program”, combines artists whose imagery, theories, subject matter espouse much of Archigram’s specific futuristic and visionary architecture aesthetic, at times not being fully aware of its influence. The city that Archigram built on paper amassed a dissimilar ambulant condition with a new set of legs.

Artists Include: Ricky Allman, Elizabeth Blau, Jacob Feige, Cooper Holoweski,
Greg Kalliche, Todd Keyser, Justin Michell, Artist as Tourist Collective (Ann Cleary, Brigid McCaffrey, Jane Parrott, Jess Perlitz, and Jessica Segall), Letha Wilson, Kevin Zucker

A City(ies) that walked, The Archigram Space Program
Curated by Rubens Ghenov and Cooper Holoweski
September 6 - September 29, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 2013, 6pm -10pm

FJORD is located at 2419 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA
Open by appointment: fjord.info@gmail.com
(215) 837-2980