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ADEOLA ENIGBOKAN

art + urbanism

Tag: the future

orientation is impossible

Cities (I) The official acropolis beggars the most colossal conceptions of modern barbarity. Impossible to express the dull light produced by the perpetually gray sky, the imperial glint of the barracklike buildings, the eternal snow on the ground. With a singular taste for enormity, they have reproduced all the classical marvels of architecture. I attend… Read More orientation is impossible

June 2, 2011March 30, 2013 citypersonLeave a comment

technologic

 

March 3, 2011 citypersonLeave a comment

escape artist

“Her eyes are so wide open that she seems to be devouring the future.”

January 28, 2011January 28, 2011 citypersonLeave a comment

not a walk in the park

In the movie District B13 (2004), set in future-present Paris 2010, marginalized young people no longer walk. Moving through a grey landscape comprised of the dream-turned-nightmare of urban modernism,  they no longer accept pedestrian movement as the natural response of bodies to urban space. Instead they leap frog, bounce of walls, fly through windows. The… Read More not a walk in the park

December 14, 2010December 20, 2010 citypersonLeave a comment

the city yet to come

In general, I try to distinguish between what one calls the future and “l’avenir.” The future is that which–tomorrow, later, next century–will be. There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l’avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me that… Read More the city yet to come

August 18, 2010August 18, 2010 citypersonLeave a comment

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