INFLeXions No. 6 Arakawa + Gins

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Inflexions is an open-access journal that encourages inter/trans/non-disciplinary work—a superb home for scholarship on Arakawa and Gins! The special issue is now available for free on-line: http://www.inflexions.org/no6.html.

NODE: No. 6 Arakawa + Gins special issue of Inflexions
Emerging scholars and established authors explore the historical, performative and ethical aspects of Arakawa and Gins’ work and, each from their unique personal, academic or practical experiences, discuss how Arakawa and Gins may guide us to live life on new terms.

Mapping Reversible Destiny
Trish Glazebrook and Sarah Conrad 22-40

Escaping the Museum
David Kolb 41-71

Ing
Jean-Jacques Lecercle 72-79

The Reversible Eschatology of Arakawa and Gins
Russell Hughes 80-102

Chaos, Autopoiesis and/or Leonardo da Vinci/Arakawa
Hideo Kawamoto 103–111

Daddy, Why do Things have Outlines?: Constructing the Architectural Body
Helene Frichot 112–124

Tentatively Constructing Images: The Dynamism of Piet Mondrian’s Paintings

Troy Rhoades 125–153

Evidence Architectural Body by Accident, Destiny Reversed by Design

Blair Solovy 154-168

Breathing the Walls
James Cunningham 169–188

Technology and the Body Public
Stephen Read 189-213

Bioscleave: Shaping our Biological Niches
Stanley Shostak 214-224

Arakawa and Gins: The Organism-Person-Environment Process
Eugene Gendlin 225-236

An Arakawa and Gins Experimental Teaching Space – A Feasibility Study
Jondi Keane 237–252


KEYNOTES:
The keynote texts offer insight into the way that Arakawa and Gins’ work informs positions within and across a range of research areas in an effort assist anyone embarking on daily research.


The Mechanism of Meaning: A Pedagogical Skecthbook
Gordon Bearn 253–269

Wayfinding through Landing Sites and Architectural Bodies: Exploring the Roles of Trajectoriness, Affectivatoriness, and Imaging Along
Reuben Baron 270-285

Trajectory of ARAKAWA Shusaku: from Kan-Oké (Coffin) to the Reversible Destiny Lofts
Fumi Tsukahara 286-297

A Snailspace
Tom Conley 298–316

Made/line Gins or Arakawa in
Trans-e-lation

Marie Dominique Garnier 317–339

The Dance of Attention
Erin Manning 340–367

What Counts as Language in a Closely Argued Built-Discourse?
Gregg Lambert 368-380

Constructing Poiesis: Storyboards for an immersive diagramming
Alan Prohm 381–415

Open Wide, Come Inside: Laughter, Composure and Architectural Play
Pia Ednie-Brown 416–427


TRIBUTES:
Arakawa died on May 18, 2010. These tributes in his honour recognize the significance of his work offering personal accounts and speculations upon where Arakawa and Gins work may lead.


What Arakawa Did
Don Byrd 428–441

Arakawa
Don Ihde 442-445

For Arakawa, Nine More Lives
Jean-Michel Rabaté 446–448


TANGENTS:
These works been inspired or provoked by engagements with Arakawa and Gins or have been produced by thinking through the implications of their work as a starting point or as a springboard to further thought.


Approximately Arakawa and Gins
Ken Wark 448-449

A Perspective of the Universe
Erin Manning and Brian Massumi
450-458

Axial Lecture on Self-Orientation
George Quasha

Demonstrator
Bob Bowen

Levitation
Bob Bowen