Distraction Series 2: WE, Madeline Gins

In this second installment of our Distraction Series, we are sharing Nobu Yamaoka’s documentary film, WE (2011), featuring Madeline Gins. This film follows Madeline from her studio at 124 West Houston Street to the Bioscleave House in East Hampton, NY, offering another opportunity to spend time with Arakawa+Gins’s reversible destiny architecture. Throughout the film, Madeline provides an intimate look into her extensive, decades-long study of the body, undertaken with Arakawa, as we watch a family explore, navigate, and react to the challenging terrain of Bioscleave House. Thanks to the director’s generosity, this 60 minute film will be available through the end of June, 2020. In case you haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, Children Who Won’t Die (2010) is also available through June via our website.

We hope you enjoy We (2011) and will be in touch again with another distraction in two weeks’ time!

Yours in the reversible destiny mode,

Distraction Series 2: WE, Madeline Gins
w/ Japanese subtitles
65 minutes, 2011

How does the body meet the future ?
Madeline Gins – poet, architect, visionary – talks about the origin of creation, its secrets, and the future of humanity. This film documents a visit with her to her studio and to the Bioscleave House in East Hampton, NY – the only example in the USA of the revolutionary, death-defying architecture she developed with Shusaku Arakawa. Gins describes her first encounter with Arakawa, and sheds light on his representative works, including his classic series of artworks, Mechanism of Meaning, which served as the foundation for the procedural architecture projects they later created together. The film also shows visitors navigating in, reacting to, and being transformed by the peculiarities and wonders of the space of Bioscleave House.

Cast: Madeline Gins, Shusaku Arakawa, Lucas Poole, Sofiane Poole, Gillian Poole, Hubert Poole
Directed by Nobu Yamaoka
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For more information about the film and DVD click below
http://arakawagins.noor.jp/2020agtokyo/?p=5088