The “If Not Now, When?” exhibit at SCI-Arc scheduled in May thru September 2009, re-examines both the content of the Wexner exhibition, in which the galleries present the grid as floor, as wall, as roof, and as structure, and the premises of the Glass Tower at La Cienega and Jefferson. The ubiquitous grid of the surrounding concrete gallery space, and, by implication, the enduring grid pro forma that continues to inhabit the planning and architecture discourse is contested by the curvilinear spatial nemesis.

We present the ubiquitous grid as a metal box, hung as a conceptual foil from the gallery roof. The ribbons and box intertwine. And Bondage re-makes the grid.

The Moss exhibit promises a colloquium, an audience assembled to observe the grid-in-bondage discourse. The form language of the ribbons suggests the prospect of a center or of multiple centers, whether or not those centers are discoverable in the installation. The exhibit elevates the aluminum box, attached to the gallery roof, bound by plasma cut aluminum ribbons that belong to the geometric and space making order of curves.

The attached box confirms a speaker’s area directly below. The speaker’s space is surrounded by orthogonal rows of old chairs, likely to be empty, that provide permanent seats for an assembly that, as with the Dancing Bleachers, may or may not take place.






































































































Photo Credits: Tom Bonner

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