Nathan Byrne: Equally Empty

EQUALLY EMPTY

In loving memory of Gordon Matta-Clark and Batan Matta-Clark ∞

EQUALLY EMPTY NATHAN BYRNE

TABLE OF CONTENTS The Tunnel Dean Smith...............................................................7 SHORT TERM ETERNITY Text by Gordon Matta-Clark, transcribed and arranged by Nathan Byrne......................................11

THE TUNNEL

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The Tunnel

Not set into hillside or embankment at the park’s weed-choked edge, the tunnel appears before you as if conjured by a stage magician’s elaborate trick—a commanding white concrete void haloed by clotted brush and unruly sycamores. You could, with little effort, drive a semitruck into that vast pristine corridor which plunges past two mammoth gray buttresses jutting down from a thick header slab to overgrown ground. But oddly the structure somehow occupies too little space, nestled as it is amongst bushes and the low overhang of tree branches.

Identical to the interior, the drab gray shell is utterly unspoiled, even lustrous, like it was some virgin WWII bunker. Edging past the surrounding brush, you make your way around the side exterior. Expecting something massive, you instead encounter an inexplicably truncated structure. The concrete abruptly ends where buttresses meet header. You circle back to the entrance giddy with incomprehension, the park deepening as the day’s light and heat slough off with twilight’s descent.

Spectral glow of white. Absolute white. The light is just there screaming, permeating, infusing the space, antiseptic in its preternatural glare. The illumination’s flatness makes gauging tunnel’s length uncertain, but you guess roughly the distance of a football field that terminates in a dark, squarish cavity. Either that or the black mirror of a vintage tv screen. You can’t really tell.

First steps inward. You pass the buttresses crossing the threshold into the tunnel proper. The early evening 8

chorus of birds and crickets sharply ceases. Except for roar of blood surging through your veins, all sounds are disconcertingly deadened. You take several steps backward, back to the flanged entrance and the park’s twilight whirr promptly resumes. You reach out and touch the left buttress. Warm. Its surface soft as padded leather. You step once again over the threshold and stand there transfixed, your body casting no shadow on any surface. Despite a cool draft of air moving past you, dampness begins to form at the base of your spine.

In the ensuing total silence, you slowly become aware of it. Or you imagine you do. A weak, doleful voice emanating from the void at tunnel’s end. Your initial giddiness gives way to gradually heightened anxiety.

Yet, you move further in, determined to apprehend the sound’s source. The tunnel’s muteness, its evenness of light become disorienting. You’re unsure how far you’ve really traversed. You begin to count your steps but lack focus. Losing count, blood coursing loudly within you, your sense of time and measure becomes obliterated. At some point you finally register the squarish void has become larger.

Straining to be heard, the voice again returns, distinctly plaintive, but muffled as if by cotton batting. You spin around with a convulsive jerk to address the source. Through plummeting blackness, you see a white, squarish aperture you’d swear could also be the illuminated mirror of a vintage tv screen. Pressed against what appears to be glass, a distressed face, almost clown-like. Familiar.

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SHORT TERM ETERNITY

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GHOST_ WIND AND WIND A GOES— THE WIND WILL EAT YOU EAT YOUR WAY HOME FROM THE MOON WALKING IN THE WIND WE WERE CHASE BY CHAMBER ST. ON THE MOON - - - THE FIRST STEP FLAGS STARCHED AND ANCHORED ON THE MOON WHEREVER FLAGS FLY UNSEEN . -. . · THE FIRST FLAG ON THE MOON A PILE OF ANYTHING REACHING IN YOUR POCKETS TO PROOVE WHO YOU ARE 12

NO. THING WORKS NOT THE WORK .. THE WORKER NEEDS WORK DON’T ELABORATE JUST PIN IT DOWN WE WILL HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER TO UNRAVEL THE UNFOUND. AN ALMOST OFFICIAL POST THE PARASITED HOST · A FLEA BITTEN AREA AN APE FED FLEA A PLACE FOR GODS AND DOGS ——————— GOD DOG IT. ‘ OLD GOD GOD THE PLAGUE CONTAGION —— A WHOLE LIFE ENDING IN A FLEA BITE

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A FLEA BITE THE SPACE SHARED BETWEEN ITS PARASITE AND HOST · A PICTURE OF A MULE OR GOAT EATING PART OF A HOUSE — HERE IS WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER YOU IN ITS MOST ELABORATE FORM ——— CONFUSION GUIDED BY A CLEAR SENSE OF PURPOSE · THINKING OF CAROL LEARNING ABOUT HERSELF THROUGH DRAWING · REALIZING HOW SHUT OFF FROM LOVE OF OTHERS LOVE OF MY BROTHER LOVE OF CAROL – NEEDING TO BE SMARTER AND MORE OPEN WITH MYSELF HELPING — HELPING MYSELF —— WORKING AT SEVERAL DEMENTIONS

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WORKING IN MEMORY OF MY BROTHER _ . . . .

DRAWING ABOUT MY SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP · CRITICAL - RESPONSE A PASSING SAD REMINDER TO DEAR JOHNS WHOSE CRITICAL ARTS AND SEAL OF APPROVAL HASN’T EXTENDED MUCH BEYOND THE PAST GENERATION OF SAFLEY ESTABLISHED DEAR DAD NEVER BELIEVING ANY GOOD WILL RISES FROM ASHES OR RUBBLEARS THE RUBELESQUE, RUBBELISER RUBBUITES OR RUBBELETTES. CLARIFYING THE ISSUES FOR MYSELF FOR MY WORK NOT BUILDING GIVETH

BY TAKETH AWAY – NOBLER UNDONE WITH’ HEART THAN OVER WRAUGHT BETTER WRAUGHT IN THE HEART 15

THAN TOO OVER DONE TO KEEP CLEAR TO WORK WITHOUT GETTING LOST OR SIDE TRACKED TO HOLD THE ROAD TO WANDER THE DISCOVER SPOTS ALONG THE WAY. TO HELP OTHERS BY BEING CLEARLY ONE PERSON TO HELP YOURSELF BY SEEING WHAT THAT PERSON WANTS LOOKS LIKE THE DIRECTION HE TAKES GETTING MORE AND MORE INTO HIMSELF · WATER GATE BRINGS THE SEARCH FOR CREDIBILITY THE FULL CIRCLE .

GOD IS SOME ONE CONSTANTLY HELPING YOU BELIEVE YOU’RE ALIVE AN END IS NEAR

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THE END IS NOW IN SITE HOLLOW BE OUR END AN END IS NEAR ENDING IN SITE HOLLOW OUR END IN THE NIGHT YOU HEAR-SEE ALL THE CLOSE COMFORT OF BLINDNESS : NOT AS MUCH A LOSS AS A SHARPNESS OF THE OTHER SENSES · PLATO —SHADOWS IN THE WALL OF A CAVE · · DEPTH OF MEANING AND DEFINITIONS OF COVERED REALITY. A WAY OF THOUGHT A SYSTEM OF PLAY. THE DARK SPACE BEGINS IN LIGHT AND DARK. IN THE EYE’S LIGHT SPEED IS/TIME

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SOUND FILLS – LIGHT MEASURES LIKE A FAST PIPE ACROSS THE DESERT. CYCLOTRON IMPACT DRAWINGS AND PHOTO GRAPHIC DRAWINGS TRANSLATED FROM BLACK BOARDS TO FILM AND PAINTED OR REWORKED PHOTO GRAPHS OF BLACKBOARD DRAWINGS TRANSLATED FROM CLOUDCHAMBER AND CYCLOTRON IMPACT ANALYSIS. THE PHOTO GRAPHS REWORKED TO BRING THE ORIGINAL INFORMATION UP TO DATE · CYCLOTRON IMPACT DRAWINGS. TRANSLATED TO INCORPORATE NEEDS WORK DON’T ELABORATE JUST TAKE THE

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IDEA A PIN IT DOWN N D THE DEEPEST MAN MADE POINT THE DEEPEST ANIMAL WHERE ALL LIFE STOPS SHORT TERM ETERNITY EAT YOUR WAY HOME FROM THE MOON BEDDING DOWN FOR THE NIGHT. PUTTING YOUR TEETH TO SLEEP IN A GLASS DEALING AN ORDER FOR THE THE UNIVERSAL SOLVANT · MAGNUM OPUS — CLEAR SPIT. LOST ONCE AND FOREVER . .

SOCKS STICKING

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BETWEEN YOUR TOES LEATHER BOOT STEWS MORE NOSE THAN HOSES BEING ALL ALONE (STANDING ALONE ·) OUT TOO SHALLOW OR EMOTIONAL AND UNCLEAR THE INVISIBLE MOMENT TO MOMENT SPACE— A PILE OF ANYTHING THE PERFECT PLACE – IN THE REALM OF ‘UNFORMULATED NEEDS’ GHOSTS — WIND – AND GRAND ST · STORE FRONTS. WINDAGOES WILL EAT YOU———

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THE WIND

THE STREET CHASES YOU UNTIL THE NEED TO SAVE YOU LIFE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A SOUND SOLID WALL · THE WORST WIND MOSSES WILL EAT YOUR BRAINS · LIFE IS A BOWL OF CHEERIES OR CARROTS . . .

IDENTITY PAPERS & KEYS · IS A AN ULTIMATE CONTEXT IN SOCIETY ESPECIALLY BEFORE THE LAW THAT GIVES YOU A CONSTANT FIXED POSITION THE POCKETS THAT CARRY YOU THROUGH THE DAY HOME IS WHERE YOU HANG YOUR HAT

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WHERE

DROP YOUR PANTS

HANG YOUR HAT

TIE YOUR SHOES.

BUCKLE YOUR BOOTS .

MAKE YOUR FACE (FACE UP)

DROPPING THE OTHER SHOE.

STANDING ON YOUR OWN SHOULDERS WHILE HOLDING YOUR HEAD UP IN OUT STRECHED HANDS TO MAKE SURE NO ONE WILL WALK ALL OVER YOU · RUBBISH

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10 OZ. OF GLASS EYES, CONTACT LENSES, FALSE TEETH AND ‘CO-COLA’ DRAWERS FULL OF TIME DUST AND RAGS 10 OZ GLASS OF WATER AND FALSE TEETH · NO PROBLEM GAINED IN

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LOSS OF DETAIL. . . .

THE SPACE THE AIR FALLS BEHIND YOU AS YOU MOVE — STEPPING IN AS MANY DIRECTIONS AT ONCE OPENING UP VIEW TO THE UNVISIBLE – DRAWING THROUGH THE WHOLE TO SUMMERIZE ITS PARTS · THE SUBTOTAL OF ALL THE PARTS EQUALS THE WHOLE THE FIRST AND LAST STEPS OF ANYWHERE RECURRENT DREAM SPACES MENTAL AREAS EXISTING JUST BEYOND THE FAMILIAR A KNOWN SPACE IS VISUALIZED THEN ADDED TO OR SUBTRACTED FROM · 23

A BUILDING WITH A VIEW THROUGH AND AROUND PASSING TO COMPLETE A SPACE · · · · NOT BUILDING BUT RESTURING CHANGING THE DIRECTIONS OF A LOAD. WORKING WITH AN EYE BETWEEN THE SURFACES RETHINKING A BUILDING AWAKENING NEW STRESSSES…ALL PARTS WORKS A PART A PART WORKS ALL PARTS NOT TAKING A PART TO SUIT THE WHOLE TRANSPOSING A STRUCTURE

BY DRAWING ——————THROUGH IT— MAKING THE RIGHT CUT SOME— WHERE BETWEEN THE SUPPORTS AND COLLAPSE MANHOLES EXPOSED EDGES OF THE WORKING URBAN SUBSTRATA ———— A MAIN BREAK , BURNOUTS

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OVERFLOW — EXPLOSION DYNAMIC ABODE VIOLENT SPACE A TRAIN DERAILMENT THE BOUNDARIES OF A CITIES

BURIED PARTS

THE NEW YORK DEPT OF HEALTHS DEFINITION OF SUITABLE SURFACES IMPERMEABLE AND WASHABLE BUSSES PARKED IN A TIGHT DEFENSIVE RING AROUND THE WHITE HOUSE DURING PEACE MARCH WASHINGTON D.C· TREES MAKE THEIR OWN BEST NEIGHBORS A NEIGHBOR’S BEST FRIEND : TREES …. …. A FOREST IS A

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COMPLETELY WOVEN UNDERGROUND IF THE BEST OF ARCHITECTURE IS BUILDING TOWARDS A NEUTRAL MATRIX THEN THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE BECOMES THE OBJECT TRANSMITTED KILOWATTAGE A FIXED POINT WHOSE RADIUS IS DEFINED

BY AN AUDIENCE ANARCHITECTURE IS ABOUT MAKING SPACE WITHOUT BUILDING IT

A NICE PLACE TO FUCK OUT THE FOREST WEAVES ITS WAY ON DOWN THE STREET. TED G THE AVANT-GUARD

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BEATING A STEADY RETREAT TO THEIR REAR FEAR. REALIZATION OF A NEW UNKNOWN !

EDGYNESS - !

FEAR ? DISCOMFORT EMOTIONAL SPACE · EDGYNESS — DEALING WITH AN EXREMITY—DWELLING IN A CONDITION OF CONFLICT AND CHANGE. THE HOLE IS A FRONT DOOR DESIRES OR WILL IN IMAGE OF THE VOLUME YOU DISPLACE IN A DAYS MOVEMENT. TWO INDEX PAGES FROM ANY ARCHITECTURE BOOK —

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A SIMPLE MANIPULATION OF METAPHORIC IDEAS LOOSELY RELATED TO A SPECIFIC CATEGORY. IN THIS CASE ARCHITECTURE 27

DRAWERS FULL OF TIME HUMAN PLACES BEYOND MEMORY THE ELEPHANT BURIAL GROUND MEZZO-COSMIC SPACE GODS GREAT PLAN HOLLOW BE THE END WITHOUT PUTTING YOUR FOOT IN IT .

IT MORE INTERESTING TO LEARN FROM INSTINTUAL SHELTERS THAN FROM THE INFINITE TEXTURE DESIGNERS PSYCHIC - EMPTINESS PEACE AND ORDER VERSUS CONSTANT THREAT. THE SEARCH FOR A FRUITFUL VOID CLEARING A PLACE TO PLANT TO CORRAL TO WORK VS BEING ABANDONED

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AN EMPTY STREET IN EUROPE IS A DE CHIRICO

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D

WORL

IN NEW YORK IT’S A WORLD MUGGING SOMETHING FOR VITRUVIUS TO BE PROUD OF ROLL OF VITRUVIOUS THE YEAR BERNINI ROLLED OVER IN HIS GRAVE ( CORBOSIER IS A CLASSIST WHOSE FAITH IN THE PAST IS RESTALLED IN A MACHINE AESTHETIC .

PERHAPS THE FAITH WE PLACE IN OUR PAST NEEDS RE EXAMINATION IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN NEAR MODERN BUILDING WHY SHOULD THE ROOF BE AS DELICATE AS LACE WHEN AN ORGANIC CAPSULE IS AS THICK IN THE HEAD AS IN ITS SOLES

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MAKE A BULDING START FROM BOTH ENDS AND USEABLE FROM EVERY SIDE. ACTION —REACTION PHENOMENA · AS CHAOS INCREASES CLEAN LINES RUSHIN TO UNDERSCORE THE CHANGE FOR THE EXTREEM EXTREEMS ORDER IS IN HELL WHILE THE FIRE PUMP AND DYING BUM STILL SPILLS TO THE STREET. BEING IN A ROOM WITH A LARGE MACHINE OR SOME THING HIGHTEN DANGEROUS FEARS AND WONDER TO THE POINT OF LOOSING ALL SENSE OF SCALE BARELY (BARE LY) A BEARLY ENDURABLE DISCOMFORT ANYTHING TO LOOSE A FEW POUNDS.

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SO FAR THAT ONE CAN MOVE TO

Need s work

? MOVE MOTIVE TO HAVE GOTTEN

CHANGE AND BE AFFECTED BY OTHER PLACES – ULTRA-RESPONSIBILITY

Better

THERE ARE SO MANY TIMES THAT THE RIGHT THING DIDN’T HAPPEN BUILDING SYSTEMS CIRCUITING RECYCLING SHORT CIRCUITS LONGITUDINAL CUTS CROSS BRACING PLACING COMPLETE DENIAL OF MEGA – DETERMINISM STARTS WITH EACH PERSONS GESTURE AS EXTREME OR SIMPLE A CELEBRATION OF PLACE

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#1

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THE WAY THIS CELEBRATION IS NOT AS MUCH CHANGING ONES LIFE AS EXERCISING ONES LIFE ·

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#1

THE STATE OF BECOMING CONDITIONS …

THE TRANSFORMATION FROM TWO OR MORE DEMENTIONS IN LA· TIME IS SPACE AND A WHEEL TO STEER IT BYTHE LONG STRECHES BETWEEN NEW YORK CLAUSTROPHOBIA AND A WODERLAND OF PHOTO TROPIC PULP SPREADING FROM DEATH VALLEY TO THE FALTERING WASTE TONIGHT AUGUST 3RD 1973 MY ONLY KNOWN COUSIN DIED IN AN INCREDIBLE WAY. HIS TALK ON THE PHONE WITH HIS MOTHER WAS INTERRUPTED BY THE “. CEILING IS FALLING ..”HE AND HIS WIFE WERE LIVING IN THE BROADWAY 32

CENTRAL THAT WAS DEMOLISHED BY AN UNKNOWN FORCE MAKING IT COLLAPSE INSANTLY WITHOUT WARNING. ALL AROUND THE ACCIDENT THE CITY ASSEMBLED ITS EMERGENCY GEAR CROWDING AND HYSTERIA DISSOLVED INTO A REAFFIRMATION OF IMMEDIATE DISINTEGRATION: THE LIMITS OF A BURIED PLACE TRAFFIC TRAPS A SPOT FIXED BY THE DANGER THE SURROUNDS IT. TRAFFIC TRAPS ———A FIXED SPOT SURROUNDED

BY DANGEROUS MOTION SECURITY MEASURES BEING LOCKED OUT OF YOUR OWN SAFE BEING LOCKED OUT OF YOUR OWN 33

HOME MILITARY FIRE PERIMETER · SECURITY SYSTEMS IS THE FIRST ULTIMATE SOCIAL ENCLOSURE FROM THE FRONT DOORS TO A NAT. DEF BUDGET. MONEY IS SAFE BEHIND GLASS WALLS AS LONG AS THE ELECTRICITY FEEDS ALARM A SIGN A COVER OF GLASS ELECTRIC CURRENT AND A VIDEO CAMERA — AND ALL IS WELL RECURRENT DREAM SPACES. MENTAL AREAS EXISTING WITHIN OR JUST BEYOND A FAMILIAR PLACE THE KNOWN SPACE IS VISUALIZED THEN AN ADDITION OR SUBTRACTION IS MADE TO IT. POSITIVE NEGATIVE MIND SPACE

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METHOD — INTENT — PROCESS. CATEGORIES OF SPACE MAKING LISTS OF SPACIAL TYPES. OUT TRANSMITTED TRANSMITTER FIXED POINT BEYOND WHICH SPACE IS VARIABLE ACCORDING TO PRESENCE OF RECEIVERS· A BUILDING THAT HAS ITS PARTS HANGING UNATTACHED THE MOMENT WHEN ALL PARTS HANG FREE A CRANE DELIVERING A BUILDING ITS PARTS METHODS OF OCCUPATION (A TERM FOR TRANSFORMING SPACE TO SUIT ONES NEEDS)

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BY SUPER IMPOSITION

BY ENVELOPMENT

BY CONSUMPTION

BY DIGESTION BUILDING MATERIALS AS NATURES FOOD .

BUILD TO FEED THE WORMS AN ORGANIC EAT-A-TECTURE FISHING HOLES SINKER & LINE HOOK BULK H MANGE’ MANAGEMENT BUILDINGS ARE FOR EATING THE RAW OLD BEAMS LAY SERVED IN GENEROUS PILES BETTER CO-HABITED WHERE THEY

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FALL THAN TAKEN OUT TO LUNCH · KEYS A CATALOGUE AND APPOLOGY OF LOCKED SPACES TO BE CARRIED IN THE POCKET. WEAR HOUSES WEAR YOUR HOUSE WELL

NATURE OF POPULAR BUILDING EVEN WITH MATERIALS. LET IT BE AN AUTO – RECYCLE BUILD TO DECAY COLAPSE FROM TREES AND ASHES TO HOMES SHRUBS TREES ASHES · WE DON’T GO FISHING TOGETHER WE DO THIS TO GETHER

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ANARCHITECTURE IS A GAME WE ENVENT TO ENDEAR OURSELVES EACH TO EACH OTHER AND TO OUR IDEAS THE ARTISTS STUDIO AN EXUBERANT SEARCH FOR ESCAPE SPACE BEYOND THE SAD PRISON TOWERS THAT AT BEST ARE CLEAN CELLS. IT IS GOOD BECAUSE WE LIVE AND WORK HERE WORKING FOR OURSELVES. A PURE NEED FOR SPACE WALL SLIVERS — HANDY BORE HOLE MPRN NON STOP MPN NEW YORKS OLDEST CAST IRON FACADE DISMANTLED, LAYED OUT AND WAITING

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BEING UNCOMFORTABLE IN YOUR OWN SKIN . . .

SOMEONE READY TO DO ANYTHING TO LOOSE A FEW POUNDS · TO THE NATURE OF MATERIALS ANARCHITECTUE ADDS A NOTION OF NON-MATERIAL EVENTS– THE DECORATION THAT WAS SO GOOD FOR CLIMBING IS BEING TAKEN OFF THE WALLS AND SPRAYED IN THE SUBWAYS .

IF ARCHITECTURE IS PRIVELEGED IN NEEDING THE PAST THEN FOR MODERN ARCH.THE GREATEST QUALITIES OF THE PAST ORDER + MEASURE ARE FOUND IN THE MACHINE THESE ARE ADMIRABLE QUALITIES OF LAW AND ORDER —BUT ANARCHITECTURE IS A SEARCH FOR QUALITIES BEYOND THE RULE · A CLOSER

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AWARENESS OF ALL THE SENSES WITH LITTLE FAITH IN THE EFFICENCY ARMY OF PROBLEM SOLVING – PROBLEMS SOLVED —NON PROBLEMS PROPOSAL TO A WALL ST. STOCK BROKER : TO CUT THRU A TAX SHELTER · SPACE AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR CHECK TO SIGN YOUR NAME – JUST SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE OR AFTER THE X. MID NITE WAITING FOR A TRAIN TO FLUSHING IN A 4 TRACK PUBLICK URINAL THE EMPTY ANTICIPATION IS COMPLETED EMPTINESS · ONLY BY PASSAGE NOT AS MUCH AN ARCHITECTURE

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AS SPACISM ?

OR SPACE IF ICATION THE OPPRESSION OF RACES IS SPACISM (WHAT ABOUT TOMATOES AND BATS IN THE BELL FRY) AMBIGUITY — PLACEMENT AS A SPACIAL DETERMINANT MANHOLES EXPOSE EDGES OF THE WORKING URBAN SUBSTRATA —— A CLOUD OF STEAM, A BURNOUT SOCIAL MOBILITY IS THE ONE GREATEST SPACIAL FACTOR HOW ONE MANOEUVERS IN THE SYSTEM DETERMINS WHAT SIZE AND KIND OF SPACE WE WORK AND LIVE IN · SO STRICTLY SPEAKING SOCIAL MOBILITY IS A CLEARLY ARCHETECT ·

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URAL CONCEPT. SOCIAL CLIMBING. ADULT HYGENE CULT FLOORS ON ALL FOURS WINDOW WIPERS SPLASH DOWN LIMBERING UP THE WELL SWEPT SMILE OFF DE FACE OF CLEAN OLD MEN AND RUB OUT THE WEST REVERSABLE HOUSING HOUSE POUCH, SHAKE A POUCH CONDEMINIUM POUCHING DON’T LOOK DOWN TO TURN YOUR INSIDES OUT .

DEALING WITH THE LIMITS (OF MAN MADE SPACE)

[ LIMITS ] DYNAMIC ABODE — VIOLENT SPACE SPEED – MACHINES – IMPACT THE COLLISION OF A BUILDING ON

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WHEELS WITH A BRIDGE – A RAILROAD DERAILMENT HIGH VOLTAGE AND DANGER ZONES · !

A RADIO ACTIVE LANDSCAPE A ROOM WITH A WASP IN IT A THE SPACE BETWEEN OBJECTS D THE SOUND BETWEEN SOUNDS C THE SPACE OF SOUND PASSING B THE SOUND BETWEEN OBJECTS. RINGING TELEPHONES FILLS THE WHOLE SPACE AS TELEPHONE BOOKS CATALOGUE THE EXISTING LIMITS OF THE TELE– PHONE — SOHO — NEW YORK CITY BY CITY OR BLOCK BY BLOCK HAS ITS LISTINGS THE BOOK MEASURES. RINGING TELEPHONES FILLING THE WHOLE PLACE AS TELEPHONES FILL THEIR

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BOOKS NEVER BEING BEYOND THE SOUND OF A TELEPHONE · THE SPACE OF THE ROAD PLACES BETWEEN MOVING OBJECTS ALSO THE SOUND OF MOVING THE SAME SPACE OF SOUND — PASSING . . .

OBJECT — DETERMINE THEE SPACE THEY OCCUPY — OBJECT CONTAINING SPACE AND SPACE AS AN OBJECT: EVERY SPACE HAS ITS ACCOUSTICAL BOUNDRIES .

MUSIC IS A NON — LUMINA SPACE — ANARCHITECTURE IS CLOSER TO THE PERFECT PLAY OF VOIDS. IN DESIGNING BUILDINGS WE HAVE

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BEEN FED COPIOUS REMINDERS ABOUT LIGHT’S PERFECT PAY WITH ARCHETECTURE OF THIS IT IS OBVIOUS THAT MOST CONSIDERATION IS GIVEN TO SUN LIGHT AS IT EFFECTS SHAPES AND SIZES MOST 4-D HOUSING LIVING KITCHEN BATH ROOM CHANGING WITH SPEED TIME ANARCHETECTURE ——————— WORKING IN SEVERAL DIMENTIONS MAKING THE DISCUSSIONS THE SHOW AND THE WORK. — KEEPING IT AN ON GOING OPEN PROCESS · NOT FINISHING JUST KEEPING GOING AND STARTING OVER & OVER · PROPOSING A NON SCIENCE– FICTION OF HOUSING (PROBLEMATIC) BORE HOLE ’ A PRIMARY ARCHITECTURALL

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FAILING A SYSTEMATIZED CONSISTANT APPROACH TO A WORLD OF TOTAL “WONDERFUL” CHAOS · A RESPOSE TO COMETIC DESIGN COMPLETION THROUGH REMOVAL COMPLETE THROUGH COLLAPSE COMPLETION IN EMPTYNESS ARCHITECTURE AS A FOREGROUND NATURE OR THE CITY A BACK DROP · (REQUESTIONING THE IDEAS) NOT AS ALTERNATIVES TO ARCHI – TECTURE — BUT AS A PLAYFUL METAPHORIC DEPARTURE FROM THE RIGID STRUCTURES OF THAT TRADITION · THE NEW YORK DEPT OF HEALTHS DEFINITION OF SUITABLE SURFACES

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IMPERMEABLE AND WASHABLE ORIGINALLY I HAD THE NOTION OF A SPECIAL KIND OF CONFRONTATION IN MIND BUT AS THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE PERVASIVENESS OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE DELICATE PERSONALITY OF OUR IDEAS I FEEL MORE AND MORE LIKE DEALING WITH NOTHING MORE COMPLEX THAN THE LIMITS OF HUMAN SPACE ANARCHITECTURE ATTEMPTS TO SOLVE NO PROBLEM BUT TO REJOICE IN AN INFORMED WELL - INTENDED CELEBRATION OF CONDITIONS THAT BEST DESCRIBE AND LOCATE A PLACE ANARCHITECTURE A BUILDING WITH A VIEW

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ANARCHITECTURE LIBERATING OUR MINE FROM OVER THEIRS DISTANT THE HORIZON CONSTANTLY INACCESSABLE SPACE THE HORIZON SITE IS ALWAY ‘DER ·or(JUST OUT HERE) REORGANIZING STRUCTURE BY DRAWING THROUGH IT. A PLACE DIVORCED THE SPACE A VIEW FELL OUT THE BACK WINDOW A SPACE DIVORCED OF PLACE A VIEW THAT FELL - -

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THE SUSPENSE OF CUTTING THE RIGID PARTS FREE OF ITS WHOLE-

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Book concept by Nathan Byrne, byrnenathan.com.

Cover design by Sydney Farris.

Print design by Makenzie O’Connor, makenzieoconnor.com.

The Tunnel is written by Dean Smith, deansmith.us.

SHORT TERM ETERNITY is transcribed and arranged by Nathan Byrne, text by Gordon Matta-Clark courtesy of The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark/CCA. Sound for Equally Empty composed and produced by Emmerich Anklam.

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In an edition of 150.

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