Rapport LANY
Rapport LANY is a retrospective summary on the “literary archive” of Landscape Agency New York (1996–2007), inclusive of the labyrinthine LANY Archive-Grotto, a Web 1.0 homestead or outpost created on Geocities c.2001 and subsequently shut down in 2009. The Archive-Grotto served as an experimental platform and repository for research and working papers leading to the production of long-form works (monographs) in the early 2010s and time- and performance-based transmedia works in the late 2010s. The Situationist-inspired report (rapport) concerns the non-commercial and anti-careerist merits of iterative, generative, and aleatory processes in ad hoc, independent artistic and reflexive scholarship and the compilation, re-compilation, and re-presentation of a body of work in digital and print form over roughly ten years. The then-experimental and conventional modalities and editioning strategies embraced included: website (Web 1.0); web journal (various); print journal (various); Peer-to-Peer (P2P) exchange (global); and editioned folio (P2P and library-based special collections). The physical dossiers (editioned folios) of key works were ceded to academic archives in the US and Australia. Written works shift, across the time frame noted, from architectural journalism, to architectural criticism, to art criticism, to transdisciplinary “literary production,” and concern the disciplines of Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Art, and Philosophy. In October 2007, LANY was supplanted by Agence ‘X’, with P2P dissemination of “October Revolution.” Another ten-year cycle of works was thus initiated, inclusive of PhD and post-doctoral studies.
Key literary outtakes from the period 2001–2007 include: “Fresh Kills: A Tragedy in Three Acts” (2001); “India(logue)” (2002); “Landscape Formalism, Anyone?” (2002); “Sublime Potential” (2002); “Small Subject, Large Object” (2002); L’Ange: A Novella (2003); “Q&A: Interview with Avenarius” (2003); Things Czech (2004); “Dreaming Prague Gardens” (2004); “Moravian Shadows” (2004); The Book of Little Sparta (2004); Reverse Architecture (2004); “Pays de tendre” (2004); Linguistic Dust (2004); “Sub-calla: Pieces of San Francisco” (2004); “‘Immodernity’ Itself” (2005); “Existential Draught” (2005); “Diving into Stars” (2005); The Philosophy of the (Ir)real (2006); “Dada Returns” (2006); “Milieu(x) and Anti-milieu(x)” (2006); “Sinister Perspectives” (2006); and “The So-called Trouble with Nietzsche” (2007). In their early stages, most of these documents or dossiers were disseminated in P2P fashion as PDFs and/or uploaded to the Archive-Grotto as working papers (most often in primitive rtf format). Many texts, as they appeared in the Archive-Grotto, are included in Dossier LANY 2001–2008 (2013), as published on the PhilPapers website. That retrospective dossier, as were several others, was produced “midstream” — i.e., in Year Two of the PhD in Architecture.
https://philpeople.org/profiles/gavin-keeney
Many working essays and texts from the LANY Archive-Grotto were also subsequently revised and included in the monograph, “Else-where”: Essays in Art, Architecture, and Cultural Production 2002–2011 (CSP, 2011), an effort to “harvest” works in advance of the PhD in Architecture. Partly nostalgic, partly strategic, the purpose of the exercise was to bring forward aspects of past studies, to both re-assimilate them and to re-mix them. The formalization as book was mostly a byproduct of this process.
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-3359-2
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The report, as below, includes links to the LANY Archive-Grotto as archived by the Wayback Machine in 2009, plus a fairly lengthy explanation of the re-editioning strategies engaged. The vast majority of the site is still functional, albeit with dodgy navigation, some dead links, and occasional missing pages. Should you wish to skip the exposition, use the link below, wander around, get lost, find yourself …
LANY ARCHIVE GROTTO — OCTOBER 21, 2009
October 21, 2009 is the last date that Wayback Machine managed to crawl the LANY Geocities-based website. First launched in 1994, Geocities (after its purchase by Yahoo!) shutdown all USA-based websites on October 26, 2009.
ENTER HERE
https://web.archive.org/web/20091021092906/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/index1.html
LANDSCAPE AGENCY NEW YORK — A RETROSPECTIVE REPORT
Landscape Agency New York was founded by Gavin Keeney, c.1996, and encompassed a wide array of activities and effects — e.g., research, writing, design, consulting, and teaching. /S/OMA (Syntactical Operations Metaphorical Affects) was the mobile, and sometimes global design and teaching module within LANY, focusing primarily on entirely hypothetical and/or irreal projects, many becoming the foundation for lectures and courses delivered at institutions in the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe, from 2003 to 2007. The LANY Archive-Grotto was established following publication of On the Nature of Things: Contemporary American Landscape Architecture (Birkhauser, 2001), primarily as a means of escaping the then-formulaic production of texts common to the disciplines of Landscape Architecture and Architecture.
THE “LITERARY ARCHIVE”
Key documents related to Landscape Architecture, minus images, were extracted from the LANY Archive-Grotto in 2013 and reformatted as “Dossier LANY,” as below. The Archive-Grotto was shut down in 2009 after Geocities was sold to Yahoo. Its contents were archived by Wayback Machine from February 15, 2005 to October 21, 2009. Functionality of navigation was mostly maintained with the major exception of the occasional pull-down menus. External links are only operative if they were also archived by Wayback Machine.
Please see options for accessing the archived version of the site below, following the general summary of publications. Many of the texts associated with the labyrinthine site were extracted post-2009 closure and published elsewhere in revised form. The Archive-Grotto was, effectively, an experimental repository for research and working papers well in advance of blogging and well before WordPress made web-based writing easy. Construction and maintenance of the site required working knowledge of writing HTML. The site was rigorously maintained until closure and supported other activities, including teaching and consulting projects. For example, the Archive-Grotto was used to support courses taught at UPenn, City College, and the University of Adelaide in the first half of the 2000s. Its primary purpose, however, was as provocation for a discipline (Landscape Architecture) headed for service-industry status at the expense of critical and speculative inquiry.
“ELSE-WHERE” 2011 / CSP
Many of the major essays on Art and Architecture in the Archive-Grotto were reworked and published with new material in “Else-where”: Essays in Art, Architecture, and Cultural Production 2002–2011 (CSP, 2011).
SYNOPSIS
“Else-where”: Essays in Art, Architecture, and Cultural Production 2002–2011 is a synoptic survey of the representational values given to art, architecture, and cultural production at the closing of the twentieth century and the opening of the twenty-first. Written primarily as a critique of what is suppressed in architecture and what is disclosed in art, the essays are informed by the passage out of post-structuralism and its disciplinary analogues toward the Real (denoted over the course of the studies as the “Real-Irreal,” or “Else-where”). The essays collected in “Else-where” cross various disciplines (inclusive of landscape architecture, architecture, and visual art) to develop a nuanced critique of a renascent formal regard and elective exit from nihilism in art and architecture that is also an invocation of the highest coordinates given to the arts — that is, formal ontology as speculative intelligence itself, or the return of the universal as utopian thought “here-and-now.”
The newer essays are from the period 2008 to 2011. In October 2007, LANY was replaced by Agence ‘X’. In 2011 PhD studies in Architecture commenced in Australia.
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The “History” of Art History
Part I: 2002–2005
1. A Refracted History of the Twentieth Century (2002)
2. The Coming Philosophy (2003)
3. The Affective Sublime (2003)
4. Discours naturel (2004)
5. Thought Itself (2004)
6. Infinity Doubled (2004)
7. Blurring the Real (2004)
8. Kant Nietzsche Undo Lacan (2005)
9. The Existential Draft/Draught (2005)
10. The Sayable and the Unsayable (2005)
11. The Way Out (2005)
Part II: 2006–2011
1. Forms of Nothingness: An Elective “Communism” (2006)
2. The Cosmogonic Parousia (2006)
3. Living Midnight (2006)
4. Actually Existing Ground (2008)
5. Notes on the Artistic Ego (2008)
6. The (Dis)loyal Subject (2008)
7. Affective Regimes (2009)
8. The Silence: Non-discursive Agency in Photography (2010)
9. The Origin of the Arts (2011)
10. The Literary Work of Art (2011)
11. La Présence: The Stigmata of the Irreal (2011)
Conclusion
Ten Theses on Architecture as Art (2011)
Appendices
Notes on Milieu & Anti-milieu (2004)
Notes on Sinister Perspectives (2006)
Bibliography
Index
WEB & PRINT PUBLICATIONS
During the time frame of LANY (1996–2007), essays, poems, and short works were published to other websites. These websites included: Erodiade (2006–2009); Tra nebbia e fango (2008); Rizoma (2007); MiRoIr (2006); Old Town Review (2004); CounterPunch (2001–2003); New Presence (2002); and LAVA (1996). The Erodiade and MiRoIr websites have been lost, while Rizoma, Old Town Review, New Presence, and LAVA have all been archived on Wayback Machine, and the currently functioning CounterPunch and Tra nebbia e fango sites retain all posts. Items in the LANY Archive-Grotto were also often cross-posted to Mark Wood’s website, Wood’s Lot, a Canadian site dedicated to compiling and linking to writings on Philosophy, Arts, and Literature.
Wood’s Lot — http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/wood_s_lot.html
Print journals for publishing art and architectural criticism produced under LANY auspices included: Architekt; Daidalos; Oculus; ANY; Competitions; Architectural Record; New Presence; Log; Landscape Review; Kerb; and Place.
WEB PUBLICATIONS 2001–2009
The following links are operational and lead to the various original posts. In several cases, original posts have been lost and/or recompiled in dossier form. Links to the subsequent dossiers follow the summary.
Erodiade (2006–2009)
Although now lost, most of the original posts to Erminia Passannanti’s Erodiade website were reformatted and included in the dossier, Blue River: Poésie 2006–2011 (2011).
Silent Voices (poem), Erodiade (May 24, 2009)
Aries (in Late April) (poem), Erodiade (April 25, 2009)
Femmes Fatales (poem), Erodiade (March 8, 2009)
Alba (poem), Erodiade (February 17, 2009)
Banking at Night (poem), Erodiade (January 30, 2009)
Winter Solstice (poem), Erodiade (December 24, 2008)
The Beast (poem), Erodiade (December 6, 2008)
The Water (poem), Erodiade (November 30, 2008)
The Grand Inquisitor (poem), Erodiade (November 22, 2008)
The State (poem), Erodiade (October 27, 2008)
Spectral Civil War (poem), Erodiade (September 21, 2008)
Almost Independence Day: Bare Life (critique), Erodiade (July 4, 2008)
The Deluge (poem), Erodiade (June 28, 2008)
Dead Zones: No Signal (critique), Erodiade (June 26, 2008)
The Wine-Red Sea (poem), Erodiade (May 30, 2008)
Notes on the Artistic Ego (essay), Erodiade (April 22, 2008)
Triptych (poem), Erodiade (December 16, 2007)
All at Once (open letter), Erodiade (November 20, 2007)
Post-Revolution (poem), Erodiade (November 4, 2007)
October Revolution (poems), Erodiade (October 31, 2007)
Il y a […] (poems), Erodiade (October 28, 2007)
(Im)mortality (poem), Erodiade (October 13, 2007)
Holy Rain (poem), Erodiade (October 10, 2007)
Semi-Divine Things (poem), Erodiade (October 4, 2007)
The One (poem), Erodiade (September 23, 2007)
Internal Lands (poem), Erodiade (September 15, 2007)
The /Sky/ (poem), Erodiade (September 3, 2007)
My Love / The End (poem), Erodiade (August 30, 2007)
The Disaster (poem), Erodiade (August 27, 2007)
Letter to Gaia (essay), Erodiade (August 16, 2007)
George Bush, Anti-Christ (poem), Erodiade (August 8, 2007)
The Body (Revelation) (poem), Erodiade (August 6, 2007)
Coda / The True (poem) Erodiade (August 3, 2007)
Mammon (poem), Erodiade (July 9, 2007)
Heresies (notes), Erodiade (July 4, 2007)
Deities (poem), Erodiade (June 16, 2007)
City of God (poem), Erodiade (June 8, 2007)
Parousia (poem), Erodiade (May 27, 2007)
Incantation (poem/chant), Erodiade (May 17, 2007)
Wrong Kind of Darkness (poem), Erodiade (May 8, 2007)
Good Night (Art of Love) (poem), Erodiade (April 22, 2007)
The Future (poem), Erodiade (March 31, 2007)
On “Easter” (essay), Erodiade (March 12, 2007)
Easter (poem), Erodiade (March 8, 2007)
Da, Da (poem), Erodiade (February 2007)
Reading Hegel on BA113 (expropriations), Erodiade (January 2007)
Mute (Moot) Points (notes), Erodiade (December 2006)
The Cosmogonic Parousia (essay), Erodiade (August 2006)
Hugo Ball (essay), Erodiade (July 2006)
Dada Returns (essay), Erodiade (July 2006)
The Same /Sky/ (poem), Erodiade (January 2006)
The Formalist Moment Now (notes), Erodiade (December 2005)
Three Days in London (travelogue), Erodiade (November 2005)
The Ruins of Thought (essay), Erodiade (November 2005)
Tra nebbia e fango (2008)
The translation here is by Erminia Passannanti.
The Great Inquisitor
https://enricocer.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/per-il-2008-the-great-inquisitor-di-gavin-keeney/
Rizoma (2007)
Rizoma is Luca Paci’s WordPress website for poetry, literature, cinema, and politics. Originating c.2007, it began to fade away by 2016. These posts were made at the transition point from LANY to Agence ‘X’.
https://rizomatic.wordpress.com
Hypnos (x Hypsos) (2007)
Incantation (2007)
Visions of You (2007)
The Young Brahmanians (2007)
Old Town Review (2004)
Old Town Review was a creation of Flux Factory, an artist’s collective established in 1993, and based in Long Island City, New York. The journal vanished sometime in the mid-to-late 2000s.
Stendhal and the Form of Memory (2004)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080511202309/http://www.fluxfactory.org/otr/keeneystendhal.htm
Sublime Scare Tactics (2004)
https://web.archive.org/web/20080509081605/http://www.fluxfactory.org/otr/keeneysublime.htm
CounterPunch (2001–2003)
Requiem: Dies Non, Not Dies Irae (September 18, 2001)
Mouth Wide Shut (April 8, 2002)
So Long Frank O. Gehry? (April 28, 2002)
Bête Noire (May 22, 2002)
“All politics is local?”: The Unbearable Lightness of NGOs (May 24, 2002)
Bush and Mies van der Rohe: Architecture and Ideology (June 1, 2002)
The Adventures of Mademoiselle M.: Or Getting Screwed in Paris (June 8–9, 2002)
Loose Lips: Liberty, Democracy and Bush (July 6, 2002)
Go Tell Karl Rove!: The Anti-Republican Party (July 13, 2002)
Be Still My Beating Heart (July 15, 2002)
Grave New Urbanism: The World Trade Center Burlesque (July 20, 2002)
Roamin’ in the Gloamin’: Van Morrison: In September (July 25, 2002)
Sublime Žižek: Guarding Lenin’s Tomb (July 27, 2002)
Vox Populi: Everyone’s a Critic (August 3, 2002)
Auteur-Driven Vehicles: The New New Laocoon (August 19, 2002)
Beaux Rêves, Citoyens!!! (September 5, 2002)
Immortality: The Quest for Fire (August 31, 2002)
Parting Shots: A Refracted History (Summary) of The Twentieth Century (November 2, 2002)
New Books Christmas 2002: Livres Deluxe (December 23, 2002)
The Drunken Flower (July 26, 2003)
The Infernal Machine: “Architectures” in Service to Nothing (August 23, 2003)
https://web.archive.org/web/20090806045307/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/counterpunch.html
DOSSIERS
Dossiers were compiled of various writings from the Archive-Grotto to effectively anthologize the experimental nature of the web-based work. They generally served as interim reports en route to a return to print publications and emphasis on the monograph.
DOSSIER LANY 2001–2018 (2013)
INTRODUCTION
MEMO TO THE NEW (THIS) MILLENNIUM
FRESH KILLS: A TRAGEDY IN THREE ACTS
LA VISAGE D’HISTOIRE: HPB
IMMORTALITY: THE QUEST FOR FIRE
TIME, SWEET TIME
NETHERLANDISH URBANISM
RECONNAISSANCE: HARVESTING THE 20TH CENTURY
RECONNAISSANCE: HARVESTING THE 20TH CENTURY
SITE DU JOUR
PARTING SHOTS
Q & A: INTERVIEW WITH AVENARIUS
SURRATIONALISME
UR-FORMALISME
CONSTELLATIONS
THE /S/CARLET LETTER
THE POTENT KEEL: SUBLIME AESTHETICS
À PROPOS [DE] L’HUMANITÉ
MANFREDO TAFURI IS DEAD
L’HUMANITÉ
ŽIŽEK/BADIOU: THE NEO-MARXIST SUBLIME
AUTEUR-DRIVEN VEHICLES
TWISTING IN THE WIND
LARGO DESOLATO
THE ONTOLOGICAL CROSSHAIRS
PROLEGOMENA TO EVERY FUTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
MILIEU & ANTI-MILIEU
TECHNO-HIPHOP ARCHITECTURE IN SINGAPORE
POST-IFLA: IF LA, THEN, WHY NOT, /S/OME-THING ELSE?
BEING JEAN-LUC MARION
LIGHTNING AT MIDNIGHT: TRAVELING “HOME”
ADUMBRATIONS: /S/TENDHAL
O INDIA!
GOOD-BYE, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE?
GOOD-BYE, POST-MODERN NIHILISM?
ECOLOGY & ITS DISCONTENTS
THE YOUNG BRAHMANIANS
SUBLIME SCARE TACTICS
MIROIR
THE HIGH LINE & THE RETURN OF THE IRREAL
TO ART-HISTORICAL HELL (AND BACK) WITH HAL FOSTER
PASSAGES TO THE SUBLIME
VOX POPULI
ABENDLAND
IDES OF MARCH 2005
/LU/: BLACK SUN @ MOMA
ARAKAWA & GINS: ARCHITECTURAL BODY
OPERATIVE CRITIQUES (MAY DAY)
“IMMODERNITY” ITSELF (AGAIN & ALWAYS)
LANDSCAPE FORMALISM, ANYONE?
ALMOST INDEPENDENCE DAY
THE FACTORY OF THE COLLECTIVE NEUROSIS
“DAY” & “NIGHT” (“NIGHT” & “DAY”)
“THE THING”: FROM KANT TO MARION
THE FORMALIST MOMENT “NOW”
THE RUINS OF THOUGHT
SINISTER PERSPECTIVES/DANGEROUS ESSENTIALISM
GOOD MO(U)RNING/FROZEN CITY
MARK TANSEY: INTO THE BLUE
THE COMING PHILOSOPHY: SUBLIME AESTHETICS
ARGUMENT WITH A DEAD MAN
SUMMARY JUDGMENTS/PARAPHRASES
THE SO-CALLED TROUBLE WITH NIETZSCHE
IPSEITY, YOU SAY?
AGAMBEN: MAN WITHOUT CONTENT
HOMMAGE À GODARD
SARASOTA DREAMING
NEO-NEO-MODERNISM
REVIEW OF REVIEWS DEPARTMENT
LANDSCAPE + ARCHITECTURE ABOUT ALMOST NOTHING
THE NOVALIS COMPLEX
ESR: À LA CARTE MULTINATIONAL MENU
ESR: OUR COMMEMORATIVE EARTH DAY 2002 COCKTAIL
ESR: ENDANGERED SPECIES MENU
ESR: WINE LIST
INDEX
https://philpapers.org/rec/KEEDL
BLUE RIVER: POESIE 2006–2011 (2011)
Part I: October Revolution
Triptych (Hymns) (2006)
The Same /Sky/ (2006)
Pasc(h)al(’s) Moon (2006)
Titian’s Hour (2006)
Blue (for Gold) (2006)
Anterior /Sky/ (2006)
Something about Nothing (2006)
Berkshires (2006)
Holy Reticence (2006)
Spanish Rooms (2006)
The End of History (2007)
Immaculate Conception(s) (2007)
Da, Da (2007)
Labyrinthos (2007)
Easter (2007)
Art of Love (2007)
Incantation (2007)
Parousia (2007)
Pour Alta (2007)
Everything (Paradise) (2007)
City of God (2007)
Deities (2007)
Mammon (2007)
Most-High One (2007)
Magna Graecia (2007)
The God-like (Brahman) (2007)
Merciless (2007)
Self-same One (2007)
Coda (The True) (2007)
The Body (Revelation) (2007)
My Love (The End) (2007)
Hypnos (x Hypsos) (2007)
Internal Lands (2007)
Autumn Equinox (2007)
Semi-divine Things (2007)
Holy Rain (2007)
(Im)mortality (2007)
Clairvaux (2007)
October Revolution (2007)
Triptych (2007)
Part II: Blue River
The Wine-Red Sea (2008)
The Deluge (2008)
The State (2008)
The Grand Inquisitor (2008)
The Water (2008)
The Beast (2008)
Winter Solstice (2008)
Banking at Night (2009)
Alba (“Dawn Song”) (2009)
Femmes Fatales (2009)
Psychopomp (2009)
The Self-closing Window (2009)
Silent Voices (2009)
Orphée (2009)
The Future (2009)
The Second Coming (2009)
The Darkness (2010)
Nothing (2010)
Iceland (2010)
The Divine Milieu(x) (2011)
The Hours (2011)
Blue River (2011)
The Limit (2011)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ff1aonza2k6ewv7/BLUE_RIVER_2011.pdf?dl=0
COUNTERPUNCH: POLITICAL WRITINGS 2001–2003 (2011)
Requiem: Dies Non, Not Dies Irae (September 18, 2001)
Mouth Wide Shut (April 8, 2002)
So Long Frank O. Gehry? (April 28, 2002)
Bête Noire (May 22, 2002)
“All politics is local?”: The Unbearable Lightness of NGOs (May 24, 2002)
Bush and Mies van der Rohe: Architecture and Ideology (June 1, 2002)
The Adventures of Mademoiselle M.: Or Getting Screwed in Paris (June 8–9, 2002)
Loose Lips: Liberty, Democracy and Bush (July 6, 2002)
Go Tell Karl Rove!: The Anti-Republican Party (July 13, 2002)
Be Still My Beating Heart (July 15, 2002)
Grave New Urbanism: The World Trade Center Burlesque (July 20, 2002)
Roamin’ in the Gloamin’: Van Morrison: In September (July 25, 2002)
Sublime Žižek: Guarding Lenin’s Tomb (July 27, 2002)
Vox Populi: Everyone’s a Critic (August 3, 2002)
Auteur-Driven Vehicles: The New New Laocoon (August 19, 2002)
Beaux Rêves, Citoyens!!! (September 5, 2002)
Immortality: The Quest for Fire (August 31, 2002)
Parting Shots: A Refracted History (Summary) of the Twentieth Century (November 2, 2002)
New Books Christmas 2002: Livres Deluxe (December 23, 2002)
The Drunken Flower (July 26, 2003)
The Infernal Machine: “Architectures” in Service to Nothing (August 23, 2003)
https://philpapers.org/rec/KEECPW
THINGS CZECH (2011)
1/ Wild & Wilder (1997) — A brief travelogue with comments on Kew Gardens, London, and Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat (1930), Brno
2/ Angel City (1999) — A short report on Jean Nouvel’s Golden Angel office tower in Smíchov, Prague
3/ Read & Weep: Scandal in Bohemia (1999) — Essay on post-communist machinations within the architectural scene in the Czech Republic, including reports on: Jean Nouvel’s Angel City and its critics; charges of “lite (postmodern) neo-functionalism” here and there; a cooked “open” competition for a proposed Kupka museum in an old mill on the island of Kampa (in the Vltava); a tourist-dodging transit through Josip Plečnik’s gardens at Prague Castle; and stories and legends regarding the Star Pavilion and oak wood at White Mountain
4/ The Body of the City (2001) — Critique of Richard Meier and Partners’ proposed ECM Radio Plaza, a series of towers meant to complete an unfinished, communist-era “Rockefeller Center” in the Pankrác district of Prague
5/ Gnomic Works: The Sculptural Works of Kurt Gebauer (2002) — Essay on the sculpture of Czech artist Kurt Gebauer with images from his exhibition in Zlín in 2001
6/ House of the Wind: May Day (2004) — Prose poem written on May Day 2004 regarding wandering around Olšanské hřbitovy, a mostly 19th-century cemetery in the Žižkov district of Prague
7/ Architectural Eyewash (2004) — An essay surveying: various complaints within the Czech architectural community regarding an outbreak of “architectural eyewash” in the 2004 Chamber of Architects’ Grand Prix competition; rumors and innuendo regarding a proposed Kupka museum on Kampa; complaints about Daniel Libeskind’s proposed Dalí House, Prague; etc.
8/ Moravian Shadows (2004) — Essay on “cultural shadows” in the context of Czech architecture, with a nod to Nietzsches’ The Birth of Tragedy
9/ The Near & The Far: Moravian Garden (2006) — Notes and discursuses on a very small, yet “immense” South Moravian country garden in Skryje, Czech Republic
https://philpapers.org/rec/KEETC
DOSSIER ZIZEK (2011)
Sublime Žižek: Guarding Lenin’s Tomb (July 2002)
Žižek & Badiou: The Neo-Marxist Magicians (November 2003)
The Ruins of Thought: Five Scenarios Toward a Short Film (November 2005)
Slavoj Žižek at Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York, April 2009 (April 2009)
Questions for Žižek (April 2009)
https://philpapers.org/rec/KEEDI
PRIMARY ARCHIVE-GROTTO INDICES (2009)
INDEX
https://web.archive.org/web/20090806045312/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/index1.html
INDEXX
https://web.archive.org/web/20090806045312/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/index2.html
INDEXXX
https://web.archive.org/web/20090806045312/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/index3.html
REPRESENTATIVE PAGES
The following “representative” pages include hyperlinks and various forms of “random” navigation that lead further into the site. Images are often hyperlinks, and hyperlinks may take you further into the site or off-site. In the case of “off-site,” the link may be dead due to the fact that Wayback Machine has not archived the site.
A SHORT HISTORY OF LANY
https://web.archive.org/web/20090806045315/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/projects.html
SERIOUS REAL: THE ANTI-JOURNAL
The Anti-journal contains some of the earliest material posted to the Archive-Grotto. The three editions, while nominally dated, were updated over the course of years and contain vital, otherwise missing links to parallel resources on the site, including Yellow Pages, Sottoscrivi, Samizdat, and Flèches d’Amour.
Volume 1, Number 1 (Spring 2001) — Proto-content Issue
https://web.archive.org/web/20090806045306/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/anti-journal_1.html
Volume 1, Number 2 (Autumn 2001) — Complimentary Joie de vivre Issue
https://web.archive.org/web/20090806045306/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/anti-journal_2.html
Volume 2, Number 1 (Spring 2002) — 10 Past 10 Issue
http://web.archive.org/web/20050217231830/www.geocities.com/ateliermp/anti-journal_3.html
Volume 2, Number 2 (Autumn 2002) — Fire Works Issue
https://web.archive.org/web/20090806045306/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/anti-journal_xx.html
SAs — ESSAYS-AS-THINGS 2004–2007
Essays-as-things was an experiment in converting working online papers to bespoke hand-made folios.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090806045316/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/soma_2004.html
TEXTS & DOCUMENTS 2002–2007
Texts and Documents contains links to RTFs and PDFs, some still working, others not. Many of these documents were included in Dossier LANY (2013), or reworked for inclusion in “Else-where” (2011), as above.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090806045315/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/pdfs.html
EPORTFOLIO 2008
Eportfolio illustrates some of the design work conducted under LANY auspices, plus earlier works from Master’s studies.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090806045311/http://geocities.com/ateliermp/e_portfolio.html
GK / PUBLICATIONS
Publications shows, as of 2009, a summary of the various forms of editioning works that occurred under LANY auspices, a situation that would change dramatically with Agence ‘X’ (2007-).
DETOURS AND DNS ERRORS
Detours and manufactured DNS errors abound due to the intentionally haphazard vagaries of navigation and the constantly changing content. Often pages were removed (e.g., when published elsewhere) or folded into other pages. Detours are generally connoted with “passages” to new pages through the use of a series of hyperlinked images.
Currently there are pages that are inaccessible or hard to find due to navigation (pull-down menus) having been lost. Links to documents in such areas of the site as Yellow Pages, Sottoscrivi, Samizdat, Flèches d’Amour, and other thematic writings do exist in other pages, but the main means of locating them (the menus) no longer functions.
POSTSCRIPT
Landscape Agency New York (LANY) was an experimental design and research practice. It used the “homesteading” premises of Geocities to reach a wider audience and to prepare working papers toward subsequent reissue in print form. The trajectory of LANY was toward a synthesis of Landscape, Architecture, Art, and Philosophy. The synthesis of interests occurred over the course of about a dozen years, culminating in a focus on monographs and long-form works by 2012. Via Agence ‘X’, established in New York in 2007 as successor project, the long-standing goal of taking the philosophical and aesthetical issues associated with Landscape Architecture into a sustained encounter with parallel disciplines was realized through PhD studies conducted in Australia from 2011 to 2014. The thesis project, “Visual Agency in Art and Architecture,” was a direct outcome of the experimental practices associated with LANY and Agence ‘X’ — foremost the written, exegetical modality of research as lived experience versus mere supplement to design studies. This trajectory crossing nearly twenty years originates in the consideration of the written word as the foremost form of artistic expression.
