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MADELINE GINS

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Biography


In 1987, founded with Arakawa Architectural Body Research Foundation (formerly Containers of Mind Foundation)

In 1963, began collaborating with Arakawa on the research project The Mechanism of Meaning

Graduated from Barnard College, 1962

Born November 7, 1941, in New York, where she now resides


Awards


2003     Nihon Gendai Geijutsu Shinko Sho – Award for innovation in Japanese contemporary art from Japan Arts Foundation

1998    Highest award of the Rainbow Town Urban Designing Competition for Chinju no Mori/Sensorium City (Tokyo Bay)

1997    College Art Association’s Artist Award for Exhibition of the Year/Distinguished Body of Work, Presentation or Performance Award


Conferences


2006

2005        “Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy,” University of Paris X-Nanterre

2008        "Reversible Destiny - Declaration of the Right Not to Die: Second International Arakawa +

Gins Architecture + Philosophy Conference/Congress," University of Pennsylvania, Slought   Foundation


Exhibitions


Arakawa/Gins:


1998                NTT Intercommunication Center: The City as the Art Form of the Next Millennium

1997                   Guggenheim Museum Soho: Reversible Destiny

  1. 1990            Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

1972        Traveling Exhibition:  The Mechanism of Meaning

        Kunsthalle, Hamburg

        Nationalgalerie, Berlin

        Städtische im Lenbachhaus, Munich

        Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt

        Kunsthalle Bern, Bern



Constructions


    1. 08Bioscleave House, East Hampton, Long Island (Completion Date: April 2008)

  2. 2002-06    Reversible Destiny Lofts – Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.

    1. -05External Genome Housing Park-- Shidami, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. (In association with Takenaka Corporation) Completion Date 2005

  3. 1996            Reversible Destiny Office, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture

1994                Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture [a seven acre site in central Japan]

1992        Ubiquitous Site * Nagi's Ryoanji *, Architectural Body, [Permanent Installation],

        Nagi MOCA, Nagi




Bibliography


Books:


Making Dying Illegal, Architecture Against Death:  Original to the 21st Century. (in collaboration with Arakawa).  Tokyo: Shunjusha, 2007


Making Dying Illegal, Architecture Against Death:  Original to the 21st Century. (in collaboration with Arakawa).  New York: Roof Books. (November, 2006).


Le Corps Architectural (in collaboration with Arakawa). Paris: Editions Manucius, 2005.


Architectural Body (in collaboration with Arakawa).  Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 2002. 


Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die (Guggenheim Catalog) (in collaboration with Arakawa).  New York: Abrams, Inc., 1997.


ARCHITECTURE: Sites of Reversible Destiny (Architectural Experiments after Auschwitz-Hiroshima) (in collaboration with Arakawa).  London:  Academy Editions, 1994.


Helen Keller or Arakawa.  Santa Fe:  Burning Books with East/West Cultural Studies, 1994.


To Not To Die (in collaboration with Arakawa).  Paris:  Editions de la Différence, 1987.


What the President Will Say and Do!!  New York:  Station Hill Press, 1984.


The Mechanism of Meaning (in collaboration with Arakawa) (introduction by Lawrence Alloway).  Munich:  Bruckmann, 1971.  New York:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979 (2nd edition).  New York:  Abbeville Press, 1989 (3rd edition).


For Example (A Critique of Never) (in collaboration with Arakawa).  Milan:  Alessandra Castelli Press, 1974.


Intend.  Bologna: Tau/ma, 1973.


Word Rain (or A Discursive Introduction to the Philosophical Investigation of G,R,E,T,A, G,A,R,B,O, It Says).  New York: Grossman/Viking, 1969.






Essays:



“Biotopological Report #10, First Draft, 2006,” (in collaboration with Arakawa).  The Canary 6, 2007

Kerb, 2007/2008


“(untitled),”“(untitled),”“(Poem Precedes Title),” “The The Eyelid,” Outing,” “Localization and Transference.” Séance, 2006, (in collaboration with Arakawa).  pp. 169 - 171. 2006, p. 171.


“The Architectural Body – Landing Sites,” (in collaboration with Arakawa).  Space in America: Theory History Culture, (editors) Klaus Benesch and Kerstein Schmidt, Fall 2005.


“LIVING BODY Museumeum,” Cities Without Citizens. 2003, pp. 243 -157


“Gifu-Reversible Destiny” (in collaboration with Arakawa).  Architectural Design, Games of Architecture, 1996, pp. 27-35.


“Housing Complexity” (in collaboration with Arakawa).  Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts no. 6, Complexity, 1995, pp. 88-95.


"Landing Sites/The End of Spacetime" (in collaboration with Arakawa).  Art and Design, May-June, 1993.


"Person as Site in Respect to a Tentative Constructed Plan" (in collaboration with Arakawa).  ANYWHERE, 1992, pp. 54-67.


"The Tentative Constructed Plan as Intervening Device (for a Reversible Destiny)" (in collaboration with Arakawa).  A+U:  Architecture and Urbanism, December 1991, pp. 48-57.


"The Process in Question," Critical Relations.  Highgate Art Trust, (editor) Joan Burns, MA:  Williamstown, 1989.


"To Return To!" (in collaboration with Arakawa), Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde Since 1950.  Köln:  Ludwig Museum, 1988.


"Essay on Multi-Dimensional Architecture" (selections published in Boundary 2, Fall 1985/Winter 1986, and Pratt Architectural Journal, Spring 1988).


"Forum:  Arakawa's The Sharing of Nameless, 1982-83," DRAWING, Jan.-Feb. 1985, pp. 103-104.