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MADELINE GINS
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ARAKAWA
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Biography 1987 |
Founded Architectural Body Research Foundation (formerly Containers of Mind Foundation) |
Biography 1987 |
Founded Architectural Body Research Foundation (formerly Containers of Mind Foundation) |
| 1963 | Began collaborating with Arakawa on the research project The Mechanism of Meaning |
1963 | Began collaborating with Madeline Gins on the research called The Mechanism of Meaning |
| 1962 | Graduated from Barnard College | 1961 | Arrived in New York where he now resides |
| 1941 | Born in New York, where she now resides | 1936 | Born in Japan |
| Awards | Awards | ||
| 2003 | Nihon Gendai Geijutsu Shinko Sho – Award for innovation in Japanese contemporary art from Japan Arts Foundation |
2003 | Shiju Housho – Purple Imperial Award |
| 1998 | Highest award of the Rainbow Town Urban Designing Competition for Chinju no Mori/Sensorium City (Tokyo Bay) | 2003 | Nihon Gendai Geijutsu Shinko Sho – Award for innovation in Japanese contemporary art from Japan Arts Foundation |
| 1997 | College Art Association’s Artist Award for Exhibition of the Year/Distinguished Body of Work, Presentation or Performance Award | 1998 | The highest award in the Rainbow Town Urban Design Competition goes to the Arakawa/Gins Chinju no Mori/Sensorium City (Tokyo Bay) |
| Conferences | 1988-89 | Belgian Critics' Prize | |
| 2005 | “Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy,” University of Paris X-Nanterre | 1997 | College Art Association’s Artist Award for Exhibition of the Year/Distinguished Body of Work, Presentation or Performance Award |
| Exhibitions | 1987-88 | John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship | |
Arakawa/Gins: |
1986 | Awarded by the French Government: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres | |
| 1998 | NTT Intercommunication Center: The City as the Art Form of the Next Millennium | Conferences | |
| 1997 | Guggenheim Museum Soho: Reversible Destiny | 2005 | “Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy,” University of Paris X-Nanterre |
| 1990 | Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York | Installations | |
| 1972 | Traveling Exhibition: The Mechanism of Meaning |
1994 | Inauguration of an Arakawa room at the Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum,Dusseldorf |
| Constructions | Selected One-Man Exhibitions | ||
| 2002-06 | Reversible Destiny Lofts – Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. | 1998 | NTT Intercommunication Center: The City as the Art Form of the Next Millenium |
| 2001-05 | External Genome Housing Park-- Shidami, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. (In association with Takenaka Corporation) (Completion Date 2005) | 1997 | Guggenheim Museum Soho: Reversible Destiny |
| 2000-04 | Gallman Residence/Bioscleave House, East Hampton, Long Island (Completion Date: March 2008) |
1995 | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf |
| 1996 | Reversible Destiny Office, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture | 1994 | Hara Museum of Comtemporary Art, Tokyo |
| 1994 | Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture [a seven acre site in central Japan] | 1993 | Busche Galerie, Berlin |
| 1992 | Ubiquitous Site * Nagi's Ryoanji *, Architectural Body, [Permanent Installation], |
1992 | National Museum of Kyoto |
| Bibliography | 1991 | National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo | |
| Books: | |||
| Making Dying Illegal, Architecture Against Death: Original to the 21st Century. (in collaboration with Arakawa). New York: Roof Books. (November, 2006). | 1990 | Joseloff Gallery, Hartford |
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| Le Corps Architectural (in collaboration with Arakawa). Paris: Editions Manucius, 2005. | Busche Galerie, Koln | ||
| Architectural Body (in collaboration with Arakawa). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. | 1989 | Touko Museum, Tokyo .......... |
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| Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die (Guggenheim Catalog) (in collaboration with Arakawa). New York: Abrams, Inc., 1997. | 1965 | Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf Minami Gallery, Tokyo |
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| ARCHITECTURE: Sites of Reversible Destiny (Architectural Experiments after Auschwitz-Hiroshima) (in collaboration with Arakawa). London: Academy Editions, 1994. | Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan | ||
| Helen Keller or Arakawa. Santa Fe: Burning Books with East/West Cultural Studies, 1994. | 1965 | Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| To Not To Die (in collaboration with Arakawa). Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1987. | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels | ||
| What the President Will Say and Do!! New York: Station Hill Press, 1984. | 1963 | Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf | |
| 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). | 1960 | Mudo Gallery, Tokyo | |
| 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. | Bibliography | ||
| Essays: | Books: | ||
| “The Architectural Body – Landing Sites,” Space in America: Theory History Culture, (editors) Klaus Benesch and Kerstein Schmidt, Fall 2005. | Making Dying Illegal, Architecture Against Death: Original to the 21st Century. (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). New York: Roof Books. (November, 2006) | ||
| “Gifu-Reversible Destiny” (in collaboration with Arakawa). Architectural Design, Games of Architecture, 1996, pp. 27-35. | Le Corps Architectural (in collaboration with Arakawa). Paris: Editions Manucius, 2005. | ||
| “Housing Complexity” (in collaboration with Arakawa). Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts no. 6, Complexity, 1995, pp. 88-95. | Architectural Body (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. | ||
| "Person as Site in Respect to a Tentative Constructed Plan" (in collaboration with Arakawa). ANYWHERE, 1992, pp. 54-67. | Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die (Guggenheim Catalog) (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). New York: Abrams, Inc., 1997. | ||
| "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. | Arakawa and Madeline Gins. ARCHITECTURE Reversible Sites, Reversible Destiny (Architectural Experiments after Auschwitz-Hiroshima). London: Academy Editions, 1995. | ||
| "The Process in Question," Critical Relations. Highgate Art Trust, (editor) Joan Burns, MA: Williamstown,1989. | Arakawa and Madeline Gins. The Mechanism of Meaning (introduction by Lawrence Alloway). | ||
| "To Return To!" (in collaboration with Arakawa), Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde Since 1950. Köln: Ludwig Museum, 1988. | Munich: Bruckmann, 1971 (1st edition). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979 (2nd edition). New York: Abbeville Press, 1989 (3rd edition). | ||
| "Essay on Multi-Dimensional Architecture" (selections published in Boundary 2, Fall 1985/Winter 1986, and Pratt Architectural Journal, Spring 1988). | Arakawa and Madeline Gins. To Not To Die. Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1987. | ||
| "Forum: Arakawa's The Sharing of Nameless, 1982-83," DRAWING, Jan.-Feb. 1985, pp. 103-104. | Arakawa and Madeline Gins. For Example (A Critique of Never). Milan: Alessandra Castelli Press, 1974. | ||
| Selected Articles & Reviews: | Essays: | ||
“Design Innovation House: Reversible Destiny Lofts.” Archiworld, 2006. |
“The Architectural Body – Landing Sites,” Space in America: Theory History Culture, (editors) Klaus Benesch and Kerstein Schmidt, Fall 2005. | ||
| Femke Bijlsma. “Come Si Rovescia Il Destino.” Casa, May 2006. | |||
| Mari Hashimoto. “How to Live in Reversible Destiny Lofts with Directions for Use.” Casa Brutus, February 2006. | “Gifu—Reversible Destiny” (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). Architectural Design, Games of Architecture, 1996, pp. 27-35. | ||
| Yoshihio Sano. “The trial to cross-over.” Japan Architect, February 2006. | “Housing Complexity” (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts no. 6, Complexity, 1995, pp. 88-95. | ||
| Nagy, Lawrence B. “Parcours vita a domicile.” Monde, February, 26, 2006. | |||
| Tomoko Otake. “Home sweet ‘death-defying’condo homes.” The Japan Times, January 15, 2006. | "Landing Sites/The End of Spacetime." Arakawa and Madeline Gins. Art and Design, May-June, 1993. | ||
| Takeshi Matsuda. “Closeup: Building a Residence with Tubes, Spheres and Cubes.” Nikkei Architecture, May 2, 2005 | "Person as Site in Respect to a Tentative Constructed Plan." Arakawa and Madeline Gins. ANYWHERE, 1992, pp. 54-67. | ||
| Joel David Robinson. “From Clockwork Bodies to Reversible Destinies (On the Architectural Experiments of Arakawa and Gins).” Art Papers, March/April 2005. | "The Tentative Constructed Plan as Intervening Device (for a Reversible Destiny)." Arakawa and Madeline Gins A+U: Architecture and Urbanism, December 1991, pp. 48-57. | ||
| Lisa Licitra Ponti. “Arakawa + Gins. Living Bodies.” Domus 879, March 2005. | |||
| Susan Stewart. “On the Art of the Future.” The Chicago Review, Winter 2004/2005. | |||
| Karen MacCormack. “Mutual Labyrinth: A Proposal of Exchange.” Architectures of Poetry. Eds., | |||
| Dworkin, Craig Douglas and Maria Eugenia Diaz Sanchez. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004 | |||
| Michel Delville. “How Not to Die in Venice: The Art of Arakawa and Madeline Gins.” Architectures of Poetry. Eds., Dworkin, Craig Douglas and Maria Eugenia Diaz Sanchez. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004 | |||
| Michelle Delville. “How Not to Die in Venice: The Art of Arakawa and Madeline Gins” Reading the Illegible (Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies). Ed. by Craig Dworkin. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2003. | |||
| David Kolb. Review of Architectural Body. Continental Philosophy Review, 2003. | |||
Patrick Pardo. “Regarding the Lives of Human Snails: Arakawa/Gins and the Architectural Body.” |
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Aaron Kunin. “Stay Alive: Gins and Arakawa vs. The Grim Reaper.” The Village Voice, January 15 – 21, 2003. |
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| Joel David Robinson. Review of Architectural Body. Parachute, April 5, 2003. | |||
| Geraldine McKenzie. Review of Architectural Body. How2, Spring 2003. | |||
| Jean-Michel Rabate, ed. “Architecture Against Death Architecture/Contre la Mort.” Interfaces Special Double Issue 21-22, 2003. | |||
| Mary Ann Caws. “Taking Textual Time” Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print. Edited by Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. | |||
| Jeff Byles. “The Reversible Destiny: Architecture of Arakawa and Madeline Gins.” Plazm, 27, 2002. | |||
| Arthur C. Danto. “Arakawa-Gins.” The Nation, August 11/18 1997, pp. 31-34. Reprinted in The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. pp.265-272 | |||
| Samira Kawash. “Bodies at Risk- The Architecture of Reversible Destiny.” PAJ 59, 1998, pp. 17-27. | |||
| Tom McEvilley. “Arakawa and Gins at the Guggenheim Soho.” Art in America, January 1998, pp. 100-101. | |||
| Mark Amerika. "Astrophysical Grammatology- Helen Keller or Arakawa." American Book Review, February-March 1996, Vol. 17, No. 3, p. 18. | |||
| Gendai Shiso. (The Journal of Contemporary Thought-- Tokyo), (Each issue of this journal is devoted to the work of a leading contemporary thinker). August 1996, devoted to the work of Arakawa/Gins. | |||
| Serge Gavronsky. “Dot Lamour.” Witz, A Journal of Contemporary Poetics, Winter 1994, Volume III, No. 1. | |||
| Mary Ann Caws. “Madeline Gins- Helen Keller or Arakawa.” Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts, no. 6, Complexity, 1995, p. 96. | |||
| Robert Creeley. “‘Someplace Enormously Moveable’- The Collaboration of Arakawa and Madeline Gins.” Art Forum, Vol. 18 (Summer, 1980), pp. 60-65. | |||
