Marcelo López–Dinardi

Tag: audiovisual

  • ASCENDING, DURATION, ROOMS

    ASCENDING, DURATION, ROOMS

    Ascending, Duration and Rooms (13:54 each) are the three short films based on the un-construction of the House Opera in Detroit. Each film disassemble and reconstruct the footage of one-week of work into three themes: sound, time and space respectively. Exhibited at the BEB Gallery in the Rhode Island School of Design as part of the exhibition and lecture Methods and Media, 2015. Filmed by Marcelo López-Dinardi Text by Mitch McEwen Edited by Tyrene Calvesbert Author, 2015.  

  • URBAN_NEXT INTERVIEWS

    URBAN_NEXT INTERVIEWS

    urbanNext* conducted three interviews on my “work with A(n) Office” in Detroit, a “Designer’s Approach” and my “Curatorial Approach” for the US Pavilion for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.  They can be accessed here. * urbanNext is an online platform aiming to generate a global network to produce content focused on rethinking architecture through the contemporary urban milieu.  

  • POST-SPECULATION ACT I

    POST-SPECULATION ACT I

    Post-Speculation Act I was an exhibition at P! Gallery featuring HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN. A project with A(n) Office, we designed the exhibition and installation of multimedia images and videos, as well as objects. 28 screens where displaying news and artists’ work related to urgent racial issues, subverting the typical surveillance display into a revealing and exposure device. It engaged the public audience of the street outside as well as the gallery visitors from within. Designer, 2014.  

  • VISITING SPLITTING

    VISITING SPLITTING

    Visiting Splitting was a film screening and conversation held around two films depicting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Splitting work, including the film Visit To Humphrey Street House, a first public screening after revealing the film from the artist’s archive. In discussion with Kelly Baum, Jessamyn Fiore, GH Hovagimyan and Mark Wigley. Event held at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Moderator, Organizer, 2014. More info about the event, including video documentation, can be found here.

  • CIUDADLAB: BRAZIL, THE FORM OF DESIRE

    CIUDADLAB: BRAZIL, THE FORM OF DESIRE

    After researching the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia and São Paulo in Brazil we identified leisure, void, security, industry, body, tourism and monumentality as drivers of the forms of desire. With and ever expanding economy, Brazil has become the world’s eighth economy and the destination for countless local and international events. The research was organized through three analytical lenses -the Imagined City, the Ideological City and the Informal City- and worked with the hypothesis that in Brazil the imaginary of desire is employed to promulgate the worshipping of the body, the architectural object and the staging  of both within…