Las Palabras son Muros [Pavilion for Astoria]’ (The Words are Walls [Pavilion for Astoria]) by artist Rafael Domenech is a collectively authored dynamic sculptural \u201cbook\u201d project.<\/p>\n
Scaffolding and construction mesh, provisional materials emblematic of the changing urban landscape, comprise the two semicircular towers of this outdoor piece. The mesh \u201cpages\u201d hanging from the scaffolding feature graphically dynamic laser-cut texts that rotate throughout the exhibition.<\/p>\n
Domenech gleans these texts from visitors to the Park who can submit their words, phrases, and stories, which are selected through a digital algorithm. In its totality, experimental digital graphic technique and chance composition aggregates into an amalgamation of voices throughout the 16-week exhibition. Submit a message online at http:\/\/laspalabrassonmuros.infolaspalabrassonmuros.info.<\/p>\n
The work takes its title from a line of the poem Flamenco in Big Bang, a book of concrete poetry by Cuban artist, poet, and critic Severo Sarduy. ‘Las Palabras son Muros’ embodies some of the neo-baroque visual and textual metaphors that Sarduy identified and articulated in his writing. The ellipse, as a shape rendered in relation to two focii, represents the conditions of dislocation, decentralization, and eccentricity. These elements appear both formally and conceptually in the work. Duality reverberates in the pairing of the towers, the outer borough geography, and the experience of migration. These dualities, the dissolution of authorship, and the embrace of artifice and exuberance evince Sarduy\u2019s aesthetics.<\/p>\n
After the project concluded, Domenech produced a book combining the texts including reused elements of the weekly mesh installments. The result is a collection of fragmented perspectives conjoined into a new whole book. https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/rafael-domenech-catalogue\/” noreferrer” data-auth=”NotApplicable” data-linkindex=”2Learn more
\nPROGRAMS
\nhttps:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/educationprograms\/books-as-architecture\/Saturday Sculpture Workshop: Book as Architecture
\nSaturday, July 6 \u2022 12-3PM
\nhttps:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/program\/domenech-opening\/’Las Palabras son Muros [Pavilion for Astoria]’ Opening Celebration
\nFriday, July 12 \u2022 6-8PM
\nhttps:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/program\/poetry-reading\/Poetry Reading: Cruel Optimism (after Lauren Berlant)
\nSunday, July 21 \u2022 5-6PM
\nhttps:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/program\/domenech-walk1\/Walk 1: Politics of Sharing Space
\nMonday, August 12 \u2022 6PM
\nhttps:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/program\/puppet-show-rupture-ruptura\/Puppet Show: Rupture\/Ruptura
\nSaturday, August 24 \u2022 2-6 PM
\nhttps:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/program\/domenech-kite\/Fly: Kite Making Workshop
\nSaturday, September 7 \u2022 3PM
\nhttps:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/program\/domenech-walk2\/Walk 2: Politics of Sharing Space
\nFriday, September 13 \u2022 Time 6PM
\nhttps:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/program\/domenech-tshirt\/Wear: T-Shirt Printing Workshop
\nSunday, October 20 \u2022 3PM
\nhttps:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/program\/domenech-lantern\/Halloween Harvest: Lantern Workshop
\nSaturday, October 26 \u2022 12-4 PM
\nhttps:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/program\/domenech-catalogue-launch\/’Las Palabras Son Muros [Pavilion for Astoria]’ Catalogue Launch
\nThursday, February 13 \u2022 5:30-7:30PM \u2022 https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Queens+Public+Library+at+Hunters+Point\/@40.745311,-73.9598531,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c259999f654f1d:0x373ed909bf07371d!8m2!3d40.745307!4d-73.9576644Hunters Point Library
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