Extension Gallery is an experimental forum for testing new thought and practice in architecture. It is a platform for dialog between national and international practices and investigation of the relations between architecture and other disciplines. The gallery commissions architects that adopt a diverse set of architectural theories to design and construct site-specific installations that transform the gallery space with their work and allow visitors to explore and experience current architectural thought in practice.
Lateral Office: The Active Layer
The Active Layer is an homage to the complex glaciated landscape of the Arctic. The regional geology and climatic conditions give rise to a vast diversity of unique aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems found within the permafrost layer, glaciated rock, and the millions of melt water pools that form in sunken pockets of the land. The Active Layer invites visitors to experience this condition, to be immersed in it, and observe its complex patterns and terrain. Over 25,000 unique points fill the gallery in a tight array making different topographic heights and bathymetric depths. The work can be read as both a scaled immersive Arctic landscape and a hypnotic spatial moray of points and lines.
October 15, 2010, 6:00 pm – Opening Lecture & Exhibition
October 15 – December 3, 2010
This exhibition is sponsored by Extension Gallery, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Archeworks, Cambridge Galleries, Canada Council for the Arts, and Consulate General of Canada in Chicago.
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