Location of the "Prec(ar)ious" in Paris, France.
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(L)Their actions began with that strange building at the great city's heart; the puzzle of pipes, cables and signs. That monument to culture.
(R) The event of taking it down meant that instead of staring, digesting, imagining culture on white walls, they actually used their latent violence,
their collective effervescence to destroy the monument.
(R) The event of taking it down meant that instead of staring, digesting, imagining culture on white walls, they actually used their latent violence,
their collective effervescence to destroy the monument.
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Without plans or organisations. Just by word of mouth.
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They had thought that culture was perhaps in those big bones it so proudly boasted.
They made a document that helped them dismantle the monument. A destructive device, the antithesis of a series of architectural drawings. Undoing the done.
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But culture was not in its bones. It was in what they were doing. They found culture in taking it apart.
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(L) The Guardian is the climax of the journey made architecture.
It is built around a strip of landscape that frames the production of the artificial.
It is a walkway, perched above the machine, that allows for them to take command of it. A factory with no shop floor.
(R) They created a collection of machines that would aid them in their reappropriation of the monument and other objects they found.
The machine was assembled from the places where they spent their muscle-work and nerve-work: their daily labour.
(R) They created a collection of machines that would aid them in their reappropriation of the monument and other objects they found.
The machine was assembled from the places where they spent their muscle-work and nerve-work: their daily labour.
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The artificial landscape nestles between the machines formed by the leftovers. Here they vote to decide their architectural fate;
they vote for reassembled objects and experiments processed by the machine. Their identity is formed through consensus.
they vote for reassembled objects and experiments processed by the machine. Their identity is formed through consensus.
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After years of their failed struggles and journeys, after the systematic shifting, reduction and confiscation of their place in the great city,
the Zonards had found their definition of belonging that they had been seeking since the beginning through the production of their own architectural identity.
the Zonards had found their definition of belonging that they had been seeking since the beginning through the production of their own architectural identity.
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(R)The great city had claimed that everything was out of control, that its population was unsure.
(L)But it wasn't. The Zonards were fine.
They were organised, and happy.
(L)But it wasn't. The Zonards were fine.
They were organised, and happy.
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Publication forms the culmination of effort that brought the Zonards to the great city.
