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<strong>Who</strong> LET<br />

My <strong>fish</strong><br />

Loose?<br />

MAY 2017<br />

issue #1<br />

JapaNese House P.22<br />

Exhibition about life and Archtecture in Japan<br />

and why it those are ideas are still relevant today<br />

Use of theory by art and<br />

use of art by theory P.14<br />

Professor Boris Groys compares advertisment<br />

principles to critical theory.<br />

OOHo Warter and how to<br />

make your own P.18<br />

Work in progress solution to reduction of plastic<br />

bottle waste


<strong>Who</strong> Let My Fish Loose?<br />

about<br />

It is important to stay aware<br />

With this <strong>magazine</strong> I wanted<br />

to make a fun way to be engaged<br />

with critical thought<br />

and critical theory. It is not a<br />

call for actions, but a hopefully<br />

entertaining way to<br />

read something that does<br />

not point fingers.<br />

In this edition, I have looked<br />

at great minds such as Slavoj<br />

Zizek and Boris Groys, to<br />

share their thoughts and<br />

ideas.<br />

There is also a section on<br />

current events, such as the<br />

Japanese House exhibition,<br />

that is up at the Barbican<br />

center, and the Ooho bottle<br />

recipe.<br />

This <strong>magazine</strong> will try not<br />

to be political, but there is<br />

a section on psychology of<br />

a narcissist, with now president<br />

Trump in mind, as well<br />

as a section addressing the<br />

refugee crisis.<br />

I hope you enjoy.<br />

Dea<br />

Khalvashi


in this issue<br />

Refugee crisis<br />

L i b e r a l<br />

Communism<br />

Japanese<br />

House<br />

p. 10<br />

p. 04<br />

p. 20<br />

USE OF THEORY BY<br />

ART<br />

P l a s t i c<br />

waste<br />

Trump and rise in<br />

narcissism<br />

p. 14<br />

p.18<br />

p. 06


Issue 1<br />

May 2017<br />

LIBERAL<br />

COMMUNIST<br />

AS EXPLAINED BY SLAVOJ ZIZEK<br />

AN EXCERT FROM HIS BOOK "VIOLENCE".<br />

The exemplary figures of evil today are not ordinary<br />

consumers who pollute the environment and live in<br />

a eating organic food, taking holidays in wildlife<br />

4<br />

10 commandments of the<br />

Liberal Communists<br />

Accoring to: Olivier Malnuit<br />

1. Give everything away for free<br />

(free access, no copyright …); just<br />

charge for the additional services,<br />

which will make you even richer.<br />

2. Change the world, don't just sell<br />

things: global revolution, a change<br />

of society will make things better.<br />

3. Be caring, sharing, and<br />

aware of social responsibility.<br />

4. Be creative: focus on design,<br />

new technologies, and sciences.<br />

5. Tell it all: there should be no secrets.<br />

Endorse and practise the<br />

cult of transparency, the free<br />

flow of information, all humanity<br />

should collaborate and interact.<br />

6. Don't work and take on a<br />

fixed nine-to-five job. Just engage<br />

in improvised smart, dynamic,<br />

flexible communications.<br />

7. Go back to school and engage<br />

in permanent education.<br />

8. Act as an enzyme: work not only<br />

for the market, but trigger new<br />

forms of social collaborations.<br />

9. Die poor: return your wealth to<br />

those who need it, since you have<br />

more than you can ever spend.<br />

10. Stand in for the state:<br />

practise the partnership of<br />

companies with the state


Issue #1<br />

<strong>Who</strong> <strong>let</strong> <strong>my</strong> <strong>fish</strong> <strong>loose</strong>?<br />

as a by-product, who's to complain!<br />

The exemplary figures of evil today<br />

are not ordinary consumers who pollute<br />

the environment and live in a<br />

violent world of disintegrating social<br />

links, but those who, while fully<br />

engaged in creating conditions for<br />

such universal devastation and pollution,<br />

buy their way out of their own<br />

activity, living in gated communities,<br />

eating organic food, taking holidays<br />

in wildlife preserves, and so on.<br />

Liberal communists are pragmatic. They hate<br />

a doctrinaire approach. For them there is no<br />

single exploited working class today. There are<br />

only concrete problems to be solved: starvation<br />

in Africa, the plight of Muslim women, religious<br />

fundamentalist violence. When there<br />

is a humanitarian crisis in Africa - and liberal<br />

communists really love humanitarian crises,<br />

which bring out the best in them!-there is no<br />

point in engaging in old-style anti-imperialist<br />

rhetoric. Instead, all of us should just concentrate<br />

on what really does the work of solving<br />

the problem: engage people, governments, and<br />

business in a common enterprise; start moving<br />

things, instead of relying on centralised state<br />

help; approach the crisis in a creative and unconventional<br />

way, without fretting over labels.<br />

5<br />

Above all, liberal communists are true citizens<br />

of the world. They are good people who worry.<br />

They worry about populist fundamentalists<br />

and irresponsible, greedy capitalist corporations.<br />

They see the "deeper causes" of today's<br />

problems: it is mass poverty and hopelessness<br />

which breed fundamentalist terror. So their<br />

goal is not to earn money, but to change the<br />

world, though if this makes them more money


Issue 1<br />

May 2017<br />

Rise in Narcissism and<br />

Trump<br />

Text and illustration by Dea Khalvashi<br />

"I have written your name on a cigarette, have<br />

lighted it to smoke and forget you, but... I have<br />

understood, that I breathe you...."<br />

I hate life and life<br />

hates me<br />

6<br />

Your life in South<br />

Africa<br />

story's treveller<br />

Satus? Cat, que contrum<br />

fac tum eferis, ex ninam<br />

inatili bunihic aedius<br />

bontem quam vis, ocum<br />

aurnunum serfes mantea<br />

diem ses achilicidea oris<br />

atume patudendii es? Urei<br />

imihilis alii etora convendam,<br />

se octus publiae<br />

ficio, dist fecris, quis iu<br />

vatum sces patis bon<br />

Stregthening his hand out to catch the stars<br />

sendeo, que convent emoriverteri<br />

pecrehem ocur.<br />

M. Linte habenatqui te<br />

inte derenihi, pubit ade a<br />

noc, nost num iam acerum<br />

qui tem inam esilium, nossimilis<br />

peris Mul cuperce<br />

sunihilis condam pons<br />

cae, quid noximur oporis<br />

condemu lostea terferb<br />

isquam esena, cem nu<br />

menteris firmaio, Ti.<br />

Pio, num demus nonsigilic<br />

te nox sentid prictuus,<br />

omnes hus se ventere<br />

perdit. Condisse fatra re.<br />

Satus? Cat, que contrum<br />

fac tum eferis, ex ninam<br />

inatili bunihic aedius<br />

bontem quam vis, ocum<br />

aurnunum serfes mantea<br />

diem ses achilicidea<br />

oris atume patudendii<br />

es? Urei imihilis alii etora<br />

convendam, se octus<br />

publiae ficio, dist fecris,<br />

quis iu vatum sces patis<br />

bon sendeo, que convent<br />

emoriverteri pecrehem<br />

ocur.<br />

M. Linte habenatqui te<br />

inte derenihi, pubit ade a<br />

noc, nost num iam acerum<br />

qui tem inam esilium,<br />

nossimilis peris Mul<br />

Siberian wolf


Issue #1<br />

<strong>Who</strong> <strong>let</strong> <strong>my</strong> <strong>fish</strong> <strong>loose</strong>?<br />

cuperce sunihilis condam pons<br />

cae, quid noximur oporis condemu<br />

lostea terferb isquam esena,<br />

cem nu menteris firmaio, Ti.<br />

Pio, num demus nonsigilic te nox<br />

sentid prictuus, omnes hus se<br />

ventere perdit. Condisse fatra re<br />

fortero rissil con rei ci tabeffrei<br />

tatilic ocris. Hos huctus verio ma,<br />

condam practum prox multum in<br />

hintrem di perbisum mo audam<br />

tissus ompropost non nocaes.<br />

But it is better to be good than to be ugly<br />

I have many many friends<br />

Furo, effreorum tri pere vide<br />

achus, num locute norsus cum<br />

ommoveniam ute ac tus inatiore<br />

popte nostod nonveruncla quamenatra<br />

res? quidet; novehentea<br />

ocaequodius? Gerae mantilla vit<br />

ature eorte compons fue et gratum<br />

detrori pere essi pra vituis<br />

nihictemque publict oripio et reci<br />

it prae de res?<br />

Mul cuperce sunihilis condam<br />

pons cae, quid noximur oporis<br />

condemu lostea terferb isquam<br />

esena, cem nu menteris firmaio,<br />

Ti. Pio, num demus nonsigilic te<br />

nox sentid prictuus, omnes hus se<br />

ventere perdit. Condisse fatra re<br />

fortero rissil con rei ci tabeffrei<br />

tatilic ocris.<br />

Trump's public comments<br />

Satus? Cat, que contrum fac tum eferis, ex ninam<br />

inatili bunihic aedius bontem quam vis, ocum<br />

aurnunum serfes mantea diem ses achilicidea oris<br />

atume patudendii es? Urei imihilis alii etora convendam,<br />

se octus publiae ficio, dist fecris, quis iu<br />

vatum sces patis bon sendeo, que convent emoriverteri<br />

pecrehem ocur.<br />

M. Linte habenatqui te inte derenihi, pubit ade a<br />

noc, nost num iam acerum qui tem inam esilium,<br />

nossimilis peris Mul<br />

7<br />

Kacium voles ium nim id maion<br />

ped quodis expe derferiae et aped<br />

maximet, sinctatistio es maio volor<br />

mi, quibus adit etusanti tem ressust<br />

faceruptam.<br />

Kacium voles ium nim id maion<br />

ped quodis expe derferiae et aped<br />

maximet, sinctatistio es maio volor<br />

mi, quibus adit etusanti tem ressust<br />

faceruptam.<br />

"I know that you believe you understand<br />

what you think I said, but I’m not sure you<br />

realize that what you heard is not what I<br />

meant.num, ut acideps, consultus caediis,<br />

qua."<br />

dr. SUSAN CLENFIELD


Issue 1<br />

May 2017<br />

8<br />

REFUGEES and the powe of<br />

image<br />

Where the words are lacking<br />

Quam eses, dicaverit.<br />

Patatium me clusquam<br />

stum quam et C. Sp.<br />

conum omaximus conte<br />

tam locre in tiquont, quodis<br />

morum, depos bonicierus<br />

sigilic terfectua vivissit,<br />

consciis dienimus<br />

achuci senturisti, ur. Si<br />

practum atia sediemqua<br />

tum sentu iuscrio nos,<br />

dum dem ete, noncepeci<br />

se adhuidenare es consul<br />

ceris rei fac re aude iae<br />

nosuam hactus; Cuperferis.<br />

Rei caedepe sterritiquam<br />

itelatquem movid<br />

faude ne et virmisquam<br />

per prorsupplici sultodi<br />

catali prae acii siliaedo,<br />

quam pro autesto publicaed<br />

acis.<br />

Factabus nossulica iam re<br />

in vivitra etresciamSatus?<br />

Cat, que contrum fac tum<br />

eferis, ex ninam inatili bunihic<br />

aedius bontem quam vis,<br />

ocum aurnunum serfes mantea<br />

diem ses achilicidea oris<br />

atume patudendii es?<br />

Being 20 a man is a<br />

playboy<br />

Urei imihilis alii etora convendam,<br />

se octus publiae ficio,<br />

dist fecris, quis iu vatum sces<br />

patis bon sendeo, que convent<br />

emoriverteri pecrehem<br />

ocur. M. Linte habenatqui te<br />

inte derenihi, pubit ade a noc,<br />

nost num iam acerum qui<br />

tem inam esilium, nossimilis<br />

peris Mul cuperce sunihilis<br />

condam pons cae, quid noximur<br />

oporis condemu lostea<br />

terferb isquam esena, cem nu<br />

menteris firmaio, Ti.<br />

Temporary refugee camp set up in the center of Munich, Germany<br />

Pio, num demus nonsigilic<br />

te nox sentid<br />

prictuus, omnes hus se<br />

ventere perdit. Condisse<br />

fatra re fortero rissil<br />

con rei ci tabeffrei tatilic<br />

ocris.<br />

Hos huctus verio ma, condam<br />

practum prox multum<br />

in hintrem di perbisum mo<br />

audam tissus ompropost non<br />

nocaes furo, effreorum tri<br />

pere vide achus, num locute<br />

norsus cum ommoveniam ute


Issue #1<br />

<strong>Who</strong> <strong>let</strong> <strong>my</strong> <strong>fish</strong> <strong>loose</strong>?<br />

"Stregthening<br />

his<br />

hand out<br />

to catch<br />

the stars,<br />

he forgets<br />

about the<br />

flowers at<br />

his feet."<br />

J.R. Adamson<br />

Ifecrisum vit? Ficata deo,<br />

consulin tus inum pratimu<br />

suleste ricit, contidem am,<br />

Cupio egilis o conerfeci<br />

interbi etil vis pro, nique ia<br />

rei perbem nos et L.<br />

The best way to cheer<br />

yourself<br />

is to try to cheer us<br />

Satia et; hosulum fac<br />

mendiem, que tem cus iae<br />

conos ellabes sentribus<br />

halic oposser obsendiis<br />

iacessulem quisse diem<br />

vis, vis; heniam abis, nos<br />

fuissigna, sendacid condien<br />

te conum ca ves etod<br />

Cupplic upecenti tem patius,<br />

mo cupionsulto uturbi<br />

fuium apertelium eroretelaris<br />

fuius veriusciem<br />

patissulisum inam tum es<br />

nihilic ienicibus,<br />

Ti. Simusa rei inultum<br />

dis hocci inte firmandam<br />

eferis, C. Tam o culume<br />

inam pori se potes iam<br />

dum teride nitrumursus<br />

consicidet vis. Valatu<br />

Why it never worked out with anyone else<br />

menis; et? Palesen trevivis<br />

modi postea sulium<br />

is. Siliaes cerdis o ignota,<br />

senterestre alabuntrum<br />

re henat, manum, ora rem<br />

nimilnequam eorione<br />

quidefacio videt in dem P.<br />

Olus, quos Cati pervivil<br />

virmilinam, cum potatquo<br />

unc terehemus proriorteme<br />

publi, quis Mae<br />

incless entere nihilisses?<br />

Econferferum hor pro<br />

viverfes facest achuita<br />

rterum con hae crem qua<br />

num popubliis. Gilless<br />

enatur, ci fac telicapestam<br />

maiondem tus<br />

Catus in sulicam ocus inatam<br />

pote fac iam publica<br />

stanum inatraelus. Postiam<br />

firit aciemnium senatque<br />

cerisultor hilicio inte ma,<br />

utus horum atquam adhus<br />

esi te et.<br />

9


Issue 1<br />

May 2017<br />

10


Issue #1<br />

<strong>Who</strong> <strong>let</strong> <strong>my</strong> <strong>fish</strong> <strong>loose</strong>?<br />

11


Issue 1<br />

May 2017<br />

Boris Groys<br />

USe of theory<br />

by art<br />

12<br />

Use of art by<br />

theory<br />

A transcribed except from the talk by an<br />

art critic and a theoretician Boris Groys<br />

as a part of the Age of Global Transition<br />

conference at the Rietveld Academie in<br />

Amsterdam.


Issue #1<br />

<strong>Who</strong> <strong>let</strong> <strong>my</strong> <strong>fish</strong> <strong>loose</strong>?<br />

“Call Now”<br />

In the recent years, this notion of<br />

“life” has become more and more<br />

prominent. The whole philosophy<br />

and theory of discourse in the last<br />

century was about life, not about<br />

thinking like it was before, its quite<br />

a change, and I will be talking<br />

about this change. Why Philosophy<br />

for so long, from Plato up to the<br />

end of 19th century had actually<br />

thinking, logos and reason, for<br />

its main topic, and then suddenly<br />

the theme changed to life as the<br />

main notion. We are always speaking<br />

about reality TV, and all these<br />

things, we speak about life and<br />

we speak about the possibility of<br />

changing lives and exchanging<br />

lives, about imitating life. And all<br />

of this has presuppositions and I<br />

will try to discuss them.<br />

In our time, we are attacked<br />

form all sides by different calls<br />

to change our life. To change our<br />

body, by diet and fitness, to change<br />

our mental abilities by education<br />

and meditation. You know,<br />

now I’m living in New York, as it<br />

was already said, and I always get<br />

accustomed to a certain way that<br />

American TV presents this call. You<br />

know, when you see an advertisement<br />

for new medicine, new practise<br />

or new fitness program, at the<br />

end they always say, with a very<br />

insistent voice<br />

“Call Now!”<br />

“Please call now!”<br />

“Do not wait!”<br />

“Call now!”<br />

"Change your life! Now!"<br />

The society that is only based on<br />

differences is no longer a society, it is a<br />

market econo<strong>my</strong>.<br />

This is what I want to talk about.<br />

What does this feeling of urgency<br />

mean? That we cannot delay it,<br />

that we have to do it now, we have<br />

to respond now. Every such a call<br />

proposes a sort of model that is a<br />

call to imitate socially recognised<br />

beauties, etc. And every such call<br />

for change is a call for imitation and<br />

a call to become somebody that<br />

somebody else already is. But is it<br />

possible to become another person,<br />

to follow a model to radically<br />

change our own identity to imitate<br />

another identity and if it is possible<br />

to follow this, should we follow this,<br />

so is our desire of imitation really<br />

good?<br />

First off, I would suggest that the<br />

desire to become similar to the<br />

others - the “mimetic” desire that<br />

is so criticised by many authors is<br />

actually in a certain way a positive<br />

desire. It is a desire to be social, to<br />

produce sociality. We tend to think<br />

about our society as a society of<br />

differences. We tend to think about<br />

our society as the society of differences.<br />

We have different culture<br />

identity, different professions,<br />

skills, sexual orientations etc. However,<br />

a society that is only defined<br />

by differences seizes to be a society<br />

the space of difference is not a<br />

society but an econo<strong>my</strong>, and specifically<br />

market econo<strong>my</strong> - that means<br />

econo<strong>my</strong> of exchange. Difference<br />

13


Call NOW!<br />

CHANGE YOUR LIFe<br />

NOW!<br />

Professor Boris Groys lecture<br />

On the Use of Theory by Art<br />

and Use of Art by Theory


Issue #1<br />

<strong>Who</strong> <strong>let</strong> <strong>my</strong> <strong>fish</strong> <strong>loose</strong>?<br />

opens a possibility of exchange<br />

and makes it unavoidable. I give<br />

to the others what I have, and do<br />

not have, and the others give me<br />

what they have and I do not have.<br />

A society of difference, is a society<br />

of commodity exchange, but<br />

also, exchange of communication.<br />

Communication as exchange of<br />

information and also a market<br />

of opinions. We exchange discourses<br />

and information items<br />

as we exchange all other commodities.<br />

This operation leaves<br />

our identities unchanged. So an<br />

act of exchange itself, be it in<br />

the market or within the framework<br />

of communication leaves<br />

our own identity unchanged. We<br />

require freedom of information<br />

and communication and these<br />

are very important goals. But an<br />

actual, initial goal of theoretical<br />

discourse (and i speak now today<br />

as a theoretician) is not merely<br />

to inform the others about what<br />

opinions I personally have. The<br />

scene of theoretical discourse<br />

does not coincide with the scene<br />

of communication. Rather one<br />

stars a theoretical discourse<br />

with a hope that it will change<br />

the attitude of an audience. The<br />

The Critical theory calls for action.<br />

To change the world instead of<br />

trying to understand it. (a very<br />

famous Marxist slogan) To actively<br />

change life instead of wasting time<br />

for contemplation and passively to<br />

live fully and actively instead of<br />

merely surviving. How is theory<br />

formulated? it is not formulated as a<br />

theory, but as a call.<br />

theoretical discourse wants to be not informative,<br />

but transformative discourse. Thus, every<br />

theoretician is necessarily interested in the<br />

transformative power of discourse as such. In<br />

fact, every theoretical discourse can be read<br />

as the description of the conditions of its own<br />

persuasiveness, and of transformative power of<br />

word in general.<br />

So, an explanation of why a discourse can be<br />

transformative and not only informative. Every<br />

discourse offers a scenario, a set of conditions<br />

under which one can expect that a discourse<br />

becomes transformative. Here, a philosopher,<br />

theoretician, a thinker, discovers an uncanny<br />

similarity between his or her own discourse<br />

and the advertisement that calls its listeners to<br />

change and transform themselves. The theoretician<br />

shares, with the advertisement and fashion<br />

a common possibility of a transformative<br />

call. Transformative word. At the same time,<br />

the traditional philosophy attempts to accuse<br />

all the non-philosophical transformative discourses<br />

of being based not on reason and logic,<br />

but exclusively on seduction and manipulation.<br />

So if you look at the history of religion if you<br />

look at the history of philosophy and theoretical<br />

thought it always operates by this kind of<br />

command:<br />

Come now<br />

Change your attitude<br />

Change your life.<br />

If you go back to Christianity to the period of<br />

enlightenment and you read philosophers like<br />

Deleuze of Derrida, even they suggest similar<br />

things; Don’t think in this direction, begin to<br />

think in another direction and so on. It is not so<br />

much an argumentation to call the change of<br />

your direction of attention and your mind.<br />

There is a common ground between all these<br />

beauty contests and reality shows or what ever,<br />

that we experience in our meditated culture<br />

in a very fundamental attitude of any speaker<br />

including the speaker attempting a critique on<br />

this very subject; Let us not believe them, <strong>let</strong><br />

us believe to criticise them, Criticise them now.<br />

Do not delay your critique.<br />

The artists answer this call in its ambiguity.<br />

Why would I say that this call is ambiguous?<br />

15


Issue 1<br />

May 2017<br />

OHOO<br />

The Edible<br />

Water Bottle<br />

16<br />

Modular gastrono<strong>my</strong> and plastic<br />

The fact that plastic waste is an issue is a point that no longer<br />

needs arguing. Of course, recycling is a solution but it<br />

only seems to work half of the time. On top of that, plastic in<br />

general can be toxic and dangerous for the surroundings of<br />

the production area, as well as the ridiculously large Carbon<br />

footprint that comes with shipping variety of bottled drinks.<br />

While juice can be called a luxury, and the society can live<br />

without, the same cannot be said for water. Water is absolutely<br />

necessary, and since humans need to consume at least<br />

2L of water everyday, it is not something that can be avoided<br />

out of simple good will and the love of environment.


Issue #1<br />

<strong>Who</strong> <strong>let</strong> <strong>my</strong> <strong>fish</strong> <strong>loose</strong>?<br />

Of course, we can use reusable water<br />

bottles and invest in a filter, but just<br />

taking the demand and need on drinking<br />

water into consideration, all of the<br />

efforts become relatively small when<br />

one looks at a post-marathon site that is<br />

filled with single-use plastic cups.<br />

Ooho has taken the world by storm after<br />

their campaign launched with the aim<br />

to raise 400,000GBP, (They ended up<br />

raising twice the ammount). It is an edible,<br />

raindrop shaped sack that contains<br />

the water inside of its thin membrane.<br />

This "method" has been used for years<br />

and it is called Modular gastrono<strong>my</strong>. It<br />

is often used to spherify certain deserts<br />

that are too liquidy to take on solid<br />

shape. Ooho is a great idea that can<br />

really help reduce the use of plastic.<br />

The best part about Ooho is, that it has<br />

the potential to be homemade. While<br />

the creators are working and developing<br />

the recipe in such way that it can be<br />

more durable and hygenic, the current<br />

Ohoo recipe can be used at home. The<br />

reason why this is great is because Ooho<br />

edible bottles will have the potential to<br />

be produced locally - with ease of ingridients<br />

that cant be found anywhere.<br />

This, if nothing else will at least reduce<br />

rising carbon footpring that transporting<br />

plastic waterbottle is eifnitly one of the<br />

top contrbutors to.<br />

Nearly half of plastic<br />

bottles used by British<br />

households are never<br />

recycled<br />

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How to make your<br />

own Ohoo at home.<br />

Modular Gastrono<strong>my</strong><br />

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Directions:<br />

You will need:<br />

1. Add 1g of Sodium Algenate to a bowl with<br />

one cup of drinking water.<br />

2. Using the hand-blender, make sure you<br />

blend the solution well.<br />

3. Set the Sodium Algenate mixture aside until<br />

all of the bubbles that formed during the<br />

blending proccess dissapear<br />

4. In a larger bowl, mix 4g of Calcium Lactate<br />

and 4 cups of water.<br />

5. Gently stir the Calcium Lactate solution<br />

with a spoon until no more Calcium Lactate<br />

can be seen.<br />

6. Once all of the bubbles in the Sodium<br />

alginate solution are gone, take a spoonfull<br />

out and very gently plop it into the Calcium<br />

Lactate bath<br />

7. Repeat this step while gently stirring the<br />

Calcium lacitate soltion.<br />

8. Stir the soltion for aproximatley five minutes,<br />

and <strong>let</strong> it sit for two more .<br />

9. With a pasta spoon, or using hands, gently<br />

remove the Ooho from the bath and place it<br />

in a rinsing bowl full of normal water.<br />

10. Let the Ooho edible water bottles rinse in<br />

the water bath for a few minutes, then take<br />

them out<br />

11. Enjoy the 0 impact healthy edible water<br />

bottles.<br />

P.S. Eating the outside of the bottle is entirely<br />

optional, however, it does contribute to<br />

the hydration of the body.<br />

1. Sodium Alginate<br />

2. Calcium Lactate<br />

3. A hand-blender<br />

4. Three medium sized<br />

bowls<br />

5. A deep, round spoon<br />

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Japanese House:<br />

Architecture<br />

and life after<br />

1945<br />

March 23rd - June 25th 2017<br />

at the barbican center


Issue #1<br />

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Personal<br />

belongings of an<br />

urban hermit<br />

inside the 1-in-1<br />

recreation of his<br />

home<br />

immaterial portrait of society.<br />

It is more of a performance<br />

than a simple architectural<br />

exhibit. The centre<br />

of this exhibition is the Moriyama<br />

House. A spacial portrait<br />

of a man who has never<br />

caught a plane, or left Tokyo<br />

- a city where he was born.<br />

The one in one recreation<br />

of the Moriyama House by<br />

an award winning Japanese<br />

architect, Ryue Nishizawa is<br />

a successful, personal and<br />

unique fruit of the relationship<br />

between the architect<br />

and his client, and a story of<br />

how this fruit can grow into<br />

something much greater than<br />

just a building. The Moriyama<br />

House is as much a feeling as<br />

it is a house.<br />

Most of the progressive reconstruction<br />

in Japans started<br />

precisely because of destruction<br />

of everything and<br />

the housing crisis that arose<br />

from their defeat in WWII.<br />

They had to think practically,<br />

but also wanted to integrate<br />

their tradition and national<br />

identity to the demoralised<br />

public, to raise their spirit.<br />

Here, architects were not<br />

only faced with a constructional<br />

issue but also a social<br />

one, and so, rapid Japanese<br />

architectural growth began.<br />

The exhibition explores precisely<br />

this. How construction<br />

and character can intertwine.<br />

The curators of this exhibition<br />

achieve this by intelligently<br />

guiding the viewers,<br />

though time and space. Both,<br />

the metaphorical and physical<br />

centre of the exhibit is the<br />

Moriyama house, however,<br />

the viewers are directed to<br />

start the exhibition on the<br />

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top level of the space. There, the<br />

visitors are introduced to the<br />

important role that architecture<br />

played in both social and economical<br />

development of Japan<br />

after the total destruction in suffered<br />

during the World War II. The<br />

most interesting being a movie<br />

reel exploring the idea of a home,<br />

as a structure, and how this home,<br />

as a structure can be a reflection<br />

social values in regard to the<br />

family life in Japan. There is the<br />

first ever aired commercial of the<br />

so-called “capsule” apartment by<br />

Kisho Kurokawa, an architect who<br />

was also a part of the prominent<br />

“Metabolism” movement. The<br />

capsule acted as a symbol and<br />

a prediction to the future of the<br />

society in Japan, and the world,<br />

really. It was created on the presumption<br />

that the modern man<br />

will be solitary and focused on<br />

the importance of an individual<br />

rather than the relationship with<br />

others. Around the same time, an<br />

important American historian and<br />

moralist was coming to similar<br />

conclusions as Kurokawa, and he<br />

predicted that there will be a rise<br />

of Narcissism in the public(for<br />

further details look at The Culture<br />

of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch). What<br />

is interesting, is that the architects have managed<br />

to come to a similar conclusion as cultural<br />

theorists, and that this was not just a local<br />

issue in Japan, but to an extent, a global one.<br />

The Crazy Family by Soho Ishii, is a literal interpretation<br />

of the idea of destruction of family<br />

relations, as well as the need for a family home,<br />

where the family members, paranoid about the<br />

upcoming termite attack physically demolish<br />

their family home, yelling and screaming in<br />

agony as they do this.<br />

“ The ideal is to create something<br />

that, through its presence, makes<br />

the overall environment look<br />

better, and at the same time<br />

makes your own building look<br />

good by virtue of its relationship<br />

with the surrounding buildings.”<br />

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa,<br />

Architects at SANAA


Issue #1<br />

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in contemporary architecture, and their<br />

focus is the cinematic exploration of contemporary<br />

architecture. Through the film<br />

Moryama-San, we follow the touching story<br />

behind Ryue Nishizawa’s masterpiece.<br />

The story went something like this: After<br />

his mother has died, our protagonist, Mr.<br />

Moriyama wanted to tear down their family<br />

house and build a new one, so he wrote<br />

a <strong>let</strong>ter to the architect. “You don’t need a<br />

house, you need your own village”- said the<br />

architect.<br />

A small village inside a forest<br />

The Moriyama house itself is an archipelago<br />

of ten units. These can be used<br />

by the resident himself, or, rented out.<br />

Ryue Nishizawa focuses on creating the<br />

environment that fits within the existing<br />

landscape. In the suburbs where<br />

Mr. Moriyama resides, everybody has<br />

known each other for dedicates, and<br />

the street is often used as a shared<br />

communal area. Nishizawa wanted to<br />

create an unrestricted part of this landscape<br />

that is still unique. He does not<br />

use fences, and uses large transparent<br />

windows and even a glass corridor in<br />

one of the blocks, in order to not create<br />

isolation from the natural landscape,<br />

as well as the communal feeling of this<br />

Tokyo neighbourhood. He also highlights<br />

the importance of soil in a concrete<br />

city like Tokyo. Having soil in his<br />

garden, allowed Moriyama to keep one<br />

of his mothers trees after her passing,<br />

and also use the trees for the utilities<br />

they provide, often using them for drying<br />

his clothes.<br />

We see the intimate, organic relationship<br />

between the house and it’s<br />

inhibitor unfold in a dainty, spontaneous<br />

film by the iconic duo Ila Bêka<br />

and Louise Lemonie, also known as<br />

“Bêka&Lemonie”. Bêka and Lemonie<br />

are considered to be the cult figures<br />

Moriyama-san is a man of exquisite taste<br />

and character. Bêka stumbled into him<br />

spontaneously, and they started talking<br />

about music, which resulted in mr. Moriyama<br />

inviting him to the basement of his house<br />

where he kept his extensive record collection<br />

(parts of which can be found scattered<br />

around the exhibition units) and they<br />

bonded over their liking of Otomo Yoshihide,<br />

one of the pioneers of “noise music”<br />

which Moriyama is very fond of. There is a<br />

line in the film that explains that Moriyama<br />

likes music and film, but he loves reading.<br />

Much of the film is spontaneous, but it is an<br />

interesting, unique portrait of a man and<br />

his house, which seem to have become one.<br />

They cannot exist without each-other. The<br />

visitors feel the closeness and seem to be<br />

very touched by Moriyama’s character. It is<br />

interesting to be able to get to know a man’s<br />

character based on his home. The film features<br />

shots of small collectable sculptures,<br />

that are also displayed in the exhibition<br />

which only intensifies the feeling of familiarity.<br />

This is why, it can be said that Moriyama<br />

House is not a building. It is an immaterial<br />

and material portrait of the man and his<br />

spirit coming together in perfect balance<br />

with the surroundings that make this building<br />

Moriyama’s home, and an absolute architectural<br />

masterpiece.<br />

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23/ 05/2017<br />

In this edition, you can find a range of topics including popular<br />

and current:<br />

Trump and rise of Narcissism and newly created edible water<br />

bottles,<br />

Cultural theory looking at the sense of urgency of life by Boris<br />

Groys<br />

Current exhibitions in London: Japanese House and why everyone<br />

should see it.

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