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THE FEED
by Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) (UICA) on Tuesday Sep 28th, 2010 01:29pm in NONPROFITS 
/Phil Meade
/Phil Meade
/Phil Meade
Right around the corner from UICA's entrance is Alex Schweder La's "Evaporative Buildings," on Weston St. This "Evaporative Buildings" installation is located in UICA's loading dock and is made from projections and mechanically induced mist. The mist serves as a "screen" for a cyclical loop of video projections: rectangular shapes, recessed one behind another, which rise, fall, and move through the mist in ever-shifting patterns. The projected shapes resemble stacked architectural sections at one moment, phantasmal apertures the next: unreliable exits and entrances, flickering bluish in the mist.
Alex Schweder La has a masters degree in architecture from Princeton and his projects have been collected by several individuals and institutions.
Founded in 1977, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) is Michigan’s largest contemporary arts center and a dynamic, multidisciplinary laboratory for the advancement of the art of our time. UICA actively challenges both artists and audiences to new levels of dialogue, creative pursuit, reflection, and illumination through: groundbreaking visual arts exhibitions, thought-provoking performances and presentations, studio programs for local artists, cutting edge films, as well as educational and expressive arts programs for youth and adults.
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"Evaporative Buildings" is perhaps my favorite piece in all ArtPrize. It was absolutely refreshing to come across something that was more than just a painting or sculpture. I am a big fan of things like this that challenge the status quo of what art is. Thanks to the UICA for hosting this.