Noah Barker at Lodos

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I think we're supposed to find something spooky connecting the guy at the RAND corporation (and later developing intercontinental ballistic missiles) also having invented windsurfing. Same guy who designed Tomahawk Missiles and the X-15 rocket plane. But don't care about any of that. This whole thing is better as not art. As just a boat.. An object whose design criteria doesn't care about art. As just a story of a man who loved developing really fast ways to harm people. An engineer who wanted to completely eliminate boredom. That's the art. 

Oa4s at Lodos

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The rising ubiquity of the lab, our alchemical noodling in povera forms, roleplay to deal with trauma of not having our own, expressions of our desire for productivity and vitality of scientist's real results, like children who feign adult, play house, to feel like they have one, the human impulse to invent magic, gods, to fill the coldness of their absence, to feel the glow of control, even in invented worlds, until the adults come in and strip the sheets off our nakedness.

Some labs: Elaine Cameron-Weir at VENUS Los Angeles, Oscar Tuazon and Eli Hansen at Maccarone, “Lemurenheim” at Meyer Kainer, Kyle Thurman and Zak Kitnick at Parapet Real Humans, William Leavitt at MAMCO, Cooper Jacoby at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden,