By Kathleen Spies, Ph.D.
Created primarily from 1966 to 1972, Norman Daly’s The Civilization of Llhuros was a complex, multimedia art installation at the forefront of the shift to many postmodern and contemporary art practices that mark the era’s most significant contributions – from institutional critique and viewer engagement to the artist-as-anthropologist and the use of found objects as indexical evidence.
From the archive of the Czech fictive genius Jára Cimrman, the “Loos Mobil” is a mobile phone system designed by Cimrman with Adolf Loos. This drawing comes to us from David Růžička.
By Glenn Harcourt
It is easy to imagine both the increasing complexity of the task and the frisson of guilty (or not so guilty) pleasure that must have marked the slow unfolding of this project: the construction of a historical alter-ego through the elaboration of a virtual archive, and the creation of an alternate life, and an alternate world, within the actual world of interwar Eastern Europe. But to what end?
The Nomadic Journal 