Alan Ruiz is a visual artist working at the intersection of architecture and sculpture. He teaches at Pratt Institute and Eugene Lang College, The New School.
Social Object Relations: Window Breaking and Projective Identification, Thu, Apr 6 '17
Throughout modern history, the shattered transparent envelope has, in various ways, indexed social crises wherein revolution leads to the dismantling of the crystalline boundaries between public and private property. From the Watts Rebellion, WTO, and G8 protests to the 2011 London Riots ...
Life After Sundown: Disco Architecture in the Global City, Tue, Feb 7 '17
Disco architecture is a typology that makes users engage with space differently. Refracting sound, light, heat and force, they are spaces intended for excess and multi-sensory, bodily pleasure. Historically popularized by people of color, queer and trans populations, the dance floor has largely ...
