P1.3 / Constructing Strategy / Catalogue

P1.2 / Constructing Fiction / Inside The Character from Kristoffer Codam on Vimeo.

P1.2 / Constructing Fiction / The Characters Relation to Site from Kristoffer Codam on Vimeo.

P1.2 / Constructing Fiction / Manuscript for Video

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This is Manhattan.

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SoHo is located by 6^th Avenue on the west side, Houston Street on the north, Lafayette Street on the east, and Canal Street to the south.

East Village is the area east from Bowery to the east river, between 14^th Street and Houston Street

Both these areas are known for their artists, musicians and art galleries, which all started in the late 1960s.

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Due to the housing shortage and rising prices on Manhattan in the 1980s, the artists began moving across Williamsburg Bridge.

They started by settling down south of the Bridge, but soon they moved north and today they have become majority of people living in Williamsburg and with art galleries and event everywhere.

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My name is Jack Bundy and I am 27 years old. I am very interested in arts and music, and part of the Hipster movement – You can almost say that I started the hipster movement. This is why I am moving in at the corner of Keap Street and 4^th Street in Williamsburg.

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If you want to be a Hipster you have to a beard. I prefer a moustache, because everything else makes my face looks puffy.

Today I am wearing a white t-shirt by Commes Des Garcon. Why do Japanese designers give their brand a French name?

I also wear a Wrangler Demin gilet that I bought at Beacon’s Closet on 88 North 11^th Street in Williamsburg.

I wear a pair of double cloth black denim jeans by Tellason limited edition, only 25 pair made. My pair is of course first one.

These jeans are held up by a brown Hugo Boss leather belt. Real leather of course. 

I prefer socks from Ralph Lauren; these are white with royal blue stripes.

For shoes I wear a pair of Mark McNairy, brogue shoes.

  

P1.2 / Constructing Fiction / Quotation

" After I change into Ralph Lauren monogrammed boxer shorts and a Fair Isle sweater and slide into silk polka-dot Enrico Hidolin slippers I tie a plastic ice pack around my face and commence with the morning’s stretching exercises. Afterwards I stand in front of a chrome and acrylic Washmobile bathroom sink – with soap dish, cup holder, and railings that serve as towel bars, which I bought at Hastings Tile to use while the marble sinks I ordered form Finland are being sanded – and stare at my reflection with the ice pack still on. I pour some Plax antiplaque formula into a stainless-steel tumbler and swish it around my mouth for thirty seconds. Then I squeeze Rembrandt onto a faux-tortoiseshell toothbrush and start brushing my teeth (too hung over to floss properly – but maybe I flossed before bed last night?) and rinse with Listerine. Then I inspect my hands and use a nail-brush. I take the ice-pack mask off and use a deep-pore cleanser lotion, then an herb-mint facial masque which I leave on for ten minutes while I check my toenails. Then I use a Probright tooth polisher and next the Interplak tooth polisher (this in addition to the toothbrush) which has a speed of 4200 rpm and reverses direction forty-six times per second; the larger tufts clean between teeth and massage the gums while the short ones scrub the tooth surfaces. I rinse again, with Cépacol. I wash the facial massage off with spearmint face scrub. The shower has a universal all-directional shower head that adjusts within a thirty-inch vertical range. It’s made from Australian gold-black brass and covered with a white enamel finish. In the shower I use first a water-activated gel cleanser, then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Vidal Sassoon shampoo is especially good at getting rid of the coating of dried perspiration, salts, oils, airborne pollutants and dirt that can weigh down hair and flatten it to the scalp which can make you look older. "

Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho. P. 25     

P1.1 / Constructing An Archive / Social Spaces And Social Notations

The intersection between Keap Street and South 4. Street is the area of interest.

Placed in and old neighborhood in central Williamsburg. 

The area is in a constant place of changes driven by immigration and relocation of different types of ethnic groups. 

The city scape is a mixturere of private apartments, public institutions and private stores. 

Everything else other then the private apartments are interpreted as accessible spaces – to different extents. Collectively these spaces form the social framework surrounding the local communities. Even though these spaces have a practical function – grocery, barber, institutions, etc., additionally they all provide a social service to the local community. – They are social spaces.

To an outsider the tags and graffiti on the wall and public furniture reveals little about the ongoing battle for the public space in the area. 

The scripture which is social notations, is used by certain groups inside the community to claim ownership of the area. 

These notationer are part of a distinct language that only a few people understand. To most, they are insignificant parts of the urban landscape, to others they are crucial.

Some common themes have arisen through the analysis of the social notations and the public spaces. These themes of spatial regions and graphical text and style have allowed for the mapping of the notations in relation to one another. Due to this depiction the recognition between the notations can be joined to others or be classified within its own isolation.

P1.1 / Constructing An Archive / Mapping Graffiti