Dwayne Bohuslav is an architect, professor at
San Antonio College Architecture Program and
artist's collaborative with Joanne Brigham. He
has been exploring the symbiosis of the material
and the electronic through detachable assemblages
employing sensor and cannibalized motor/sound/light
responses. The
installations engage existing structures lightly
in ways that attempt to reveal conflict in
our daily lives between the natural and the
increasing presence of the virtual, technological
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Demolition of Site is the title for
a site-specific temporary installation for the
Friedrich Building in San Antonio Texas.
Demolition of Site will open to the
public with a performance on downtown's Third Thursday,
15 January and have a second performance on First Friday,
February 06.
Demolition of Site will explore the
use of an obsolete building, the first factory building
constructed for the Friedrich Refrigeration Company on
the site in East San Antonio in 1924. Making use
of the artifacts in the building that have outlived their
usefulness and using the building as the principal medium,
the installation/performance will collapse the publicness
of the architectural site into a more obscure art object
using sound, light, building recycled mechanical and
structural systems, and (4) alchemical suspended cast
rubber cones that founded upon absence and loss discovered
in the process of historically and physically investigating
the site. As the first factory building constructed
on the site, it was originally a planning mill. Much
of the building was employed to construct assemblies
for the early "floating air" coolers that were
the principal product in the early days of the Friedrich
Refrigeration Company's success in 1931. The wood
and metal shavings were exhausted through a huge duct
and blower assembly to an elevated exterior silo. These
and other elements of the building have been activated
in order to telescope the past with the present.
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