Jimenez Lai, “storefront back of house,” ink on paper, 2012
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare St.
Tuesday, July 24, free, 7:00
212-431-5795
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As part of the book launch for Jimenez Lai’s Citizens of No Place: An Architectural Graphic Novel (Princeton Architectural Press, May 2012, $19.95), the Storefront for Art and Architecture is hosting a special one-day-only exquisite-corpse drawing conversation with Lai, Drawing Center executive director Brett Littman, and architects Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge and Michael Young. “Citizens of No Place imagines alternate worlds and engages with the design of architecture through the act of storytelling,” the book’s preface explains. “It offers narratives about character development, through which the reader can explore relationships, curiosities, and attitudes, as well as absurd stories about fake realities that invite new futures to become possibilities.” While discussing representation, the participants will create a continuous drawing, in conjunction with the Storefront’s current exhibition, “Aesthetics/Anesthetics,” which explores the nature of architectural drawings, with works by Lai, Vito Acconci, Sam Jacob, Philippe Rahm, Juergen Mayer H., Jorge Otero-Pailos, Noura Al Sayeh, Sho Shigematsu, Ling Fan, and others.