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Heather and Ivan Morison discuss their work I am sorry. Goodbye. as featured on the cover of this month’s a-n Magazine.
This new structure for the Tatton Park Biennial has its roots in 1970s west coast America where, in California and Oregon, small utopian societies sprung up building geodesic domes for houses and meeting spaces. The radical new look of the domes, and the fast efficient building techniques used to construct them, conjured in their builders an idea that they were entering into a new bright future, one made of triangles and domes and big spacious living areas. However, it soon became apparent that these domes weren’t the revolution in building and housing that people had thought they were; they were nearly impossible to make watertight, they were hard to heat, and they didn’t remain standing as long as traditional buildings. The domes’ acolytes drifted back into more traditional forms of housing, and now, in 2008, none of those original domes are left standing. I am so sorry. Goodbye. exists as a lost instance from, and a monument to, that failed utopian moment. www.tattonparkbiennial.org www.morison.info Read an expanded version of the above text in Artists’ stories on www.a-n.co.uk/...
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