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someparts is an original line of reconfigurable furniture and small architecture designed by stock-a-studio.

Detroit-based designer Xavi Aguirre continues their investigation of industrial readymades and flexible assemblies with an installation of the ongoing someparts project. The installation breaks new ground in the designer’s practice by utilizing a kit of generic components sourced from the global logistics market – aluminum poles, steel panels, straps, foam, and moving blankets – to form unique furniture pieces and small-scale architecture. The work explores temporary assembly tactics and provisionality as novel strategies for living. Each piece’s component parts may be unfastened and reconfigured at will.

The work explores a DIY ethos of imaginative reassembly and creative worldmaking by bringing familiar elements into unexpected combinations. Each piece is the unscripted result of a play between generic components and specific eccentricities of assembly. Individual pieces – which include tables, chairs, lounges, among others – exhibit local, modular symmetries and surprising connections. Nylon straps form quasi-Baroque curlicues while zinc-plated nuts and bolts mark out staccatos of jointery in an almost ornamental mode.

The reusable kit anticipates its own afterlife. Flexibility is a virtue that helps someparts objects avoid the trash heap; the component parts of pieces that are no longer useful can always be repurposed. someparts is a net zero system that produces no waste. Assemblies may always be rebuilt and recirculated in new contexts indefinitely. Like a giant Erector® set, someparts is what you make it. someparts is an infrastructure for immersive aesthetic experience. stock-a-studio’s new designs are complemented by a selection of works by architects Diller + Scofidio and Thom Mayne, and artists Charles Ross, Allan D’Arcangelo, and Ian Hornak. An original soundscape by composer Ash Fure sets the tone.

Ash Fure's score is no mere background. Tingling and tactile, it is full-body music – in the making, and in the listening. Fure's intimate, sensuous work studies how sound is made and perceived. Objects and bodies are terrain for exploration, as instruments and audiences alike; in any performance, if you can call it that, the environment is the ensemble. And often in surprising ways: The subtle modulation of breath is shot through a megaphone, or a subwoofer is pushed to profound extremes. In the process, Fure amplifies the seemingly imperceptible, rendering it viscerally unavoidable.

someparts
stock-a-studio/Xavi Aguirre
May 15–June 12, 2021
83 Grand Street, New York, NY

Featuring a commissioned sound installation by Ash Fure, as well as works by Diller + Scofidio, Thom Mayne, Charles Ross, Allan D’Arcangelo, and Ian Hornak.

Photography: Vincent Tullo

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