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INTERIOR. DAY. PREVELAKI HALL.

this is basically a hall full of chairs and office furntiture, laid out for meetings of the

academic council and other administrative functions.

it’s high painted ceiling hangs above, kind of forgotten days of former glory or just

neo-colonial-classical.

the day we went to look at it with J there were 3 circles of chairs arranged around a

central conference table, each row indicative of the decade of their acquistion and its

associated administrative style choices.

it made me think of martin kippenberger’s the happy ending of franz kafka’s america

installed at the smart museum of the university of chicago. it was the best time i ever

saw it installed. the mock-gothic-to-modernist campus architecture really helped.

the white oval table in the center was ringed by a satellite of early 90s furnuture,

chrome and white plastic the whole assembly ensemble.

then came the functional cairs – 70s? – so nondescript that it’s even hard to recall.

the last ring orbiting the giant piece of furniture in the middle of the hall was formed

of carved wooden chairs with velvet upholstery, the kind of chairs that might have

been around for a century or at least had been pruchased to make it seem like that,

way back in the 50s.

oh prevelaki hall, massive entrance doors, portals to the slowest centrifuge in the

world, dividers stacked against the walls and filing cabinets spilling their guts and

other stuff swept into the corners, all slowely rotating.

particles of dust swirl through the midmorning light. it was a killer. a stage set. a

buerocratic chamber of void curiosities. a beached whale. how would J ever manage

to over-write the dominant mood with a bit of glitter and cheap fabrics?

i severly doubted it.