Author Archives: Eugenia Lim
Eugenia is the editor of Assemble Papers. She has a weakness for the film "Wayne’s World" and contemporary art that mixes the high and low brow. Euge has contributed as a writer or artist to Three Thousand, RealTime, UnMagazine, Artlink, El Pais Newspaper (Spain), Picture Skew, The Age, Figuring Landscapes & Site Unseen. Euge is a practising artist who exhibits her work locally and internationally.
The elemental architecture of Room11
In this age of status updates and video calls, we relished the opportunity to contemplate – and stand within – the architecture of Room11. Eugenia & filmmaker Jon Mark Oldmeadow traveled to Hobart to meet with Aaron Roberts & Thomas Bailey, co-founders of a practice built upon the mission to create spaces with a social, ecological and environmental conscience.
READ MOREView from above: creativity in Hong Kong
Late last year, Eugenia journeyed to Hong Kong – a megalopolis with the world’s tallest skyline – and one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Now the world’s third largest art auction market, Hong Kong’s profile as an international destination for art & commerce is on the rise. What follows is our first international Made in Metropolis, a foray into vertical creativity.
READ MOREEast London Furniture
East London Furniture make useful things from hunted and gathered timber. Sourcing high-quality castoffs from local construction sites, ELF’s furniture is manufactured by hand (and power tool) in a Hackney workshop from 100% recycled materials. Eugenia spoke with co-founder Christian Dillon about ELF’s nimble, “waste-not” approach to design, reuse and making.
READ MOREImprovised living: Joseph L. Griffiths
“Listen to the smallest detail”. So says Joseph L. Griffiths, a kind of neo-archeologist whose work encompasses drawing, installation, “improvised architectures” and interventions into natural and urban environments. For Joseph, routine and repetition can be pleasurable. And, if infused with a bit of punk irreverence, the mundane can even become art.
READ MOREUnbroken futures
If the “City of Lights” can turn off its switches, the nights may darken but the future stays bright. In December 2012, the French minister for energy and environment, Delphine Batho announced plans to switch off all lights inside and outside shops, office and public buildings (including the Eiffel tower) on Paris’ Champs Elysees between 1am-7am beginning July 2013.
READ MOREYear of Open Source
Multinationals, corporations, “the man”. Unless you live a hermetic existence, atop a mountain (in which case, you’re probably not reading this), you are no stranger to the world of Coca-Cola & copyright. Technology has made the world smaller, yet the gap between rich & poor, the proprietary & the free, is widening. Sam Muirhead is a filmmaker doing his best to live a freer, more “open source” life.
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