Issue #6 — Winter 2003/2004 When Attitude Becomes Form

WHEN ATTITUDE BECOMES FORM: From the Cremaster field to the new domestic landscape, this issue presents the attitudes that shape forms through different times and media: 032c‘s entirely subjective selection of the movements that liberate us from conformity. Photographer SØLVE SUNDSBØ captures the monument of isolation; UNDERCOVER designer JUN TAKAHASHI blinds prophets, dignitaries, and other cultural icons in a series of black-and-white illustrations; writers and graffiti artists NUG & PIKE collide tagging with trance rituals; photographer ALASDAIR MCLELLAN finds adolescence’s last idyll; artist MATTHEW BARNEY takes us behind the scenes of his CREMASTER CYCLE; writer EMILY KING digs up ASPEN magazine’s protest against uniformity; stylist and accessories designer JUDY BLAME talks with MARK HOOPER about Buffalo style, his dodgy relationship to the public, and looking stubbornly different; architecture movements SUPERSTUDIO and ARCHIZOOM disappear design; graphic designer and publisher JOP VAN BENNEKOM finds a language that is “part of” things, not hovering “above” them; artist LIAM GILLICK plasters public information posters; writer and filmmaker ALEXANDER KLUGE elaborates on what it takes to define a social climate and being able to “throw it away if it amounts to nothing”; and so much more on 120 pages …

Contributors: Matthew Barney, Joachim Bessing, Jesko Fezer, Liam Gillick, Oliver Helbig, Mark Hooper, Emily King, Alasdair McLellan, Nug & Pike, Solve Sundsbo, Jun Takahashi/Undercover, Axel Wieder, 032c workshop.

5Excerpts in the Archive

Writing Attitude: ALEXANDER KLUGE December 1st, 2003: “For a single story, three lines are enough. But for the context, one needs encyclopedic concepts.” An interview with German author and filmmaker ALEXANDER KLUGE on his method and audience. more – ‘Writing Attitude: ALEXANDER KLUGE’
Editing Attitude: Jop van Bennekom December 1st, 2003: An interview with Dutch graphic designer and publisher JOP VAN BENNEKOM on Re-Magazine and taking experiments public. By Axel J. Wieder. Issue #6 (winter 2003/2004). more – ‘Editing Attitude: Jop van Bennekom’
Superstudio & Archizoom 1968-1972 December 1st, 2003: A portrait of the architectural groups ARCHIZOOM and SUPERSTUDIO and the rejection of design. By Jesko Fezer. Issue #6 (winter 2003/2004). more – ‘Superstudio & Archizoom 1968-1972’
Living Attitude: Judy Blame December 1st, 2003: An interview with the British stylist and accessories designer JUDY BLAME on revivalism and his dodgy relationship with the public. By Mark Hooper. Issue #6 (winter 2003/2004). more – ‘Living Attitude: Judy Blame’
Aspen Magazine: 1965-1971 December 1st, 2003: A portrait of APEN, the original magazine in a box. By Emily King. Issue #6 (winter 2003/2004). more – ‘Aspen Magazine: 1965-1971’