As simple as: and others (and/or elsewhere) and so forth.

Our work concerns architectures & missives¹, sometimes for/with other people, sometimes not. We believe that anything goes and everything togethers so long as it's helping someone; in work that fills holes or makes them. Our work is toward a methodology for specificity, attempts to critique a given discourse or culture, addresses use-value and an archive-impulse, and hopefully confronts the promise of collaboration and as a consequence, community.

ET AL., ETC. is based in Tokyo, Japan.




ET AL., ETC. について

シンプルに、他の人と（または・どこかと）他のものと。

私達の仕事・作品は建築と信書¹に関して、ある時は他の人の為に、もしくは他の人と一緒に、あるいはそうはせず、取り組んでいます。「穴」をうめる、あるいは「穴」をつくる作品を通して、私達は誰かの助けとなれる以上、何でもありで、全てが集うことができると信じています。私達はものごとの明細性を定義する事を手法として、特定の言説や文化に対する批評に取り組み、使用価値とアーカイブ的衝動に言及し、コラボレーション＝必然的にコミュニティという思考に対峙することを期待しています。

YU MORISHITA

b. 1982, lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
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Writing in the following publications:
- "Notes on Residual Space" in Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else. Boston: MIT Press, 2010.
- Excessive Values. VISIONS, BEYOND MEDIA Int'l Festival for Architecture and Media. Florence: ImageWeb, 2009.
- “Residual Space,” IWASEDAN: Environmental Design and Architecture, 2008.

 

1982年生まれ、東京に在住、活動中
現在：東京大学大学院学際情報学府博士過程
2008 Harvard GSD：MDesS
2005 RISD: BArch、BFA

b. 1980s Philippines; grew up in the US, works in Japan
e-mail / website

 

Campos de Gutiérrez: Residecy program jury
Booklet / YT : Library and exhibition support

 

A house for this plot of land in Hokkaido, Japan. Updates as the project develops.

大樹町

Concept for an Eames bench for someone in Tokyo.

 

Our contributions to Fixed -- two re-pairs of design objects -- are a commentary on originary ethics and an attempt to define the term slighted literalism.⁸ The components used to construct the pair of Swatches in WWIV were found or acquired separately over the course of the past few months; the collector’s value or original worth of the pair¹⁰ is obliterated and meaning has been repaired out of the objects. A new idea is its worth: WWIV is simply the continuation of Tobias Wong’s “harpooning” of Philippe Starck’s “whale-fin” WWII.⁶

The two Comme des Garçons shirts comprising the second pair have been delicately resized to fit an almost standard, meanwhile very particular, US size small (as in the ÉY half of ET AL., ETC.). Here too, the collector’s worth of the garments are sacrificed so that a concept might continue to be worn.⁷ 

 

Walter Wayle IV, or, Harpooner’s Watch (by MAE, et al., etc.)
Swatch watch faces, watch bands, gem cases, paperings, corresponding box recovered, generic watch face covers, edition of 2 boxed sets;
1 3/8 x 9 inches watches, installation dimensions variable.

 

“has declined comment on these criticisms and allegations”
Two Comme des Garçons shirts from 2003, two lucite hangers, Japan (relative) S or M, dimensions often variable.

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Glass Nails. A tourist object for Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. 100 superfine glass nails (10 of each size). Like plastic nails, each is etched with its size as relative to the set. Comes in a run-of-the-mill lucite nail case. May be adhered with tape or glue. Nails are a manageable length (not for all out gyarus); may be painted, but there's really no need to cover up this sort of trivial excess. Range from 7 x 11mm (size 1) to 14 x 17mm (size 10).

Glass Hanger. A simplified version of a hanger made for Yu some time ago by Kohta Mitamura / Developed for a particular collection of CdG garments.
Suitable for lightweight garments and shirts of the sheer sort. 8.25 x 15.25 inches (size S).

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An edition of 24 found sweaters onto which an edit has been needlepointed, spelling out the difference between novelty and novel expression. Likely quite obvious where this is for. Edit executed in cotton yarn. Womens S - L or mens XS-M, 8 of each size.

A collection of kits (Hints) and doodads (Incidentals) available through Subports. Like the Tourist Objects from 2010, these are a critique and commentary on design and kitsch, slighted literalisms of what constitutes "design object.” All items are made in Japan or made with materials made in Japan (which is still possible, believe it or not). Available through Subports PORTALMARKET (US based) or the shop (int'l/Paypal).

T: A Pair of Scissors, Blinky, On Kawara, Shapes & Patterns, S & P them yourself, Nuts & Bolts
B: Gold / Silver Shit, Combs, Glass Straws, Rounds, Clear Directives, Olmec

These objects, prepared and produced specifically for People of Resource's Y'All & Us, are a collection of souvenirs from our recent travels. They are a commentary on the knowing ways of kitsch (ie. death, narcissism) that cripple design, objects that reflect a belief that not everything has to be re-designed or pastiched, rather, their use-value and originary ethics are edited. For us, these are slighted literalisms of what constitutes "design object.” We are interested in the use-value and posturing of stories and rumors, of moods and personalities, of places and people.² Available through Subports PORTALMARKET or the shop.

L-R: Tourist Notebooks, Trusted Sentiments, Roman Candles, A Pencil for Architects in the Digtal Age, Tourist Toothbrush, , On Kawara (see below)

A stamp kit produced for People of Resource's Y'All & Us. Weeks after the P.O.R show, we read somewhere that On Kawara's box of stamps had been stolen in Stockholm in 1979, which put an end to the I Got Up At series.³ In that same language of pure coincidence, production of this stamp kit will end when someone is able to give one to On Kawara.

Design details for the house which now stands on the lot below for an architectural design firm in Santa Fe, New Mexico; we worked on everything but the chamfer on the northeast face. If, for some reason, you are able to document the outcome of the work for us...

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An exhibition of student work curated, designed, produced, and installed by ET AL., ETC. for RISD Architecture in 2009. We designed this show for a school that still draws with their hands (as effectively as they do with computers), as a way to evidence that digital technologies and media can, in the realm of architecture, produce a field condition as a way to counter a typically object-driven discourse.

QR (Quick Response) code wallpaper -- over 500 feet of screen printed Tyvek -- was used to clad/bombard the show and tag the postcards and oversized folios — they serve as both medium of reference, means of engagement. The codes used point to websites and digital data associated with the RISD Architecture Department. The purpose of using this code is as graphic and pattern (ornament with a use-value) AND as simple way to quickly connect the viewer with associated content, in the presence of the show and beyond. Every photograph taken of the show contains recoverable data; the photograph is granted another set of ends. See additional images through RISD Flickr, or click the image below.

 

& RISD ARCHITECTURE
DEPARTMENT WEBSITES

Three websites (one reactivated, two new) for the RISD Architecture Department; RISD ARCH main, RISD Architectural Series, and an exhibition archive. Designed with the option of non-linear, distracted browsing.

Writing and images regarding Grand Bayou, LA, where descendants of the first Filipinos to settle in the United States still reside.

 

Excerpt (full text to follow), by YM:
At the mouth of the bay which claims Grand Bayou is the Grand Isle, where an arrival is accompanied by a departure. As if a non--destination, all the tourism is in the navigational approach, a between here-to-there, a trace of infrastructural colors awaiting those passing through. The turning point, a park where most of the land inhabitation is stilted, lumps of mosquito dusk the air. With the slightest hint of bodily odor, they tint our sight, we wear them. They are nowhere to be sited on our maps or navigation system, they are only apparent to those who have sited themselves in the place. It is an atmosphere that is almost tangible, that is simultaneously attracted to one’s body: it is an architectural problem, since they suppose our response in the fabrication of structures. This is life becoming the structure of the location, and a consideration for mosquitoes as infrastructures of the site is compulsory for architecture to take place.

The resolution of architecture’s facial apertures corresponds to the unit pixels of mosquitoes. These screened structures ponder the problem of their entry and exit: windows separate view and ventilation, balconies that surround their contour for unclogging screens… Typologically, they resemble structures on land which anticipate new floodlines—balconies and facades, like the piano-rustico of Italian architecture presenting the story from above as their prominent inhabitation. These structures, however, are not concerned with their prominence, rather, they estimate their possible sectional inhabitation and infrastructural intent, resting on parameters ever afloat.

L: toward a reductive logic of what may or may not be found there; R: A map with revised notations concerning the Grand Bayou. See also, Architectures of Nonchalance.

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HINTS & INCIDENTALS A Pair of Scissors - $40 Blinky - $65 On Kawara - $125 Shapes & Patterns - $65 S & P Yourself - $36 Nuts & Bolts - SOLD OUT	Silver Shit - $5.3 Gold Shit - SOLD OUT Combs - $30 Straws - $28 Rounds - $6 Directives - $15 Olmec - 2 / $6
FOR FIXED WWIV - $3.5 criticisms & ... - ASK Lucite hanger - $10
TOURIST OBJECTS, 1. Notebooks - SOLD OUT Trusted Sentiments - $65 Roman Candles - $4.2 Tourist Toothbrush- $3 Trusted Sentiments - $9.5 On Kawara - $125	TOURIST OBJECTS, 2. L'Amour Sweater - SOLD Glass Nails - ASK Glass Hanger(s) - ASK Lucite Hanger - $10