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Matthew James Lanning

Matthew James Lanning

Residence Period: 2024.11.01-2024.11.28

Matthew James Lanning

Residence Plan
Economic boom en bust cycles are typical of our current day neoliberal economy. Quickly generating housing as investment and adding financial value to an already overcrowded city landscape Yet the contortions of capital make it equally beneficial in terms of finance if housing is empty or inhabited by citizens. Vacancy is not longer a problem but an attribute of the compounded intrest over time that is being amassed in a variety of value portfolio's. Yet the question that remains is how is the image of vacancy affecting the imaginary horizon of what value is in relationship to housing. From the perspective of regular citizens occupation is desirable. Yet in the economic reality of real estate both private and corporate we often find vacancy as a state of desire and desirability. Japan is a country that has know its own turbulent economic cycles and my time at Air31113 will be dedicated to understanding the countries relationship to housing and vacancy on its horizon.

Artist Profile
1) On Indignation: Purported Dreams, Solo Exhibition, 2024
2) Pre-figuration, INFRA, Susan Bites, Group Exhibition, 2020
3) MA, Artistic Research, Royal Academy of the arts (KABK) 2017-2019

Base of Activity: The Hague, The Netherlands
Media Used: Video, Sculpture, Set-Design, Ready Made

At current my practice is investigating architecture and its key features, how do housing and senses of domesticity create an epistemological vacuum in relation to the material dynamics?. What senses of technological development exist on domestic scale? And how are they trying to define what it means to be human and simultaneously deny the material reality of their genesis?

In these questions central is the understanding of what it means to be human, it is defined and redefined by technology. In our current time technological development and intelligence take center stage. What forms of expression still define what it means to be human?

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