ISBN: 978-0977259434
15 x 23 (softcover)
72 pages (b/w ill.)
Published: 2009

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KEN EHRLICH is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. He has exhibited internationally in a variety of media, including video, sculpture and photography. His project based practice explores the social dimensions of architecture, technology and design. He also frequently collaborates with architects and other artists on contextual projects in public spaces. Recent projects include Walking Places: Four Walks in Los Angeles in conjunction with The Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture for Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. sponsored by the Getty Foundation and La Huelga, an experimental documentary that examines a student strike at the largest public University in Mexico (UNAM) in 1999–2000 by juxtaposing participant interviews with a lyrical portrait of the campus architecture. He is the editor of Art, Architecture, Pedagogy: Experiments in Learning published by viralnet and the co-editor of Surface Tension: Problematics of Site, Surface Tension Supplement #1 and What Remains of a Building Divided into Equal Parts and Distributed for Reconfiguration: Surface Tension Supplement #2 all published by Errant Bodies Press. In addition to UCR, Ehrlich also currently teaches at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)..

BRANDON LABELLE is an artist, writer and theorist living in Berlin. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, pirate culture, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and para-institutional initiatives, including: The Listening Biennial and Academy (2021-), Communities in Movement (2019-), The Living School (with South London Gallery, 2014-16), Oficina de Autonomia (2017), The Imaginary Republic (2014-19), Dirty Ear Forum (2013-), Surface Tension (2003-2008), and Beyond Music Sound Festival (1998-2002). In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project supporting work in sound art and studies, performance and poetics, artistic research and contemporary political thought. His publications include: The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (2014), Acoustic Territories (2010, 2019), and Background Noise (2006, 2015). His latest book, Acoustic Justice (2021), argues for an acoustic model by which to engage questions of social equality. Since 2011 he works as Professor at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.

What remains of a building divided into equal parts
and distributed for reconfiguration
Edited by Ken Ehrlich & Brandon LaBelle

What remains of a building divided into equal parts and distributed for reconfiguration is the second volume in the Surface Tension Supplement series dedicated to publishing documentation and critical writing on site-based practices in art, architecture and performance. This volume investigates the social and political dimensions of buildings and urban spaces, including critical reflections on recent urban planning policies in China, histories of participatory architecture, and proposals for urban farming. What remains of a building divided into equal parts and distributed for reconfiguration offers multiple perspectives on the limits and creative possibilities of the built environment.

With contributions by Rachel Allen, Ava Bromberg, Ken Ehrlich, Jesko Fezer and Mathias Heyden, Nis Rømer, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and The Land Foundation.