about

2AeM is a cooperative design effort composed of the 3 young Midwestern-sprung, spread-the world-out, out-and-out Architecture student-architects: nicholas m. reiter, Jessie Wilcox and Peter Nguyen. The team base was originally Milwaukee, WI but since has become a mobile abstraction or a state of mind. 2AeM is sometimes physical, sometimes sober, partially virtual, usually vocal, and all-the-time IN-it.

We are track jumpers, demons, villains and observing you right now. Design is the New and so are the Stakes.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

The Art of Unemployment 3: Georges Bataille and a Night of Excess

The Art of Unemployment 3: Georges Bataille and a Night of Excess

This piece in the series is a party invitation. In keeping with the series material process themes, this work made me learn a new crocheting stitch and required the leisure time to create several hand-made objects in a smaller time frame. The party was themed on the thought-work of George Bataille: that of excess, of destruction and the joys of debt and not being sober or entirely 'civil'. The piece itself was a meditation on his philosophy. Why have an invitation that was readable at will? To get the party information, one had to destroy the structure of the invitation and pull it apart in order to get at the most important part: the tumor, or excess, of the sphere.

The information itself called for black-tie and insinuated bringing costly and overly extravagant food and drink. Get down with Bataille. And drink, dress, smoke, feed and sex yourself into oblivion.











Art of Unemployment 2: interactive portrait



This multi-media piece is the second in my art of unemployment series. Just like the first, it showcases over-worked detail/structure and material process that comes from environments one may only frequent when at leisure. The flowers were pressed weeks before the idea came about.

This piece is a birthday "card" for a dear friend. Our faces on the caterpillars' bodies are laminated and Velcro-ed to be changed with the users mood and at the users leisure. The faces come in angry, stoic, happy, kissy and pensive. mix and match is encouraged.