https://caliperjournal.com CALIPER JOURNAL Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:32:22 +0000 https://caliperjournal.com en https://caliperjournal.com/Home-Image-Scroll Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:46:55 +0000 CALIPER JOURNAL https://caliperjournal.com/Home-Image-Scroll &nbsp; https://caliperjournal.com/More-Info Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:58:21 +0000 CALIPER JOURNAL https://caliperjournal.com/More-Info About Caliper Journal. Sample 04 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Caliper is an independent architecture journal based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. First published in 2017, it was born out of a desire to have a messier and more meaningful discussion about architecture and its place in the world. There have been 10 issues published to date: Agency, Identity, Power, Sample, Collapse, Love, Shift and Time, Faith, Permission. Love 06 &nbsp; &nbsp; Caliper Journal acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which this journal&nbsp; is produced, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging, as well as any First Nations people who might visit this website and read this journal. Sovereignty was never ceded. Editors: Simone Chait, Victoria Marquez Musso, Jack Murray, Angus White.Founding Editors and Caliper Board: Nicola Cortese, Lauren Crockett, Stephanie PahnisLegacy Editors + Guest Editors: Senesios Frangos (Identity), Amy Evans (Power), Sacha Hickinbotham (Sample), Michael Strack (Collapse), Laura Bailey (Love),&nbsp;Daniel Bickle-Lazarow (Shift),&nbsp;Freya Solomon (Shift),&nbsp;Connor Hanna (Shift, Time, Faith),Yuchen Gao (Shift, Time, Faith),&nbsp;Yiling Shen (Shift, Time, Faith).&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; https://caliperjournal.com/Buy Fri, 05 Mar 2021 01:00:40 +0000 CALIPER JOURNAL https://caliperjournal.com/Buy Buy++ As Caliper has now ceased production - please allow for additional time during shipping.&nbsp; &nbsp; Permission10 <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4fea7c13c4c828b9d6ae19066781dcd2753349c7beda505118f48882737d179/287327703_359477466211408_2866123783413731128_n.jpg" data-mid="146178974" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4fea7c13c4c828b9d6ae19066781dcd2753349c7beda505118f48882737d179/287327703_359477466211408_2866123783413731128_n.jpg" /> Caliper Permission is our final issue. Featuring over 100 pages of projects and essays from RMIT University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland. It also include an interview with Neil Spiller of the University of Greenwich, London. This issue asks for the personal, the terrific, and the divine. For this final issue of Caliper Journal, we have granted you permission.To redirect your focus towards creating and pondering what is dear to you. Permission to look at the world the way you did as a child. When even the mud in the ground could be made into cake. Caliper 10 is a revolt of the mind. Caliper 10 is a desire to reclaim the territory of our dreams. Published 2022. Guest edited by Angus White. Each order will arrived wrapped in a custom dust cover painted by Angus White while stocks last. Online purchasing is no longer available - please email to order Faith 09 <img width="5444" height="3649" width_o="5444" height_o="3649" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f19222a578d0725a5f2186538a0cb9c4fb0da9061a81a2a004123e65a75c52fc/5.JPG" data-mid="118578557" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f19222a578d0725a5f2186538a0cb9c4fb0da9061a81a2a004123e65a75c52fc/5.JPG" /> Caliper Faith is an extended issue, featuring over 150 pages of contributions and interviews with Sound Advice, and Perry Kulper. FAITH is a synonym for hope, a love letter to the unknown, and the celebration of the stories, myths, and traditions that make up our limitless selves.This issue asks for the personal, the terrific, and the divine. Published 2021. Each order will arrive with one part of Laura Zammit’s five-part project, “A Toilet for Lost Things” Online purchasing is no longer available - please email to order Shift / Time 07 08 <img width="1818" height="1228" width_o="1818" height_o="1228" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4369901083b7230c2a5c91a73f248e71776214bb614225b5ef05063abe997ea4/IMG_0544-3.jpg" data-mid="100920767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4369901083b7230c2a5c91a73f248e71776214bb614225b5ef05063abe997ea4/IMG_0544-3.jpg" /> Caliper Shift / Time is a double issue featuring over 200 pages, fifty contributors, and interviews with Peggy Deamer, Beau de Belle, and Dr. Jon Goodbun - as well as exceptional student and alumnus work from RMIT University, Harvard GSD, The University of Melbourne, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Monash University, and the Royal College of Art. Published 2020. Each order will arrive with a complementary postcard. Online purchasing is no longer available - please email to order Love 06 <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ec7af201375a017e39ff1f1a7042f3368819d36a4252c09ea082bd83cbc0588/81052354_833333483789052_1270902458884347472_n-2.jpg" data-mid="100940011" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ec7af201375a017e39ff1f1a7042f3368819d36a4252c09ea082bd83cbc0588/81052354_833333483789052_1270902458884347472_n-2.jpg" /> Caliper Love asks you to succumb to the spill, the sandalwood fragrance and glazed cherries. Love features dreamy work from over 24 contributers, as well as an interview with Adam Nathaniel Furman.&nbsp; Published 2019.&nbsp; Love 06 is no longer available for purchase. Collapse 05 <img width="1080" height="1078" width_o="1080" height_o="1078" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2dd8c24c360d2606f0dbf8df9e4d46b9264e913c31cf804cfe5d29830bbd5f38/55942425_584614848707167_7117111518164960481_n-2.jpg" data-mid="100940223" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2dd8c24c360d2606f0dbf8df9e4d46b9264e913c31cf804cfe5d29830bbd5f38/55942425_584614848707167_7117111518164960481_n-2.jpg" /> Collapse 05 investigates the productivity of failure and the potential of a downfall that can usher in a new era. Collapse features work from 19 contributers, as well as an interview with Rory Hyde. Published 2019. Online purchasing is no longer available - please email to order Sample 04 <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/591d9592d08ca97730370fd2d87d75e2afce04727609a2c3c7946ea3c01ef9ff/40536262_234499467219934_7559067416171054833_n-2.jpg" data-mid="102640912" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/591d9592d08ca97730370fd2d87d75e2afce04727609a2c3c7946ea3c01ef9ff/40536262_234499467219934_7559067416171054833_n-2.jpg" /> Unknown process. Unknown outcome. Sample 04 addresses what it means to be original in architecture. Sample contains more than 28 contributors and features conversations with Emma Jackson, David Gianotten, Roza Matveeva, Ian Mcdougall, Michael Young and Urtzi Grau.Published 2018. Online purchasing is no longer available - please email to orderPower 03 <img width="729" height="729" width_o="729" height_o="729" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6892e6caa30b4e03373f876d5543ed713f5da12df170851b3062ba7076e9e6ae/35425343_345681555960993_3877135177884893184_n.jpg" data-mid="102640938" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/729/i/6892e6caa30b4e03373f876d5543ed713f5da12df170851b3062ba7076e9e6ae/35425343_345681555960993_3877135177884893184_n.jpg" /> Is architecture fundamentally bound to those with power? What is its relationship to those without it? Power 03 features polemical work from over 35 contibutors. Published 2018.&nbsp; Power 03 is no longer available for purchase.Identity 02 <img width="889" height="889" width_o="889" height_o="889" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61f549284157ff51a91f8b101091d0120d550a0f4d920357ea2aebae720a1098/30078646_1623737521046584_2183328620418695168_n.jpg" data-mid="102640943" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/889/i/61f549284157ff51a91f8b101091d0120d550a0f4d920357ea2aebae720a1098/30078646_1623737521046584_2183328620418695168_n.jpg" /> Identity 02 questions what the role of the Australian architect is in 2018 - and how it has changed, progressed and improved (or not). Identity 02 holds work from more than 30 contributors. Published 2017. Identity 02 is no longer available for purchase.Agency 01 <img width="749" height="749" width_o="749" height_o="749" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27e376c5b2ab3176334a633ccd67a50f0714e7ef94c41733fea8e2938dd8d23a/25037148_2093623090909306_8044006538865541120_n-2.jpg" data-mid="102640950" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/749/i/27e376c5b2ab3176334a633ccd67a50f0714e7ef94c41733fea8e2938dd8d23a/25037148_2093623090909306_8044006538865541120_n-2.jpg" /> Agency 01 is Caliper Journals first publication, and is a living, physical archive; an outlet for the residual. Agency 01 features 31 contributors. Published 2017. Agency 01 is no longer available for purchase. https://caliperjournal.com/Permission Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:32:22 +0000 CALIPER JOURNAL https://caliperjournal.com/Permission Permission 10 Edited by Simone Chait, Jack Murray and Victoria Marquez Musso Guest Editor: Angus White Published 2022 Buy Permission here. <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdc8e449c13f55605917d01942f3ebd0306b085c0324a57ccec614c793026819/2-2.png" data-mid="134771479" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdc8e449c13f55605917d01942f3ebd0306b085c0324a57ccec614c793026819/2-2.png" /> <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89d924206db32784e59de9fe08f1f108dbe07d1111a9612ba5089f65463f9859/1.png" data-mid="134771480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89d924206db32784e59de9fe08f1f108dbe07d1111a9612ba5089f65463f9859/1.png" /> <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94800805f328c47c490bfd62632705fec200d6504fb292bb4a49e262a0ec8eec/3-2.png" data-mid="134771482" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94800805f328c47c490bfd62632705fec200d6504fb292bb4a49e262a0ec8eec/3-2.png" /> I’m sure the person that originated the phrase “just laugh it off” was a surrealist. What do you do when the world gets too much? Through what lens do you permit your escape? A dream?︎Meditation?︎A revolt?︎Painting︎Swimming?︎A film? ︎Prank calling?︎Leaving anonymous reviews?︎Using a fake name for a coffee order?︎A hair colour?︎An imaginary friend?︎A new friend?︎Magic?︎Music?︎Dance? For this issue of Caliper, we grant you Permission. To redirect your focus towards creating and pondering what is dear to you. We ask that instead of glancing over alarming news headlines, it is time to retire to your own unique panic room.&nbsp; This is Permission to remove the filter of adult responsibility and look at the world how you did as a child. When even the mud in the ground could be made into a cake. When humans could be drawn with five arms and no hands. When a swing felt like you were flying in the sky. When you could focus. When you could base your world purely on imagination rather than bleakness breaking through the media machine. Here, Permission is to escape. Creation is an act of defiance. This Permission extends beyond the discipline you find yourself in.To create what you always wanted but thought was too absurd or irrational. To find comfort in the uncomfortable. To comment on the state of the world with a satiric grin. To express your frustration through creation. CALIPER 10 offers:&nbsp; Permission not to accept defeat. Permission to rebut the real. Permission to revolt against what you are told you can’t do. Permission to be someone else. Permission to wear imagination on your sleeve. Permission to reclaim the territory of your mind. Permission to step into one of the only places they can’t touch you. Caliper 10 invites nostalgia for a time when it was acceptable to not have an opinion. This issue we invite you to reclaim your imagination. To view the world as you once did. CALIPER 10 IS A CALL TO ARMS. Permission to take a step out of the line of fire. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DIVE INTO THE POOL. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ESCAPE THE FLAMES.&nbsp; PERMISSION GRANTED. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ESCAPE FROM THE &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; REAL &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; FIND SANCTUARY IN THE SUR-&nbsp; &nbsp; REAL.&nbsp; Drink from the cup of the surrealists and never look back. https://caliperjournal.com/Faith-09 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 01:08:39 +0000 CALIPER JOURNAL https://caliperjournal.com/Faith-09 Faith 09 Edited by Simone Chait, Yuchen Gao, Connor Hanna, Victoria Marquez, Jack Murray and Yiling Shen. Published 2021 Buy Faith Here architecture—knowledge—history—desire—the sacred—metaphysics—symbol—ritual—heresy—technology—sex—tradition—the institution—memories—self—hope—truth—the unknown—ideology—the occult—science—democracy—intuition—the economy—prayer—religion—academia—nothing—mysticism—doubt—faith— When I was little, I fell in love with those places steeped in faith. Faded stonework, stories hidden beneath each groove. The ceremony of entrance, the holy water marking the transitions between states. How they breathed solemnity into silence, with gilded alcoves and whispering altars conjuring images of the sacred, the transcendent, and the sublime.&nbsp; The power of an image, obscured, and slowly unfolding. Moments of clarity through the soft mesh of gauze. A candle, lost, and relit. What is sacred space, today? What is ritual?&nbsp; What are spaces that make your heart quicken, glimpses of clarity in an oneiric haze?&nbsp; Kaleidoscopic colours drifting across hard wooden floors. Ancient trees, unnumbered megaliths, firmly outside the realm of the cult, the canny, and the scrutable.&nbsp;Images and rituals infused with centuries of tradition and culture, or an everyday kind of faith in gestures of homely generosity and spiritual domesticity. FAITH is not only the spiritual, but stories of hope, of desire. Prayers for the future, and a belief in something beyond the unending now. Fears of a utopia, or dreams of an eschatological end. Far reaching in its significance, yet achingly intimate, FAITH asks you to consider, to dream, and to believe. FAITH is a synonym for hope, a love letter to the unknown, and the celebration of the stories, myths, and traditions that make up our limitless selves. For this issue, we ask for the personal,&nbsp;the terrific, and the divine.&nbsp; Contributors: Oscar Casper Simone Chait Ethan Yu-Teng Chung Jack Cohen Andrew Copolov Lauren Crockett Lily Di Sciascio Tori Dinardo Briony Ewing Rose Gamble Yuchen Gao Joseph Henry Arthur Knight Perry Kulper Shaun McCallum Nic Morgante Jack Murray Anna Richards Eilidh Ross James Rumanovsky Fletcher Scott Imogen Smith Michael Spooner Laura Szyman Sam Torre Jenn Tran Yasmin Wallace Jingyuan Wang Angus White Laura Zammit Hannah Zhu https://caliperjournal.com/Shift-Time-07-08 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 01:09:15 +0000 CALIPER JOURNAL https://caliperjournal.com/Shift-Time-07-08 Shift / Time 07 08 Edited by Simone Chait, Yuchen Gao, Connor Hanna, Victoria Marquez, Jack Murray and Yiling Shen. Published 2020 Buy Shift / Time here. 07.&nbsp;Our public spaces lie abandoned.&nbsp;Our rituals severed, forced to be rebuilt. Our homes become the boundaries of our new world – for some, comforting, for others isolating and cruel. What do our public spaces become when unused? How does our definition of home and life begin to shift in this new condition? What does it mean to practise and study architecture while stuck in the confines of only one building? This issue asks – what will change when this is all over? What will stay the same? And what does SHIFT mean when we live in a constant state of limbo, a space of the in-between, uncertain and ever-changing? What will be there in the end? <img width="1729" height="1167" width_o="1729" height_o="1167" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4aa82b2f7a8a6d513cf186b6157fd6b0ebb25b8393b7c67fe0bda2f52a9b0591/IMG_0545-2.jpg" data-mid="100921426" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4aa82b2f7a8a6d513cf186b6157fd6b0ebb25b8393b7c67fe0bda2f52a9b0591/IMG_0545-2.jpg" /> 08.&nbsp;Time flows through Architecture, through concrete walls and white picket fences, through the multitudes of families who move through the same building. Time is the ruin, architecture’s obsession with the corpses of what we have created. Time is the meeting at two o’clock, the errand at three, and the forbidding law that dictates our lives. Time is the now, frozen through a continual, scrolling exposure to the lives of others in a present that never ends.Time is memory, the areas of our past that continually shape the present. It is a collective consciousness, a false nostalgia, consuming a culture that we never experienced. Time is that which is yet to come, stretching out before us. It is some brighter tomorrow, some unrealised betterment, and unlimited possible worlds under construction. Time is the present. By the time it is spoken, it is over. This issue of TIME asks you to remember memories you have forgotten, and dream up futures you never imagined. <img width="1818" height="1228" width_o="1818" height_o="1228" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14f159541f86981f491ef3ca62f05a69b7864c650e519bc4114f5970aac10bbd/IMG_0544-3.jpg" data-mid="100937767" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14f159541f86981f491ef3ca62f05a69b7864c650e519bc4114f5970aac10bbd/IMG_0544-3.jpg" /> A 2020 Double Issue. Shift can be found below as well as in print. Tope Adesina ~ Death and Metaphor Liam Oxlade ~ Greyness Enzo Lara-Hamilton ~ Emptiness and Lost Forms Brooke Barker ~ Carnegie Local Tidus Shing ~ A Thousand Fields of Chance Leon Koutoulas ~ The Rub Loughlin O’Kane ~ Snapback Office ~ The Politics of Public Space Various ~ A Room of One’s Own Isobel Moy ~ Safe-way Adrian Fernandez ~ Ubiquitous Object Invisible Object Mai Lee ~ Objects with Agency Thomas Lemon ~ Interview with Dr. Jon Goodbun Audrey Adams, Katya Rumiantceva ~ See You in the Cyber Class Mietta Mullaly ~ Architecture and The Event Nhut Nguyen ~ Is a Physical RoomEnough to Contain a Person? Jennifer Chen ~ A Stagnant Moment in Time Aimee Howard ~ The Benevolent Asylum Cody McConnell ~ Perpetual Shift and the Trans Experience Georgia McCole ~ Domesticity Sam Torre ~ Home Caliper ~ Editorial Contributors: Maria Martinez Abascal Audrey Adams Tope Adesina Brooke Barker Jennifer Chen Amanda Chow Rubi Dinardo Adrian Fernandez Dr. Jon Goodbun Enzo Lara Hamilton Aimee Howard Leon Koutoulas Mai Lee Tom Lemon Kenen Machado Georgia McCole Cody McConnell Mason Mo Isobel Moy Mietta Mulally Nhut Nguyen OFFICE Liam Oxlade Jimena Quintana Katya Rumiantceva Mingjia Shi Tidus Shing Sam Torre Vanessa Wu Sophie Adsett Beau de Belle Meagan Brooks Sally-Anne Ciantar Peggy Deamer Anwyn Elise Eden Gonfond Oliver Hay Myfawny Hocking Anna Kilpatrick Clement Luk Laurencio Caleb Lee Liwen Lian Carrie Lu Kieran Merriman Bryn Murrell Isabel Ogden Nithya Ranasinghe Matt Siddall Jack Stirling Laura Szyman Matthew Tibballs Carla Valenzuela Anne Wagner Jude Willems https://caliperjournal.com/EDITORIAL Sun, 24 May 2020 06:28:35 +0000 CALIPER JOURNAL https://caliperjournal.com/EDITORIAL <img width="2250" height="2250" width_o="2250" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9d485020149559f47143f48dc09ed4ad90613a27cd36d64eee1ca6c6b1e1735/mindmap-final.jpg" data-mid="72188504" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9d485020149559f47143f48dc09ed4ad90613a27cd36d64eee1ca6c6b1e1735/mindmap-final.jpg" /><img width="2250" height="2250" width_o="2250" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a86b3d872458fb5261cd7f5ab12f2dd83d51173fa5b2aa90482806144c9ffd09/mindmap-final2.jpg" data-mid="72188505" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a86b3d872458fb5261cd7f5ab12f2dd83d51173fa5b2aa90482806144c9ffd09/mindmap-final2.jpg" /><img width="2250" height="2250" width_o="2250" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06b2e0e1c1161c797d15b587c8085ddb1d7989d9c35df819f87a361b71a3ccfc/mindmap-final3.jpg" data-mid="72188506" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06b2e0e1c1161c797d15b587c8085ddb1d7989d9c35df819f87a361b71a3ccfc/mindmap-final3.jpg" /><img width="2250" height="2250" width_o="2250" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccc89da312ae72393426aaceca52e0cc20ed110a32fefc38fcd275fc5940bca3/mindmap-final4.jpg" data-mid="72188507" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccc89da312ae72393426aaceca52e0cc20ed110a32fefc38fcd275fc5940bca3/mindmap-final4.jpg" /><img width="2250" height="2250" width_o="2250" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51f194565fdedced0bbf7b1bdb95d78b83510b8ea431391f1738e475474d560f/mindmap-final5.jpg" data-mid="72188508" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51f194565fdedced0bbf7b1bdb95d78b83510b8ea431391f1738e475474d560f/mindmap-final5.jpg" /><img width="2250" height="2250" width_o="2250" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/759611abe2c267d3dac097fd4feab9bcdaff7b33987404612e39636b4b38c68f/mindmap-final6.jpg" data-mid="72188509" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/759611abe2c267d3dac097fd4feab9bcdaff7b33987404612e39636b4b38c68f/mindmap-final6.jpg" /><img width="2250" height="2250" width_o="2250" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97a7020586779a3d670ee70e2525e1f5fedffd76bd0a8a4be2562ee7ea97c544/mindmap-final7.jpg" data-mid="72188510" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97a7020586779a3d670ee70e2525e1f5fedffd76bd0a8a4be2562ee7ea97c544/mindmap-final7.jpg" /> Caliper Journal’s seventh issue - Shift, is a piece of memorabilia, a digital time capsule for this moment we are all living through. Published online over the next two months this issue releases weekly morsels of content as a way of archiving our hopes and anxieties, to re-contextualise and respond to the world as it exists now. Public spaces for which we have advocated for years lie abandoned, illegal, as we sit and ponder at home. What we know to be a functional city is turned on its head and the private realm begins to encapsulate our realities. Our current situation has allowed us more time with ourselves, creating more space for the intangible and ephemeral. It has encouraged us to question our definition of economic productivity, as the importance of indulgence and endurance are re-evaluated in our shifting circumstances. It has created a space for us to redefine the dichotomy of work and recreation and granted us time to reconnect with the people and things we love. Shift is about changing how we think and rethinking how we live. The current state of the world has lifted the curtain and exposed certain truths, changing the way we think about how we study, live, and practice. It exposes equality and inequality and it has shown, more clearly than ever, that the events that shake our world affect some more potently than others. For many of us, the pandemic has simply shifted a lifestyle, while for others, it has completely uprooted their lives. It is a magnification of our society as the mirage of security has been pulled away.&nbsp; Architecture is the envelope in which we live our lives, holding within its walls the traces of our sighs, our frustrations, and now, perhaps, a sense of hopelessness and uncertainty. It becomes the envelope for our new shifted, distorted version of reality, where time takes on a different form: endless and all-consuming. Through drawings, essays, and conceptual projects, our new issue of Shift attempts to catalogue these experiences, and we encourage responses via this digital landscape. This issue is about the importance of affecting change, even if it is only a shift in perspective. Daniel Bickle-Lazarow,&nbsp;Simone Chait,&nbsp;Yuchen Gao Connor Hanna,&nbsp;Victoria Marquez,&nbsp;Jack Murray,&nbsp;Yiling Shen and&nbsp;Freya Solomon https://caliperjournal.com/SAM-TORRE-HOME Thu, 28 May 2020 06:27:21 +0000 CALIPER JOURNAL https://caliperjournal.com/SAM-TORRE-HOME Home By Samuel Torrewith: Rubi Dinardo, Joseph Fonti, Lou Verga,&nbsp;Tori Dinardo and Will Dundon This was an exhibition that provided a mutual ground between diverse creatives, facilitated by the idea of the ‘house’. Curated by art and architecture students, the project explored a range of creative inputs to investigate the metaphorical concepts of a house and its inhabitants. The project was curated by myself and Rubi Dinardo. Collaboration has always been at the centre of both of our practices, so we brought together a group of creatives compiled of both family and classmates spanning ten years in age. Joseph Fonti (artist), Lou Verga (writer), Tori Dinardo (interior design student) and Will Dundon (musician) were each allocated a room of the house as a prompt for their work. Reflecting on their personal experience and imagination, physical and ephemeral ideas were explored in response to their place in the home. We asked those involved and viewers alike to reposition the expectation that objects define a space, and instead consider how memories, stories and shared experience are what shape a home. <img width="12960" height="12960" width_o="12960" height_o="12960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02eb620fdd241adb6926d3a30505e548055e0dc79781cdadc474f64a98f5db90/200519_SAMTORRE_calipershift_edit.jpg" data-mid="72721858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02eb620fdd241adb6926d3a30505e548055e0dc79781cdadc474f64a98f5db90/200519_SAMTORRE_calipershift_edit.jpg" /> <img width="12960" height="12960" width_o="12960" height_o="12960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edf61ecbd18ccb1b745dc548c5804dc2e3a799aca811d550330b6e988c60b103/200519_SAMTORRE_calipershift_edit5.jpg" data-mid="72721862" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/edf61ecbd18ccb1b745dc548c5804dc2e3a799aca811d550330b6e988c60b103/200519_SAMTORRE_calipershift_edit5.jpg" /> <img width="12960" height="12960" width_o="12960" height_o="12960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66d9cdff9cf18ab3f64b410c703cef2cd4b29c8b7d0c182cab610ad9aa14dff5/200519_SAMTORRE_calipershift_edit4.jpg" data-mid="72721861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66d9cdff9cf18ab3f64b410c703cef2cd4b29c8b7d0c182cab610ad9aa14dff5/200519_SAMTORRE_calipershift_edit4.jpg" /> Last week I posted a series of images on Instagram of this project that comprised of photos which were mostly vacant of any human occupation. In a way, this act contradicted the foundation of the project. I’m not condemning photography as a tool for documentation and the necessary role it plays in communicating the delivery of a project to a wider audience, however a photograph can never compare with experience. Similarly, a book or a film review can never be equal to the act of viewing that item yourself and forming an independent opinion. Perhaps if you saw the exhibition you would disagree with our proposal entirely? Or consider the language used to describe it not represented in its execution?The act of seeing, of reading, of listening - of physically embodying a space in that specific time is perhaps the purest way of understanding (or not understanding) a project. In a temporary project like this, and in a world obsessed with optics, how do we document it? The act of documentation translates the project into something else. Almost like a copy, something that had existed but has been warped in its digital context. It will never be able to accurately emulate walking through the gallery and experiencing its interactive elements. A zine (that quickly evolved into a book) was produced as a tool for navigation. It compiled the images from both of our personal film archives which had acted as the catalyst for our concept. These pages document where we grew up, those we had lived our adolescent lives beside and our homes-away-from-home. <img width="12960" height="12960" width_o="12960" height_o="12960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70c48e76b1ba7cbc8a2dbef9d9c50d1e4a5d2b27a04cba0fb75dc9258b82359b/200519_SAMTORRE_calipershift_edit2.jpg" data-mid="72721859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70c48e76b1ba7cbc8a2dbef9d9c50d1e4a5d2b27a04cba0fb75dc9258b82359b/200519_SAMTORRE_calipershift_edit2.jpg" /> <img width="12960" height="12960" width_o="12960" height_o="12960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6372206d5796c0349f0cc0dd00b06a00173457bd0679ca09375a1f260186090f/200519_SAMTORRE_calipershift_edit3.jpg" data-mid="72721860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6372206d5796c0349f0cc0dd00b06a00173457bd0679ca09375a1f260186090f/200519_SAMTORRE_calipershift_edit3.jpg" /> We were leaving our teen years and reflecting on what consistently grounded us throughout this time. Although the North-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne and the walls we have lived between shaped us immensely, it has been the friends and family we have shared these spaces with that define this era. NGV’s Head of Publications and curator of the Art Book Fair, Megan Patty has described the book as a “vessel”, and our book is perhaps the only artefact left of this project. The book has no photos of the exhibition, none of the artwork we made and not a single image of First Site Gallery. The gallery context was a place to facilitate an idea, a container for the temporary. The book however lives on, and its photos, poems, and the descriptive text of each space in the exhibition remains as a remnant of a project that has come and gone. For architects, a large portion of time is spent documenting a project. This is crucial in communicating an idea to a client, builder or local council. It is a process - conventional and essential. Is the photograph the only way to document a project after its completion? After the tape is pulled off? Is it the most effective? What if we consider post-documentation as a method for communicating a temporary project? It’s common to see renders and detailed drawings of how people can occupy a proposed space, what happens if we utilise this technique in documenting a place that no longer exists - a kind of manual of how the space was used?&nbsp; An alternative to conventional documentation but utilising conventional documentation as a medium.Could this extend the role of the review? Or is this simply a desperate attempt to hold on to the past, an inability to move on from old work? ︎︎︎ Note from the editor: When we considered what project to begin this digital issue of Shift with, the work that Sam Torre had been completing in the PROOF elective made a lot of sense. The original exhibition reckoned with the domestic and our relationship to our homes, which in itself would speak strongly to the domestically contained isolation of 2020. But with this “review”, and through a highly personal series of documents completed after the fact, Torre engages with memory, reflection, the temporary, and the ephemeral to construct a vivid picture of not only the exhibition itself, but also its inhabitation and its construction. The narrative that is constructed through the hastily scrawled annotations speaks to a concatenating series of events, the stories and the lives that go into constructing collaborative creative work. For us, Home is the perfect place to start this unique issue. https://caliperjournal.com/GEORGIA-MCCOLE-DOMESTICITY Sun, 31 May 2020 05:13:17 +0000 CALIPER JOURNAL https://caliperjournal.com/GEORGIA-MCCOLE-DOMESTICITY Domesticity (images of things I have never seen) Georgia McCole <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e3221e1f315fa69d47724104648a0f289ae01b2a072418879a41595ed039a72/1.jpg" data-mid="73018394" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e3221e1f315fa69d47724104648a0f289ae01b2a072418879a41595ed039a72/1.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/787af04de61fe19a8c642f5f735fbe4f139951ad612d1ff847d181c6c212de8f/2.jpg" data-mid="73018395" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/787af04de61fe19a8c642f5f735fbe4f139951ad612d1ff847d181c6c212de8f/2.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f666c11a44cfe64a6fb6b1115c20594eab665a5b3286c18f83423acc6d4e528e/3.jpg" data-mid="73018396" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f666c11a44cfe64a6fb6b1115c20594eab665a5b3286c18f83423acc6d4e528e/3.jpg" /> In this strange time of disruption, life feels almost dormant, we are contained neatly in our isolation.Our homes have become our worlds and though we may not pay them any great attention, the objects we have filled them with begin to alter our perceptions. Our continued presence begins to shape them too, the chairs sag and the table clutters. As we imagine a world beyond and design for places elsewhere, all our experiences and influences have become singular and intensified. As the sameness stretches on and the days pass, we remain contained within the domestic and it begins to subtly define how we perceive our work, our surroundings, and ourselves. ︎︎︎ Note from the editor: It is undeniable that during this time we’re all being forced to reckon with our domestic interiors more than ever. So when we saw Georgia McCole’s series of paintings completed during isolation, there was a sense that these domestic vignettes could tell us something. As McCole says in her description, these “images of things I have never seen” are as fictional as they are prosaic, the idealised domestic of Instagram or Pinterest isn’t our reality right now, nor should it be. The slight strangeness and tranquillity of McCole’s paintings begin to suggest the fact that the home is always a reflection of ourselves and in this moment we might be forgiven for dreaming of somewhere more perfect and more intelligible. https://caliperjournal.com/CODY-MCCONNELL-PERPETUAL-SHIFT-AND-THE-TRANS-EXPERIENCE Mon, 01 Jun 2020 10:35:29 +0000 CALIPER JOURNAL https://caliperjournal.com/CODY-MCCONNELL-PERPETUAL-SHIFT-AND-THE-TRANS-EXPERIENCE Perpetual Shift and the Trans Experience Cody McConnell <img width="4961" height="4961" width_o="4961" height_o="4961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22eb69c72fb536597dc8ef818c16dfac2a23b65046822026f077af150240cc8d/Cody_image.jpg" data-mid="74305351" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22eb69c72fb536597dc8ef818c16dfac2a23b65046822026f077af150240cc8d/Cody_image.jpg" /> Through living a transgender experience, I am very much familiar with this notion of ‘shift’. Shift to me is not moving to something entirely new. It is rather about the past taking a new form.&nbsp; I tend to look through a lens of perpetual shift: of layers and repetition, of time and overlapping experiences. Isolation is an extension of the entrapment that I have felt. Limitations of the body now become limitations of the current environment. These conditions stir up notions of doubt, performativity, and perseverance.&nbsp; As I am accustomed to living through one type of transition and all its uncertainty, this move into lockdown is strange, but not altogether foreign. There is a degree of power in being able to sit with the discomfort of ambiguity, even to thrive in it. Within the transgender experience, there is an element of internal victory that surrounds agency over one’s body and making a home in one’s skin. A little refurnishing here and there does not go astray, and I have been very fortunate to medically transition through hormones and top surgery. The same goes for the building in which we are isolating in. We try our best to make it as comfortable as possible for the time being, adjust it to suit our needs. These small refurbishments create freedom for ourselves, and redefine what it means to have autonomy. And whilst it may never be perfect, we have now made it our own, and must take pride in the adaptation of our current environment.&nbsp; With the present lockdown conditions implemented, the theatrics of presentation plays out on a heightened scale. There is an element of vulnerability in the mere idea of exposing a corner of your home to the world, for all to gaze upon. I have found it similar to the vulnerability put upon someone sitting outside the cisgender default. People are curious to know more: the inside of their tutor’s home, the unknown partner of a classmate that walks past during a tute. This is similar to the prodding and poking, the many questions of others when they find out you are transgender. You feel like everyone is constantly peeking in to try and see inside your home, your private life, without explicitly asking for a tour.&nbsp; The importance of presentation becomes more evident when you can only connect with others through the dimensions of a screen. Only a portion of your self is accessible to others, whilst you, as a whole, are locked away within your dwelling. This idea permeates into the realm of a transgender understanding. Having only but a keyhole to express outwardly what is known inside, one must become an excellent communicator, not simply with the exterior world, but also inwardly. It is a journey of self-discovery. For me, it was reconnecting with my femininity after “passing”, whilst still holding onto my male identity. It involved learning and unlearning what it means to be a man, and what kind of a man I aspire to walk through this world as.&nbsp; This transgender state of being enforces a degree of patience that arrives in continual waves. Waiting to come out, waiting for acceptance, for appointments, for legal documents to be processed. In isolation, this patience is yet another surge that we learn to tolerate. However, the scale of this perseverance is extensive, as it puts everyone’s life on hold. And in doing so, we are equipped with our collective patience. And in a way this makes isolation less isolated. This notion of shift is not something that we should be sheltered from or afraid of. Shifting is purely another synonym for growth and will occur to everything naturally at its own pace, overlapping the past with the present. It is at times ferocious yet mesmerising, relieving and yet frightening. We can only embrace such change if we are to take full advantage of the potential that it holds. ︎︎︎ Note from the editor: Through Cody’s project, ‘Perpetual Shift and the Trans Experience’, we are offered a unique window into the life of someone who continually deals with the idea of shift. His piece reframes our shared encounters with isolation and lockdown, relating it to his own experiences as a transgender man. He compares his transition experience and our current domestic shifts in lifestyle through themes of agency,&nbsp;privacy,&nbsp;and theatricality, describing the way that “limitations of the body now become limitations of the current environment.” Through a poetic reflection of his past and present, he explores a feeling familiar to him, which has been manifested into physical space – a render of his study area, where the faint blur of a person outside is the only connection between him and the outside world.