Addition, Subtraction + Multiplication | PERRY KULPER

‘Addition, Subtraction Multiplication’ Touching on a range of ways for visualizations to play varied roles in spatial developments, especially projective, maybe even speculative ones, ‘Addition, Subtraction Multiplication’ will cite three areas for representational consideration. A handful of historic examples will lightly frame developments in the linear perspective, of the picture plane and ‘station point body’. And its impact on adding, amongst things, value and material to the world—let’s say, ‘Addition’. Three key areas will be tickled: architecture, and particularly the picture plane, and its relations to the history of ideas; parallel developments of the self, of the ‘I’, of a ‘point of view’; and the ‘inverted cone’ principle. Also using examples, ‘Subtraction’ will offer a different set of potentials, touching on erasure as representationally, and spatially possible, opening alternative conceptions, and maybe practices, for architecture. 5 Points of Erasure: double authorship; the voracious ap