Monks Bond
Jabari Jordan-Walker
August 30 - September 20, 2014
Statement
Monks Bond borrows its title from a masonry term describing a form of brickwork used in early 20th century Flemish architecture. Here it is used to characterize the site where Jordan-Walker uses three bonded bricks recovered from a demolished Portland apartment complex as a relic to meditate on the “brick” as natural material. As a relationship toward an investigation on the Mount Angel Abbey Library, Alvar Aalto’s last project before his death, the performance concludes at Surplus Space with the construction of a brick wall, ultimately dictated by Jordan-Walker’s pilgrimage.
Bio
Jabari Jordan-Walker is a writer and artist currently based in Portland, OR. Jordan-Walker’s work employs video and sculpture as meditative elements toward a wave of ephemeral objectives that architecture and sociopolitical policies produce between an individual's relationship within the aesthetic and bureaucratic function of architecture as an esoteric discipline.
cargocollective.com/jabarijordanwalker
Monks Bond borrows its title from a masonry term describing a form of brickwork used in early 20th century Flemish architecture. Here it is used to characterize the site where Jordan-Walker uses three bonded bricks recovered from a demolished Portland apartment complex as a relic to meditate on the “brick” as natural material. As a relationship toward an investigation on the Mount Angel Abbey Library, Alvar Aalto’s last project before his death, the performance concludes at Surplus Space with the construction of a brick wall, ultimately dictated by Jordan-Walker’s pilgrimage.
Bio
Jabari Jordan-Walker is a writer and artist currently based in Portland, OR. Jordan-Walker’s work employs video and sculpture as meditative elements toward a wave of ephemeral objectives that architecture and sociopolitical policies produce between an individual's relationship within the aesthetic and bureaucratic function of architecture as an esoteric discipline.
cargocollective.com/jabarijordanwalker
