Responses | The lonely chair
The photo below this post is of the interior of room 5240 in the UCLA Broad Arts Center. If one were to traverse the 4th and 5th floors of Broad, she may notice subtle differences. On the 4th floor, the walls are homogeneously white, and each room has computers and wires everywhere. On the 5th floor, the walls and floor have subtle remnants of spray paint that missed the stencil and each room is equipped with a sink, cabinets, and necessary tools for analog image making.
Again what I noted above are just subtle differences and aren’t enough to imply a characterisation of the people who use those spaces; i.e. I still believe the manifestos, faculties, and students of both schools are relatively the same. What struck me though in particular was this chair in the photo below. This chair had the same shape and color as the other chairs. But for somereason someone felt the need to actually label the chair “Design 5209”.
After seeing this I thought to myself why was this necessary? All the chairs look the same, could we not just exchange chairs between rooms democratically as needed? Is (or was) the divide between the FA (fine arts) and DMA (design media arts) so solid that the faculty actually needed to label homogenous chairs so that they cannot flow between FA and DMA classes?
