David Schalliol
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http://davidschalliol.com
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David Schalliol is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, where he is academically and artistically focused on transformation, particularly as it is expressed through the physical manifestations of inequality.
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Short Statement:
Detroit, 2008-Present
Detroit’s streetlight system is crippled, and the meager illumination provided by working streetlights merely highlights the discrepancy between lightness and darkness. One consequence of this neglect is that residents often provide their own light. Porch lights and commercial floodlights punctuate darkness nearly as frequently as do public utilities. Streets take on a patchwork appearance from the hues of private light sources: the bluish whites of fluorescent signs, reds of neon gas and pale yellows of porch lights. This private provision of a public utility is begrudgingly maintained like so many other services in Detroit: perhaps as equally from altruism as protection. Consequently, the relationship between individuality and community that is obscured elsewhere by the passivity of the disinterested taxpayer is exposed by the immediate need for action.
Isolated Building Studies, 2007-Present
Isolated buildings are particularly juseful for the exploration of neighborhood transformation and its social correlates because they are immediately recognized as unusual. As urban buildings, their form illustrates their connection with adjacent structures: vertical, boxy, an architecture confined by palpably limited parcels. When their neighboring buildings are missing, a tension emerges: the urban form clashes with the seemingly suburban, even rural setting. Thoughtfully engaging the landscape requires further investigation to resolve this tension: Why is this building isolated? It is from this fundamental friction that the Isolated Building Studies launches.
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David Schalliol has participated in the following Op Shops:
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