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<p class="has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background"><strong>ROBERT</strong><br>Melissa Grey &amp; David Morneau, Robert Kirkbride</p>
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<p class="has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background">About Culobocca<br><br><em>Culobocca</em> is a nod to the alpha and omega of the body, and our navel-gazing tendency as a species to consider ourselves as universal be-all and end-all. Originating as a line drawing of an object that passes through itself while chasing its tail, <em>Culobocca</em> is an ever-expanding family of forms whose surfaces are simultaneously interior and exterior, entropy and emergence. The sketch evolved from an inkling into a map for living by asking the question – how might thinking and making be mutually replenishing rather than self-diluting and exhausting? Kindred forms and formats soon followed. Animated by a range of materials, uses, and methods of production, <em>Culobocca</em> variations have been informed by 3D printing, two- and three-part casting in porcelain and silicon, color and light, digital animation, origami with paper and felt, and live performance. Being open-ended rather than self-contained, Culobocca invite imaginative recombinations and are akin to, yet distinct from, such enigmatic creatures as the Möbius Strip or Klein bottle. Culobocca’s closest living relatives are black holes, quasars, and the oroboro, that obsessive beast everchasing its tail, although it may be more accurate to say that Culobocca’s mouth comes out of its tail rather than around it.</p>
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<p class="has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background">Melissa Grey &amp; David Morneau are composers whose process includes ancient and algorithmic sound practices, structured improvisations, and generative processes.<br><br>Melissa Grey &amp; David Morneau are producers of music and events whose focus is collaboration with musicians, designers, artists, and scientists.</p>
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<p class="has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background">Robert Kirkbride is a designer, author, and Professor of Architecture and Product Design at Parsons School of Design. He explores the interplay of memory, ornament and placemaking through materials, media and methods of fabrication-production. In addition to designing the Morbid Anatomy Museum and multiple generations of Culobocca, Robert authored and designed Architecture and Memory, an award-winning multimedia online book about two Renaissance memory chambers, and he contributed an award-winning introduction to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital. His short piece, The Reading Chamber, has been re-published by Asymptote journal, with multiple translations.<br><br><a href="http://robertkirkbride.com/" data-type="URL" data-id="http://robertkirkbride.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">robertkirkbride.com</a></p>
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