Not A Penguin Pool: Echoes of More-Than-Human Entanglements

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Not A Penguin Pool: Echoes of More-Than-Human EntanglementsEdited by Regina Bittner & Yujia Bian In 1934, the London Zoo opened its new Penguin Pool designed by Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton Company with Ove Arup. The elegant spirals of concrete became a symbol of modernist architecture, but also of its limits: a triumph of design, and a failure for its intended inhabitants. Developed within the Bauhaus Lab 2023, this book revisits the Penguin Pool as a site of more than human entanglement exploring

and desires that defies these normative modes of categorisation

exploring a spiritual terrain he enigmatically dubbed the transreal

high-flash images of the artist’s home

A tactile object hand-made from the finest papers

Italian artist Luca Massaro has been building a solid body of work on ‘the invisible space that separates an image from its caption

a conversation between the artist and curator Sarah Johanna Theurer

hoping to be welcomed into a host country where they can start afresh and come out of the closet

During the Jina Amini protests

In piercing words and in strobe lit images caught against the dark of night

They resemble pillars and artefacts that are left behind on various historical sites and they can be associated with land art installations

By overlaying and collaging his own photographic material

' says Lawson