An Islington Resident
Max Colson
The London rapper Melanin 9 is a highly critical observer of how the British hip-hop scene reaffirms media stereotypes.
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An Islington Resident
Max Colson devotes a photo series and a short documentary to the London rapper Melanin 9. The black musician is a highly critical observer of how the British hip-hop scene reaffirms media stereotypes. Colson is faced with a similar problem: How can he adequately portray his protagonist in documentary terms?
André Eckardt
André Eckardt
Construction Lines
Max Colson
The luxury real estate project in London goes three floors deep underground. The neighbours imagine perverted orgies and apocalyptic scenes.
Construction Lines
The luxury real estate project of a foreign multimillionaire in London goes three floors deep underground and offers lots of food for bizarre speculations among the neighbours. Using the “SketchUp” planning software, Max Colson visualises all the perverted orgies and apocalyptic scenes imagined by the concerned citizens. The cropped 3D model drifts untethered in the vacuum of prejudice.
André Eckardt
André Eckardt
Le Medina: Notes from the Focus Groups [excerpt]
Max Colson
A housing project in Rotterdam comes up against cultural limits. A flight through a 3D design illustrates how the architectural concept borrows from Arab urban architecture.
Le Medina: Notes from the Focus Groups [excerpt]
From “Le Medina” to “Le Medi” – a housing project in Rotterdam comes up against cultural limits. A flight through a 3D design illustrates how the architectural concept borrows from Arab urban architecture. Speech bubbles with comments by potential buyers are crowded between the lines of the drawing. For all their love of the exotic – the acceptance of foreign lifestyles only reaches as far as the Mediterranean.
André Eckardt
André Eckardt
The Green and Pleasant Land
Max Colson
The British pillar box has long faded from former glory. And so has the whole Kingdom. In his live animation, Max Colson recreates a seemingly factual United Kingdom.
The Green and Pleasant Land
The British pillar box has long faded from former glory. And so has the whole Kingdom. In his live animation, Max Colson recreates a seemingly factual, infographic United Kingdom. He chooses figures and textures from digital libraries and scales them into a quirky virtual paradise that is brexitarily susceptible to arbitrary shifts of meaning.
André Eckardt
André Eckardt