A House for Robert Rauschenberg

This year there are 100 years since Robert Rauschenberg was born. Should we celebrate the centennials of "avant-garde" artists ? Even more so, of a Neo-Dadaist artist ? Isn't such a celebration a little too bourgeois ?

Maybe it is… but what if we pay homage to him in a Neo-Dada way, as unconventionally and as creatively as possible ? If we contemplate the work entitled The Happy Apocalypse, commissioned by a church in Italy (but rejected afterwards), what do we see ? We see a satellite dish governing the whole composition in lieu of God. God as a satellite dish ? This is what the church asked too and was not willing to accept.

But this is what Rauschenberg did.

His parents were Fundamentalist Christians, but what about him ? Dada was a way of saying (also in Romanian): NuNu. Thus, instead if YesYes, NoNo.

So we ask you to design the NoNo House.

The house of a Neo-Dadaist artist who wanted to operate in the space between art and life. In between.

So if Art is long, and Life short, as in the Latin saying "Ars Longa Vita Brevis", how would the intermediate space between them be?

Perhaps both eternal and ephemeral. What Rauschenberg teaches is to be uninhibited.

And he was actually a very "sustainable" artist… he worked with found, discarded objects, we feel his relevance for architecture today could be significant.

What if we would build the way Rauschenberg did art? We feel we would have a very interesting architecture, certainly not constipated, as much of it is, today. Pretentiously constipated. We feel Rauschenberg would have loved Bruno Taut's manifesto "Down with Seriousism." So let's bring down seriousism too. Together with Robert.

Design / or undesign a house for the friend of Jasper Johns, John Cage and Merce Cunningham. Design an undesigned house. A Neo-Dada House, a vulnerable house, an Anti-House, a Collage House, a Non-House.

Or half way so, between art and life. Please send us ANY work, ANY size and ANY format to info@icarch.us by December 1st. We will publish all the works received on our website. Source: https://www.icarch.us/