From Remote Stars

Nov 16 2021 6 ep. 32 mins 1

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In 1968 the London, Ontario based artist Greg Curnoe walked into a bar.
He was wearing a bright yellow suit paired with an equally loud purple shirt. It was a bold look.
He had gone to the bar to listen to a man speak. A Futurist who seemed to appeal as much to the counterculture as he did to the establishment. An architect who, by that point in his career, had been described as the first poet of technology, a living genius and… a crackpot.

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An Interview with Eva Díaz

Nov 16 2021 23 mins

In Díaz’ first book The Experimenters, she looks at Black Mountain College, an iconic school in rural Appalachia where Fuller taught in the late 1940’s and first developed his signature dome structure. Her forthcoming book, After Spaceship Earth delves further into Fuller and how his story can be woven into a broader critique of the concept of Total Design, in Contemporary Art

An Interview with Kerri Sakamoto

Nov 16 2021 23 mins

In Kerri Sakamoto's novel Floating City, Fuller and his ideas are incorporated into a personal story of a first generation Japanese kid, named Frankie Hanesaka.

Ep 3 - Constructing a Mythology

Nov 16 2021 53 mins

On this episode of From Remote Stars. Constructing a Mythology. The stories that we create and what they can tell us about ourselves.

Ep 2 - Alone on an Island Floating in Space

Nov 16 2021 38 mins

On this episode of From Remote Stars. Buckminster Fuller's Spaceship earth. The beginning of the proto-environmentalist movement, the dawn of the atomic age, and where we are today.

Ep 1 - London, ON. 1968 to Present

Nov 16 2021 44 mins

By the time Fuller appeared in London he was already a household name throughout Canada. Fuller's iconic dome was the centrepiece of Montreal’s Expo 67 which would go on to be considered the most successful World’s fair of the 20th Century. But Fuller wasn’t the only one gaining attention, the art scene in London was also having a moment in the late 60’s. Writing in Art in

Introducing - From Remote Stars

Nov 16 2021 12 mins

One evening in London, Ontario in 1968 Buckminster Fuller stood in front of an audience of artists and academics and delivered what he called “thinking out loud” - a sort of stream of consciousness lecture. One that touched on everything from the frequencies of chemical elements, to the human condition, to, very remote stars.