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Full-Range Driver, Blackened Carbon Steel, Stainless Steel, Hardware.
A hi-fidelity home listening speaker.
Each speaker is designed, crafted, and machined by hand in Brooklyn, NY and requires 4 to 6 weeks for production.
This speaker was inspired by a technological coincidence bridging hundreds of years of history: the form of a Morningstar (a medieval spiked mace weapon) is an acoustically optimal design for a speaker.
Sound expands spherically, and spherical speaker enclosures are renowned by audiophiles for their even frequency response. Within the enclosure, the spherical walls create a maximally complex path of reflection for sound waves, allowing the speaker to harness the acoustical amplification provided by a hollow cavity while maintaining an even frequency response. Outside the enclosure, the curved wall prevents early reflections off of the surface of the speaker, creating a more direct experience of the sound.
The spikes of the Morningstar are function as loudspeaker spike components, hardware specifically designed to isolate vibration from the surface the speaker rests upon. The speaker can stand on any combination of 3 spikes, allowing for flexible directional positioning. Any of the spikes can spikes can also be replaced with an eye bolt, allowing for use as a hanging pendant speaker with flexible directionality.
The spike in the speaker's center functions as a phase plug, reflecting and dispersing high frequencies to create a more spatially even frequency response ideal for home listening environments.
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Paige K. Bradley’s Drive It All Over Me was commissioned by the artists Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda and concerns their work Bad Driver (2021/23), Jack Goldstein’s Selected Writings (1993–2000), and Vanessa Place’s Gone with the Wind (ca. 2009–15). The book addresses broad themes of subtextual narrative, authorship, and identity in text-based visual artworks while touching upon allegory, elaborately subtle jokes, and writing as a sculptural material.
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Sex and art, we're told, are sacred, two spheres that ought to be kept separate from the ravages of the marketplace. Yet both prop up two incredibly lucrative industries, built on the commodification of creativity and desire, authenticity and intimacy. Our reaction to this should not be moral or political outrage, nor legal regulation or denial, but rather-as Sophia Giovannitti argues here-acceptance, through which we can find a more autonomous way to live.
In this searching and provocative work, drawing on cultural and political theory, the contemporary art world, and the author's own experience as a sex worker and artist trying to make a living, Giovannitti argues that if we delve into our anxieties around art and sex, we can instead find new ways to live and spaces, however small, of freedom. When there is nothing left to protect, she argues, everything is possible.
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A custom fine point felt tipped executive Sharpie pen encased in stainless steel bearing the name of Sophia Giovannitti's lecture series, Does it have a sincere relationship to God?
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This Blade Study edition is published to coincide with artist Emma Safir’s exhibition peripeteia (March 30-April 30, 2023). Features contributions by Andrew Gardner, Jennifer Pranolo, Kara Güt, Tobi Kassim, and Blade Study co-founder Brooke Nicholas. Edited by Tess Thackara and designed by Jinu Hong.
“I see my work as hovering in an in-between space, capturing a moment that isn’t easily deciphered, where everything is on the verge of something else.”
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Photographed, Hand Processed, and Developed by Kate Biel
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