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Very excited to be working on this intense, ambitious, timely and necessary project.

Created by Spike Laurie, ‘Civil Unrest’ will be forcibly occupying the tunnels of Debut (London Bridge) on 2nd, 3rd and 4th of March. Creatives in Residence has commissioned our work on this – props to Lolo and The Hospital Club for supporting this challenging piece. More soon. In the meantime: this will be hardcore amazing. Get your info and tickets here:

http://www.civilunrest.net/

We are stoked to have the exceptionally talented Tom Greenall working with us on the forthcoming ‘Civil Unrest’ project (more on that soon…).

Tom studied architecture with us at the Royal College of Art and produced a thought-provoking and beautifully executed thesis project, ‘Cultivating Faith: the feeding of the 59,000‘. More about that and the man himself over at:

www.tomgreenall.co.uk

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Workshopping with students on the First Floor.

Hey gentle people,

House of Jonn have been invited to co-teach first semester at the the University of the Creative Arts in Canterbury. We will be caning (not literally..) 2nd year Interior Architecture. The research area were exploring with the students is ‘Hacking’ be this physical, intellectual, virtual or some other form.

We are about 3weeks into the academic term and on Tuesday the students had a review of their work with invited guest critics. Some surprising work and briefs emerged from this and were rather excited about helping the students develop some of these further.

Opening soon… a new club and event space in Shoreditch that we’ve done some work on. Line up is amazing already. Gonna be hothothot.

Preview

More pics coming up

The brick series was House of Jonn reaction to the ‘RAW’ theme imposed by the Royal Academy of Arts for this years summer exhibition.

We were rejected….

Without sounding like whinny losers this was the reaction we were expecting and in a way played up to. The architecture room was co-ordinated by David ‘vitality, risk taking and a necessary sense of adventure’ Chipperfield.

We could not help but prod a little fun at ourselves and the theme by creating 4 very impractical and improbable brick types to live upto the RAW theme.

These included the  acrylic Banana brick, Cock Arch brick, Wizard of Oz brick and the Recession proof brick. All were produced as editions of 25.

The above images show the Wizard of Oz brick depicting a scene from the story of Dorothy and Toto on the yellow Brick road.

Above is the Banana Brick and below is the Icon Brick.

SOOOOOO since graduating from the Royal College of Art last year House of Jonn’s Jordan has been involved in a rather unique project known as ‘Fidelio in the Gulag’. which we briefly blogged about in a previous post. After a long long long long long year of hard work and many unknowns the project has finally come to fruition and I could not be more happy!

The project has been director Michael Hunt’s vision and has been realised by the SCDLP architects office who myself and Thomas Greenall have worked alongside to achieve this. Our role was to facilitate the performance of this site specific opera through the creation and installation of set design interventions that worked within context.

In July, 2010, Perm State Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre will present a unique production of Beethoven’s only opera “Fidelio” on the territory of the former GULAG camp for political prisoners “Perm 36″, which is now a museum of the history of political repressions.

The production is conceived by the creators as a site-specific piece and not as traditional onstage performance. The epic number of cast members, inspired by the universal idea of love and freedom of Beethoven’s great opera, will bring the whole experience of the camp alive to the audience.

I’m really happy to have had this opportunity to share this project with you, I’ll make sure to post some additional images of the set in particular in the next posts.
Also we are currently in the process of making a short film of the project so I’ll get some clips up soon.

photos by Alex Gushin Salt