anti-normal - The fountain

Cathryn Klasto on Truths, Ethical Speculation and Subjecthood: The LTH Fountain

By Maddie Leach in anti-normal on 26 Feb 2025

Keywords: public art, architectural research, experimental writing, subject-object, ethics. We are pleased to share Cathryn Klasto's essay, first published in the journal COTAA (Collection of Texts about Architecture) in 2024. " Some say the LTH Fountain is a disgraced emblem of design, a tragic victim of technological, mathematical…

Get out of here! Go! Run! You Freak!

By Maddie Leach in anti-normal on 04 Jul 2024

Found in the archives and oddly prescient: An early essay by Maddie Leach in which she was beginning to explore 'monstrousness' and public sculpture.…

The LTH Fountain and the anti-normal condition

By Maddie Leach in Architecture on 06 Sep 2023

PDF download. "Arguably the Fountain has defied cultural custodian norms; it is unashamedly refusing to die. Here lies a necrotic object, without a vital (blood) water supply it exists perpetually with one steel foot in the grave, a zombie..."…