| Madison
Mansion.
Christina Ulke in collaboration with artist Linda Pollack and
architect Claudia Reisenberger
7 ornamental wall applications using reflective traffic
material in ramp of a parking structure, video installation
in elevator lobby; permanent installation, commissioned for
Pasadena’s Public Art Program. Wall applications: 7x 9ftx113ft,
video: 14” screen, mounted on ceiling. Reflective traffic
paint, reflectors, laser-cut reflective traffic signage (foil
on aluminum).
A parking structure turned into a mansion. 7 levels of the ramp
have been decorated with wallpaper patterns using reflective
traffic material. A video installation in the elevator lobby
in "surveillance style" juxtaposes film footage shot
in Pasadena's Mansions with scenes inside the parking structure.
The Madison parking structure, a precast concrete
building, is finished with a stucco facade and ornamented with
arches and other decorative elements. The appearance of the
service building has been modified to represent an image of
a town mansion. The neoclassicist style of the facade references
Pasadena's culture at the turn of the 19th century, when ideas
of City Beautiful moved architect Bennett to design a new urban
layout for Pasadena's civic center.
"Madison Mansion" plays off the idea
of this ornamentation of public space. By using historical patterns
and film footage from Bennett's period, the project locates
the "mansion ideal" in history. Ulke, Pollack, Reisenberger
2003
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