Kcymaerxthaere
I first became acquainted with Eames Demetrios through his work as a filmmaker: back in 2007, he shared with Boing Boing a stop-motion short about elephants that playfully explored a small piece of the legacy of his grandparents, the great American designers Charles and Ray Eames.
External link: Eames Demetrios: Legacy, Ancestry, and Future
In The Space In-between Exists A Three-dimensional Parallel Universe Unlike Anything You Could Ever Dream. Unless You’re Eames Demetrios, That Is.
External link: Crossing The Kcymaerxthaere
When I first saw that this site’s new Flash Points topic was Art and the Environment, I immediately thought of two artists: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios. They are not contemporaries. Smithson, a seminal land art pioneer, died tragically in the height of his career in 1973. Demetrios, a currently active artist and filmmaker . . .
External link: Mythic Environments: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios
The grandson of the designers of the most famous piece of modern furniture memorializes the slow death of Main Street by building an alternate universe.
Discussed: Non-Native Elvish Speakers, The Kcymaerxthaere, Three-Dimensional Storytelling, The Battle of Some Times, The Limits of the Assembly Line, The Parisian Diaspora, Teri’s Threads, The Conditions of an Ideal Spot for Reverie.
External link: Discover Kymaerica
In his own modest way, Eames Demetrios is probably the most ridiculously ambitious man you will ever meet, having devoted the last five years of his life to the dissemination of Kymaerica, his complete alternative mythology of our planet.
External link: Discover Kymaerica: Theatre Or Performance Art?
I turned up at Man&Eve to find a Routemaster bus parked outside with the engine running. In the gallery, the walls were covered in maps, posters, photographs and artefacts showing what looked like parts of the world I know. But a quick look at the inscriptions was enough to confirm that this was not a tourist information centre, at least not for the world as I know it.
External link: Whistle Stop: Sebastian Mary Catches The Bus To Kymaerica
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