the rosen corp.

Blue prints of Brent Martin’s plans of the Rosen Association headquarter, L.A after the reading of Does Android dream about electric sheep? by Philip.K.Dick, model 1.100 of the buildings, 2012-2019.

Collaboration with Brent Martin, architect, San Francisco, US.

Written by Philip K. Dick in 1968, the sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? describes a post-apocalyptic world. The story is set in California and depicts a colonizing society at odds with the ubiquity of androids looking more and more like humans, who gradually slip out of these latters’ control. The powerful biotechnology company controlling their production is called the Rosen Association and exercises lobbying pressure on the government in order to maintain the development of new and even more “human” models. By asking Brent Martin, a Los Angeles-based architect, to draw up construction plans for the Rosen Association’s headquarters and research centre, Maxime Bondu places anticipation in an engaged reality and puts the work somewhere between fictional archival document and project speculating on the possible foreshadowing of a work. With a scenario of expansion established by the artist, the installation of the project is part and parcel of an existing urban plan, taking as its point of departure the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles (the world’s largest baseball stadium), itself built on a vacant lot left by the turbulent uprooting of the Hispanic community living in the Chavez Ravine locality. 

The rosen corp. walkthrought, 33’, 2012

Collaboration with Brent Martin, architect, San Francisco, US.