Q1: According to Matta-Clark, plumbing is what separates sculpture and architecture, and he is interested in doing sculpture, or anarchitecture, not architecture. He is also against doing functional things in his sculpture. Why is he against functionality?
Q2: Many of the artists/movements we've looked at have been expressing a reaction against an establishment, usually an art establishment, such as the gallery structure or the Academy in France. Anne Wagner suggests (p. 580) that Matta-Clark's work "doesn't generalize the art gallery as the site of a repressive architecture, identified with the Establishment, but now links itself to the urban environment on an experienced political/architectural/historical basis that includes its relation to itself as a memory of archetypal architectural form." What does she mean by this? Furthermore, if M-C's sculptures aren't a reaction against galleries or an Establishment, what is his "motivation?"
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