Sofia Nannini – Is there a known optimum gate size for the dual control of cattle and sheep? Shelter Press Higgins had a firm vision

Higgins had a firm vision that radical art could be housed in book form and distributed throughout the world and he worked endlessly to cultivate new works that challenged conventional notions of both contemporary art and books

about intimacy and resistance

political and economic upheaval are connected to the material world

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it proceeds as a photographic essay of Tatiana Macedo

Sofia Nannini – Is there a known optimum gate size for the dual control of cattle and sheep? Shelter Press Higgins had a firm visionSofia Nannini discusses a small but representative collection of files within the Cedric Price fonds: the proposal for a light and reconfigurable livestock pen to clean and weigh cattle and sheep that he called Westpen. The design concept was largely driven by the movement of the animals and the flexibility of the program, suggesting that the pen could become a bucolic family picnic area when not used for the animals, simply by removing the gates that