Rem Koolhaas' theories on Junkspace are the inspiration for, Love At The Mall by Tempers

09/02/2019. [MUSIC-VIDEO] by Tempers
metalocus, ÁNGEL TORNE

New single "Love At The Mall" from its "JUNKSPACE. Feat. Rem Koolhaas" album. Seventeen years after publishing his thoughts on 'Junkspace' in October Journal, Rem Koolhaas is seeing his theories reprised through an unexpected medium. The Tempers, the New York-based Synth-pop band, dedicated their latest album to Koolhaas' text in which he defined much of contemporary architectural production and consumption as Junkspace, the "residue mankind leaves on the planet."

Love At The Mall (feat. Rem Koolhaas) by Tempers

Love At The Mall (feat. Rem Koolhaas) by Tempers

The music video for the Tempers' song, Love at the Mall, begins with a clip of Rem Koolhaas speaking in an interview about the text: "The essence of shopping is to eliminate reality as much as possible." It then follows the loose narratives of CGI mannequins, plastic flamingoes and synthetic palm trees in a mall setting, adopting several of the themes of Koolhaas' text, such as alienation, conspicuous consumption and artificiality.

Other songs on the album, including Air Conditioner, Desire and All That is Solid Melts into Air dive deeper into the essay, each one featuring insights from the architect and theorist on the contemporary condition

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