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July 11, 2010 – 2:00 am

soccer city under construction

[What with the final and all, today is an excellent day to check out a bit of Rasmus Norlander’s photography; above is one of his photographs of the Soccer City stadium renovation in Johannesburg — site of today’s final — but I recommend continuing on to his website and looking at the extraordinary photographs in […]

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July 6, 2010 – 7:00 am

soccer city, in infrastructural context

Soccer City stadium, site of Sunday’s World Cup final, is the largest stadium in Africa — though it seats a bit under ninety thousand spectators in its current configuration, which sacrifices spectator seating in favor of “reserved seating” for the press, FIFA officials, and other “Very Important Persons” — but even its bulk is relatively […]

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July 3, 2010 – 9:48 pm

transposed sporting landscapes

After a rather exciting series of quarter-finals, and in anticipation of the semi-finals: the last fifteen minutes of the 1982 World Cup semi-final between France and Germany, transposed onto urban landscapes near Lyon by the artists collective Pied La Biche: [Seen at Polis; Pied La Biche were last spotted playing three-sided anarchist-rules soccer on a hexagonal […]

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June 19, 2010 – 11:15 am

changing rooms and holding cells

[Iconeye goes inside the World Cup stadium in Cape Town, Green Point, ignoring facades and roofs in favor of spaces we rarely see: changing rooms, holding cells, offices, and, above, the pre-match warm-up room; photographs by Justin McGuirk.]

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June 11, 2010 – 9:32 pm

as-built on the pitch

[‘Alan Ball — full match’, working drawing (ink on trace); artist David Marsh] Just in time for the World Cup, English architect-turned-artist David Marsh has executed a fantastic series of drawings based on England’s (sole) World Cup finals appearance, their 4-2 victory over West Germany in 1966.  Using archival footage played back at quarter- and […]

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