Ep 3 - Constructing a Mythology

An Interview with Eva Díaz

In Díaz’ first book The Experimenters, she looks at Black Mountain College, an iconic school in rural Appalachia where Fuller taught in the late 1940’s and first developed his signature dome structure. Her forthcoming book, After Spaceship Earth delves further into Fuller and how his story can be woven into a broader critique of the concept of Total Design, in Contemporary Art.

An Interview with Kerri Sakamoto

In Kerri Sakamoto's novel Floating City, Fuller and his ideas are incorporated into a personal story of a first generation Japanese kid, named Frankie Hanesaka.

Ep 3 - Constructing a Mythology

On this episode of From Remote Stars. Constructing a Mythology. The stories that we create and what they can tell us about ourselves.

Ep 2 - Alone on an Island Floating in Space

On this episode of From Remote Stars. Buckminster Fuller's Spaceship earth. The beginning of the proto-environmentalist movement, the dawn of the atomic age, and where we are today.

Ep 1 - London, ON. 1968 to Present

By the time Fuller appeared in London he was already a household name throughout Canada. Fuller's iconic dome was the centrepiece of Montreal’s Expo 67 which would go on to be considered the most successful World’s fair of the 20th Century. But Fuller wasn’t the only one gaining attention, the art scene in London was also having a moment in the late 60’s. Writing in Art in America magazine in 1969, critique Barry Lord called London, Ontario, “one of Canada’s four major art scenes,” saying the city was quote “younger than Montreal, livelier than Toronto, vying with Vancouver in variety and sheer quantity of output... in many ways the most important of the four.”