PROPS SUPPLY is a creative studio specializing in visual identities, architecture, and worldbuilding for collectives and like-minded individuals

contact us at hello@props.supply 


Enter the Flow
PROPS SUPPLY has been featured in Documenta, Moderna Museet, Pioneer Works, Dutch Design Week, Beijing Design Week, New York Review of Architecture, ESP Cultural Magazine, Atlas of Anomolas AI,  Art in America, Are.na Annual, The Creative Independent, Metropolis Magazine, and others. The studio is led by Lucy Siyao Liu and Matthew Bohne.

Liu and Bohne are Registered Architects in the State of New York.



Writing

A Place for Relating to Water
Citing the Futurex
Outwit WeWork
Thoughts in “To Imagine,” Into the Universe of Technical Images (Electronic Mediations) by Vilem Flusser
Before Code, Beyond Speech On Our Minds

planetary ontology <> relational systems
cooperative and organization models
new economies, new ledgers
collecting, ordering and alignments
reciprocal human/non-human relationships
folk < > science
water
ethnobotany and mysticism
craft and ornament
human will
cosmotechnics


Thoughts in “To Imagine,” Into the Universe of Technical Images (Electronic Mediations) by Vilem Flusser
By PROPS SUPPLY
PAPRIKA! An Image for The Present Volume 4, Issue 07 [link]



Excerpt

“Each image must be part of a chain of images, for if it were not in a tradition, it would not be decipherable. Of course, this doesn’t necessarily always work. THAT IS WHAT IT MEANS TO “PUBLISH”: TO PUT A SUBJECTIVE OBSERVATION INTO THE SYMBOLS OF A SOCIAL CODE. OF COURSE, IT DOESN’T NECESSARILY WORK. The means of projecting this subjectivity is at risk. The way we encounter images, the machines that facilitate observations, the arena in which observations are received … We define our tools, our tools define us, it’s banal by now. Instead, we’re interested in changing the social codes. “We live in a world where instead of trying to replace the masters who exploit us, we seek to become them in small and meaningless ways.” (Jack Halberstam, Vertiginous Capital Or, The Master’s Toolkit, in queer.work.archive.) Every sentence changes the meaning of its words. Media machines feed off of our desire to publish images, and we live to feed the machine. It should have occurred to us earlier that the point is to not only make new images, but also to make new machines.”



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 We work with great concern for craft, magic and curiosity. We are guided by rigorous, methodical and obsessive techniques. Our propositions reveal in the complexities of an existence caught between matter and data. It is within these bounds that we touch this mystical world in which we reside in and desire to share. We unveil the strangeness in convention, the precision in ambiguity and the alien within the human.