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This reference section contains an associative collection of images and texts based on the competion's theme. It stands alongside Juan Herreros' essay, more a free interpretation on potential of the theme than a translation of his intentions.

'reference' is to inspire and challenge you own associations, interpretations and notions on Implicit Performance. To further enable a thourough and associative investigation of the theme and its potential for concrete.

amphicar

source image: www.filmprops.nl

american heritage dictionary: third edition

Im-plic-it adj. 1. Implied or understood though not directly expressed: an implicit agreement not to raise the touchy subject. 2. Contained in the nature of something though not readily apparent: “Frustration is implicit in any attempt to express the deepest self” (Patricia Hampl). 3. Having no doubts or reservations; unquestioning: implicit trust. [Latin implicitus, varient of implicatus, past participle of implicare, to entangle. See IMPLICATE.] –im-plic’it-ly adj. –im-plic’it-ness n.

Im-pli-cate tr.v. -cat-ed, -cat-ing, -cates. 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. 2. To have as a consequence or an inference; imply. 3. Archaic. To interweave or entangle; entwine. [Middle English, to convey a truth bound up in a fable, from Latin implicare, implicat-, to entangle, unite : in- in; see IN-2 + plicare, to fold; see plek- in Appendix.]

plek-. Important derivatives are flax, multiplex, plait, pliant, plight1, ply1, apply, complicate, deply, display, emply, implicate, reply, complex, and perplex.
Plek-. To plait. Extension of pel-2. Suffixed o-grade from *plok-so-. FLAX, from Old English grade form *plek-. MULTIPLEX, from Latin –plex, -fold (in compounds such as duplex, twofold; see dwo-) 3. PLIT, PLIANT, PLICA, PLICATE, PLIGHT, PLISSE, PLY; APPLY, COMPLICATE, COMPLICE, DEPLOY, DISPLAY, EMPLOY, EXPLICATE, IMPLICATE, REPLICATE, (REPLY), from Latin plicare, to fold (also in compounds used as denominatives of words in –plex, genitive –plicis). 4. Suffixed, forms *plek-to- and *plek-t-to-. PLEACH, PLEXUS; AMPLEXICAUL, COMPLECT, (COMPLEX), PERPLEXED, from Latin plectere (past participle plexus), to weave, plait, entwine. 5. PLECOPTERAN, PLECTOGNATH, from Greek plekein, to pait, twine, and plektos, twisted. [Pokorny plek-834.]

source image: www.amazon.com

bunker

source image: Paul Virilio, Bunker Archeology, Princeton Architectural Press 1994, photography: Paul Virilio

camouflage

photography: bureaubakker

collaboration

Mercedes Benz Museum, UN Studio

photography: bureaubakker

concrete

Paul Chadwick

source image: www.lambiek.net, cover by Paul Chadwick

dance works rotterdam

photography: Erik Platvoet

educatorium, utrecht

OMA

exposed reinforcement in ceiling in order to maintain a thinner concrete floor.

photography: bureaubakker

exoskeleton

lobster

source image: encarta.msn.com / dorling kindersley

explicit

photography: bureaubakker

formwork

Brother Claus Field Chapel, Wachendorf, Peter Zumthor

photography: bureaubakker

governator

source image: www.rudybandiera.com, film still terminator - MGM

haus meili, fläsch

Andrea Deplazes

structural all lightweight agregat concrete (ALWAC)

photography: bureaubakker

holocaust memorial, berlin

Peter Eisenman

photography: bureaubakker

honda

source image: www.cng.cz

hp umbrellas

Felix Candela

source image: Yutaka Saito, Felix Candela, TOTO
photography: Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library / Colombia University

hybrid integrated circuit

hybrid circuits are often encapsulated

image source: www.wikipedia.com
photography: Janke

imperial palace, kyoto

exposed bamboo reinforcement / screen

photography: bureaubakker

inconspicious

optical fibres integrated in concrete; image shows back-lighted situation, fibres are nearly invisible when no back-lighting is used. Idea & design Stefan Verbrugh for 'Casestudies 5'

photography: Marcel van Kerckhoven

jewish cemetery

photography: bureaubakker

le fosse ardeatine monument, rome

Nello Aprile, Francesco Coccia, a.o.

photography: bureaubakker

lee majors

'better, stronger, faster'

liger

[wikipedia]'The liger is a hybrid cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris (tiger) and is denoted scientifically as Panthera tigris × Panthera leo.[1][2] A liger resembles a lion with diffused stripes. They are the largest cats in the world,[citation needed] although the Siberian Tiger is the largest pure sub-species. Like tigers, but unlike lions, ligers enjoy swimming. A similar hybrid, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a tigon.'

source image: www.wikipedia.com
photography: Andy Carvin

litracon

source image: www.urbano.blogspirit.com / www.litracon.hu

manimal

Daniel Lee, 1949 - Year of the Ox

source image: www.daniellee.com

menger sponge

[James Gleick, Chaos] 'a few mathematicians in the early twentieth century conceived monstrous-seeming objects made by the techniques of adding or removing infinitely many parts. One such shape is the Sierpinski carpet, constructed by cutting the center one-ninth of a square; then cutting out the centers of the eight smaller squares that remain; and so on. The three-dimensional analogue is the Menger sponge, a solid-looking lattice that has an infinite area, yet zero volume.

source image: James Gleick, Chaos, Speher Books 1987

mixer

concrete is a hybrid material by definition (cement / sand / aggregates / water)

source image: www.germes-online.com

monument

Redipuglia Military Memorial

source image: Wilhelm Moser, Ruinenbau
photography: Wilhelm Moser

mule

[wikipedia] 'In its common modern meaning, a mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, which is classified as a kind of F1 hybrid. The reverse, the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey, is called a hinny. The term "mule" (Latin mulus) was formerly applied to the offspring of any two creatures of different species - in modern usage, a "hybrid".'
'The mule possesses the sobriety, patience, endurance and sure-footedness of the donkey, and the vigour, strength and courage of the horse. Operators of working animals generally find mules preferable to horses: mules show less impatience under the pressure of heavy weights, whereas their skin, harder and less sensitive than that of horses, renders them more capable of resisting sun and rain. Their hooves are harder than horses, and they show a natural resistance to disease and insects. Many North American farmers with clay soil found mules superior as plow animals, especially in the U.S. state of Missouri, hence the expression "stubborn as a Missouri mule"'

source image: www.wikipedia.com

neeltje jans

Redundant (reserve) concrete pylon, part of Dutch storm surge barrier. Now a monumental 'cathedral' in use as climbing wall.

photography: bureaubakker