Matthew Fuller Reading

As an architecture, he was very interested in the spaces between a building as well as the building its self. Much like his house project, Fuller talks about his film in 1976, Substrait (Underground Dailies), Matta-Clark explored and documented some of the underground of New York City. Grand Central Station, 13th Street and the Croton Aqueduct are filmed to show the variety and complexity of the hidden spaces and tunnels in the metropolitan area. This film develops an intimate concern with the material qualities of the structures under investigation, and perhaps provides for the New York sewage system a precursor to the geek art of the Internet. It is possible to imagine a film of its travels through the nets made by a software worm. So that way, we could see the internal structure of the architecture or underground works in this case, as well as the outside.