Consistent Inconsistencies: I Wish I Could Talk in Technicolor

Consistent Inconsistencies: I wish I could talk in Technicolor is a ludibrium-like romp through the architectural imaginary, surreal displacements, and baroque high jinx. Axis Mundi is a New York-based studio poised at the intersection of architecture, design, and anomalous interdisciplinary site-specific works. Launched in 2004 by John Beckmann, the studio's unpredictable ethos yields new and unparalleled forms of seeing, imagining and making. Beckmann has survived car crashes, cyberattacks, interrogations by the Secret Service and life-threatening diseases, all while navigating Axis Mundi to the dizzying heights of success. He has been called a misfit; a raconteur; a mercurial trickster. Beckmann sees himself as the perpetual outsider, whom the cabal of the deep state invariably seeks to conspire against. "Paranoia is another word for common sense - reality itself is a conspiracy theory, somehow or other I think that I would like to rescue myself from the idea that there are many different realities... I'd like to find out what reality I'm in.", he once stated. This imaginatively deconstructed 'antimonograph', which can be read front-to-back or back-to-front, is part Instagram feed, travelogue and personal memoir, and brimming with enigmatic koan-like aphorisms. Organised as a spiralling cinematic tri-partite structure - which seamlessly blends Axis Mundi's entire oeuvre, the book is an engrossing stream of consciousness, bastardising the real with cogent thought-experiments, by one of the great provocateurs of our time. 200 illustrations