I’ve started an installation in one of the studios which involves moving the room’s contents to 3′ above the ground plane. Why am I doing this? Well, the logic goes something like this: I want to create a space where the normal order of things breaks down & people become uncertain as to how to interact with the space. When we walk into a room we automatically understand (because of experience, embedded cultural knowledge, etc.) that a chair is for sitting in, a table is for working on, a trashcan holds trash. These object associations operate on the smaller end of the scale spectrum of a room; the larger end being that we stand on the floor, the ceiling is above us, the walls surround us. The plan is only the generator because we walk on the floor. By shifting the floor plane up 3′ you disarm the assumptions that we make about how to interact with a space.
So… I’m hanging things from a ceiling and soon I’ll take some process shots and eventually I’ll make some architectural drawings.
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Currently Reading: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Freakonomics, The Cyberiad
