Re-structuring
conferenza e installazione progetto collaborative di Cora von Zezschwitz e Tilman 23 ottobre 2017 Terese, aula B ore 14 nell’ambito
dell’insegnamento di Teorie dell’architettura, docente: Renato
Bocchi, corso
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Re-structuring (un-spaced/the
passage)
This project is
a collaborative work and creative dialogue between the artists Cora von.
Zezschwitz (CN/FR) and Tilman (D/US/FR).
In common linguistic
use we mostly tend to refer to the term `space` as a mathematical or
‘hollow’ space rather then an experienced space. We inhabit this `mathematical` space – we dwell in it, we work in
it, we are dominated by this Euclidian structure and it forms the center of our
life, may it be a house or an apartment, an office or an industrial space. This
‘mathematical’ space, which is to a certain degree shaping our
perception, is like a skin, which can barely be permeated, which reflects on
our behavior and our relationships to us, other persons and/or objects of any
kind. We cannot escape the fact of
enclosure and structure, not even via architectural features enhancing the idea
of peripheral vision.
The human being is always and also necessarily
conditioned in his life by his behavior in relation to a surrounding space. Experienced space on the contrary is by nature
unstructured, and in this way extends in all directions into infinity, even
when first given as a closed finite space lacking any form of socially
functional activity.
This experienced space is deeply manifested in
human life. It is related to the
human being by a vital relationship with subjective and objective life in it
and with it, and forms an essential medium of human life and expression.
The temporary extra-muros installation,
entitled RE-STRUCTURING (Un-Space), aims to investigate the subjective and
objective perception of space – of concretely experienced space opposed
to a measurable mathematical space. The structure in its rather raw and barren
appearance recalls vaguely the outlines of a simple mathematical space
transforming its volume into a spatial drawing leading towards the idea of an
experienced space. In its form an
‘open’ structure, a conscious construction of space, this work is
to be understood as a topos, a place of departure for this investigation
– visually and mentally.
By its nature, its proposed
‘mobility’ as well as its structural fragility, the structure aims
to suggest the idea of a nomadic existence rather then that of a fixed
location, once the meaning of space and topos are subject to change according
to various backgrounds and areas of life. The singularity of its qualities is a form of expression, a test, and
realization aiming to invite the visitor to explore, experience his relation to
the given open structure and reacting to it.
The structure can be seen as a place of passage or as a resting place, a place of fulfillment or as a possibility of development of thought. It can be experienced as a place of resistance as well as toeing the borderlines of spatial experience. It wants to inspire a dialogue regarding our relationship to space in its intimate, social, mental and even political dimensions.