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As part of a series of fragmentary works and speculative research on feminist spatial utopias "n minus 1" responds to the Kitchenless House (1915) by architect Alice Constance Austin. By exploring the process of subtraction (apartment minus kitchen), the aim is to activate emancipatory ideas and practices that might help reshape our shared spaces.
Responding to the Kitchenless House (1915) by architect Alice Constance Austin, the work redraws the process of subtraction (apartment minus kitchen) that aimed at reshaping our domestic spaces as well as routines and roles. The 'minimalist' installation alludes to the space that opens up in between pillars in the floor plan. Where the kitchen is removed from the center, a fluid zone is produced blurring the borders between inside and outside and questioning fixed functions, conventions and usages.  


The installation alludes to a space opening up in between pillars in a floor plan where the kitchen is removed from the center. Instead, a fluid zone is produced blurring the borders between inside and outside and questioning fixed functions, conventions and usages. Perhaps the neighbors will pass through from time to time.
Exploring various situations and scenes that subtract from a given set of rooms, actors, and functions, the research is occupied with minor operations (Deleuze) that test aesthetic and political alternatives to activate emancipatory ideas and practices.  


Exploring various situations and scenes that subtract from a given set of rooms, actors, and functions, the research is occupied with minor operations (Deleuze) that test aesthetic and political alternatives to modernist ideologies, based on the premise of endless growth.
Modernism has long been questioned for its grandios utopian aspirations regarded as bound up with paternalistic, colonial, and totalitarian attitudes. The n minus 1 drafts formulate not modernist major projects but concepts of minor operations that however allow for new spatial connections and relations. In that they provide the ground on which we might evolve more open social, political, and aesthetic forms of living together.
Modernism has long been questioned for its grandios utopian aspirations regarded as bound up with paternalistic, colonial, and totalitarian attitudes. The n minus 1 drafts formulate not modernist major projects but concepts of minor operations that however allow for new spatial connections and relations. In that they provide the ground on which we might evolve more open social, political, and aesthetic forms of living together.


'''Installation, cardboard, tape, kitchen paper, Kunsthalle Lingen, 2019
''Installation, cardboard, tape, kitchen paper, Kunsthalle Lingen, 2019''
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Responding to the Kitchenless House (1915) by architect Alice Constance Austin, the work redraws the process of subtraction (apartment minus kitchen) that aimed at reshaping our domestic spaces as well as routines and roles. The 'minimalist' installation alludes to the space that opens up in between pillars in the floor plan. Where the kitchen is removed from the center, a fluid zone is produced blurring the borders between inside and outside and questioning fixed functions, conventions and usages.

Exploring various situations and scenes that subtract from a given set of rooms, actors, and functions, the research is occupied with minor operations (Deleuze) that test aesthetic and political alternatives to activate emancipatory ideas and practices.

Modernism has long been questioned for its grandios utopian aspirations regarded as bound up with paternalistic, colonial, and totalitarian attitudes. The n minus 1 drafts formulate not modernist major projects but concepts of minor operations that however allow for new spatial connections and relations. In that they provide the ground on which we might evolve more open social, political, and aesthetic forms of living together.

Installation, cardboard, tape, kitchen paper, Kunsthalle Lingen, 2019