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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. | 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 | 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. | 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. | ||
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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
