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Surfbox sitting on a liquid platform: a note on sensory motility, or the ‘architecture of landing’

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2011-09-23
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This MFA project uses space defined by movement to develop an inscriptive practice, which I will refer to as an ‘architecture of landing’. The term ‘landing’ here refers to the potential of actual motion to augment sensory transformation within space, which in turn accommodates a move from one state of consciousness to another. Walter Benjamin’s fascination with ‘passages’ comprised of transitional potential at the height of early modernism serves as an ideal springboard for this discussion. Just as flâneurie gives its rhythm to new experience, Surfbox Sitting on a Liquid Platform comes into conscious being as perceptual cognition arrived at through motile experience. Surfbox is an exhibition shelter constructed as a public display, using water as a primary material. A lightweight physical structure surrounds an active floor, set into a fluid surface. It becomes active when a visitor steps inside. It is a structure allowing participants to recognize how their movement unfolds within a prepared space, through the attenuation of perceptual cognition. Designed as a corrective to contemporary spectacle, the experience of Surfbox begins with immediate kinesthetic activity, slowly settling into stillness. It is a somatic zone of acoustic and perceptual suggestion, directed toward presence in real time.
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