Ascending Rooms (2021)
Performance, Installation, Essay
In response to On Vibration lecture series written and delivered by Patrick Farmer
Written for SARU A Row of Trees Journal
Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2022
Ascending Rooms: 23 Notes on Vibration of the Lived Environment and the Question of Immortality ponders Architectural Body (2002), a manifesto of Madeline Gins and Shusaku Arakawa, as a form of experimental methodology. An artist-architect pair who believed that, through profound recalibration of our constructed environment, humans could solve life’s greatest design flaw – immortality. These musings are placed alongside a series of sound recordings, which consider Gins and Arakawa’s ethos of ‘reversible destiny’ by questioning the possibility of longevity by activating the body though movement, sound and a relationship with space.
