METASITU
TDCU IZZ
The chronicle of increasing isolation of a group of artists attempting to reach the World's most remote human inhabited place, the island of Tristan da Cunha.
THE VISIT
Meziara is a village in Northern Lebanon, where most of its residents do business in Nigeria for most of the year, before returning every summer. The suburb to an invisible city.
TORA BORA
The extraction and export of 'Jerusalem Stone' is one of the most lucrative businesses in the Palestinian Territories, and remains highly unregulated. Everyone wants a piece of the holy land.
MEMENTO LOCI
Souvenirs are tokens that help to perpetuate spatial narratives. Mass produced around the world, they serve as a vehicle through which power narratives are unfolded and displayed.
MEMENTO LOCI unpacks some of these strategies.
14th DISTRICT
Slavutych was built to rehouse the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It is made up of 13 districts, each inspired by a different Soviet city. With 86, we are building a new district based on Athens.
STOP OVER CITY
Moscow City is a decaying business district in Central Moscow. By linking it to the two largest airports in the city and giving it the status of 'international transfer zone' we would revitalize this vacant territory.
STATES, STATUS,
STATUES & STATUTES
VDNHk park in central Moscow is a spatial technology that serves to advance an imperialistic idea based on an old regime.
(re)appropriating (post)soviet narratives.
NATION STATE OF MIND
Nation State of Mind proposes an alternative understanding of the nation in a post-national world. What is the role of territoriality and locality in Ecumenopolis?
#mariupolwillnotdie
#itistheworldthatwillend
Mariupol is a mono-industry town in Eastern Ukraine. Its population has been shrinking since the collapse of the USSR. This is a manifesto to embrace its shrinking condition and work with it.
EXPEDITION TO ECUMENOPOLIS
Expedition to Ecumenopolis is a series of workshops that we deliver to different groups in order to collectively think about ideas evolving around contemporary urbanism in the age of hyper-globalisation.
VOCABULARY FOR ECUMENOPOLIS
In the era of Globalization and the Antropocene, we find that there are a new set of urban qualities/phenomena that take place globally. Here is a glossary that attempts to identify some of those.
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Snake is a piece where we explore how hypermasculinity performs and informs the built environment. The video piece conceptualizes all of us as both preys and predators of this form of ‘land-grabbing’, where it is our cells and our interactions those that are being claimed by foreign forces.
A flag of beliefs that places the individual at the pinnacle of the evolution pyramid, the highest moral ground, the most privileged of spaces but also one of the most vulnerable ones.
Snake looks at our biological bodies as architectural results by focusing on regulatory bio-instruments, such as the contraceptive pill, recreational drugs, or protein shakes, as space-making devices that seek to erect and mold bodies; architectures of interaction within larger designed territories. Acting as a production line, it establishes the most solids of walls, divisions that start at a biological level, and whose construction depends on cells that support the social constructions that serve as their mortar. In the video piece we explore and document the ways in which bodies subvert the spatial structures but also how spaces condition bodies to submit to the norm – how bodies transform through architectural devices allowing to reach higher in the hypermasculine evolution scale.
Throughout the project we looked and engaged intimately with two particular environments – outdoor gyms and cruising spots – that allowed us to capture and understand different aspects of the hypermasculinity and how it is played out in the public or semi-public urban realm.
Project producer: Alina Bibisheva
ECUMENOPOLIS
SNAKE
bio-public hypermasculity
video (post production) -- 2016
US