Architecture for Temporary Autonomous Sarai
(with Atelier BowWow)

Installation Views: Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, 2003

 

Portable, multi-use structure made with packing crates for computers, projectors, paper, sound and people

The Temporary Autonomous Sarai is an attempt to give form to an ethic of improvisation, conversation and hospitality through an impermanent structure that can contain itself as it moves from place to place. The structure, made of crates used to pack art objects in museums, snow fencing, plastic hangers, clips, A4 sized paper and post it notes, unpacks to form a refuge for people, computers, texts, signs made with pen and paper, and software that privileges itinerancy, flexibility of usage, and the possibility of role-shifts between users and producers, players and viewers, guests and hosts. In this spatial configuration - all visitors are encouraged to be playful with the presences and traces of others.

Shown at:
"How Latitudes Become Forms" - Walker Art Center Minneapolis (February - May 2003)

 

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