![Ferrous pebble [found in 1925] Makapansgat, South Africa.
“… the earliest known “image” associated with humans—or rather pre-humans—, the pebble found at Makapansgat in South Africa, is supposed to have been selected, transported, and preserved some three million years ago because it happened to look like a face.”
See ‘Stumbling Over/Upon Art’](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lypq6lirXm1qgphn0o1_400.jpg)
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… the remarkable thing with the little Lartigue is that he’s assimilated his own body to the camera, the room of his eye to a technical tool, the time of exposure to turning himself around three times.
He perceives a certain pattern there, and also sees that this pattern can be restored by a certain savoir faire. The child Lartrigue has thereby stayed in the same place, and is, nevertheless, absent. Owing to an acceleration of speed, he’s succeeded in modifying his actual duration; he’s taken it off from his lived time. To stop “registering” it was enough for him to provoke a body-acceleration, a dizziness that reduced his environment to a sort of luminous chaos. But with each return, when he tried to resolve the image, he obtained only a clearer perception of its variations.
Child society frequently utilises turnings, spinning around, disequilibrium. It looks for sensations of vertigo and disorder as sources of pleasure.
”Paul Virilio translated by Philip Beitchman, ‘The Aesthetics of Disappearance’, (New York: Semiotext(e), 1991) p.12
A morphology of the ‘house’ of the architect from the domestic to the institutional.
A topological study of the profession that questions ‘I MILIEU’ and ‘II AUTHORSHIP’ through the exploration of ‘III VERTIGINOUS SPACE’.
(Motion through and/or of space.)
Vertigo (or dizziness) is seen as a descriptive means of reality - a complex of moves centred around the experience and manipulation of space.
A: DESIGN WITH CHANCE OPERATIONS
B: APPLICATION OF CHANCE THROUGH THE PROGRESSION OF DIFFERENT MEDIUM
C: PRODUCTION OF CHANCE SITUATIONS THROUGH OCCUPATION
The project explores the idea that sites and spaces of architecture accumulate in complex hybrids between the digital and analogue modes. The intention is to develop an architecture where it exists and merges with a real site/sites and different modes of representation, overlapping spatial condition through real and unreal scenarios.
The intention is to see the architectural milieu as a space for experimentation convoluting the notions of architecture as a research medium within a ‘professional’ idiom and that of a playful artistic pursuit.
