Practice as Fiction
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Electromagnetism...
... for collecting the Dust
prototypes / dust attraction by electrostatism
Dustyrelief
/ B_mu
Bangkok, Thaïlande 2002
Architect ; R&Sie(n)…
Creative
team: François Roche, Stephanie Lavaux, Jean Navarro, Pascal Bertholio
Landscape
architect : Michel Boulcourt, Paris
Furniture
and Lamp Designer : Mathieu Lehanneur, Paris
Steel Structural Engineer : Nicolas Green, Paris, Londres
Light Engineer : Benoit Lalloz, Paris
Client: Petch Osathanugrah, Bangkok.
Key dimensions: 5000 m2.
Text :
Design of an Contemporary art Museum
Scenario :
- Random relief calculated by particles and pixelisation for a pure grey
ectoplasm under the lightning grey sky of Bangkok
- Collecting the dust (particles of carbon monoxide) of the city ("Breeding the dust" of Duchamp...)
by an aluminium envelop and electrostatics system.
- Exacerbating the skyzo climate between interior (white cube and labyrinth in
an Euclidian geometry) and exterior (dust relief on topologic geometry), and
using this sun protection monolith interface for in/outdoor exhibition.
Bangkok is a very dusty gray and luminous city. The pollution cloud, CO2 residue, filters and standardizes the light with only gray spectral frequencies. Over 50 different words could be used to describe the tones and the touching aspects of the absence of color:
“luminous, vaporous, pheromonal, hideous, shaded, transpiring, cottony, rugged, dirty, hazy, suffocating, hairy…”
The dust dresses the city and her biotope, even going so far as to modify the climate. Within this fog of specs and particles, Bangkok becomes the melting pot of hypertrophic human activity with convulsing with exchanges of energy, where visibility becomes its greatest charm. At the antipodes of the canons of modern urbanism and its panoply of instruments lies, the city of Bangkok, ectoplasmic, super fluid to quote Kipnis. She is conceived in between aleatory rhizomes where the arborescent growth is at the same time a factor of her transformation and her operational mode. The project for the future museum B-mu feeds off of the climatic opposition between the urban environment’s protuberant energy and the indoor subdued and subject to the museum conditioning procedures (white cube). We are talking here of two distinct geometric structures: one is Euclidian, globalization incased, where cultural merchandises are circulated in an aseptic and deteritorialized universe, and the other typology, plunged in a intoxicating urban chaos.
The future museum of Bangkok reflects this schizophrenia :
- the ghost emergence of “breeding the dust” (1) or in other words a dust breeding farm through electrostatic emergence, like the exacerbation of a localization.
- A white climatology like in the codified relational support system of the “running on the world” art scene.
The
exchanges born out of this duality (interface management, progresses, advances…)
create the substance of the visitors skyzo perception. The B-mu is a trans door,
in the sense that SF Simmons used the word, here just from local to global.
(1) Breeding the Dust, Man Ray et Duchamp, 1964
Bangkok est une ville poussiéreuse, grise et
lumineuse. Le nuage de pollution, résidus de CO2, filtre et ré-échantillonne
la lumière aux seules fréquences spectrales grises.
« lumineux, vaporeux, phéromonale, hideux, ombré,
transpirant, cotonneux, rugueux, sale, brouillardeux, suffocant, pileux… »
La poussière habille la ville et son biotope,
modifiant par la même son climat. Bangkok, dans ce brouillard de particules
devient le creuset d’une activité humaine hypertrophiée, aux modes d’échanges
convulsifs, dont la visibilité constitue le principal attrait.
Le futur musée de Bangkok est en ce sens schizoïde.
- une émergence fantomatique support d’un « élevage de poussière » (1) par attraction électrostatique, comme l’exacerbation d’une localisation.
-
une climatologie « blanche » comme le support relationnel
codifié et aseptisé de la scène artistique.
Les modes d’échanges issus de cette dualité
(gestion des interfaces, cheminements, nuances de colorimétrie…) vont
constituer la substance skyzo-perceptive du visiteur.
(1) Elevage de poussière, Man Ray et Marcel Duchamp,
1964
Why euclidian plugged nowhere spaces are not white cube ?
Soon Betty wakes up horrified by the new color on her face. A race war break ou-between the black-and-white people and the colored" (Double Trouble, Greil Marcus, about "Pleasant Ville" movie)
