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if you want to look at some formalities
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if you want to see what i sometimes see
Within our dynamic world, we mentally and physically pass through borders and platforms – room to room, void to void, air compartment to air compartment. But what if we take the same path with our eyes closed? What remains is our breath, the noise, and the smell. And from that point on, things vanish. Borders disappear, and natural fluidity emerges.
In a time of environmental destruction, biodiversity loss, and climate change, we tend to oversee things happening unintentionally next to us. The air we breathe is rendered out and externalized. Though the invisible element is what connects us – humans, non-humans, gases, bacteria, pollen, and seeds. Dust then, carried by wind and bodies, makes air visible to the pure eye when it settles or through light reflections on particles in the dark. Dust is never non-existent. It blurs the boundaries of the binary construct between inside and outside, artificial and natural. It floats around the Earth, connecting the local with the global.
Accidentally, filthy, and unwished in most places – dust reflects our perception of natural processes in terms of scale and appearance. How filthy or visually unappealing this element may be, to give a voice to life in all its forms is unquestionably ethically attractive. Dust troubles our perceptions of nature and how it is (re-)produced through the fetishistic dominance of the visual image and the pictorial representation. Maybe we must re-negotiate standards we usually take for granted, such as health, pure air, or a clean window – to think a bit outside the human scales and thoughts.
The thesis challenges the dichotomy between nature and culture by exploring different forms of situated media to create a more ethical practice within architecture. While mapping on different scales, the primary tool became language to read and create space, where dust plays an active role in shaping it. The words and texts jump between memory and imagination to question the authenticity of ecology within architecture.
An abandoned site in Graz serves as the initial space for exploration. Any prior human program is gone, the artificial power of ventilation is off, and the windows are broken. No one cleans up. Inside becomes outside, a space that speaks for the autonomy of nature.
The outcomes are a collection of objects centered around the topic of dust. The main project developed into an auto-fictional short novel that tries to bring the bodies together while narrating through language as a spatial tool. Based on the writing - a physical exploration then responds to the site in Graz as a performative space and invitation into our world full of tiny particles. This generates a sensory experience where one sees nothing except one’s own dependency on the eye – while being in the air.
For Novel: The Distance of the
LINK https://freight.cargo.site/m/T1889486928423767371304921262493/There_is_dust_on_my_paper_Tom_Kohrs_small.pdf