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SPACE-BETWEEN / ESPACE-ENTRE

DESIGN AND COMPUTATION ARTS YEAR END EXHIBITION // DESIGN CONCEPT 

‘Space-between’ unites humans through the reiteration of senses we are lacking during this moment in time: touch, light, air, and human contact. ‘Space-between’ signifies the feeling of isolation, untouched, and the invisible subject. More specifically, ‘space-between’ represents the imposed distance of ‘space’ between humans and things; the social distance of space-between us and others, plexiglass shields, the space-between us and our mask, and the space-between self-isolation in our homes.

 

BRINGING individuals together through new forms of intangibility, and envisioning the presence of physicality we are lacking. ‘Space-between’ juxtaposes our sixth-sense by using and practicing our intuition of the unknown, “a power of perception like but not one of the five senses, a keen intuitive power” (Definition of SIXTH SENSE).

Definition of SIXTH SENSE.https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sixth+sense. Accessed 29 Jan. 2021.

LINK TO SPACE-BETWEEN VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

KEY WORDS

TOUCH 

SENSES

LIGHT

AIR

UN-TOUCHED

IN-BETWEEN

UNKNOWN

INVISIBLE

SIXTH-SENSE 

INTANGIBILITY

TEXTURE

INTERACTIVITY

DESIGN RESEARCH

PRIMARY PHASE of inspiration from ‘Carlo Bunga’s Cardboard Topographies: A Sudden Beginning’

Carlos Bunga’s design choice uses a contrasting art direction for each floor, while focusing on open-space, invitement, and the distance between visitors. The first floor ‘Procession’, uses tall architectural structures, that are large scale, and vertical.
 
In contrast to our current global situation, by reflecting upon instability and uncertainty humans are experiencing at the moment. The way each cardboard box is arranged experiments with the potential of spatiality, structure, and negative space while working around the museum's existing architecture. The division between the two floors allows visitors to experience each space to form their own sense of orientation, movement, and direction within it’s space. Bunga reverses the placement of each installation in reference to the scale of each piece.

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The visitor’s journey allows people to wander, embed themselves, use their body to orient themselves and create a performance within a given space. The only way the exhibit can be experienced in-person is by entering the space and is not viewable from the exterior.

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The ‘occupy’ installation particularly caught my attention, as Bunga has given a new purpose to cardboard boxes, exploring the endless possibilities of the basic material by creating a grounded, structural and infinite landscape. I think that Bunga’s extensive use of cardboard also amplifies the overconsumption of cardboard box packages humans have been receiving from online orders during this pandemic. As the modular arrangement and planning of the cardboard boxes, the landscape, and human bodies mimic the idea of  ‘taking up a space’. Overall, I think Bunga’s approach of using recuperated materials, and showcasing the thinking, and making process was executed well, which can also be an element of inspiration for our year end D/CART Show. 

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