evaporating materiality // ilona puskás
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EVAPORATING MATERIALITY
The dynamic of built environment and community
Ilona Puskás
I. Apartments X (Poland)
I. Finissage of Stadium X
I. Re:Orient
Apartments X
In the wake of ‘flying universities’
• Polish edition by Zuza Sikorska and the Nowy Teatr in collaboration with the Hebbel-am-Ufer Theatre in Berlin
• Three heterogeneous parts of Warsaw - Mokotow, Mirow and Brodno
Multilevel involvement
• The intimacy of the settings allows active participation
• Counterpointing the exhausted street art approach
Live art projects in the derelict communist stadium, Warsaw
Stadium X
The 10th Anniversary Stadium
• ‘90s: ‘Jarmark Europa’ the only multicultural site
• Vietnamese intelligentsia as street traders
• Heterotopic logic, longstanding (non)presence
• Memory, deterioration, exoticism
A Trip to Asia (2006)
• Acoustic walk• Urban roaming/
headphone- guided museum tours
• Tourist gaze: – Voyeurism– Alienation– Passivity
by Anna Gajewska, Joanna Warsza & Ngo Van Tuong
A mechanism of deconstructing reality
• Reversing minority- majority relations
• Enhancing visibility
• Creating co- responsibility
Re:Orient
Re:Orient (2006)
Hungarian Pavilion,
Venice Biennale of Architecture
• Architectural experiment
• Research on spaces and objects used by the Chinese
• Excavation of cultural narratives
‘Migrating Architectures’
• Developed through prototyping
• The same hubs:• Food• Shopping/market• Services• Temple
‘Guanxi’ above all
• No substantial transformations of the built environment
• Palpable and emotive factors in spatial features
• Emphasis on ‘soft systems’• Functioning relationships for flexibility• Reciprocity