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A series of architectural models theorizing the forms that spaces might take in a system that creates, deploys, and proliferates culture.
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DARKCULTURE PROJECT BRIEF
Our project series is entitled “dark culture.” It investigates “culture” not as an autonomous and impenetrable phenomenon, but as a force or product that can be designed, deployed, and guided. The three models that hypothesize this design/deployment system, borrow heavily from culture itself in their design, be it pop art and kitsch/camp aesthetic from the silver age of comic art, to the dark ages of architectural Deconstructivism.
- Matthew Strong + Steven Scharrer
Abject Base / Hive Mind
Arthur Guyton ‘s Textbook of Medical Physiology states that “the total amount of water in a man of average weight is approximately 40 liters, averaging 57 percent of his total body weight.”
As per the site, our form is aquatic, derived from that of sea cucumbers, tube worms, and the ripples of stones thrown into water. Like culture from an initial change, an initial violence to its surface, rings emerge, spread and intersect. Many points of broken surface tension diffuse and accrete until frequency of transmission and amplitude of transmission both abate and the whole has assimilated not only the rock, but its effect. Upon assimilation, the whole remains forever changed imperceptibly, the surface raised an atom due to the rock’s displacement of the water as it rests on the bottom.
Our formal language is borrowed from the idea of the station, the study of biology in its most extreme environs, which as far as we know must involve the molecule H2O, whether it exists in glacial cores, hydrothermal vents, deep space, or the crushing depths of an oceanic trench. The station is scientific, and like science applies efficiency and method in its deployment of culture. But while science is effective at designing what can be replicated, our fears and terrors tell us it is not effective at controlling it. Culture is like an escaped virus, a pandemic with a tipping point that once reached cannot be recalled or sculpted to the will of its creators - a phenomenon that all of us have first-hand knowledge of (robot paints human). What will come of scientifically designed and deployed culture? That is the question posed by Culture Station 57.
Culture Station 57
Memetic Deployment Unit(s)
