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