aurthors: David Helešic, Marek Svoboda, Petra Šebová, Martin Valíček
(group Final_Final: fb in web)
photographs: Jan Urbášek
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The stage, the library and the projection screen
Questioning one’s own work, breaking down certainties, accepting imperfection and variability.
The realities that we perceive as constant and permanent, are in fact fragile and delicate and we can relativize almost all experienced orders and processes.
This process leads to destabilization. Through a series of experimental installations, examining three objects that semantically and physically defined space of recognized and well-established institution hosting audiovisual events, lectures and happenings in its cultural space and a gallery café. The stage, the library and the projection screen were transformed and exhibited in a different form than in which they had been experienced for several years.
1. Irrationally reassembling the main point of interest in the middle of the space, shifting its previously experienced center of gravity, the stage has re-established its privileged position.
2. Packing the boxes with books, zines and prints while marking them by date of their probable removal from the space, making its basic function – reading and educating impossible to achieve, the library has become an object.
3. Mirroring the space by a newly printed addition, the projection screen has turned into a curtain, limiting the projection itself while redefining common arrangement and format of lectures.
Following inevitable principles of a constant change and movement, every creator has experienced that feeling of declaring a piece of work as final and completed, yet at the same time finding out that he or she has been constantly processing and developing the project over time, creating an infinite number of really final variants.
We understand a city, architecture and design as an organic structure that cannot have the opportunity to reach its final form. Therefore, the ultimate goal of an architect is not to bring a particular project to its successful conclusion, a finished and perfect state or form, but to create lively “things” with the allowance of future layering, taking into account the possibility of their gradual degradation and eventually a removal.
To work with a piece of furniture, a building or a city brings exactly the opportunity which this approach requires. Nowadays, it is known that public spaces, buildings and cities are not sick patients who need to be treated to a full recovery – final form within one proposal. On the contrary, these living “things” require the possibility of constant change and transformation in the background of our self-reflection. The actual cure would be an adaptation and ability to learn how to react to unknown situations and thrive on possibilities which are being offered. Therefore, if we ask ourselves a question to which one can respond via an architectural form, then architecture does remain as a language of expression of a particular situation.
Two years ago, we, as architects, got into the position of curating an established institution which was soon about to close its doors due to external circumstances. The stage, the library and the projection screen were tested as elements that can embody architectural responses to a question of how to communicate an end of one cultural space and a gallery café in a moment when it is least expected, considering the objects as the herald of its final season.
What originated as a reaction to the constant desire of architects to design and create something perfect and permanent in a world that, in fact, cannot reach its final form, has transformed into a mutual ongoing project focusing on actions and installations which are based on local (versus global) context of contemporary architecture, urbanism and society.
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Group of architects focused on actions and installations based on the local (versus global) context of contemporary architecture, urbanism and society. Together, they graduated at the Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology (CZ).