The Knife - Shaking The Habitual - The Interview

I have always loved The Knife and I am really enjoying the new album Shaking The Habitual. What I really like is the progression from album to album, it is not just a repetition of previous works. This video is really worth a watch as it talks about the process that The Knife went through in making the album.

Stairwell Cinema

Stairwell Cinema is a project that was created to offer some answers to a couple of questions,

What is architecture?

How can we interact with architecture?

I posed this question to several people including myself with the stipulation that the response be in the form of a film. I see the resulting program as series of different perspectives. The project doesn't and shouldn't seek to offer definitive answers to the questions. I would say the aim is to show that there isn't a definitive answer. 

For me, what is important are the questions and the practice of questioning. By asking questions such as the ones above we begin to expose possibilities, we begin to expose the plasticity. We ask the question 'What could it be?' and then realise it could be many things, it could be a stairwell or it could be a cinema.

Thoughts on Meter Room Collaboration

After the most recent meeting I felt it would be a good idea to share my thoughts.

This is a diagram that has come about from some ongoing conversations I have been having with Sam via Liane Gabora. It is my version of a diagram he drew which I feel shows (or at least comes close to showing) the process I would like to explore within my practice. I want to create situations in which this process can occur.

I envisage the best way of doing this would be through the creation of confrontations in which you are presented with the new information. I feel that this would have to be done through the creation of a structures that when entered you make some form of investment (possibly just the act of entering), thus by investing in some way you want to receive something in return. At present I think the best of doing this would be through the creation of gatherings as I feel through the creation of a social dynamic/community/network there can be a forum that engages with and elaborates upon the information. To pull this back to the collaboration, I would say that our meeting are an example of one of these gatherings. I would really like to see one of the results of our collaboration being one of these gatherings.