KINETIC PETRIFICATION
Host + Parasite + Stressor
Analog + Digital Response
Located in the Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory and a sister location in the Hagia Eirene at the Topkapi Palace, the pavilion functions as a small museum for artifacts and as a performance space.
This pavilion follows the process of parasitic interactions as it transforms over time.
Through human participation in the space (stressor), the artifacts (parasites) will be moved, which will transform the pavilion (host) in a fundamental way.
There will be integration of multiple digital sensor-actuator functions that work together to create a physical response to its inhabitants.
Hosts and parasites can live together in harmony until a stressor manipulates the environment. Overtime, a parasite will grow, multiply and overtake its host. This is translated in terms of spatial qualities of the pavilion. The axis the pavilion is formed around represents time. The experience of the pavilion is linear and begins in an open, bright space that continuously gets more compressed. This is also represented in physical time as the artifacts transform the space.
Visitors are the performers as their manipulation of artifacts result in a digital response that transforms/petrifies the pavilion.
Circulation follows a linear path. As artifact walls are manipulated, steps and planes will be formed transforming the path of circulation.
The experiential timeline follows a 5 beat dramatic structure over a 35 day performance period. The performance includes participation of visitors, kinetic objects in the space and a digital response.
Spatial qualities, materiality, coloration, lighting and circulation transform in each step.
Time is also represented over an axis with 3 distinct spatial experiences representing a healthy host, infestation and infection, and damage or death.
