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Tentative Architecture of Other Earth
Tentative Architecture of Other Earth from Xárene on Vimeo.
The wearers of Tentative Architecture are nomads. The primary determination of a nomad is to occupy and hold smooth space. Smooth space is free action in a collection of spaces that are juxtaposed but not attached, i.e. the space between points of interest (water points), or a technical example of felt versus the grided woven. A point system, or a grid, is an emblem of striated space: it belongs here, not there. War is a clash of striated space and smooth space; when the City takes over the Countryside.
Felt is a supple solid product that proceeds altogether differently, as an anti-fabric... It implies no separation of threads, no intertwining, only an entanglement of fibers... it is nevertheless smooth, and contrasts point by point with the space of fabric (it is in principle infinite, open and unlimited inevery direction; it has neither top nor bottom nor center; it does not assign fixed and mobile elements but rather distributes a continuous variatio)... Among sedentaries, clothes-fabric and tapestry-fabric tend to annex the body and exterior space, respectively, to the immobile house: fabric integrates the body and the outside into closed space. On the other hands, the weaving of the nomad indexes clothing and the house itself to the space of the outside, to the open smooth space in which the body moves. Deleuze+Guattari
Above is documentation of Tentative Architecture worn by coastline inhabitants of Other Earth. This architecture allows for ventilation by mimicking the breathing of its wearer. In one version (the version for desert inhabitants) it is powered by a bio-kinetic hand-fan; a second version uses shape memory alloys which respond to ambient temperature changes.
In collaboration with Joshua Hernandez, PhD student, Math, UCLA
Materials: Hand knitted and felted wool, shape memory alloy (Dynalloy Muscle Wire)
