An Experimental Dance Theatre for Grange Beach, South Australia
Article by Tristan d'Estree Sterk in Terra #1 Journal of SONA Australia RAIA, 2000
Idea Cloud: This project is about a whim. About building a cloud, building something that shouldn't and can't be built. It's about escaping architecture and about producing a space that can only be truly understood as a happenstance of circumstance, an instant - a moment in time. It is also a project about a new way of thinking. Architecture as an envelope. Architecture as a circumstance. Architecture as an order that emerges from complexity. Architecture as field. Architecture that is of a non-geometrical order that is ephemeral. A whimsical order. As an experimental dance theatre it is a project that begs the question - in what new ways can our bodies engage with spaces that are influenced by the contemporary condition? The contemporary condition is one influenced by the prolific use of information technologies. Several authors suggest that the contemporary state is one that suffers from dislocation, navigational anxiety, and the new market commodity of thoughts. It is an ephemeral society, measured and understood in terms of traffic flux, conditions of acceleration, and field theory. It is a society that is learning to challenge the object, and cherish relational databases. Or As Coop Himmelb(l)au's Cloud #9 project notes: "The increasingly fluid, fuzzy sociopolitical structure of the world exemplifies the paradigm change which is simultaneously reverberating on many levels."
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