GUIDED TOUR AT PAF

This is the attic of this ‘house’. In the attic we can always see the structure, it appears to us naked in a sense. In topology it is meant to be linked to the rationality, in the attic all the thoughts appear to be with clarity, it is where the structure reveals itself and the strength of it is visible, it is revealed as it is. It is far away from the basement, which belongs to the onirics and the deepness of the unconscious and irrationality. So here in the attic I bring one of my concerns of the past month that has to do with absence and presence.

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‘Guided Tour’ is a study of space thinking, a performative tool which aims to make one think/name/inhabit/move space from within the body, in order to affect and be affected by the bodies/ objects/ limits/ dimensions/ stories/ speeches and rules shaping (or forming) it.

The project Guided Tour is a performace based on research whose aim is to explore the different spaces that appear when we relate them to architecture and to the context we inhabit.  The term and the format of a Guided tour are used in order to perform a spatial trajectory inside a building. In a guided tour there is usually one person, the guide, who has some knowledge on a site/building and its history. This person guides “visitors” who ask from him&her information about the place. During the last years tourism has increased dramatically, thus producing a reality of consumption of the public and private space. The project Guided Tour is interested in a reflection on this phenomenon. It seeks to generate gaps in this consumption of spaces. It asks if we can become, not merely visitors, but inhabitants of a particular place.

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Web: guidedtour

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