Sequential Chambers:
Fall 2018 | Semester I | University of Pennsylvania
Museum Archive Studio with Guest Critic Sir Peter Cook
Collaborators: Glenn Godfrey, Christine Eichhorn, Xinyi Huang
At the beginning of the Fall semester we had the opportunity to participate in a 3 day workshop with Sir Peter Cook. During this time we focused on the idea of sequential chambers and the defamiliarization of known forms. An analytical approach was taken in which we first attempted to completely understand our given artifact, before breaking it down and evolving it into something unknown.
The second stage of this sequential chambers project involved curating a space in which our new forms could reside. Profiles of the various objects were utilized and built up to create new developable surfaces where the objects could nest and challenge. The final deliverable was a 5’ x 5’ x 5’ Cairo tile constructed out of wood and veneer. Seen in the next few pages is an example of one of the volumes constructed for our artifacts and how it relates with the analysis of the form itself.
Constructing this form, our group analyzed the impact of lines and ways in which they can challenge or reinforce a given geometry. Subtle black lines run along the outside of the tile before becoming dripping gold ooze emanating at the newly made objects. The artifacts were curated in a way that suggests they were gouged into the form through a violent impact that created deep sunken holes akin to the artifacts that reside within them.
