Confinement - e-flux

Editors gta exhibitions, e-flux Architecture

Contributors David Adjaye, Design Earth, Ilze Wolff, Anonymous, Lydia Xynogala, Catherine Malabou, Traumnovelle, Itsuko Hasegawa, Jan de Vylder, Inge Vinck, and more…

Classical techniques of confinement have dramatically expanded, their domains of oppression building upon historical forms of institutional violence. From the virus to the room, the screen, and the municipality, todays social separations create new modes of behavior. The archaic media format of the drawing has the potential to trace and express the current environment and its rapidly changing conditions. Paradoxically, the drawing has been resurrected with growing attachments to screens. The flatness of paper adapts itself to any given digital device, but not without efforts and opportunities of translation.

Confinement is a collaborative exhibition curated by gta exhibitions and e-flux Architecture, supported by the Adrian Weiss Stiftung and the ETH Zürich Foundation.

Confinement was exhibited at ETH Zürich from October 15 to December 18, 2020.

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31 essays

Dislocated Display Drama

Armature Globale

Apparently, we are cursed. In early September, they call. “We need an exhibition display for a show to be viewed remotely. Optional lockdown, no vis…

Reconstituting Enclosure

Alessandro Bava and Lydia Ourahmane

In 2019, I started working on a project to reinforce a wall, which is still in progress. The wall divided the corridor from a room at Residency 80121,…

Fake Exterior Folds

Aristide Antonas

In her text about Afro-pessimism and its intellectual consequences, Catherine Malabou calls for a different understanding of life in prison than one n…

Choreography of a Procession

Sumayya Vally

Nick Axel: As you move through this series of drawings, you start to realize you’re moving through a landscape, one that’s inscribed with history….

Memory Wheels

Michel Kessler

Covered in vaseline, polycarbonate, and mylar tape, the circular compound eye of knowledge occupies spaces and dreams, zones and fields, areas and sea…

The University and the Prison: A Dialogue

Alberto Lule, Savannah Ramirez, Rosie Rios, and Nathaniel Whitfield

Nathaniel Whitfield The university and the prison both exist as metaphors and metonyms. As part of the Underground Scholars Initiative and the UCLA Pr…

fugitive choreographies: trickster’s escape-ism, or, RBBT resists a sticky snare, or, bramble bred and bound by the bounce

Andres L. Hernandez

This text takes form through a spatial and (ever)special dialect.1 Liminal spaces between letterforms and words are (re)inhabited to extend and (dis-)…

The End of the Anthropocene

Philippe Rahm

On December 1, 2020, when the result of the Covid-19 test performed twelve hours earlier came back positive, I was transferred to a secure building in…

The Temperamental Interior

MILLIØNS

Somewhere between the stereotomic stonework of classical architecture and the “service cavity” logic of the modern plenum wall lies a different co…

The Diffuse House

MAIO

The diffuse house is the archetypal form of domestic space under late capitalism. The diffuse house operates 24/7. The diffuse house is ubiquitous. …

Campos

Jack Self

Every night on this planet, about six percent of humans sleep in tents. We can guess this figure based on the 1.6 billion who lack adequate housing an…

Sorry to inform you

Inside Outside

The three of them were summoned to the parlor. As per the protocol, they would from there on out be addressed as Subjects A, J, and P, respectively. T…

Phantomis.land

Space Popular

Six degrees of separation is the theory that humans are always six or fewer social connections away from one another. Six degrees of freedom (6DoF) is…

Lake Gullible

Manuel Gnam

Meghan Rolvien At first, every landscape presents itself as immensely chaotic. Your maps question territorial realities and present a certain geograph…

The Age of Oxymorons

Pedro Pitarch

The Homogenizing force of capitalism is incompatible with any inherent structure of differentiation: sacred-profane, carnival-workday, nature-cultur…

Luna House

Pezo von Ellrichshausen

This is a large and a small building at the foot of the Andes mountains. In fact, it is an aggregate of twelve different buildings separated from each…

Disappear like a stone sinking into the ocean

2A+P/A

On December 7, 1927, Antonio Gramsci reached the island of Ustica after five attempts to cross the sea from Palermo. He was the fifth political prison…

Unhoused

Samia Henni

1 9:00–10:00 am Reinsurance, call 115, distribution of exceptional travel certificates, medical appointments, contact tutor for budget managemen…

On the physical violence of architecture

Léopold Lambert and Roanne Moodley

Sara Sherif How did your work against the violence of prisons with The Funambulist begin? Léopold Lambert I think it started from an intuition tha…

Ichnographia Cellae

Dogma

An illustration of loneliness, togetherness, sameness, selflessness, laziness, asceticism, libertinism, domestication, inhabitation, socialization, in…

(no subject)

sub and Celeste Burlina

Dear xxxx, I hope everything is well. I moved in. It is a bit strange. The space is immense. The place here is organized so the blue part is …

The Architecture of Memory

Eyal Weizman

Nick Axel How has Forensic Architecture’s work with witnesses evolved over the years? Eyal Weizman In our first experiments, we were inspired by …

Home

Jan de Vylder and Inge Vinck

Prologue I A schedule. Planning for a project. And to make things clearer, some things are put in color. Not just in color. Outline and typography …

An exercise of formally structuring a house

Itsuko Hasegawa

To build a public building was to create a place for citizens to gather. To build a house was to create a place for a family and friends to be togethe…

Life Beyond Architecture

Traumnovelle

As the destruction of the environment deepens and broadens, leaving no leaf unturned, we continue to perform what once took place inside architecture….

Life and Prison

Catherine Malabou

The Prison of Language In his inaugural lecture for the opening of the Chair of Semiology at the Collège de France in Paris (1977), Roland Barthes…

Reflections from the Cave

Lydia Xynogala

We are outfitted with senses that convey the surfaces of things…our ways of probing the viscera of the world is to turn them into yet more surface…

Black Peace on Earth

Ilze Wolff and Anonymous

Black desire Enclosed Clouded, shrouded, 10, 11, need Chapter 6 Health MY PRESENT STATE OF HEALTH ‘My monthly periods have just b…

Volcano Dreams

Design Earth

Dream House The Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh tells a story of the journey to the Cedar Forest. On each day of the six-day journey, King Gilgamesh…

The Building Transforms You

David Adjaye

Nikolaus Hirsch Your drawing is an axonometric representation of the Cape Coast Castle, a building outside of Accra, the city where you have lived and…

Editorial

e-flux Architecture and gta exhibitions

Confinement is a collaborative exhibition taking place both online at e-flux Architecture and on site at ETH Zürich, curated by gta exhibitions (Fred…

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Covid-19, Architecture, Police & Prisons, Everyday Life

Confinement is a collaborative exhibition curated by gta exhibitions and e-flux Architecture, supported by the Adrian Weiss Stiftung and the ETH Zürich Foundation.

Contributors

e-flux Architecture and gta exhibitions Editorial
David Adjaye The Building Transforms You
Design Earth Volcano Dreams
Ilze Wolff and Anonymous Black Peace on Earth
Lydia Xynogala Reflections from the Cave
Catherine Malabou Life and Prison
Traumnovelle Life Beyond Architecture
Itsuko Hasegawa An exercise of formally structuring a house
Jan de Vylder and Inge Vinck Home
Eyal Weizman The Architecture of Memory
sub and Celeste Burlina (no subject)
Dogma Ichnographia Cellae
Léopold Lambert and Roanne Moodley On the physical violence of architecture
Samia Henni Unhoused
2A+P/A Disappear like a stone sinking into the ocean
Pezo von Ellrichshausen Luna House
Pedro Pitarch The Age of Oxymorons
Manuel Gnam Lake Gullible
Space Popular Phantomis.land
Inside Outside Sorry to inform you
Jack Self Campos
MAIO The Diffuse House
MILLIØNS The Temperamental Interior
Philippe Rahm The End of the Anthropocene
Andres L. Hernandez fugitive choreographies: trickster’s escape-ism, or, RBBT resists a sticky snare, or, bramble bred and bound by the bounce
Alberto Lule, Savannah Ramirez, Rosie Rios, and Nathaniel Whitfield The University and the Prison: A Dialogue
Michel Kessler Memory Wheels
Sumayya Vally Choreography of a Procession
Aristide Antonas Fake Exterior Folds
Alessandro Bava and Lydia Ourahmane Reconstituting Enclosure
Armature Globale Dislocated Display Drama

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