Where does the body end and the room begin?
In collaboration with Ainslie Cullen, Kate Chen, and Greg Keller, we sought to de-construct spatial conventions of how bodies inhabit space through the design of “clothing as house” (or conversely “house as clothing”). While material conditions of walls, floors, ceilings (the elements of architecture) are understood to be static (evoking a sense of permanence), we imagined the possibility of an amorphous, fluid, stretchy, ephemeral architecture. An architecture which transformed in relation to the body/bodies that perform within it.
In the fabrication of “house as clothing,” we express the politics of domesticity, sexuality, and gender which are inscribed within notions of “home”. What does it mean to transform a symbol of the “American Dream” (a white-washed, heteronormative dream/nightmare) into a soft, deflated garment?