AN AUTONOMOUS SPACE FOR UNCERTAINTY
Type
Year
Location
Studio project
2017
Heldenplatz Hofburg, Vienna
Studio Hani Rashid, University of Applied arts, Vienna
Andy Striezenec, Silvia Nanu, Mathias Juul Frost
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The VO[I]X is a space that confronts the individual and questions the very foundation society is built upon, establishing a spatial landscape that becomes an incubator for discussion and further iteratively defines and (re)defines the perspective from which we approach the future.
Inspired by Bertolt Brecht, breakage of the fourth wall, which serves as an invisible “barrier” that glues a play and an audience together subconsciously, an illusional reality - the breakage pushes the audience out, creating an in-between space for conscious reflection on the play.
As part of society, an individual lacks the proper distance to be able to reflect on his surroundings.
The breakage of the fourth wall serves as a metaphor, pushing the individual into a conscious
relationship to society.