XII The Concern From a Family

Shape like a tiny teapot, wandering around the living room and finding residues

Time goes, the teapot grows

“what’s your name?”

“Odradek”

“what’s your purpose?” Silence.

We don’t know where it from, but we all believe the Odradek will find another destination someday.

Atelier Intro

Abstract

‘Infrastructure Space seeks to find the latent possibilities inherent in things that already exist and to ask how these might be put to use in the service of society. We are concerned with the productive capacity of existing infrastructure and the combination of systems into new infrastructure that address environmental issues in tandem with the socio-cultural ramifications. We accept time as an operative condition and within this, use as a temporary state amidst more structural permanence. Materially, we are interested in the recovery of matter and the oscillations of scale as things are cast and recast, processed and reprocessed, eroded and reconstituted. Moreover, we are interested in how the virtual and real co-exist and the technological, environmental and ecological opportunities within these parameters.’

This body of work is situated within systematic nomadism around the North Sea, and concentrates on the human figure’s plight in the modern production landscape and their desperate need to preserve a sense of identity in that inhuman, alienating environment. It further explores the contemporary social and political issues that are addressed by the modern nomad, including dependency on technology, identity diffusion, body in operating space, and production space as disciplinary institutions etc. The group replaces the top-down design logic with the complex interaction between theoretical background, script, collage, drawing and other mediums, and then composes an absurd and ravishing collection of tales. It includes a series of independent but consecutive scenes, which never in - tend to create a certain “thing” with delusion but picturize the atmosphere for the final outcome. The methodology and process of work are recorded and packed as “handbook” and “building the stage”. By breaking the fourth wall, we try to discuss the possibilities of integrating these rich materials in the next stage with the audience.

‘The NomadLand & Twelve Tales’

Part A: The Making of Twelve Tales

Background and Methodology Study

Introduction

1 to 12

Chapter I: Twelve Tales

13 to 40

Part B: For Studio Three

Storyboard and Paper Model Test

Chapter II: Storyboard

41 to 46

Part C: Futher Attempts

Systematic Study and Approach

Chapter III: Building the Stage

47 to 54

Chapter IV: Instructive Models

55 to 63

Appendix: Biblography

Well, shall we go?