PRESENT PRESENT The Aultian body between nature and culture participants:
Camille Cieutat Sebastjan Cvelbar Domagoj Osrečak
mentors: Aljoša Dekleva / dekleva gregoric architects Christian Pottgiesser / christian pottgiesser architecturespossibles co-mentor: Jakob Travnik Architectural Association School of Architecture, London in collaboration with ENSA PVS, Paris, AA Visiting School nanotourism, Ault 2017 Programme Head AA Aljoša Dekleva / Programme Head ENSA PVS Christian Pottgiesser / Programme Assistant Jakob Travnik
one representative IMAGE
INTRODUCTION
Talking about things I don’t truly understand, but they nevertheless seem true... Present. Thinking, maybe the only place I am really present. Am I present through the things I have? How present is my presence? Understanding the place. What does that even mean? Is reality a blurred mixture of subjective and objective? Between facts and fiction? Between logical and improbable? - What do you mean exactly? - I mean, but not exactly. Look within! Within what? And why? I don’t understand! What is presence? When are you? I am! I just am! Where? Here? Here? Here? Is there one Here? Argh! I don’t know!
NATURE
Wind
What does wind mean to us? An asset?
Temperature
How does the naked body deal with the nature?
Water
How does it feel to be a pebble?
Tides
How do we measure the tidal speed? With pebbles?
Sound
How can we enhace hearing? By using devices.
Sight
How can we partly block or enhance sight?
Touch
What does the beach and strand feel like?
Comfort
using devices to experience comfort on the beach
Natural definition of the Aultian body
The Aultian body is everyone who is experiencing Ault’s environment and is being influenced by it.
how to relate it to the users?
CULTURE
Why do we need the Aultian body?
The Aultian body is needed to experience the place through interactions with the culture of Ault and its users.
how to relate it to specific places?
Aultian culture
Guillaume Brac
Victor Hugo
representative Aultian culture to us
Daft Punk
From culture to activity
watching
reading
listening
experience
listening
dancing
basic activities related to culture
From activity to experience
experience
listening
dancing
alternated reality
alternated vision
alternated bodies
imaging new experiences of the city
From experiences to specific places
alternated reality
alternated vision
alternated bodies
movie scenes
footsteps of Victor Hugo
photoshooting places
relating to specific places
Possible combinations specific places
cultural points
new experience
activities
cliffs
experience
beach
dancing footsteps of Victor Hugo
alternated reality
center
listening Brac’s movie
alternated vision
casino
watching Daft Punk’s photos
alternated bodies
rue st Valery
reading
dry harbour
listening
choosing Guillaume Brac’s movie as our attach
Cultural definition of the Aultian body
The Aultian body as an extension of our own body and mind gives us new possibilities of thinking and acting in Ault.
how to embody it
EVOLUTION
From physical body to prosthesis
Prothesis to experience Ault’s culture
Prototyping
testing different positions of use
Material catalogue
pvc pipe
copper joints
canvas
ropes
cable tie
tools
using as little elements as possible
Movable screen
being able to walk around Brac’s scenes
Adjustable screen
one prototype fits different body sizes
Adjustable helmet
allowing one axis of adjustability
CONCLUSION
Movable movie theater as a participative experience
giving the prototype to the city
“Cinema is not the history of the 20th century, but the 20th century is the history of cinema� Jean-Luc Godard
FACTS /
PHOTOGRAFIC / GRAPHIC REFERENCES
TITLE: WHAT: WHERE:
Present present - the Aultian body Aultians
provider: WHEN: start: type of FOR WHOM:
local tourist office
DESCRIPTION:
Experiencing Ault through double reality by watching scenes from Guillaume Brac’s “Un monde sans femmes” in the scenery where they were actually filmed.
May 2017 as long as Aultians accept it anybody who wants to experience Ault
CHARACTERISTICS / PARTICIPATORY the Aultian body allows multiple spectators to share the experience
BOTTOM UP from Aultian nature and experience to the Aulti
SOCIAL oriented towards everyone who wants to experience the double reality of Ault
CRITICAL dealing with Guillaume Brac’s movie and the philosophy of Jean-Luc Godard
RESPONSIBLE not really
LOCAL showing local sceneries through double reality
SITE-SPECIFIC specific sites in Ault chosen through analysis of local culture INVENTIVE it just is inventive... we think
EDUCATIVE not really intensity/ extreme
higly
medium
low
none
Credits Music : Sudden throw, Olafur Arnalds Movie : Un monde sans femmes, Guillaume Brac Special thanks to Sound editing, pictures, ideas : Sven Jirka Video encoding : Matej Tili