alive/not\alive, experimental intervention, 2020-2021

Alive/Not\Alive

2020-2021 experimental intervention, degradable objects, site, bot, map. Aalto library, Vyborg curator Lydia Griaznova

Objects invaded the modernist building as an experiment on library ability of being alive in several connotations. The modernist architect of the building, Aalto, believed the sum of functions of rooms is the essence of the building. But there is always more to the reality. I and the curator Lidia Griaznova took a page from Chile’s scientists Varela’s and Maturana’s book. They were the first to list the essential features of alive systems. It was their term autopoiesis on which we based our experiment on.

site of the Alive/Not\Alive: https://alivenotalive.cargo.site/