Lab Cult
2018
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal
Cultural (Completed)
Curator: Evangelos Katsioris
Photography: courtesy CCA
A series of drawings commissioned for the exhibition “Lab Cult: An Unorthodox History of Interchanges between Science and Architecture” at the Canadian Center of Architecture.
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The show sets out to look at how architecture and science are both mutually inflecting and work together to produce spaces of knowledge and scientific production figured by the image of the lab. It is organized around a series of case studies, which look at the space and spatialization of science through themes including “Measuring Movement,” “Designing Instruments,” “Visualizing Forces,” “Testing Animals,” “Building Models”, and “Observing Behavior.”
The drawings visualize the forces and processes inherent to each of these pairs. They abstract the space of the lab—denying “the room” as an interior and instead highlighting the physical affects of experimentation in relation to other actors—linking scientist to apparatus to subject. The lab itself becomes an imaginary, fluid, and abstract host of networks of knowledge production, a place of potential and where architecture takes on a new, undefined and open-ended charge.
2018
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal
Cultural (Completed)
Curator: Evangelos Katsioris
Photography: courtesy CCA
A series of drawings commissioned for the exhibition “Lab Cult: An Unorthodox History of Interchanges between Science and Architecture” at the Canadian Center of Architecture.
The show sets out to look at how architecture and science are both mutually inflecting and work together to produce spaces of knowledge and scientific production figured by the image of the lab. It is organized around a series of case studies, which look at the space and spatialization of science through themes including “Measuring Movement,” “Designing Instruments,” “Visualizing Forces,” “Testing Animals,” “Building Models”, and “Observing Behavior.”
The drawings visualize the forces and processes inherent to each of these pairs. They abstract the space of the lab—denying “the room” as an interior and instead highlighting the physical affects of experimentation in relation to other actors—linking scientist to apparatus to subject. The lab itself becomes an imaginary, fluid, and abstract host of networks of knowledge production, a place of potential and where architecture takes on a new, undefined and open-ended charge.