The laboratory in situ 2014, MOCKUPS, focuses on the possibilities of architecture to produce 1:1 scale models; spaces that even if they are proposed in the correct size are still models, they are not organized as final productions but as test environments or as not sufficient places; they are programmatically built in order to realize a time rupture or to lead to distant or non-existing environments.
Such spaces include construction prototypes but also idiosyncratic photographic studios or other constructions that stand for realities apart from the frame they are built in, consciously orienting to a "next reality" to be rather expected than experienced inside them. A relation to a fake character is the stronger impression in the mockup condition. Nevertheless every mockup is presented in order to construct thoroughly the exact version of a different fake character. The mockup proposes a different point of view than the one in which its visitor participates. Mockups show structures at their normal size while keeping the consciousness that they are fake; a more or less hidden theatricality is present in the condition of mockup. "Provisory Final" impression is in many different senses an important part of our reality in the age when space is augmented with digital information. The strengthening theatrical character of the everyday and its consciousness is another aspect of a future mockup culture: we can be able soon to live in unfinished settings that could be augmented by information differently. Furthermore the orientation of this studio poses the question concerning the possibility, the problems and the politics that would go together with an inhabitation of mockups.
The workshop will produce such mockup systems; participants will propose models and representations of mockup spaces and define their scenographic status.
Studio 17—22.8 / 10:00—16:00
With Aristide Antonas, Heike Schuppelius, Anastasios Tellios and Stavros Vergopoulos.
15’ interventions & tutorials 18—22.8 / 12:00
‘Performing the City’, replicas and dioramas, with Evi Sougkara and Yannikos Vasiloulis.
Lectures 17—18.8 / 19:00
Aristide Antonas, ‘The Consciousness of Illusion’
Heike Schuppelius, ‘Bauprobe’
Final crits & show 22.8 / 20:00
With Nikos Kalogirou (coordinator), Katia Arfara, Vasiliki Petridou and Agapi Proimou.
Location: Grand Arsenal of Chania
Cost: €350 (incl. accommodation in Chania)
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Double Moon
In the circular bastion of Nea Chora, a rail is installed allowing for an attached battery lamp to be pulled. In the night the visitor follows the route of the rail using this light. During this path he encounters four minimal settings. At the end of the spiral path, on top of the bastion, he encounters a second circular light and its reflection on a horizontal water surface.
Arxontia Kyroudi, Ioulia Leventopoulou, Georgia Pantidou
Reverse Stair
From a specific observation point, the view of a stairway that leads to a cavernous space of the wall is distorted by the introduction of an inverted perspective plan.
Lydia Antoniou, Stella Avgoustidou, Sofia Tektonidou
Derive Apparatus
A device carried by spectators in this peculiar game allows for the participation in a performance that uses the city as a theatrical stage. The spectators become a part of it, as an ambiguous attraction for the passerby.
Isidora Arvaniti, Irene Doumani-Korka
Bubble Wrap Street
Translucent screens made of bubble wrap are installed in an alley that ends to the old wall. The same material is used to wrap selected objects that organize smaller spaces. The street is tested as the scene of a theatrical show where the spectators are gradually directed towards the fragment of the wall.
Orestis Kaklamanis, Konstantina Lazaridou, Photini Mermyga
Distant Storm
In the bastion of San Salvatore some parts of the ground are covered with sheets of reflective material. The visitors experience an augmented condition that includes the amplified sound of the sea and the strong wind. The high walls block the view to the sea, this intervention however allows for the visitor to experience it in an extreme state, by means of sounds and reflections.
Ismini Chrysochoou, Nikos Sampaziotis
Diorama
A fragment of the Venetian wall in Minoos Street is used as the background for a potential performance. The installation includes a small backstage space behind the wall. The frame created by this heavy screen is prepared to receive staged events, such as the making of a chair, the climb to the top of the wall or a peculiar procession of people. Each act takes place along with a temporary traffic interruption and a special lighting of the area.
Irini Afentouli, Eyfimia Lianou, Tina Marinaki
The Ladder and The Screen
Two minimal theatrical stages are organized in two recesses of the Venetian wall. Using a sheet and a metallic ladder, the narrative of Plato's cave is enacted in this trivial view of the wall.
Chrysanthi Anogiati, Nikos Kouklakis, Prokopis Maragkakis, Niki Maragkoudaki
Mirror Chasm
The staged transition from a parking lot to the inner yard of a block is organized as an expanded theatrical threshold. A still water surface serves as a mirror that evokes a feeling of levitation. A suspended lightweight structure allows the passerby to ascend as his reflection is descending.
Anna Axaopoulou, Elissavet Pertigkiozoglou
Inhabited Model
A large model of the city of Chania that does not follow any real scale, but the experiential imprint of it, is built on the platform of San Salvatore. The working group examined the structure’s dimensions on-site, using rope and plastic poles.
Elena Chatzilari, Dimitra Christoforidi, Katerina Papadioti
