In a repeat of an event in Berlin,titled, Its Form Will Follow Your Performance, Alex Schweder is looking for five people in Seattle who want free architectural advice from a performance architect. Ideally, he says, the five will not be directly connected to the art world.
From Lawrimore Project, where the results will be exhibited:
These people need to be of limited means, and willing to have this
process documented and agree to him exhibiting or publishing this
documentation. He will then meet with these ‘clients’ for about an hour
at Lawrimore Project and hear what is wrong with their apartments. He
will then give them free advice about how to renovate their apartment.
they will go home and ‘perform’ this renovation, document it and send it
to him via email. They will then discuss the shortcomings and
successes of the renovation and try it again. This will again be
documented by the client. This correspondence will continue until they
agree their apartment is renovated.
Schweder:
I am interested in taking what we usually think of as an object and
understanding it performatively.
From Trouble:
Rather than suggest a rearrangement of walls or different paint color,
Alex wrote a short set of instructions for each “client” to behave
differently in their home. This shift in action constituted the renovation.
Its Form Will Follow Your Performance (Seattle) runs at Lawrimore from June 9 – 16. Prospective clients can email their
interest to: scott@lawrimoreproject.com with the subject line
“Free Architectural Advice.”
Schweder is the 2007 Genius Award winner from the Stranger. Jen Graves story here. My review of Schweder’s A Sac of Rooms Three Times A Day here.
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