The copy is always lighter!
Weight is not limited to mass alone. The paper and lines of the unbuilt outweighs the gravel and mortar of the built due to the gravitas of their content.
Unbuilt outweighs built!
Paper covers rock!
I will follow the artefact and its copy through three worlds. The artefact are ultimately defined by weight.
Weight is not reducable to mass alone. The paper and lines of the unbuilt outweighs the gravel and mortar of the built due to the gravitas of their content.
Unbuilt outweighs built!
Paper covers rock!
The reality of the Carceri dig in Rome is given weight by paper props - archeology journals, X-rays and newsprints.
I will transform the British Museum into an artefact, ripping it from the ground. This act of violence forces onto the museum what it forces onto the artefact. The helium-enveloped British Museum will be ripped from the physical mass of the earth and floated as unbuilt folly. The validity of the proposal is given by weighty calculations which are able to outweigh absurdity.
The Museum will be disected and analysed! It will be weighed and balanced! It will be extracted and excavated!
I will strap it to a frame, a plinth, and lift it into the stratosphere by a glorious column of 8 million balloons!
The uprooting is the key moment when the museum ceases to be building and becomes artefact, just like its displays inside.
In a mirroring of the action previously described, that of ripping the artefacts from their site, I will displace the buildings of London.
Ghosts float above the city, a cloud formation of architecture past, filtering the ligh and squeaking in the breeze.
Heliogel slowly absorbs the debree of the city, replacing its gases with solids. The weighed down ghosts fall to the ground, returning to their silica state.
What might seem a tabula rasa is in fact the very opposite, a Tabula Plena. It is formed from the waste of an overspilling, layered history. From this white desert can erupt the new.
