DEVOUR ME, TERRITORY



with 
 SOAP (Bettina Katja Lange / Uwe Brunner)

#Cathexis #Intimacy #Topophilia


Cinephilia expresses the love of cinema. It is a love that is pensive and, at the same time, ravenously possessive: not only to watch a film, but to own it, to take it apart, cut it, sample it, replay it compulsively until it becomes entirely, and somewhat disturbingly, yours.
What would it mean to redirect this gesture toward a place? Not merely to admire a place, but to stalk it, to desire it, to inhale it through and through, and to fall for it catastrophically: badly and obsessively.

Within the framework of the workshop DEVOUR ME, TERRITORY we tempt you to inhabit a place so intensely that you may no longer be able to tell whether you are occupying the place or whether the place has already entirely occupied you.

In Vienna’s Sandleitenhof (1160), your site of desire begins to show itself: a shop, a corridor, a courtyard, a stairwell, a threshold, the view onto and into a window, a corner, or another seemingly ordinary fragment of space. Through excessive attention, commitment, and complete surrender, you begin to cultivate a deeply personal and intimate bond with this place, one that may become, by extension, romantic, desirous, obsessive or perhaps even pathologically fetishistic. This unconditional closeness becomes the mood through which the site is encountered: across micro and macro, subjective and objective, fact and fiction, past and present.

As the outcome of this workshop, we will engage in a mode of architectural zine-making that seeks to capture this layered condition of evolving and mutual occupation through 3D scanning, film making, essayistic writing, and other extended technologies of the self.


SOAP is an architectural research collective working at the intersection of new media and critical spatial practice. Their work focuses on the exploration of digital environments, the politics of post-digital domesticity, and the ongoing tension between technology and intimacy.
https://someonlinearchitecturepractice.com/

Bettina Katja Lange is a German set designer and media artist. Her work moves between performative presentation formats, physical installations, and virtual environments, with a focus on the documentary potential of unconventional theater forms and digital media. She studied graphic design and later stage and costume design, working at renowned institutions such as the Graz Opera, the Vienna State Ballet, Munich Kammerspiele, Ruhrtriennale, Volksbühne, and HAU Berlin, as well as the Leipzig Opera, Zürich Opera, and in New York at PS 122 with the Wooster Group and La MaMa Theatre. https://www.instagram.com/bettinakatjala43e/

Uwe Brunner is an architect, educator, and researcher based in Vienna. Since 2019, he has taught at ./studio3 – Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. He is currently working on his dissertation, exploring the essayistic modality as a form of critical spatial practice in digital environments. He is also a co-founder of the Vienna Architecture Summer School.
https://www.instagram.com/uwe__brunner/


︎︎︎ MEDIA   3D, 2D, 1D modes of ‘life writing’

︎︎︎ LOCATION Sandleitenhof

︎︎︎ TEACHING LANGUAGE English

︎︎︎ WHAT TO BRING Laptop, Mobile Phone, Sketchbook

︎︎︎ REQUIREMENTS  no specific requirements

︎︎︎ MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS  6

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