Essay for Volatile or Collapsed Space
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Essay for Volatile or Collapsed Space |
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"Volatile or Collapsed Space" presents architectural installations
by architect Sabine von Fischer. Working since 2004 under the name "Diaphanarch",
Sabine von Fischer transfers terms like "diaphanous" and "prismatic"
into space and tests them within. She understands diaphanous architecture as an experiment
that undermines technical, aesthetic and economic conditions of space. Her works, in the form
of drawings and texts – range from concept and criticism to construction. Further,
they deal with visual versus audible space and the polarity between mass and horizon. Documented
in drawings and photographs, works included in the book are the metal mesh and foam-core installation
"Sonic Barriers" (awarded with the Swiss Art Prize 2004) on the exploration of
interferences in sound and image as well as a work made from colored caoutschouk, corrugated
cardboard and tubes, that integrates theoretical constructs on the event horizon into ist wavy
material shape. The images are accompanied by mostly English texts by the architect herself as well
as essays by Yehuda Safran and Claudia Hardi. The folded design of the grey cardboard cover illustrates
the book’s theme of space creation in a singular manner. Contribution to the Publication |