In collaboration with Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart
Geometry of the Inside is the project of a metropolitan cinema. The building could be located nearby the Zacheta Gallery, the National Theatre, and the Metropolitan office building, fitting the architectural and cultural context of the Pilsudski Square. The shape of the building has been derived from an over 8 hour-long recording of the involuntary movements of a sleeping young woman. Her bodily movements were recorded by a computer and transformed into interweaving lines – the image of the attractor. In physics, the attractor is a ‘set of physical properties towards which a system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system.’ The term, originally used in the theory of dynamic systems, has also proved useful in sociology and ecology. In Kozakiewicz’s project, the attractor describes the movements of the sleeping figure, plotted with lines drawn from the woman’s bodily orifices. The grid so obtained has been transformed into an irregular, sculptural figure that, properly enlarged, becomes an architectural form. Geometry of the Inside explores the, seemingly untranslatable to the language of architecture, phenomena of movement and change. The building’s walls will be semi-transparent to make it possible to project images directly on them, both inside and outside, erasing the division between the private (inside) and public (outside). The continuity of the private (dream) and public (reality) spheres is already present at the project’s preparatory stage. By employing outer-wall screens, the object engages accidental passers-by who at any moment can become viewers of a projection. The use of walls as screens also means that the building’s shape has not been determined once and for all; the projected images will co-determine the building’s appearance and make it unique. Geometry of the Inside isn’t a static figure but a changeable form shaped by visual information.
Lidia Klein
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