Architecture Film Lab _ Transplant
The MAXXI Architecture Film Lab, promoted and organized by MAXXI, takes shape starting from the growing recognition of this exciting contamination between languages and art forms which aims to develop new expressive tools and knowledge shared in the younger generation of architects and video artists. The program, which is part of the 2024 LINA Architecture Programme, included a series of lectures, meetings with artists and experts, as well as tutoring sessions aimed at creating short architectural video works. The group of participants - composed of architects and video artists - had the opportunity to explore the art of videomaking as a new way of investigating, questioning and reflecting on this year theme: movement in architecture or architecture in motion.
The MAXXI Architecture Film Lab gave participants the tools to analyze the topic from various points of view in the attempt to provide possible answers to the questions: how does movement define space? How does architecture generate or follow movement? How does the relationship between space and movement influence the way we perceive it? What can be considered “mobile” architecture today? How does movement influence the space we live in and the way we design it? How can instability become a valuable character in contemporary architecture?
Laura Hurley - Transplant
The experience of visiting a city and living in it can be entirely opposing. The sprawling mass that holds so many opportunities belies the hours spent watching the gloomy interior of subterranean tunnels hurtling by. To experience these journeys on foot, walking in this constructed landscape rather than passing below them underscores a level of detachment from the city as a complete entity.
Place becomes not a singular experience, but a series of disconnected fragments within a larger whole. Acknowledging the gradual migration outwards from the cities center, this work engages in a supplanting of the human body in these spaces - subverting the hostility of scale and preferential allocation of space for commercial pursuits. A re-contextualization of the act of commuting, this is an exercise of filling in the gaps: slowing down, narrowing the separation, resituating the body, looking up.
