How can the house be folded outwards? What effect does a spatial opening to the lake have? And what spatial interventions and performative actions are needed to turn the house into a place of encounter?
Students from different fields (art-mediation-architecture-sociology) together with the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and Raumlabor Berlin were investigating the interfaces between architecture, performance, artistic research and mediation in a summer school. The ZAZ Bellerive became a temporary laboratory for space.
The house, its architectural peculiarity and its specific urban context were both the object of investigation and the spatial setting. For a fortnight, the villa was occupied and inhabited by the Summer School. Students became temporary ‘occupants’ of the house and develop everyday routines and rituals together: sleeping, working, cooking, talking, reflecting …
The focus is on moments of turning, turning around and stretching. At the same time, the focus is on interactions. Interactions between inside-outside, ‘occupants’-passers-by and event-fiction. Spatial interventions and performative actions are developed in parallel with each other and conceived in mutual influence.
Further information: https://www.zaz-bellerive.ch/home/summerschool
Serena Cerillo 