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Politics Poesis - workshop with Daniele Pario Perra (Artist) and Roberto Dell'Orco (Photographer)

Our project introduce the idea of ''everywhen''.
Our aim is not ''where'' but ''when''.
When we talk each other, we create a link between people, we create an invisible space around us.
It's in fact the continuity of the first workshop based on choregraphy, in understanding the body in the space, our ''bubble'' of perception. Here we make it touchable, visible, like a protecting skin creating intimacy, a space that I can bring with me. Wherever ! Whenever !

The story...

what are the lack of the building of the faculty ? There's no place to stay, to eat, to talk, to take a coffee, to smoke, to be quiet, to sleep... Look ! the coffee machine is in the corridor or in front of the toilets ! Is it a good place to stay ?

Schematic ethnic's map : Chinese's store, Surinaam's stroe, Mediterranean's stores.

Membrane

Membrane : ''A membrane is a very fine envelope which surrounds and protects the cell. It controls the exchanges of the cell with outside : it lets to pass certain substances and bars the passage to others. The small structures which are inside the cell are also surrounded by a membrane.'' (from biological dictionnary)

If we think at chinatown as chinaplace we can say that Rotterdam hasn't any chinatown. But if we think at city like a living body where each district will be cell which is composed of subcells, we can talk about chinasubcell.

In fact in a cell like Westruiskade, we can observed a lot of different subcells, some publics, some privates. And this subcells are protected by a membran which create a selection between the two (too) different scales of cells.

For stores this membran is the storewindows, which create the visual links between the exterior and the interior and at the same time it make the selection between this two spaces.

This zoom from the body of the town to the microcosm of a subcell (here a store) create some of in between spaces which are like some interactiv part of the social urban structure.

Hello...from Rotterdam

In a first step, we were analysing Chinatown in Rotterdam with the help of one subject and one object choosen by the team. This choise was made before discovering the place...and our first impression makes us change it. We try by the prism of that two elements to read, to understand the district.

CHINATOWN ???

where is it ?

I dont know !

This answer is purely the summary of what we discovered. Is this really a Chinatown ? of course Chinese shops...we can direct our perception in focusing on the chinese comunity. But is it really revelling OUR Chinatow ?

OUR Chinatown is made by people from Croatia, Marocco, Turkey, Japan, Poland, Netherlands, India, Africa and so on....

UNITED COLOR OF CHINATOWN

books ; Espèces d'espaces - Georges Perrec, tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien - Georges Perrec.

Subject/object

The relationship between the subject and the object is the affect. The subject has a relation of feelings towards object, but this link could change. This instability refers to fashion, to obsolescence.

The relationship between the subject and the object is in constant evolution.

books ; Le système des objects - Jean Baudrillard, Système de la mode - Roland Barthes

Prière d'insérer - Georges Perrec