A call to breach a wall is a call to action. The wall made of chairs is an artistic statement that transcends borders and spreads a narrative of hospitality, inclusivity and reconciliation. It is also a call to action, a call to participation, a call for a collective response to the challenges faced by contemporary society. The pavilion is a structure that responds to the act of the individual, and the sum of those acts becomes the identity of the whole.
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A call to breach a wall is a call to action. The wall made of chairs is an artistic statement that transcends borders and spreads a narrative of hospitality, inclusivity and reconciliation. It is also a call to action, a call to participation, a call for a collective response to the challenges faced by contemporary society. The pavilion is a structure that responds to the act of the individual, and the sum of those acts becomes the identity of the whole. 〰️
Assemblages is a project involving socio-spatial interventions that form temporal spaces of opportunity, connectivity and growth. Traversing the scale between furniture and building, reconciling the hand-constructed artefact, at human scale, with the built environment.
As people come together, so the walls come down! The CoForum and, before this, the ‘Chapel of Many’ are projects that specifically engage with ideas of reconciliation through the crafted non-discriminatory structure. As a structure for exploratory practices at marginalised or critical intersections, the key to the legacy of the structure is its ability to transcend community and cultural boundaries. In this capacity, the pavilion acts as a legacy tool for Architecktur Haus Kärnten and their ongoing commitment to introduce the wider community to issues around the built environment and, importantly, public space.
The chair, the very foundation of our cultural life, the ubiquitous tool of dialogue, hospitality, friendship and humanity is at the core of the structure. Here the chair is also a wall, a door and an aperture. One chair is a piece of furniture, 100 chairs are an expression of civic action. The chairs create a space, augmented through sound and narrative, exploring our relationship to public realm, and to each other.
AS PEOPLE COME TOGETHER, SO WALLS COME DOWN
A call to breach a wall is a call to action, a call to participation, a story of social, political and artistic endeavor. In the theatre Berthold Brecht and, more radically, Augusto Boal famously challenged the role of the passive spectator and called for the walls of the theatre to come down.
