The American Building Experience

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Supergent

Supergent is a force that has no name: the same process that lets ants find food without a leader, builds Cincinnati without an architect, and wires the cortex without an engineer. Pheromones become a path, footsteps become a city, synapses become a thought; the rule is small, connect, respond, repeat, and the consequences are everything. The work moves through Cincinnati as a living system, organisms becoming streets, streets becoming shoals, water becoming memory, memory becoming rhythm, until the whole rises as a single superorganism looking at itself.

Metatecture

Metatecture is a site-specific audiovisual installation that oscillates between meticulously tracing existent architectural structure and its bold, volumetric overwriting through colour and distortion. Borrowing its name from metafiction, the literary device that exposes a narrative’s own constructed nature, the piece imagines the building reflecting on its own means of construction, using cut-up techniques and shifts between descriptive imagery and exaggerated form to deliberately break with immersion and remind viewers of the tools of creation.

Music by Tibslc

Aspect

Aspect returns the American Building to its continuous tense. For five minutes, the 1928 Art Deco tower is no longer what it was built to be, it is what it is being made to do, now. Architecture is the verb. Aspect is its unfinished form.

Zarko Komar (sound)