Bed Chamber

Guidance: “Be sure to close the gate after entering the room. On the right, take your cocktail it contains common mugwort, valerian root and asparagus racemosi. Sit down at the dressing table, put on lipstick 110 Rouge Pur Couture. Lay down in this bed. Inhale through your nose, exhale trough your mouth.”

We dream of spaces, experiences, and conditions the real world should have. Neurologically, it makes no difference whether we dream or experience something consciously. However, we tend to believe that our dream life is separate from our waking life. Can we change the world without physically moving a single stone?

Bed Chamber is a work from series Recreation Areas: 1:100 miniatures of islands that mimic or suggest a place. Recreation Areas are objects of power and models to believe. They are substitutes for places and non-places full of fantasy and memories. They can balance your life in turbulent times. 

U5 (http://u5.92u.ch) is an artist collective that opposes individual authorship and actively seeks out historical and contemporary approaches to research in art and architecture. Their focus is on approaches that go beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and create thought-provoking forms of art and knowledge.

This contribution happens in the context of Protect Us From What We Want*, taught by Berit Seidel and Helene Romakin at the chair of Philip Ursprung in 2021/2022. The seminar explored the relevance of the seminar trips as a format in architectural studies while researching possible alternatives in terms of sustainability. In the seminar we experimented with different methods and forms of hybrid travel and imagination.

* inspired by Jenny Holzer, Survival Series, 1985.

Bed Chamber