December 10, 2023
Margot, Brooklyn
Featuring:
Jess Laser
Hilary Leichter
Annie Liontas
Writing asks us to create architecture from experience. So, what are you trying to build? And what do you do with something you have no place to put? Architecture as symbol. Compiling a pattern. The interior oasis. The meaning we assign space. Body as home as building. Where we keep our intimacy. Our cruelty. Our desired unity. Our memories are housed. Come out of yourself. Make yourself at home.
If I’ve known anything, I’ve known a room. Anything could be my room. But no place is ever the place. The poetics of space. Sick-building syndrome. Building a more just society. Homecoming or housewarming. Take me on a tour of your childhood living room. Self-made cage. The home was my world. The eye is the lamp of the body. The lamp is the house’s eye. Read a house. Read a room. Home is the original metaphor. What’s out your window? What room are you lost to? And can the dreamed place be as potent as the walls around us?
“I am my own hiding place” –Bousquet