New York is the center of all arts, a national and global culture hub. Within the city, art has been defined with very specific terms, having distinct ambassadors and branding. The generator is a physical critique of the current commercialized art state, starting by identifying the defects of the New York art scene. These are gentrification around art spaces, limited spatial experience inside the gallery and window shopping of art.
This situation needs to be de-commoditized, reversed, mutated.
The transgressional space contains many thresholds, connected to each other. The different parts are connected by intuition, having a main unit that characterizes their form and inner purpose. The mutation triggers are used to identify the units of each space. Through the script of the space, boredom, anxiety and purgation lead to the final catharsis, a new way of appreciating art. The art critique generator inverses the art experience by challenging the notion of familiar and unfamiliar art. Familiar in the front is perceived as projection, transparency, attractiveness, marketing. Unfamiliar is perceived as loss of materiality, delicate exposure.
The transgressional space cannot be unique, containing memories of its previous conditions. The light and space mutations are fused to create a new condition, a new norm that will then start mutating once again.
GSAPP, Fall 2013, studio critic: Bernard Tschumi
