FWC PROJECTS are multilayered interventions consisting of research, documentation and events such as exhibitions, lectures, video works, presentations and interventions in public space. The following are the starting points of particular project fields:
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TOURIST CAPSULE...ACTIVE In the early 70's the first capsular hotel was built in Tokyo. It is the Nakatan hotel projected by Japanese metabolist architect Kisho Kurokawa. In his "Capsule Declaration" (1969) he wrote that the capsule is "a device which has become a living space in itself in the sense that man cannot hope to live elsewhere". In 2006 one of the most extravagant resorts will be opened in front of Dubai - "The World". It is an artificial archipelago of small islands in the shape of the map of the world, with luxurious villas and sophisticated communication and recreation devices. Each island is a capsule for itself, privately owned enclosed living unit. Between two extremes of exclusion there is a range of tourism industry based on "all inclusive" philosophy - transportation of a tourist into a fantasy land of unusual setting, event, program and behaviour enclosed in a total environment of a tourist resort. Capsularity in tourism is a process of creating total environments in which tourists perform the role of directed consumers. Tourism is based on voluntary temporary secession from the usual legal status of its consumers. |
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MALL CAPSULE...ACTIVE... Shopping mall is one of the most frequent spots of daily migration. It is regulated by a very specific and limited program (consumption), simulating features of public space and city such as meeting points, streets, squares and performing events. The only missing element for life in shopping malls is a sleeping/dwelling unit.With hotels or apartments you wouldn’t need to leave the shopping mall. Shopping mall is privately owned space with public function. It is a non-place (Auge) developing and redeveloping itself into a capsule based on inclusion. As Jon Jerde wrote on University City Walk he designed: "The only things kept out of this simulation are real poverty, crime and unplanned spontaneity." |
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MOBILE CAPSULE...ACTIVE In a society in which mobility is praised as a feature of freedom, a mobile device is becoming a living device, an enclosed unit containing comfort, communication and protection infrastructure. The car is no longer just a transportation device, but a mobile office, a mobile home and a mobile communication and entertaining device. It is a manifestation of an object in neoliberal societies, which is based on being "more than" what it is! The luxurious cruising ships (such as "The World") are floating cities where a dweller is offered a total living environment in which economical conditions are the basic criteria of inclusion/exclusion. To be free doesn't necessary mean to be mobile. Freedom is much more related to the possibility of being away, in conditions regulated by oneself. The more one can pay, the more freedom one can enjoy!? |
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CHURCH CAPSULE Churches and other sacral objects can be considered the oldest still existing entities functioning according to the principles of a camp. It is an exterritorialized site with its own regulation, separated from the state and its regulation. The church is related to the land - catholic church is one of the biggest land owners in Europe. The land of the church is open and its function is public but the program is exclusive. History informs us that in extreme situations church encapsulates itself. |
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MILLITARY BASE CAPSULE Military base does not communicate by any means with environment and it has its own regulation. Together with churches and embassies it is a forerunner to the foreign sovereignty on the territory of another country. While most of other capsules are bringing the outside world inside, military bases are training camps for taking outside what is rehearsed inside. Military base is a rehearsal space for the war theatre. |
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MUSEUM CAPSULE Artistic freedom has a particular legal status related to the broader aspect of freedom of expression. In the conditions of shrinking of public space and privatisation of traditional spaces of freedom (media...), cultural organizations and institutions are becoming isolated capsules of public debate and public confrontation. Is art becoming an institutionalised (subsidized, sponsored, granted ...) capsule of freedom of speech and expression? |
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REFUGEE CAMP FOR THE FIRST WORLD CITIZENS...ACTIVE
There never has been a refugee camp in the post World War II history, which would have been created in advance, that has been planned before the extreme situation has happened. However, several refugee camps have been created after WWII and still exist (e.g. Palestinian camps). The Project Refugee Camp for the First World Citizens is based on a hypotethical (hypothetical and ethical) situation (political, social, military, security, natural catastrophy ...) in which the citizens of highly developed countries (mainly from the West) would be forced to leave their country and look for a temporary home in another country. Refugee Camp for the First World Citizens takes the camp as a biopolitical paradigm for the contemporary West. The camp is always a parallel system, literally a 'para'-system, an exterritorialized site, where the usual legal system does not apply. And yet, exactly as such, it is a place or even a non-place which the regular legal system can turn to any time.
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