Description

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In the wake of Frank Lloyd Wright’ s pioneering work, visionary architects including Frei Otto and Buckminster Fuller established bubbles as a recognized artistic and architectonic form. The Berlin-based art duo Plastique Fantastique (Marco Canevacci and Yena Young) go one step further and harness them as a medium of temporary social interactions. The philosopher Vilé m Flusser conceived of space in the digital universe as a network of relational settings in which humans can be in multiple places at one, as a “ bubble that extends into the future.” Plastique Fantastique transform our urban and rural environments into laboratories for such spaces in which urgent social, political, and aesthetic questions are negotiated. Oversized translucent bubbles, traffic islands ringed by diaphanous tubes, giant lifebelts, air-filled sausages that the audience at a Peaches concert pass over their heads: Plastique Fantastique’ s installations fuse art, performance, people, and architecture in a multisensory experience that blurs the conventional boundaries of art and focuses our attention on the larger bubble in which human existence is contained.

About the Author

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Marco Canevacci, 1970 Born in Rome, Italy 1993— 1999 M.Sc. in Architecture, TU Berlin, Germany Lives and works in Berlin and dreams of Athens Yena Young 1982 Born in Seoul, South Korea 2001— 2005 B.Sc. in Architecture, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 2010— 2012 M.A. in Spatial Design, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland Lives and works in Berlin