VIII.
Room With a View
A work in a room
The work is a view into an empty hotel room. It may or may not be the hotel room of the proposed site. It may just as likely consist of view of a hotel room in Nevada or any generic space in the landscape of an American diaspora. The content of the view doesn’t matter, it is the construction that concerns us.
The view of the room is in fact constructed. Our project is an image of a room (the perspective scene) and an actual room composing the image. This technique borrows from 16th century Renaissance theater design and the use of false perspective scenes on stage.
French historian of scenography Denis Bablet once described 20th century scenography as a “battle with space,” while theater historian Arnold Aronson described the impulse as a “battle with image.” We find the installation to occupy a self-similar category, between an impetus for space-making and an impulse for image-making.
The installation is a response to the Last Call for One Night Stand, a call put forward by the curators Jennifer Bonner, Kyle Miller, and Volkan Alkanoglu to question the efficacy of the architectural installation and to propose an “alternative manifestations of their experimentation.”
Viii.
Room with
A view
A work
in a room
PERSPECTIVE BOX
The project constructs two perspective boxes, installed in the door and the window of the hotel room. The boxes allowed visitors to see the rooms without ever entering into them.
IMAGE
The material assemblage of the image, unfolded along its seams, formed the printed surface of the perspective box.
ROOM WITH A VIEW
PROJECT TYPE
Temporary Installation, 2017 (Built)
PROGRAM
The installation in response to the ‘Last Call’ for One Night Stand LA for Art & Architecture
DATE
May 10, 2017
LOCATION
Royal Viking Motel (formerly The Pod Inn), Los Angeles, CA
PHOTOGRAPHY
Spinagu
TEAM
Maxi Spina
Jia Gu
Brandon Kintzer
Luiza de Souza
Nicholas Perseo.
THANKS TO
Jennifer Bonner
Kyle Miller
Volkan Alkanoglu