PHI CONTEMPORARY COMPETITION CATALYST Angela Silver x AKAFLDWRK NEW APERTURES 2021
team: Angela Silver, Julia Pascutto, Jeff Ma, Mathieu Cloutier, Jasper Silver-King
“we work with the residues of language and our research is interested in the itinerant ways in which language inhabits the body. we transform moribund information tools and systems in ways that reorganize experience. we explore the relationship or gap between conventional structures of language and bodily experience and seek to raise questions about public and private spaces, authority and responsibility, while offering alternative meanings to loss. of functionality.” -angela silver
LANGUAGE
a CATALYST that informs, reforms and challenges the building of change
DECOLONIZE, claim and challenge the system that was not built for everyone
REORIENTING the forces of artistic production to align with contemporary goals
a collaborative PROCESS to question and challenge the normative
an INCUBATOR for a modern cultural identity, fueled by curiosity
HAPTIC, as a global sensory evolution for the individual
MEET the needs of today's society, locally and globally
DISMANTLING barriers and making room for hitherto silent voices
a COLLECTIVE of personal experiences defining how we reoccupy spaces
PARTICIPATIVE and passive, it actively takes into account the consumer culture and operates on a closed system
HAPTIC
a GARDEN as a sanctuary, for healing, for regeneration and for sustenance
SOCIAL and energizing, it stimulates the collective spirit and reveals the individual personality
REPRESENTATION for the silenced, toolkit and infrastructure for activism
a CATHARSIS for the public collective that informs the foundations of the future of cultural institutions
a CONNECTOR between the accidental and the intentional, between the periphery and the normative, a dialogue
PUBLIC in its ability to provide what is missing, it is shared and it is a reflection on itself
ACCESSIBLE so as not to limit any aspects of the human experience
INCLUSIVE and universal so as not to exclude extremes and to take into account all perspectives
a SENSE OF BELONGING inscribed in space and philosophy, taking into account all identities and orientations
COUNTER INSTITUTIONAL into the urban psyche and strong enough to dismantle and alter the current framework
SYNTHETIC
ADAPTABLE to the rhythm of the requirements of the contemporary cultural institution
an OPENNESS that frames vision and space while taking into account the evolving needs of users
EVOCATIVE in questioning and redefining normative institutional expectations
an EVENT of particular significance that impacts modern understanding of a cultural institution and the space it occupies
an intuitive EXPLORATION of the unconscious to inform and define a contemporary model of architecture
a PROCESS for the curious to challenge the expected and create the exceptional
(RE)FRAME of institutional definitions through the transformation of architectural cultural models
(RE)ITERATIVE as a process and methodology based on a flexibility to redefine its own framework and inform the systems around it
(RE)EQUIP influencing systems to broaden access and visibility
(RE)VALUE while (re)assessing priorities in the societal, historical and educational context