Topographics skins

Exploring territories as a topography of uses and a space of human encounter.

Year

Topographics skins

Designers

Diana Cabeza; Analia Sirabonian

Original drawings

Diana Cabeza

Curator

Martin Huberman

Development team

L. Velasco Suárez; M. Jensen; M. Levin; F. Rossi; A. Miraidan; N. Bernaudo; N. Kourghinian; S. Tovo; I. Tovo; M. Hovassapian

Photography

Javier Agustin Rojas

The idea of the intervention is to generate a rich collective encounter experience on an elaborate and useful topography. The experience is determined by the mutant dimensional conditions and the varied surfaces of the textiles and membranes that cover the topography. The created topographic territory permits the accommodation of human bodies, which may be covered for protection or merely become part of the territory under the translucent membranes, like a chrysalis skin. Here the bodies become invisible and form part of the whole until losing identity. “Useful topography, variable use support, open uses, ergonomic territories, haphazard encounters, support for individual or community encounters, open matrix geographies where every furrow is an opening to latent uses awaiting to be awoken” “Experiences between skins: cotton wool skins, heavy skins, mobile and elastic skins, digital skins, human skins and textile skins sometimes loaded with texture and other times soft and fragile…” This proposal is made by two designers who have been working on the human body, skins and topographies from two different disciplines which, on this occasion, converge exploring a common territory.