04. Folding Space

In India – among various other places – ’space’ is not interior nor exterior and the border between public and private is shifting constantly. For example, laundry hanging outside is something which is public here, mostly because of climate and temperature, but is considered to be more private in Western culture. To focus only on interior space – or drawing the border between private and public space – would leave out a lot of ’space’ which is neither one, but used or seen as both.

Think of a way how a particular space folds and unfolds itself. In terms of time and space. How does space defines itself?
Looking one day, from early morning to evening to the transformation of space – how interior becomes (exterior) and folds back into (interior) space. The graveyard space – which you can see on the photo below – could be seen as one entrypoint. Going there several times at different time-slots – early morning to afternoon and afternoon till evening – might give some interesting results.

graveyard_overview

graveyard_overview

graveyard_overview

graveyard_overview

graveyard_overview

graveyard_overview

graveyard_overview

graveyard_overview

graveyard_overview

Possible reference:
Foucault, M. “Other Places,� in Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954 – 1984, Volume II, (1998) Penguin, London

Deleuze, G. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, (1993) Athlone Press Ltd, London

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