EXERCISE 2 - Invasion

In this exercise you are asked to invade a domestic space with elements that are foreign to it. You will
build up a quantity of materials to develop an installation that aims at subverting the use of a familiar
environment.

EXERCISE 1 - Obstruction

In this exercise you are asked to choose a passage or a threshold within a domestic or private space in which you will set up an installation that operates as an obstruction. Installations can lead you to redefine known spaces and generate fresh possibilities for how they are used and experienced.

“Paradise under the Ceiling” envisages the establishment of a paradisiacal world in one’s own room. And paradise not in a figurative sense, but in the most literal, real sense of that word. Usual theories and notions of space assign it to some worlds that are remote in time and place, inaccessible to our real presence, worlds about which we can only dream and guess, but in reality it is impossible to see them: they exist too high and far away, if they exist at all.

(Kabakov, E & I 1998, 24)