failed containers, 2020
Exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture, exploring de-familiarized architectural readymades as activist objects. The focus of study is centered around objects of containment and their different methods of failure.
The exhibit sets up its own definitions and creates a physical inventory of objects within them, speculating on a qualities of the expected, unexpected, latent and apparent as regulators of failure.
The work suggests a new form of actioned estrangement, here identified as “de-structured failure,” which operates within the subconscious as a covert disruption of existing systems of regulation. In contrast to the other identified categories, the latency of de-structured failure requires interaction, making it an active form of failure that can be at once subversive and covert within a realm of expectation.
