Architecture
Subscribe
Architecture
Subscribe
Confinement
Editors gta exhibitions, e-flux Architecture
Contributors David Adjaye, Design Earth, Ilze Wolff, Anonymous, Lydia Xynogala, Catherine Malabou, Traumnovelle, Itsuko Hasegawa, Jan de Vylder, Inge Vinck, and more…

Classical techniques of confinement have dramatically expanded, their domains of oppression building upon historical forms of institutional violence. From the virus to the room, the screen, and the municipality, todays social separations create new modes of behavior. The archaic media format of the drawing has the potential to trace and express the current environment and its rapidly changing conditions. Paradoxically, the drawing has been resurrected with growing attachments to screens. The flatness of paper adapts itself to any given digital device, but not without efforts and opportunities of translation. 

Confinement is a collaborative exhibition curated by gta exhibitions and e-flux Architecture, supported by the Adrian Weiss Stiftung and the ETH Zürich Foundation.

Confinement was exhibited at ETH Zürich from October 15 to December 18, 2020.

View Grid
View List
31 essays
Share
Dislocated Display Drama
Armature Globale
Apparently, we are cursed. In early September, they call. “We need an exhibition display for a show to be viewed remotely. Optional lockdown, no visit...
Read more
Reconstituting Enclosure
Alessandro Bava and Lydia Ourahmane
In 2019, I started working on a project to reinforce a wall, which is still in progress. The wall divided the corridor from a room at Residency 80121,...
Read more
Fake Exterior Folds
Aristide Antonas
In her text about Afro-pessimism and its intellectual consequences, Catherine Malabou calls for a different understanding of life in prison than one n...
Read more
Choreography of a Procession
Sumayya Vally
Nick Axel: As you move through this series of drawings, you start to realize you’re moving through a landscape, one that’s inscribed with history. The...
Read more
Memory Wheels
Michel Kessler
Covered in vaseline, polycarbonate, and mylar tape, the circular compound eye of knowledge occupies spaces and dreams, zones and fields, areas and sea...
Read more
The University and the Prison: A Dialogue
Alberto Lule, Savannah Ramirez, Rosie Rios, and Nathaniel Whitfield
Nathaniel Whitfield The university and the prison both exist as metaphors and metonyms. As part of the Underground Scholars Initiative and the UCLA Pr...
Read more
fugitive choreographies: trickster’s escape-ism, or, RBBT resists a sticky snare, or, bramble bred and bound by the bounce
Andres L. Hernandez
This text takes form through a spatial and (ever)special dialect. The TRR BBB THEY/THEM say that the map is not the territory, and a drawing is ...
Read more
The End of the Anthropocene
Philippe Rahm
On December 1, 2020, when the result of the Covid-19 test performed twelve hours earlier came back positive, I was transferred to a secure building in...
Read more
The Temperamental Interior
MILLIØNS
Somewhere between the stereotomic stonework of classical architecture and the “service cavity” logic of the modern plenum wall lies a&n...
Read more
The Diffuse House
MAIO
The diffuse house is the archetypal form of domestic space under late capitalism. The diffuse house operates 24/7. The diffuse house is ubiquitous. ...
Read more
Campos
Jack Self
Every night on this planet, about six percent of humans sleep in tents. We can guess this figure based on the 1.6 billion who lack adequate housing an...
Read more
Sorry to inform you
Inside Outside
The three of them were summoned to the parlor. As per the protocol, they would from there on out be addressed as Subjects A, J, and P, respectively. T...
Read more
Phantomis.land
Space Popular
Six degrees of separation is the theory that humans are always six or fewer social connections away from one another. Six degrees of freedom (6DoF) is...
Read more
Lake Gullible
Manuel Gnam
Meghan Rolvien At first, every landscape presents itself as immensely chaotic. Your maps question territorial realities and present a certain geograph...
Read more
The Age of Oxymorons
Pedro Pitarch
The Homogenizing force of capitalism is incompatible with any inherent structure of differentiation: sacred-profane, carnival-workday, nature-cultur...
Read more
Luna House
Pezo von Ellrichshausen
This is a large and a small building at the foot of the Andes mountains. In fact, it is an aggregate of twelve different buildings separated from each...
Read more
Disappear like a stone sinking into the ocean
2A+P/A
On December 7, 1927, Antonio Gramsci reached the island of Ustica after five attempts to cross the sea from Palermo. He was the fifth political p...
Read more
Unhoused
Samia Henni
1 9:00–10:00 am Reinsurance, call 115, distribution of exceptional travel certificates, medical appointments, contact tutor for budget management ...
Read more
On the physical violence of architecture
Roanne Moodley and Léopold Lambert
Sara Sherif How did your work against the violence of prisons with The Funambulist begin? Léopold Lambert I think it started from an intuition that...
Read more
Ichnographia Cellae
Dogma
An illustration of loneliness, togetherness, sameness, selflessness, laziness, asceticism, libertinism, domestication, inhabitation, socialization, in...
Read more
(no subject)
Celeste Burlina and sub
Dear xxxx, I hope everything is well. I moved in. It is a bit strange. The space is immense. The place here is organized so the blue part is ...
Read more
The Architecture of Memory
Eyal Weizman
Nick Axel How has Forensic Architecture’s work with witnesses evolved over the years? Eyal Weizman In our first experiments, we were inspired by Ha...
Read more
Home
Jan de Vylder and Inge Vinck
Prologue I A schedule. Planning for a project. And to make things clearer, some things are put in color. Not just in color. Outline and typography ...
Read more
An exercise of formally structuring a house
Itsuko Hasegawa
To build a public building was to create a place for citizens to gather. To build a house was to create a place for a family and friends to be togethe...
Read more
Life Beyond Architecture
Traumnovelle
As the destruction of the environment deepens and broadens, leaving no leaf unturned, we continue to perform what once took place inside architecture....
Read more
Life and Prison
Catherine Malabou
The Prison of Language In his inaugural lecture for the opening of the Chair of Semiology at the Collège de France in Paris (1977), Roland Barthes ...
Read more
Reflections from the Cave
Lydia Xynogala
We are outfitted with senses that convey the surfaces of things…our ways of probing the viscera of the world is to turn them into yet more surfaces....
Read more
Black Peace on Earth
Ilze Wolff and Anonymous
Black desire Enclosed Clouded, shrouded, 10, 11, need Chapter 6  Health MY PRESENT STATE OF HEALTH ‘My monthly periods have jus...
Read more
Volcano Dreams
Design Earth
Dream House The Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh tells a story of the journey to the Cedar Forest. On each day of the six-day journey, King Gilgamesh...
Read more
The Building Transforms You
David Adjaye
Nikolaus Hirsch Your drawing is an axonometric representation of the Cape Coast Castle, a building outside of Accra, the city where you have lived and...
Read more
Editorial
gta exhibitions and e-flux Architecture
Confinement is a collaborative exhibition taking place both online at e-flux Architecture and on site at ETH Zürich, curated by gta exh...
Read more
Category
Bodies, Drawing
Subject
Covid-19, Architecture, Police & Prisons, Everyday Life

Confinement is a collaborative exhibition curated by gta exhibitions and e-flux Architecture, supported by the Adrian Weiss Stiftung and the ETH Zürich Foundation.

Contributors