The catalogue essay by Robert Briggs and Niall Lucy (Curtin University) is available here.

As part of this event one-hundred unique prints on tracing paper were free for visitors.

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Three working diagrams that underpin the working process of this collaborative project.


1. A M D
An illustration of the in-flux relationships between architecture, movement and drawing, operating in both constraining and generating modes.


2. Constraining to Generating
In the initial point of occurrence Architecture, Drawing and Movement are each present in a constrained relationship (each one is equivalent to the others). As information is lifted from this initial point the system moves from a constrained relationship to a generative relationship. The generative capacity of the system increases as detail is reduced.


3. A / B
Pay attention to the areas of overlap between two identities. There is a slippery futility to naming and an impossibility to clearly defined boundaries. Our neat labels will always shift and change gradually. Where are the edges of our own body?

A selection of documentation from Benjamin and Rhiannon’s three week residency at CIA studios in October 2011. Utilising their own disciplinary frameworks and expertise as initial starting points, they began to construct simple experiments in order deconstruct the boundaries between architecture, drawing and movement, and simultaneously learn about each other’s practice. The aim was to simultaneously develop multiple possible direction’s that can be selected from for future development. Everything is very much still in the stages of becoming, nothing is static.


Below are a selection of the experiments that occurred during this first stage of development.

A system or an identity may appear stable for a time, however nothing is ever still. There is always movement. Gradually dancing, small variations constantly shift the system until a threshold is reached. This is related to the idea of a critical point. It is the point, or the moment, that a stable system shifts and becomes another. Identities break, and in turn are reapplied, but for a moment the groundless ground is revealed. Two stable systems collide, each shifts dramatically, splintering off into multiple possible forms, or maybe only for a moment each returning to its own predictable stability in time.