SHIFTING_DRIFTING/mythomaniaS_S/he_New-Territories_2012-2022
@lathouse

Meta / Metem-Psychosis / Para-Psychosis / Libidinal Resistance / Bachelor Machines / Eros-Tanatos / Apparatuses-processes / MPDisorders… / de-territorialization...
#mythomaniaS is a catalog of psycho-case studies in the form of film stills, architectural fragments, stage props, texts, and images culled from the experiments of mindmachinemakingmyths (Lab M4, part of New Territories studio), to construct environmental-architectural psycho-scapes (in the partly fabricated wilds of various countries) as laboratory-shelters for exploring and deconstructing the supposed rifts between realism and speculative fiction (myth), psyche and environment, body and mind, and “Mania” which refer, etymologically, to an Insane drive of perception-projection.
Time to “de-expertise” the design process through its opposite… the discovery of the potential of a masochistic adaptation, in a strategy of contingencies and correlations… of co-dependencies... with the making as process as the place of design… no modelization, no scripting if-then-while for bio-mimicry but uncertain input-output, artifacts... and failure, collateral effects, bugs, anomalies... all are welcome… to develop environmental-architectural psycho-scape.
Drifting architecture, in the pursuit of Deleuze and Guatarri’s schizoanalysis and deterritorialization, with a pinch of Alfred Jarry’s ‘Pataphysics (the “science of imaginary solutions…) to enacted and film some ‘mise-en-abimes’ in which certain scripted para-psychic narratives and architectural structures merge in the pursuit of reclaiming resilience — described by S/he as a tactic for merging refusal and vitality into a schizophrenic logic able to navigate the antagonism between the bottom-up and top-down conditions of the globalized world. In these fabricated schizoid psycho-nature-machine-scapes, the human being is no longer a bio-ecological consumer but a psycho-computing animal that emerges co-dependently with its environment in a hyper-local haecceity (“this-ness”).

‘S/he’ is the principal of ‘new-territories’. Androgynous, trans-gender avatar, S/he, created in 1994, authorized Francois Roche, native immigrant French architect to write, talk and teach on his/her behalf, as a PS / personal secretary, an Ariadne’s wire of his-her ectoplasmic system and paranoiac mind.
Exhibited among other places, at Pompidou Center, SF Moma, Barbican London, CCA Montreal, Tate Modern,…selected 10 times at Venice Biennial, in national and international Pavilion, including show at Chicago, Istanbul, Shenzen, Sydney Biennals respectively in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021. Main solo experiments, at Mam, Paris in 2006, at Le Laboratoire, Paris, in 2011, at Frac Orleans “s/he would rather do FICTION MAKer”, France, in 2016-17 / Last Solo Show Paris 2023:

https://new-territories.com/PASTFUTURECHAMBER/

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/s_hefictionmaker/