Chamber

. December 2018 – February 2019
. At Espacio Odeón
. WORKNOT!

The installation “Chamber” is part of the collective show “Odeón o de la Contingencia” that through a series of site-specific projects, reflects on the past and future of this building and its legacy. The beautiful building used to be Odeón cinema in Bogota, and now its so-called ruins have turned into a space for art and culture in the past few years: Espacio Odeón.

The installation Chamber proposes to see the so-called ruins of Odeón as a performative archive itself. Opposing the idea and strategy of “preservation” and replacing it with the idea of performance and strategizing an enabling body. It contemplates the conditions and performances of artistic production and exposition. Placed on the beams of the ruined amphitheater, it discusses bodily and spatial practices of inhabitation through a three-levelled elemental structure each floor framing: collectivity, knowledge, and comfort.