CuC or the Cocoon House
Kinetic trojan horse made in collaboration with artist Guillermo Laborde. Built out of lycra and steel rods the beast is animated by its users
CUC (worm in Catalan) was conceived to participate in a contemporary art festival in the gardens that Le Nôtre designed for the Lanfant Pavilion (Aix-en-Provence) in 2003. The theme for the festival revolves around the visual and mental disorders of Lewis Carrol. The design drew on the ideas of cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio from his work “The Aesthetics of Disappearance”. The intention was to make “the disorder of the senses a permanent state, conscious life before a pendular journey that would have birth and death as extreme poles ...”
Life is given to this larval container of Lycra through movement and touch; the contact between two skins. This is a textile skin, soft and elastic, a place of milky and homogenous light, where the Cartesian triad disappears submerged in an areferrential world of permanent movement.
Small architecture, in terms of measurements and characteristics, becomes a playful and interactive event, where instability and uncertainty are reasons to celebrate and where sensuality and the relationship between body and space are in constant question.
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