Performativity of Space

In his installations in Warsaw and Milan, Christos Voutichtis reflects on boundaries and ‘anarchist’ architectures, where space is defined by external causes.

Studio Urma, Moving Space and forming Objects installation, 2016

The architect and artist Christos Voutichtis from Studio URMA explores the boundaries between architecture, visual arts and theory in his latest project Moving and Space forming Objects (The Perfomativity of the Space).

Christos Voutichtis, Studio URMA, Moving space and forming objects, Warsaw, 2016 — **Top:** Christos Voutichtis, Studio URMA, Moving space and forming objects, Milan, 2016. **Above:** installation view in Warsaw

Using the urban space as the starting point for artistic engagements and visions, he transfers virtual reality into our physical environment, simulating spaces which do not obey the normal rules of architecture, but rather create space situations without program, rules, control or order.

What happens to architecture when one speaks of an extension/displacement or even of the disappearance of borders? The aim of the project was not to create a space which would be distinguished by its static structural design, functionality or durability, but rather and much more, to create an abstract architectonic concept of a space which reacts directly to external causes, not controllable through its performativity, that allows the unforeseeable.

Christos Voutichtis, Studio URMA, Moving space and forming objects, Warsaw, 2016

Christos Voutichtis, Studio URMA, Moving space and forming objects, Warsaw, 2016

The Perfomativity of the Space
Design: Christos Voutichtis, Studio URMA
Year: 2016

Performativity of Space

In his installations in Warsaw and Milan, Christos Voutichtis reflects on boundaries and ‘anarchist’ architectures, where space is defined by external causes.

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