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The Anatomy of 117

ART, CONCEPTUAL, INSTALLATION

 

The most interesting aspect of infrastructure is that it has an organic attribute, even though it is absolutely mechanical and precisely calculated. Both of that organic attribute and the infrastructure itself are usually veiled, like infrastructures of organic creatures, such as digestive system, excretive organs, respiratory function, or circulatory organs are not easily exposed. Likewise, urban infrastructures and their organic structure are hardly recognized, even if they are continually operated to keep the city alive.

I propose interventions that allow people to recognize those underneath existences. Firstly, I looked over the residential spaces' infrastructures, one of the most fundamental city units and the city's smallest scaled space. I observed them biologically and anatomically and designed several interventions that maximize their organic attributes. The language used here comes from the unusual moments that help me recognize biological infrastructures inside me, such as; gulping, burping, checking blood pressure and heartbeats, and pulsating on my wristlet. Those moments are digitally intervened in the water and sewage system, the ventilation system, and the residential unit's electricity system.