Alex Schweder LA

Space Time Performance

Art and architecture / performance

Filmed in California and Victoria

Space Time Performance is a film about the inflatable sculpture A Sac of Rooms All Day Long which was exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in an exhibition called Sensate: Bodies and Design.

Join ALEX SCHWEDER LA and PETER HYLANDS during the installation of this major work. As the work is choreographed, sound artist JANN NOVAK joins ALEX SCHWEDER LA to complete the score for this enthralling work.

“Prior to 2005 my focus was to create architecture that reflected the bodies we have, rather than the bodies we wished we had. The exploration of these ephemeral bodies led me to make buildings, that, like our bodies, are time based. These time based works are in a category of performative architecture that I call buildings that perform themselves. All buildings, as time passes, are part of an ever changing performance of use, decay and regeneration”.

In a five hour cycle A Sac of Rooms All Day Long, made of clear vinyl, rises from a puddle of plastic on the floor in a writhing performance, in which a 900 square foot house rises within the skin of a 500 square foot Californian bungalow. As the work inflates rooms start to steal space from each other, the rooms inside distort from something recognisable back to a jumble of lines as the rooms compete with each other.

The DVD also includes a special feature, a 30 minute discussion between ALEX SCHWEDER LA and PETER HYLANDS in Australia about conducting an international art practice.

Space Time Performance was launched in Berlin in the spring of 2010 by TINA DiCARLO.

“SCHWEDER, a Princeton – trained architect turned artist and a Rome Prize Fellow is among  a new group of emerging practitioners in which the gallery is evoked no longer as an area of display, but as a testing ground to formulate new paradigms of special practice. Here, architecture functions as a medium or special protagonist through which forms of agency may be invented, negotiated, provoked, uncovered, eschewed, or displaced”.

TINA DiCARLO – Writer, curator and founder of the Archive of Spatial Aesthetics, Berlin

BREAKING NEWS: October 2010 – ALEX SCHWEDER LA has won the ArtPrize Grand Rapids – International section – for the work Evaporative Buildings featured in Creative cowboy film’s Space Time Performance.