Our 18th stop is in Feldbrunnen (Switzerland) alongside Céline Bessire and Matthias Winter. If you ever feel like discussing difficult words like “parallax”, they are the perfect counterpoint. Things are not what they seem, “things carry an ambivalence within themselves” and Parallex is all about shifting perspectives, “what we are trying to find is the parallactic qualities within the everyday spaces (…) It’s not about changing or shifting meaning but changing what they actually are.”

The first sep is to understand the potential of the Parallex, secondly…you unleash its potential. Céline and Matthias have a bag full of ideas to argue on this topic. 

“We realised that we can change things also by not physically changing things.”

After all, “It raises the question of where a project end and where a project starts…if it actually does end or if it actually does start”. If we weren't already uncertain about everything, even the a priori data isn't sufficiently solid to remain unquestioned.

Question everything, be sure of nothing, a beautiful “strategy of how we can unlearn something that we are used to do.”

We might also welcome Georges Perec’s “Species of spaces” to this cloud of ideas. Was he actually putting things inside boxes? Or was he attempting to make us (paralleticly) think out of the box?

“It’s quite delirious to attempt to make categories, it can only be limiting.”

Guest: Céline Bessire + Matthias Winter (Feldbrunnen, Switzerland )

Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal)

Sponsor: JJTeixeira

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