Viva Hall

Paper absorbs water, packing peanuts have air pockets, corrugated cardboard leaves gaps when stacked, foil fluting has cells. A structure is something that holds itself up. In most buildings, the air is conditioned to keep us comfortable, regulated — the air becomes implicit, forgotten. But this is a porous relationship, we live inside and between these structures and, through the conditioning of air, which also lives inside us in breath and sweat.

Harnessing DIY methods as an affective and material driven sculptural practice, I examine instability and fragility as a method for questioning the complex, multi-materiality of the buildings and infrastructure among us. Instability is an open-ended sequence allowing new systems the space to grow.