Turbulence
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THE APARTMENT

Turbulence takes great pleasure in announcing the launch of "The
Apartment", a new work by Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg with
Jonathan Feinberg.

In a mnemonic technique of a previous pre-Post-It era, Cicero imagined
inscribing the themes of a speech on a suite of rooms in a villa, and
then reciting that speech by mentally walking from space to space. This
equivalence between language and space connects a personal phenomenology
with spatial configurations. For example, the bedroom is both an
architectural program and acts as a memory space of comfort, dreams and
sexual intimacy.

You are confronted with a blinking cursor. As you type the room
responds, engaging you in conversation, building a home around you. This
dwelling is built of spatial image/text fragments, forming an
equivalence between the space you inhabit and the mental space of your
conversation. Over time the dwelling acquires a history, being a
palimpsest of conversations with those that engaged with it. The
scratches in the space are made up of images and texts derived from the
dwellers' inputs, web searches and translations, organized into clusters
of spaces/ideas.