LUCIANA PARISI Interview

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:19

  My first work was on the idea of sex, of abstracting sex from biological bias and biological grounds. So I was trying to work between questions of sexual difference and gender differentiation. I found a space between to really work with biology and through biology, to actually argue for a model of sex that…

• 00:01:17

  Feminine subjectivity or feminine macro-politics that would not be represented by a specific body. So to think of corporeality in terms of lateral, non-linear transmission of information. And also to argue for a question of the feminine or trans-feminine or macro-feminine that would be the first level…

• 00:02:46

  The reason why I moved from abstract sex to contagious architecture, the idea of contagiousness for me was not just to remain on the level of biological contagion or viral bacterial contagion, which I'd elaborated before, but to think about contagion in terms of abstraction. So how, for instance, models of design used…

• 00:03:31

  So computation becomes this kind of infrastructure to think media in terms of codes and in terms of programs. It's very important. It's very important in terms of incompleteness of logic. And so I saw architectural design as an opportunity to look at the aesthetic that could be produced through this kind of new media…

• 00:04:37

  Actually, for me, it was an opportunity. It was an opportunity. It was an opportunity. It was an opportunity to think about aesthetic beyond, as it were, the biological. So to really think about the abstract, the concreteness of architectural abstraction, and how that was operated or had been operated through…

• 00:05:16

  It's a work in progress. And I think it's a work in through. I don't have, by any means, any sort of model for it. But architecture, I guess, computational architecture was interesting because it looked at or argued for an understanding of space based on morphology, on non-standard geometry, so opening up kind…

• 00:06:48

  and that's why computation and computational architecture creating models is actual a production of abstract thoughts and not just a kind of representation of the material morphologies through which one can think of space in a non-euclidean way the architectural design of the summer school is um i think is kind…

• 00:08:24

  thinking how how to produce critical thought is a proliferating architecture but it's also a way for you to archive or to produce certain kind of direction give certain kind of direction in in this very irregular and mutating field of intervention especially vis-a-vis sexualities and politics so i think it's a it's…