On 6 am Fanqi Sun

Carlo Scarpa, Museo Canoviano,Possagno,1955-57

Woke up in a daze, a difficult glance at my phone, 6 am already, it is time to get up. Washing my face, wearing my hat, grabbing a cup of coffee, deep breathing, it is time to join the class.

3-hour time differences with my partners, chaotic time calculations, missed messages and communication. I feel like I’m living in another space. I was fed up, but I couldn’t leave. All I can do is accept it and try to make this unstable and disordered condition looks as normal as possible.

In the film “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” directed by Stanley Kubrick, the character Jack D. Ripper who is the example of extreme dislocation of word and meaning, as he believed the ridiculous rumor, and makes orders leading to confusion. The dislocation also manifested in the missing messages and actions between the pilots of B-52 Stratofortress and the War Room.

Looking to the discourse of architecture, the project Carlo Scarpa’s Museo Canoviano in Possagno was articulated dislocation, not only in the slippages between fore and back ground plane, the building massing and wall as well as material changes; but also the shifting narrative: how the space within the tiny extension of the new gallery is experienced. Standing in the Entrance Hall, the dislocation is represented by the separated threshold of the old 19th gallery and contemporary understanding of the sculptures, the narrative merged between these two spaces.