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EMPTY ROOMS / ΚΕΝΑ ΔΩΜΑΤΙΑ LIVING ROOMS / ΧΡΗΣΙΜΑ ΔΩΜΑΤΙΑ

USEFUL OBJECTS

ΧΡΗΣΙΜΑ ΑΝΤΙΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ ΧΡΗΣΙΜΑ ΑΝΤΙΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ

USEFUL ROOMS

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This room intentionally left empty.

EMPTY ROOM

walls, roof, floor, stairs [concrete] 3.60 X 3.60 X 4.00 m

A space without a use I have several times tried to think of an apartment in which there would be a useless room, absolutely and intentionally useless. It wouldn’t be a junkroom, it wouldn’t be an extra bedroom, or a corridor, or a cubby-hole, or a corner. It would be a functionless space. It would serve nothing, relate to nothing.

For all my efforts, I found it impossible to follow this idea through to the end. Language itself, seemingly, proved unsuited to describing this nothing, rhis void, as if we could only speak of what is full, useful and functional.

A space without a function. Not “without any precise function” but precisely without any function; not pluri-functional (everyone knows how to do that), but a-functional. It wouldn’t obviously be a space intended solely to “release” the others (lumber-room, cupboard, hanging space,storage space, etc.)

but a space, I repeat, that would serve no purpose at all.

I sometimes manage to think of nothing, not even, like Raymond Queneau’s Ami Pierrot, of the death of Louis XVI. All of a sudden I realize I am here, that the Metro train has just stopped and that, having left Dugommier some ninety seconds before, I am now well and truly at Daumesnil. But, in the event, I haven’t succeeded in thinking of nothing.

How does one think of nothing? How to think of nothing without automatically putting something round that nothing, so turning it into a hole, into which one will hasten to put something, an activity, a function, a destiny, a gaze, a need, a lack, a surplus...?

I encountered many unusable spaces and many unused spaces.

But I wanted neither the unusable nor the unused, but the useless. How to expel functions, rhythms, habits, how to expel necessity?

Piece from Species of Spaces Georges Perec

TRANSPARENT UNITS WITH EVERYDAY USES

glass, daily needs tools 1.50-3.00 X 1.50-3.00 X 2.75 m

ANECHOIC CHAMBER SLEEP EXPERIMENT No1

fiberglass sound absorptive units, mattress,metallic mesh,camera 3.60 X 3.60 X 4.00 m

ANECHOIC CHAMBER- FOOD CONSUMPTION EXPERIMENT No1

fiberglass sound absorptive units, metallic mesh, camera 3.60 X 3.60 X 4.00 m

PROJECTION ROOM

walls, roof, floor, projectors 3.60 X 3.60 X 4.00 m

THREE WASTE CONTAINERS

plastic

0.60 X 0.60 X 0.70 m

SLEEPING ROOM

wood, mattress, EEG apparatus 2.30 X 2.30 X 2.30 m

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ROOMS FOR RECORDING,ANALYSING AND EXHIBITING EVERYDAY FUNCTIONS

I) shower, water consumption counter, timer, camera II) chair, table, X-ray apparatus III) camera,sleeping mattress, eyeglasses for recording of the eye movement,EEG apparatus, camera 1.25-2.30 Χ 1.25-2.30 Χ 2.30 m

BED-HALLWAY_SLEEP EXPERIMENT No 2 [VERTICAL TRIAL]

capacity : up to 3 persons walls, soft foamy material 3.00 X 4.00 X 1.00 m

INSTALLATION FOR MULTIPLE USES

metal frame, curtains, daily needs tools 11.00 X 5.20 X 2.80 m

SIX SHELVES WITH IMPROVING SLEEP OBJECTS

wood , various textile materials 3.00 X 0.50 X 0.05

OBJECTS FOR FOOD CONSUMPTION

wood , various materials 3.00 X 0.50 X 0.05

WORKING SURFACE AND RESTING SURFACES

wood 1.40 X 0.70 X 0.70 m 0.45 X 0.50 X 0.80 m

OBJECTS FOR FOOD PREPARATION

wood , various materials 3.00 X 1.00 X 0.75

OBJECTS FOR WIPING/DRYING OF BODY AND OBJECTS FOR LIGHTING

wood , various materials 3.00 X 1.00 X 0.75

SUPPLY PLATFORMS

2 °C

plasterboard, polyurethane, steel, concrete, various food 2.60 X 2.60 X 0-4.00 m

CLEANING APPLIANCES AND PLATFORM FOR DIRTY CLOTHES

various materials 1.20 X 0.65 X 0.85 m

INSTALLATION WITH HANGERS

metal 5.10 X 0.30 m

SHELVES FOR PERSONAL ITEMS

wood and other materials 10.80 X 0.60 X 0.06-0.70 m

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