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CuC or the Cocoon House

Kinetic trojan horse made in collaboration with artist Guillermo Laborde. Built out of lycra and steel rods the beast is animated by its users

CUC (worm in Catalan) was conceived to participate in a contemporary art festival in the gardens that Le Nôtre designed for the Lanfant Pavilion (Aix-en-Provence) in 2003. The theme for the festival revolves around the visual and mental disorders of Lewis Carrol. The design drew on the ideas of cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio from his work “The Aesthetics of Disappearance”. The intention was to make “the disorder of the senses a permanent state, conscious life before a pendular journey that would have birth and death as extreme poles ...”

Life is given to this larval container of Lycra through movement and touch; the contact between two skins. This is a textile skin, soft and elastic, a place of milky and homogenous light, where the Cartesian triad disappears submerged in an areferrential world of permanent movement.

Small architecture, in terms of measurements and characteristics, becomes a playful and interactive event, where instability and uncertainty are reasons to celebrate and where sensuality and the relationship between body and space are in constant question.


Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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