Campus or the Babel of Knowledge

Campus or the Babel of Knowledge, 2002-2004

Installation. Installation. Wood, acrylic and cardboard. Pencil and ink drawing on paper, vinyl text, 2 DVDs.

Installation view at CA2M, Móstoles

Photo Oak Taylor Smith

This installation was first presented at Documenta 11, Kassel as part of the project Continuity of an Architecture. It is a huge campus on which these intelligent buildings are arranged where students, isolated in separate rooms, learn all subjects from basic science to politics. They have strict rules and regulations that keep them without human contact. All the information they receive is computerized and supervised by people they can never meet. This paper wants to analyze how knowledge and information are controlled in contemporary cities. Once again, I want to address the idea of a building as a society in itself and how desires are limited by certain circumstances that constantly create boundaries that constrict and frustrate the ability of human minds to expand. With this project I would also like to talk about the loneliness and distance between human beings, and our inability to communicate in contemporary society.

Estudio Carlos Garaicoa
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