Taubman College Ago Featured in Posit Interview
2016-2017 Muschenheim Fellow Viola Ago is featured in a recent Posit interview by Thomas Kuei featuring participants of the “One Night Stand” exhibition which took place in May, 2017 in Los Angeles.
In the interview Ago is asked how installation work plays a role in architecture, how her interests in architecture will translate to a larger scale, and the significance of representation or aesthetics in her own work, to which she replies that she would like to omit the word representation from her architectural terminology. She argues that “we have entered an era of digital environments that allow things to exist in an ‘as is’ condition. For example, the drawing component in my exhibition for One Night Stand is not meant to be a scaled representation of an object; the drawing has its own autonomy. I further support my attempt to design at a one to one scale by removing the idea of representation from the manifestation of architectural ideas. I am more interested in the viewer’s’ sensory mechanisms in relationship to visuals and affect. If it were up to me I would start to replace the word representation with other terminology that is more specific to the thing itself.”
For the full interview: https://www.thisisposit.com/one-night-stand
