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 Marco Luyens Antemnesia. A diagnosis of the city of the future USA 2000, 32’ “Antemnesia” outlines a virtual map of a city of the future directly designed by the collective and visionary subconscious of contemporary architects and artists through hypnotic induction. Architects involved in the “Antemnesia” project will undergo progressive and regressive hypnosis that will enable them to establish a direct link with the city that their subconscious has dreamt of. A state of trance emphasises the power of planning, of temporal concepts, of movement and flow belonging to bodily features, from the architectural point of view. Architects themselves will become the architectural objects of the future and, at the same time, they will be dwellers and the dwellings. They will outline images and drafts which will become 3D animations projected in videos. Marcos Lutyens is the director of the project and he has utilised the method of hypnosis, as an artistic tool, from the very beginning of his work with the enfant terrible of performance art, Ron Athey. He has, since then, been analysing the emissions of a hidden reality, the transformation of memory within spaces, objects and people. “Antemnesia” is his most ambitious project because of the complexity of accessing the subconscious of some of the most committed and creative young architects of our time. However, it can also be considered an ambitious project because of the difficulty of anticipating, or better ‘recalling’, future forms of architecture, which is indeed the main objective of the project. It is now possible to overcome the complexity of this project thanks to the progress of computerised methods of technology which have recreated these ‘anticipated’ forms of memory. All at once the various structures ‘seen’ by the architects become organic, social, abstract and vaguely futurist ones. Compositions, colours, nuances and movements, either described or drawn by architects in a state of trance, are captured and revived in the most realistic fashion. The project is being presented for the first time and the fact that it is occurring in Italy is quite important because Italy is, indeed, the cradle of futurism; a type of futurism which has gradually moved from mechanics to electronics. Marco Lutyens has recently been involved in a project for the development of invisible solid objects generated from words, with the virtual technology known as Haptics, at the University of Southern California. In July 2000, after his stay in Venice, Marco Lutyens created an interactive installation, based on the genetic memory of plants, called “Primordium” at the California Institute of Technology. In architecture his interests are based on the architectural work of his great-uncle Sir Edwin Lutyens, among which the plan of the Government building in New Delhi and the fountains in Trafalgar Square in London. Marco Lutyens has recently produced a documentary on the architecture group, Morphosis, for the Spanish government. |
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