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About Central Saint Martins Department of Architecture
Location London N1 • Courses BA (Hons) Architecture, MArch • Head of school Jeremy Till • Full-time tutors 6 • Part-time tutors 42 • Students 327 • Staff to student ratio 1:7
Postgraduate
Alexandros Xenophontos
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Acts of Institutional Technoqueering
Course MArch
Studio/unit brief N/A
Project title Acts of Institutional Technoqueering
Project description This spatial research project interrogates the act of queering in the age of Web 3.0 technologies. With a multimedia practice that encompasses elements of performance, animation, virtual environments, temporary websites and sound production, it constitutes a body of work that creates speculative narratives, introducing queer ruptures – ‘glitches’ – within space and time. A fictional counterinstitution known as The Depository of Queerness beckons power structures to enter and be recontextualised, altered, mutated – in effect, queered. This decentralised depository enables acts of civil disobedience to materialise as interventions within the physical realm through an embodied persona – Alecci, part-cyborg, prosecutor, receptionist, archivist, and piece of chewing gum – acting as a mediator operating between the physical and digital realms.
Tutor citation Acts of Institutional Technoqueering is a body of outstanding experimental and sophisticated work that emerged from a strong theoretical grounding. This imaginative and performative project creates space in the Metaverse, where subversive actions in the ‘real’ world are organised and choreographed. Ulrike Steven
