SICK CITY - LIVING STREAMS
Along the gutters’ shiny surfaces, numbered points and zigzagging pathways of acupuncture meridian lines are carved, projecting routes of energy flow in the human body onto access points for the arteries of a metropolitan sewer system.
For a long time house and street fountains as well as wooden water pipes dominated the cityscapes. Completely inadequate hygiene conditions favoured the constant return of epidemics and epidemics. The functioning of the city was compromised, overcrowding put strain on old outdated systems. Left unhealed and unaddressed, the sickness of the urban environment gradually increased. The arteries were blocked the veins disrupted and within these embedded infrastructures: pollution flowed.
Each meridian line plays a specific and crucial role in the health of the entire body, if the energy flowing through a meridian is imbalanced in any way the system it fuels is jeopardised, and disease may result. In traditional Chinese medicine, meridian lines play a specific and crucial role in the health of the entire body. The pipes, engraved with acupuncture meridian lines, signify the treatment of the urban environment as a living organism in need of healing - a communal organ formed by many interrelating parts each vital, living and interconnected.
Through words and images, the work explores the unresolved landmark and considers what a foundation means to the hypothetical 'body'. It raises questions about the collaboration between man and nature, particularly in relation to Modernist architecture.
For a long time house and street fountains as well as wooden water pipes dominated the cityscapes. Completely inadequate hygiene conditions favoured the constant return of epidemics and epidemics. The functioning of the city was compromised, overcrowding put strain on old outdated systems. Left unhealed and unaddressed, the sickness of the urban environment gradually increased. The arteries were blocked the veins disrupted and within these embedded infrastructures: pollution flowed.
Each meridian line plays a specific and crucial role in the health of the entire body, if the energy flowing through a meridian is imbalanced in any way the system it fuels is jeopardised, and disease may result. In traditional Chinese medicine, meridian lines play a specific and crucial role in the health of the entire body. The pipes, engraved with acupuncture meridian lines, signify the treatment of the urban environment as a living organism in need of healing - a communal organ formed by many interrelating parts each vital, living and interconnected.
Through words and images, the work explores the unresolved landmark and considers what a foundation means to the hypothetical 'body'. It raises questions about the collaboration between man and nature, particularly in relation to Modernist architecture.