nanopolitics handbook - Minor Compositions

Sculpting and modelling seriesAs a first common denominator we decided to look at London as the spacewe move in. We used theatre to explore our different ways of perceiving thecity and its conflicts in order to figure out where and how we felt we couldintervene as a group.Following an exercise sequence on sculpturing and modelling fromthe TOP arsenal, we shaped our various perceptions of the city onto eachother’s bodies. Some of us formed or sculpted the others into charactersthey associated with London. The sculptors then collectively collated theirsculptures into a still image of London, negotiating without speaking how thedifferent characters they formed would interact in the city. Does a businessperson use the same area of a public space as a youngster, or would one ofthem move into a different space? Where and how do the janitor and theuniversity student meet? The shuffling of characters within the symbolisedimage of London revealed some of the conflicts we are sensitive to in ourmovements through the city.Eventually these sculptures, as informed by the ideas and perceptions ofothers, and assembled into a shared space, were to try interact with each otherin character, bringing the sculpted assemblage to life. A moving image ofLondon and some of the relations we modelled and projected upon it. In a last88