Kafkahouse
The installation and performance were made for an almost square-shaped room with two doors. Images of the doors were taken and projected, in 1:1 scale, on the walls opposite them. A column,located to the right-center of the room, is balanced by my import of a ladder, put to the left-center. A woman and I, dressed identically, sit back to back on the ladder's apex. We read my text aloud- I in English and she in Portuguese, as it is written below.
There is a room in the shape a square. In the room there are four windows, four doors, and two supports. On the north wall there are two windows. On the south wall there are two windows. The sets of windows face each other. The east window on the north wall is across from the east window on the south wall. The same situation applies to the west window on the north wall and the west window on the south wall.
There is a column, on the west side of the room, that is in the same line as the west window on the north wall and the west window on the south wall.
If one walks from the east edge of the west window on the north wall, to the east edge of the west window on the south wall, he encounters a column. The column in halfway between the west window on the north wall and the west window on the south wall.
If one walks from the east edge of the west window on the south wall, to the point of the column, then turns around and walks back to where he or she began, one can calculate the time it takes to walk from the east edge of the west window on the north wall, to the point of the column and back, to where he or she began.
If one folds the room at the point of the column, the west window on the north wall overlaps the west window on the south wall.
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