(Archive) Made to Disappear

Sex and architecture

“Made to Disappear” explores the living room as a heterotypic place of performance affected by the forced exclusion of prostitution from the public sphere. While being either disposable or easily sterilised, all the materiality in of the project carries foreign traces into the idea of the domestic. It strips the space of the ornamental comfort through multiple spatial references: the sofa allows the user to experience various “positions” while creating inappropriate comfort, the latex carpet memorialises Calgary’s last Red Light District through the cartographic details tufted into its surface, and the furniture associates the elements of the living room as a waiting space with mixed archetypes of desire through references to gynaecological rooms, playboy architectures, and massage parlours.

Moving through these spaces, the project creates archival documentation of artefacts and architectural prototypes presented in the interiors. The natural conclusion is that architectonics subject violence over women in “public”.”