Halberstam’s Trans* anarchitecture and open studio prep

I feel like I’m melding with my studio, burrowing so deep that my work becomes a part of the architecture. In preparing for open studios, I wonder if I am enacting Halberstam’s theory of Trans* anarchitecture. I was super excited to try putting up the sukkah but it turns out ceiling height indeed is a variable and an 8 foot object within a 9 foot ceiling allowance, is far from the inspiring glittery vision I had for it.

In taking it apart to make more space for the soft-sculpture-larvae-whatever-they-are, I began to wonder - what if just one post was attached to the wall. As an indication or hint of what’s to come. [side note: Olam Ha’ba - the world to come] As I continued place the beams at different intersection points - it wasn’t until the exterior placements - that this thought of anarcitecture emerged. and this possible fact/fiction relationship that was emerging. Perhaps a viewer would think, oh they’re just storing this beam there. Or maybe is it art? is it real? And then the real and art as equivocal…

The other fabulous discovery was this possibility of an anarchitecture emerging. A queering of the cavity of the building. in the liminal space of the hallway. I love the hallway more. I love the idea of the hallway more than my studio. The post when affixed to the wall, is pointed the wrong way and in doing so invokes its own truth. an imagining - oh maybe this is real. maybe this beam really is connecting to another beam on the other side of this wall. or it could connect. THAT. It could connect. the possibility of it. a speculative what if. and a speculative it’s there but we just can’t see it yet.

I think that’s everything for me. It’s there but we just can’t see it yet.