Ifi Poulaki

"How The Body and the Objects It Uses Penetrate Space, Mapped Through My Daily Routine."

Section MS5, Joshua Woolford

Keywords: mapping, space, documentation, movement, domestic, re-enactment, choreography

To map how the space in my apartment is used, changed over time and penetrated through the daily activities and use of objects using videos, mapping and collaging. The project plays the role of a spatial diary, portraying the intersection of routine, movement and lived experience. This project explores the relationship between our bodies, the objects we use and the spaces we inhabit while uncovering their patterns of movement throughout time. It additionally invites people into my living space, exposing my patterns of urban living and providing a voyeur perspective, much like in the photographic work of Gail Albert Halaban who exposes domesticity by providing intimate visual narratives, exploring and exposing the complexions of human relationships and urban life through a voyeur lens.

Additionally the project many times also exposes mess, something which in our society we have learnt to keep hidden, uncovering the relationship between what we show to the public and what we do not while drawing a similar narrative to the one explored by Carrie Mae Weems in her documentary style series of photographs, Kitchen Table Series, 1990, making the invisible, visible. My final objective is to celebrate these patterns of living, with their flaws and mess and approach them as the choreography of my daily life throughout a given timeframe. I therefore invite myself to revisit it and reenact it, bending and this time intentionally penetrating and altering the space in a manner opposite to the candid nature of the documented videos, and therefore exposing the process of staging and reenacting the spatial choreographs through a time-lapse.