Transitory Objects

Transitory Objects takes up these experimental conditions of shifting disciplinary ground and their instrumental effects. It critically engages with an understanding of aesthetic experience often claimed as a dynamics of ambiguity, contingency, and uncertainty in order to draw a conflictual space that both connects and separates the architectural project and the artwork. Displaying architectural objects within the framework of selected artworks from T-B A21's collection introduces the problem of contextuality. A parallel reading of artistic and architectural production today opens up the question of what kind of impact this transfer has on the status of the architectural object as well as on the nature of the “aesthetic realm” itself. Setting aside an idealistic understanding of the aesthetic realm as an autonomous field, we would instead characterize it as a privileged site of sign and value production within the context of today’s knowledge industries.