Paranoid Factory
Paranoid Factory explores the unconscious desire of non physical touch using surrealism as its method. This ‘machine’ is an architecture matrix (after K. Michael Hays’ Architecture’s Desire) of the previous phases’ unconscious desires.
Paranoid Factory is the final act of 'Gift to the City', a Master of Architecture studio conducted by Scott Woods in University of Melbourne. The studio consists of three phases: I. Gallery, II. Museum, and III. World as its final act. The research process is based on international artists or curators' interviews as well as artworks, in this case a quote from Rory Hyde and Scott Woods conversation: 'let the children touch the artwork"(originated from Ben Lerner's novel 10:04). Sitting in that context, the project explores the non physical aspect of touching or 'ecriture automatique' (an automatic writing method in surrealism using unconscious touch).
This final act exists in architecture matrix of unconscious desire. Putting the vision and quote 'let the children touch the artwork' in a simpler way, 'the children' is interpreted as architect, 'artwork' as the final outcome, and 'touch' as surrealism (borrowed to explore the non physical touch between flesh and desire).
The matrix is made based on a study of surrealist film: Ballet Mecanique as one of the earliest studies and pioneers in surrealism. The 'machine' uses repetition, movement, aesthetic of raison d'etre to clockwork structure of everyday life adapted from the film. As a composition of previous phases' unconscious desire, the 'machine' works as a cycle, repeated unconsciously forming a fictional site of gallery and museum extracted from the featured artists' artworks.
