WHAT I DO AS AN ARCHITECT IS ARCHITECTURE
Marc Godts, 2010. What I Do as An Architect Is Architecture. Video piece. Close-up whispering in a visual and verbal statement. Stills
whatever I do as architect, is architecture. It describes from my point of view, what I am (architect - born out of an architect and raised into architecture), what I do (propositions towards architecture, in whatever form or medium that can serve this end), as well as the field of unstable relations in which I am and do (and that I call an architecture of incidence)
even in breathing
I discover that architecture (like shared breathing) starts from deep within each body and reaches up deep into all other. The most minimal of gestures, the slightest of spatial differences, the quickest of mental synapses and the least visible of glitches in time: all these are already matter of architecture and it is why I deliver fight with the static and the status quo
even by breathing
my architecture is then the working, the searching, the acting itself as architect. It consists primarily in my lending as architect, of my body, mind, essence, faculties and becoming to that of architecture. And though my practice and production seem hybrid and diffuse (over massive transformation of place, design of large area-oriented vision, projection of loads of light, injection of learning environment, and volatile performance, to pure conceptualisation) its point of gravity is in what I call the degree zero of architecture: the most elementary of connections between a body (whatever its nature), its associated bodies (whatever their nature), the ground they share (by nature a space of limits), and the horizon against it (a life-death-and-transformation-continuum). It is of my finding too that this degree zero is shared at least by architecture, dance, ecology and warfare
from: Marc GODTS, 2018, WHEN TIME IS PRESENT. A perspective on the current architectural climate.
In: Lieu à Penser. ESCAUT digital news letter, OCTOBER 5, 2018 http://www.escaut.org
cutting myself further free, I fully focus on work independent – solo and in free association - as main vehicle for main-stream defying views on architecture, architecture praxis, research and education. In that process my 2010 What I Do as An Architect Is Architecture-statement and present use of I’ESCAUT’s residency-space-to-think, act as starting points for me to frame and think out loud a first one-night public presentation. This public work presentation, to take place at I’ESCAUT, Friday evening October 26, 2018, balances exhibition, live action and spoken word