Approximations to a working space. Around but not inside El Museo de Los Sures

Abstract

This paper is the manifestation of an unfulfilled quest, and an exploration of the conditions that favor the existence of a certain space. It is first and foremost an attempt to delineate the conditions that allow life to happen: An attempt to tap into the elements that define the specificity of a given location and how one can think of the economy of experience when the ‘actual’ experience and accessibility (to such space or built environment) is denied. Considered as a work in progress, where images should be read together with the text, Approximations is an invention, an experiment that might very well fail in its attempt to ascribe a certain sense to a removed object of study. It may, nonetheless, serve as a meditation on the fluid condition of human existence, and the constructed nature of experience itself.