Heaven or Las Vegas
Graduate Thesis Instructor: Devyn WeiserHeaven or Las Vegas employs cinematic effects and techniques of multi-layered and composite framing to explore new ways of imagining architecture. The image frame has shifted from a single, passive viewpoint to a multiplicity of layered, moving and still frames. Through montage new adjacencies are produced in various mediums by using layering, transparency and movement. These configurations require the work of the spectator to realize potential resolutions, expanding the range of architectural agency.
The project is a non-narrative, non-linear video. It seeks to investigate the gap between domesticity and publicity as a flickering threshold in the motel. The motel is anonymous space, both embodying and estranged from the routine of every day life. As both a site of public display and an intense incubator of subjective experience, a motel program will be used to explore this thickened and blurred threshold. If architecture is a mechanism to produce the subject, what new forms of attention and observation will be required by this newly defined threshold?
