The 2012 Raoul Wallenberg project is a phenomenal haven that embraces escape as both an act of subterfuge and as a place of ecstatic liberation. Through an allegiance with minerals, organisms, and hydrothermal systems, patrons are immersed in the natural/visceral circuitry. Notions of time and situational proximity are challenged. Disorientation, concealment and isolation are employees that welcome both the publicized and the outcast.
SPA Time is dissonant; Utilizing natural daylight and nocturnal bioluminescents in each outpost, the synchronicity of circadian with calendar time is challenged. Similarly, understanding the geologic growth and accrual time of the floating Calcium Carbonate Shells dramatizes its opposite; the temporality and subjectivity of our own tender bodies. Notions of time and situational proximity are challenged.
Come. Stay. A While.
S.P.A: Space of Perceptual Ambiguity
