Precedents

Gordon Matta-Clark is widely considered one of the most influential artists working in the 1970s. He was a key contributor to the activity and growth of the New York art world in SoHo from the late 1960s until his untimely death in 1978. His practice introduced new and radical modes of physically exploring and subverting urban architecture, and some of his most well-known projects involved laboriously cutting holes into floors of abandoned buildings or, as with Splitting (1974), slicing a suburban villa in two.

Bingo (1974)
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He had spent the Summer searching through the Bronx and Brooklyn for houses to be demolished or that were abandoned and then he would cut out pieces of the walls, floors, doors, windows. He was thrilled with the layers of linoleum and the architectural sections that he could present 3D. The floor cuts grew into wall cuts and the wall cuts grew into whole sides of buildings such as the Artpark piece. 

The title Bingo derived from what Matta-Clark believed was a typical American church function, which he felt was probably common in Niagara Falls, a typical small American town populated with houses like the one he cut. The gridded game card and the process of filling the squares with numbers in the course of play found its obverse as Matta-Clark removed elements from the grid he had inscribed on the side of the building.

Bingo works with a typical suburban American house. Having only ten days before the scheduled demolition, Matta-Clark created a work based on the division of one side of the house into nine equal sections, measuring 2 by 3 metres. These segments were removed one by one, apart from the centre section which was left in place.

In my diagrammatic transformation of architectural space, I want to explore similar methods of cutting into the floor, walls and ceiling. In relation to the lack of heating in state houses, I will insert insulation into these cavities to allow for a more warmer, dryer and comfortable environment.