Philippe Deangeli (Lighting Designer) + Dagmar Dudinsky (Graphic Designer) + Fernando Favier (Music Composer) + Christophe Goutes (Sound Cooker) + Diego Monet (Director) + Brice Pelleschi (Photographer) + Virginie Perrot (Painter) + Alexander Römer (Architect & Carpenter) + Philippe Rizzotti (Architect) + Pier Schneider (Video-artist & Architect) + François Wunschel (Video-Artist & Architect), members of the French collettive EXYZT, realised a new temporary project, Situation Room, at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York.

Situation Room as playground for [re] creation, collective action, ac- tive occupation, open demonstra- tion, and social games has been in- tuitive, interactive and collective performance, revealing a directory of tools and knowledge for every- day life. For architecture of process, of fabrication, reaction and interac- tion, members of EXYZT inhabited the gallery space, making use of the furnishings as a do- mestic space.
Rather than showing past projects, EXYZT set up a platform for cre- ation and solidarity, inviting people to transform the classic use of the gallery, to experiment diversity of programs and activities with basic cheap materials forming moveable boxes activated with the Storefront staff.
We proposed a platform for action, defending an architecture that is alive. EXYZT shakes up the idea of architecture as an independent field. Working on experimental proj- ects, EXYZT invites architecture, video, graphic-design, botany and any other concept to become de- vices of expression and creation. Like a series of disparate notes, ready-to-assemble elements will be put together in situ to create this modular, domestic place: rap- idly assembled viral constructions that can be implemented to create and augment a social space. Little by little, each limb of this strange apartment grew new functions, allowing its users to do more and more things, to occupy and work in its ever-changing space. After the basic living space has been assembled an essential urban in- frastructure we added: water, electricity, radio, TV, Internet, etc. ... Once complete, a vast variety of individual modules occupied the gallery space to be used for a mo- ment, a day, or a whole night. Light- ness, speed and flexibility will be essential ingredients of the set-up.
Philippe Rizzotti & Dimitri Messu

Photos Brice Pelleschi