3.1 Event-space: performance space and spatial performativity

By Dorita Hannah (pp. 54-63)

• Space – whether a suspended pause, a blank area, an empty room or a limitless cosmos – performs.

• Ways of transitory events:
  -historic (epic incidents)
  -aesthetic (theatrical plays)
  -banal (daily occurences)

• “There is no space without event” (Bernard Tschumi, 1996:39)

• Architecture mutely incorporates power systems into the built environment – defining, regulating and limiting our daily practices.