Alice Theobald And Atomik Architecture - It's Not Who You Are, It's How You Are

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Ryder Architecture present the second in a series of new commissions exploring the relationship between art and architecture. This year, BALTIC and Ryder, in collaboration with Blueprint, have commissioned artist Alice Theobald and Atomik Architecture.

Theobald and Atomik’s co-authored work has evolved through a process of studio visits, workshops, model-making and drawing. It will take the form of an ambitious site-specific installation comprising music, spoken dialogue, video and live performance. Interested in the interiors of Austrian-Czech architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933) and the idea of accessing a space through multiple viewpoints, Theobald and Atomik will construct a series of circular rooms which will provide a route through the architecture, pacing the visitors’ experience.

Drawing on Anthony Vidler’s book The Architecture of the Uncanny (1992), they will create a series of familiar, yet unsettling spaces, lining the rooms with everyday materials, texts and projections. A platform slicing through the gallery becomes a stage for a series of part-choreographed, part-improvised performances; an accompanying musical score will explore the circularity and slippage of language and the interplay between performer and viewer.