Oskar Schlemmer

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Oskar Schlemmer, artist architect and Bauhaus master, based his work of art on the idea of merging the human body with the space it occupied and defined-227. He used costumes as a vehicle to re-characterize the body as a space making being-231. By using the distinct motion patterns of the body and the costume, he explored how architecture, space and the occupiers were all linked. 

 

In very much the same way Schlemmer used costume to script an open relationship between body and space, technology and computation can possibly be theatrical elements that amplifies the notion of human beings being part of the spatial system. In his essay, Marshall McLuhan described an idea of media and technology being extensions of the human body-6. If the representation of everyday practices and space are inextricably interlinked as many theorists and artists have illustrated, people’s intuitive interaction with technology integrated in space could generate almost infinite variety of spatial relations. The mode of producing metaphors in space used to be constrained by the memories tied into a controlled environment where the architecture establishes the rules of people’s operations, whereas in a physical environment that has aspects of digital world, space would be scripted by the people perhaps through their gestures, occupancy and interactions with objects.


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