THERMAL PERFORMANCE In the second part of the project I use techniques originating in the theatrical method of Konstantin Stanislavski in a series of performances resituated within the specific context of the workplace of the knowledge economy. Taking seriously the occupant as a subject constituted by management, whose entire being and passions are put to work, I place such a managed occupant into a thermal environment latent with the full cultural significance of its metaphors. In a series of HEATED EXCHANGES occupants negotiate for control of a thermostat, using metaphors and idioms derived from words for heat, tracing the management imperatives and motivations of advanced capitalism; and the implications of various modes of resistance. |
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Claudia Dutson, School of Architecture, Royal College of Art.
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