parTyparTi

parTyparTi

This exhibition presents an evolving investigation into technotonics: the relationships among architecture, sound, vibration, bodies, technology, and collective life. The project brings together architectural research on underground sonic communities, experimental work with sound and material sensing, and research into ambience, camp, and practice-based, auto-theoretical experiences drawn from my work within Chicago’s gay nightlife and entertainment industry.

Conceived as an embodied research environment, the gallery asks how architecture participates in producing collective sonic experience. Walls, floors, thresholds, infrastructures, technologies, and bodies become instruments through which sound is contained, transmitted, amplified, regulated, and shared. Through recordings, architectural fragments, drawings, sensing technologies, sound, and other experimental media, the exhibition considers how nightlife and sonic communities temporarily reorganize architecture into spaces of gathering, listening, social connection, and collective occupation.