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CARDELLINI | GONZALEZ (Igor CARDELLINI & Tomas GONZALEZ)

Participating Project	Research Residency Program
Activity Based	Lausanne (Switzerland)
City / Place stayed	Tokyo
Period	2026.1 - 2026.3

Purpose of the residency

During the residency at TOKAS, we will initiate a work engaging with the ways we inhabit the world and exploring the fragile architectures we build, whether material or social. This project continues the research on architecture in an expanded sense, focusing here on the relation between body and matter through cycles of creation and destruction. The process will be centered on the manipulation of a set of bricks as a shifting ground and a mutable structure. We aim to develop a research framework in which movement, sound and light function as an interdependent environment.

Plan during the residency

• Conduct movement research focusing on weight transfer, constraint, and shifting ground and refine sequences of construction/dismantling through studio practice.
• Test the materiality of bricks as both choreographic partners and evolving architectures.
• Study verticality, architectural sites and social infrastructures in Tokyo relevant to the themes of 2100.
• Meet artists and researchers to expand the project’s grounding.
• Produce documentation and preliminary installative and choreographic materials for the next stage of the work.

Activities during the residency

During our residency at TOKAS, we conducted the initial research phase for a new project exploring the relationships between architecture, the body, and states of instability. Focusing on Japan’s culture of disaster mitigation, we explored key infrastructures and institutions related to seismic risk, including large-scale flood control systems and research centers. Through site visits and conversations with specialists, we developed an inquiry into the anticipation of catastrophe. We then translated these perspectives into a series of sculptural and performative experimentations investigating balance, support, and collapse. The residency culminated in an installation and activations presented during the Open Studio, reflecting on how we inhabit environments shaped by uncertainty.

Outcome of the residency

The residency allowed us to establish a strong conceptual and material foundation for a new project that will be further developed in Europe over the coming months. Through site visits, readings, and discussions, we articulated a research framework which will continue to inform the dramaturgy of the work. We also initiated a series of spatial and performative experiments using concrete blocks and the body, opening directions for future choreographic and sculptural development, particularly around balance, trust, and the negotiation of forces. The Open Studio provided an important moment to test how these research elements could be translated into a public form, combining installation and activation.

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