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Miguel Rodriguez Casellas
The ‘Dirty talks’ 2 / MUSEUM OF INFAMY studio asks a very specific question to the class: if you are told to eradicate from public space all traces of human violence against itself, and then are asked to re-stage their presence in a controlled environment, (1) what would you remove and/or exterminate?, (2) how would you display the anthology of abjections within an institution – the museum – that is in itself a sign and instrument of systemic violence? This is a studio about architecture in its most complicit yet rebellious possibilities. It plays with the morbid sensuality of infamy, and the pleasure derived from erecting symbolic barriers between the violence of the past and the myths of emancipation of the present. The entire cohort will produce one single building, a “Museum of Infamy,” in the old Camperdown Memorial Park, acting as curators and designers of an institution dedicated to the survey and preservation of past infamies, manifested in prosthetic objects (easily removable from space, physically speaking), the controversies around them, and the more insidious and often invisibilized forms of infamy. This is a project about the problem of visibility and invisibility, the politics of disappearance as well as the politics of presence in the most explicit way. Camperdown provides the ideal estuarine conditions – between life and death – for a repressed past that returns without invitation. Camperdown is a “defective” cemetery, with walls deceivingly suggesting the separation between the “lawn of life” and the “valley of death,” while unidentified bodies still rest under the unaware youth that gathers to eat, drink and/or smoke a joint.