<Nina>We did this performance “clapping in time” in Tate Modern turbine hall
: just by asking the Tate employees to clap at a certain time when they heard clap-
ping, we created a situation that was like an instruction but indirectly to the rest
of visitors in the museum. Because when you hear the sound of clapping, we just
have the instinct or behaviour, we will clap along ; and if you don’t there is the
uncomfortable feeling of being clapped at. What position do you put yourself in?
No matter what people did or which reaction came out of this situation, everyone
was part of the situation, if they wanted it or not, even if they decided to not take
part .</Nina>
<Graciela>These people are the actors. There is no possibility to escape. In
fact the spectators have no choice. They are obliged violently to participate
<Graciela><Cesar>There is nowhere to hide from open architecture. Everything
is a contribution to open architecture.<Cesar>
<Kondo>If you enlarge further Europe than, the “European-ness” will decline,
if you include Turkey, Russia, Central Asia. You would be less European than you
used to be when you are only 6. In this way the border will dissolve gradually.</
Kondo>
<Cesar> Scale and quantity does matter. Scarcity creates value. Open Archi-
tecture dissolves this value. Open architecture dissolves sense of belonging and
scale.</Cesar>
<Nina>I think people know themselves when they let go the last important strings
that holds them together. That’s when it doesn’t have any meaning anymore,
when it doesn’t matter anymore, that means that you have made one step too far
out of the social contract, it collapses. You become a free floating individual, with
no string to no one.</Nina>
<Cesar> Cant open architecture be a group of totally unrelated parts?</Cesar>
<Brent>Society is a web of commitment. We make these commitments when
we think we stand to gain from them, and the web of commitment -society- has
evolved rules and institutions to self-reinforce this behaviour. From simple needs
and relationships emerge complex, self-structuring networks of promises.<Brent>
<Cesar>If we look at open architecture as a network, the geometry does not mat-
ter as much as the quality of the strings that hold people together, the tension. I
like to see the social network as adhoc, made of loose elastic connexions.
</Cesar>