Extrasectionality of Atypicals: a nascent post-pan interior

摘要

In a boundless room, Danish director Jorgen Leth stages his 13-min anthropological study, The Perfect Human (1967). Leth's short film is an ongoing inspiration for Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of the NYC architectural practice MOS who reference the short when talking about their videos (McMor-rough 2016: 68). They describe the videos as "other kinds" (ibid.: 63) of projects to further disciplinary narratives in their "horizontal and fuzzy" (ibid.) office; the videos circulate alongside and at times instead of their physical buildings. In the video, The Indifferent Courier, the narrator in deadpan states "living functions use space for the inside from the outside" (Meredith and Sample 2015) a reminder that before being framed otherwise everything is exterior. Everything is outside. The inside occupies space from the exterior; it is immersed within an exteriority rich in resources (fig.1). Minutes later, the narrator continues, "nourishment takes energy from the exterior and uses interiorly" (ibid).