Qingyang Zong

A Cloud in my Room

“a cloud in my room” is a virtual scenography of chimerical reveries.

Stemming from an intimate attachment to the psychological influences of personal space in one’s memory, the project explores the integration of early photographic techniques (pinhole imaging, cyanotypes) and state-of-the-art image-making tools of artificial intelligence.

The procedural proposal puts two moments from the history of image-making in short circuit, making a time slip between the genesis and the status quo marked by transitory telepathy. The superimposition delineates a new territory for architecture fictions. Within this overlapping realm technological mutations occur.

Fiction is akin to alchemy. In François Roche’s words, “the fiction of architecture as a kind of pataphysics” mixes “narration, illusion, science, and sensation”. As one version of the modification of perceptual linkages between us and the world, the project alludes to a mutual poiesis of synthetic xeno-poetics.

How do we shed light on that which refutes the administration of the sensible, residing amongst the invisible reality that is in constant co-existence with our quotidian world? With “a magic and diabolic power” we are granted the opportunity to delve into an alternative, invisible reality.

Within the nebulous space between the known and the unknown, the quest for blurry knowledge emerges. Amidst the dramaturgy of this transient uchronic moment, the totality of space metamorphosizes into a volatile, wrinkled cavity, containing soft whirs and translucent drips. In the recursive time of the cosmos, in the core.

Not seeing is to see the invisible. To be outside of one thing is to be inside of another. We cast our glance into the eternality of the universe, from living and social space contaminated with histories and constellations. Riddles of the world mesmerize. Reduction and lack evoke a feeling of disquiet. In insubstantial form, “we all depart from ephemera.”