SLIP HOUSE BACCARO, NOVA SCOTIA in construction ANDREW KING / AKA
SLIP functions as an architectural a manifesto for its client, and artist and academic whose work searches for meaning in the lost artifacts of our textual stories;
I work with the residue of language. My research is interested in the itinerant ways language inhabits the body. I transform moribund information tools and systems as a method to reorder experience. I explore the relationship or the gap between conventional language structures and corporeal experience and seek to raise questions about public and private spaces, authority and agency while offering alternate meanings to the loss of utility.
SLIP is a mechanism for this sentiment, a radical, ad hoc adaptive re-use of fragments of meaning and memory from a place radically shifting in its identity, but embedded in a permanent beauty.
LENS the project is framed as three connected spaces, linked through a series of lenses, looking towards anarchetypal landscape of ocean, ground, sky, horizon. the armature for these lenses is a singular formal and spatial gesture, an almost infinite library, and a punk minimal radically pragmatic presence.
FOUND it is created through the careful collection of fragments from the context; massive steel beams from a dismantled wharf warehouse, first growth wood planks from a disused church, recycled steel grating as a shroud. It builds on a sensitivity to the site; remnants of the ancient boatSLIP, the resilient rock formations punctuating the site. these components, memories and qualities converge in a singular tightly shrouded form that perches itself at the water’s edge, a threshold that touches the ground with almost impossible delicacy, building on the heroic power of the found structural components. this is inherently resilient, recycled, but full of the history of the place.