THE UNIVERSE OF THE WAITING ROOM
SPACE (NON)FICTION 12
(non)Fiction, serialized by novelist Jung Jidon. When we talk about space, we swiftly discover is that we know nothing about it. This article is a hypothetical non-fiction work that explores how the opportunities afforded by space exist in different ways.
There is nothing more enchanting than unrealised ideas, such as an unfinished work by an artist who suddenly died, a utopian project that remains only as a drawing, a movie scenario that failed to find an investor, and an exhibition plan that does not pass deliberation. I have such an unrealised idea, too — but I have never tried to make it a reality. The idea is as follows: to ask architects of different genders, ages, and fields of activity to create a waiting (1969), Kracauer defines history as a ‘waiting room’. Or he argued that the time and space of history, which he thought was meaningful and interesting line of inquiry, had the characteristics of a waiting room.
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