{"id":43567,"date":"2023-05-08T07:16:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T05:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/?p=43567"},"modified":"2023-07-10T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T08:30:33","slug":"einstein-un-ejercicio-de-composicion-espacial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/einstein-un-ejercicio-de-composicion-espacial\/","title":{"rendered":"EinStein: An Exercise in Spatial Composition"},"content":{"rendered":"

This text comes from a game that Aimar Perez Gal\u00ed proposed to me a few weeks ago, that is, to consider spatial composition by introducing a constraint in the rules of its own language<\/em>. Inspired by minimalist choreographer Lucinda Childs\u2019 statement nothing personal<\/em>, the game already contained a first exercise in abstraction, suggesting a spatial reading through the syntax of its geometric relationships. However, space\u2026 is quite personal<\/em>. Detaching Euclidean space (x, y, z) from time and matter, and their interrelationships, is in itself an exercise in restriction and of speculative fiction.<\/p>\n

It is difficult to put a limit on space. There are multiple interdependencies and it is as diverse as the very physics that constitutes it. As Karen Barad, physicist and feminist theorist, proposes, adding to the fact that space is inseparable from time, as the physicist Albert Einstein elucidated at the beginning of the 20th century in the Theory of Relativity, what we call Space is, in reality, spacetimemattering<\/em>. Space is not detached from time nor from matter. Therefore, when we talk about Space we are also always talking about Time and Matter. When we talk about Time, Matter and Space are entangled in it. When we talk about Matter, this is Time and Space, too. Space is emergent, a system that cannot be reduced to its parts without dismembering the whole.<\/p>\n

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Spacetime curve<\/p><\/div>\n

When composing space, not only do the Euclidean axes (x,y,z) and geometric bodies (point, line, plane, volume) intervene, but so too all the relationships, creatures, particles, events, materials, politics and matter that compose it, whether they are atmospheric, biological, geological, hydrological, quantum, chemical or geometrical (and many others). In fact, it is when one puts a limit on or tries to outline space that all the politics, frictions, interdependencies and ideologies that coexist and converge in it become visible. Geometry and mathematics are often considered as detached from political or ideological constructions, as even these carry in their structure specific inscriptions designed and elaborated in a specific space-time, with their respective decisions, obliterations and specific interests.<\/p>\n

Regarding the composition of architectures, simply the force of gravity and the chemistry of materials are already determining restrictions for its design. As well as the traces left in the process and the future of any construction, be it spatial, temporal, social or ecological, and the interrelations between the inhabitants that this architecture will host[1]<\/sup><\/a>Multiple interrelationships between multiple inhabitants, human, more than human, electromagnetic (e.g. sun light) or even the water that comes out of the tap connected to an infrastructure that in … Continue reading<\/span><\/span><\/span>