Activate all the senses. Mush Rooms by BUREAU - Daniel Zamarbide, Walter El Nagar, Filipe Felizardo
13/01/2021.
[MAAT - Lisbon] Portugal
metalocus, JULIO RODRÍGUEZ
metalocus, JULIO RODRÍGUEZ
Description of project by BUREAU
Originally released as part of the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, Empathy Revisited: Designs for More Than One, MUSH ROOMS is a cooking performance by chef Walter El Nagar in front of a small public. Accompanied by a live musical experimentation by Filipe Felizardo, chef Walter performed cooking to work in and around decomposition and fermentation.
MUSH ROOMS is an attempt to acknowledge that we are multi-specifically connected, that what our body is less solid than we think, that the air that we breath is less unsubstantial than what we believe. And that we really exist by dwelling within these multiple states.
A large cooking table is the stage of the performance, specifically designed to constitute a landscape of living and inert materia of all kinds. The table, and thus the landscape oscillates between living, growing, decomposition and composition and our relation, as human spectators, to this otherness that we observe, contemplate and integrate into our body as a symbiotic act. In terms of design, the performance addresses indirectly the notion of reproduction and scale: how do we work with models and miniatures to “represent” imagined worlds, how solid are these representations and how could they be part of our living experience as much as static representations of something to become?
Daniel Zamarbide has developed through the years a particular interest in the protean aspects of his discipline and nourishes his work and research through other domains like philosophy, applied and visual arts as well as cinema.
As a guest lecturer and jury he has been invited at a diversity of international schools and institutions to present and discuss his work and research.
Since 2003 his interest in research and education has led him to be invited as an assistant in the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and as a professor (2000-14) at the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva. In 2014, he integrates the team of ALICE Lab (Dieter Dietz) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as a guest professor and research director.
In 2012, Daniel leaves group8 to start a new practice with Leopold Banchini, architect. Their practice, BUREAU A has explored during 5 years the possibilities of architectural making in a great variety of formats, opening the practice to work in the fields of art, garden and landscape architecture, exhibition design, temporary architecture and object making.
In 2017, following the dissolution of BUREAU A, Daniel Zamarbide pursues his more personal research interests under the name of BUREAU. This new entity produces architecture in the continuity of BUREAU A and incorporates to his already prolific activities furniture design (with a design brand of the same name) and an editorial project, which launches the first publication in June 2017.