A Compass for the House Door

 A Compass for the House Door, is a video done in collaboration with Alina Tenser. It arose during the lockdown of 2020. Using the floor plan of an apartment as a schema, the project considers the shifting boundaries of traditional conceptions of space and time during the COVID-19 crisis. The video grapples with a wide set of topics in relation to the COVID-19 crisis, and late capitalism more generally–from Lucretius’ notion of the clinamen, to marketing consultant, Faith Popcorn’s conception of ‘cocooning;’ from Angela Mitropoulos’ consideration of Oikonomia, to Edward Hall’s theory of proxemics; from the New York City housing crisis, to Jakob Johann von Uexküll’s theory of the Umwelt. 

A Compass for the House Door was commissioned by the Onassis Foundation and the Queens Museum. The work was realized within 120 hours during the COVID-19 lockdown in early May 2020.