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CAROLINE KEMP
'A Clutch of Space' is a gender centred architectural explorative concerned with design ignoring negative volumes. The work concentrates on the idea of gender psychogrammed consumption of space. The clutch bags mark a pivotal moment of spatially informed gender identity, and are situated as a current expression of a continual evolution of consumption that prescribes the built form. Behaviour, motivation and beliefs are morphed into items of desire, with changing spatial responses to space consumption, resulting in new but pre-informed architectural responses to space. The form is constructed from a series of confectionary mold letters and inscribes a popular cultural text type message 'psycho-gramin kontrl space', a monocultural representation of how contrived urban space is and how urban environments shape performance of gender congruence. An additional bag inscribes through grammatical purity 'consumer consumed, and 'consumed, consumer' and 'consummate, exploring gender as performance and the repetitious nature of such.
By suggesting, defining, excluding, constraining and regulating the organisation of urban social-spatial form, urban space conceives a canvas. It consummate[s]: makes perfect.