Parliament Chair


Yale


Instructors: Luis Callejas, Charlotte Hansson,

Marta Caldeira

Parliament chair-fights reveal the weaponization of the chair's physical and symbolic status. The strangeness of such a fight is derived from the superposition of the physical dimension and the symbolic dimension of the chair. 


The program of the chair consists of three actions: sit, sleep, fight. These are the sum of all parliament members' usage of their chairs. The chair's aesthetics is based not only on the schematic section of the sitting body but rather the accumulation of all body positions, which translates to the choreography of the parliament.  However, it is not the body alone that informs the chair, but also the chair's ability to accumulate into a landscape of many chairs.


The chair is a closed load-bearing system of actions and reactions.

You sit, you fall asleep, you lean, there’s a shape, there’s a bar, it connects to the legs, that holds the seat, that holds you, sitting asleep.