“Two ideas have saturated our thoughts now for years: the situation and situational space, and city maps, in all their myriad forms—on paper and off. A Convolution of Vectors is the combined palimpsest of hundreds of journeys through urban environments, each imbued with its own collection of experiences and memory.
The essence of situational space, an idea extrapolated from the Situationiste Internationale of 1960’s Paris, is both event and architecture insofar that the space—a city square, a backalley at night—generates the event by the unpredictable confluence of its citizens. A situation in this sense implies an intentional social interaction without plan, an architectural stage for potential urban enigmas.
By way of example: the situational event is a chance encounter in a Venetian arcade, a fractional glance caught between columns: You have seen this person before, a stranger on a train, perhaps a face in the crowd in the middle of urban Berlin. The sense of these times and places recombining on each other, as though the cities were folding in on themselves despite space and geography, is the beating pulse of Vergeance. We desire to both re-present these scenarios and generate a new scenario in itself with this installation piece, via a construction of suspended fabrics, cable tendrils, video projectors and accompanying soundtracks. The Vectors are those lines of “psycho-geographical” memory, and the Convolution is the installation itself, the nexus of those experiences together in one space.”
—Ted Hayes
