THE STUDIO EXHIBITS IN CHINA AT NOTCH 09, BEIJING
For NOTCH 09 , David Garcia Studio has produced two interactive spaces ARCHIVE II and ARCHIVE IV, where information, books and music, become the generating factors for simple spaces full of social potential. Both works are part of an architectonic research into the character of information storage at a small scale. This Archive Series, exemplifies the unavoidable "weight" of information, whether digital or analogue, and our varied relationships to it. At the NOTCH 09 festival, ARCHIVE II and ARCHIVE IV will be main attractions for social gathering and information hubs. ARCHIVE II, a round wheel book archive, functions as a nomadic library, where the user can travel with his own books. Once still, it creates a room for meeting and inspiration, generating a special acoustic echo for the reader inside the wheel. ARCHIVE IV challenges space and weight, by hanging from the ceiling. A wooden cylinder, 3 meter in diameter and 3.5 meter high, suspended from above, serves as a sitting...