immeasurability


Cube, Yellow Platform, Miniature Globe

Medium :  Wood, Ice Dice, Soil

Artists : Swati Jain x Grayson Cox

Photography :  Bradford Devins



Upstate Art Weekend and
Good Naked Gallery

Playground for measuring presence : This Planetary game begins with a set of tools to unmeasure and remeasure time and space, at the local and universal scale. The Playground consists of a community of intentions, like tossing the ice dice (which themselves melt away each second, each side having possibilities of organizing the world a certain way as opposed to a different possibility based on which numbers we arrive at) and playing the combination seed species that get planted on the soil globe to represent the measured plant pieces in different abstracted planetary geo locations.

“Seeds sowed like perished Suns”

Most measures of time are based on our “needs” or usefulness leading up to extraction practices and climate change. By approaching things from a playful curious perspective and measuring from an “other” perspective (or othering of a landscape) would help us reestablish our relationship with nature and think of new ways of dividing OR un-dividing time and space.

A tool to measure the air in soil, a tool to measure dust in air, a tool to measure air in sea or a tool to measure moisture in air? Measuring time in space, measuring space in time.

Contemplating ideas around entropy and evolutionary progressions in different environmental bodies ; Sensing into different bodies of consciousness, each with its unique sensory systems, essences, and biodiversity. With the globalized commodification of resources the uprooting of these diverse indexical species continues to be homogenized and engineered to be cultivated based on our consumption practices.

This work addresses the dematerialization of extraction practices and rewilding our cities, our homes and our bodies with the idea of chance.

How did our elemental 5 senses come to be? 

And most importantly, would you like to play a game?

of impossible possibilities of the future.

Measuring the Immeasurability on a carpeted platform to measure static between two bodies, an attempt to measure immeasurable dimensions of space and time, propelling new Spatial metaphors, playful ephemeral tool of enquiry to rewild our built environment with collective curiosities about the invisible forces at play.




Upcoming

︎n space 

︎The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, 2024 – 2025

︎Collectible Design, Sept, 2024


︎ playground for measuring presence

︎︎︎ Embodied Spatial Practices

︎ In NYC, WantedDesign, International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF)

︎Museum Textile, Threads of tomorrow


︎︎︎The Kitchen Video Viewing Room: Millennium Film Workshop Open Screenings

︎︎︎ The undivided ︎pace

J




unown is a transdisciplinary design practice working at the intersection of architecture, performance art and philosophical inquiries. We craft environments focusing on sociocultural, ecological and multisensory approaches to foster collective empathy and equitable futures. Through our designs, we create metaphysical spaces to inhabit different frameworks of time by transcending the body toward an undivided space embodying limitless possibilities and new ways of being.

Catalog


Contact : studio@unownspace.com



︎ ︎ ︎ ︎






Past

︎Films @uninterrupted us 

︎ Design Milk

︎SVA Exhibition, Metamorphosis - May 6 - June 17, 2024.


- Kitchen Evolution, Presented at WIA, AIA Centre for Architecture New York, Nov 2023

- Kitchen Evolution, Exhibited by The Kitchen NYC, curated by Alison Burstein,
Joe Wakeman, Executive Director, Millennium Film Workshop
, July 2023

- Exhibition Design for Rhizomeat Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya CSMVS, May 2023

- Kitchen Evolution Distributed by Mubi, March 2023

- Film screening and Panel Discussion of Kitchen Evolution at THE TANK NYC(off-Broadway theater),SAWCC, 2022-23

- Kitchen Evolution Book published by uninterrupted us, distributed by Printed Matter, 2022

- Film Festival selection at New filmmakers New York, Nov 2022