Super Ancient / Hyper Modern

Super ancient and hyper modern is an inflatable version of a neolithic dolmen.

The installation draws on the pneumatic radical Viennese history of the 1960’s and 70’s, where lightness, air and technology were imagined as ways to liberate us from the heavy fate of architecture.  

Simultaneously, it recalls the early origins of architecture: Neolithic stone structures that symbolically marked and organised human presence in the landscape. 

Spanning millennia and hybridising the futuristic with the ancient, the object embraces both the beginning and the end of architecture.

The transformation of the very heavy to something very light creates a pop-archaeological site, a ritual space for coming together to pick over the past and future lives of architecture.

The dolmen was commissioned for the Angewandte festival, designed and produced with Studio Jacob at the Institute of Architecture.