For In Out , a curatorial performance lasting eleven hours and thirty-two minutes, a selection of drawings was made from the 30, architectural works on paper held in the Drawing Matter collection at Shatwell Farmyard, Somerset, England, approximately two hours west of London.
The curatorial team convened in the archive on January 21, , entering at a. The search began with simple curiosities regarding specific architects, periods, and movements but soon branched off in other directions, following the threads of chance encounters provoked by the alphabetical organization of the drawing chests, which generated unintentional but thought-provoking juxtapositions. New themes, categories, relations, bodies of work, and key drawings began to emerge.
The process was intuitive and grew out of the impromptu logic of the day, in which the group detected patterns, consistencies, contrasts, and attributes of the drawings around which to assemble the selection.
The drawings were presented in the gallery of the Princeton University School of Architecture as the first lines of an inquiry that was intended to provoke discourse and further investigation by students.
A number of typical gray steel cabinets were dissected, extruded, sliced, hinged, or oriented on their sides and mounted on the wall. Each intervention transforms an efficient storage system into a deviant display apparatus that instigates unconventional encounters with art.
