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Architrope thought/matter
Architrope is an organisation formed to create and explore transitional spaces and their relationship to more organised structures of identity and understanding.
Architrope explores the confusion between thought and matter.
Architrope is directed by the artist Tom Wolseley.
Architrope also enables the participation of others in the project. If you have something to contribute to the project please email us with details, we would be interested to know.
Architrope emphasises the state of transition as process, and definition and identification as desires.
Primarily Architrope uses the term 'Transitional Spaces' to refer to spaces between physical and psychological readings of oursleves and our environments.
The phrase was first coined by the psychoanalyst Winnicott to refer to the space 'between psyche and external reality' (ie between child and mother, analysand/analyst).
The term is used in a variety of other fields to represent other spaces between states more defined or identified, which the project is also keen to explore:
geography: the intertidal zone, between the high and low tide,
Biologically; environments between climax habitats.
Specimens between taxonomic groups, hybrids.
linguistically between subject and object.
ethnographicaly the ritual marking the transition from child to adult.
Culturally, groups at the margin of the dominant culture or in the process of rapid cultural change from one state to another.
Architectural between inside and outside.
Philosophical, identity based on process rather than inherent characteristics.