The Dying Dreamer website is a visual presentation of research work in progress. The site feature... more The Dying Dreamer website is a visual presentation of research work in progress. The site features active illustrations that allow for interpretation in a spatial context. These illustrations, in making and as presentation, are analytical collages, some created from a model of the mansion as described in the novel then distorted as the narrative take leaps in space and time. Link to online work-in-progress: http://www.arch.kth.se/~zimm/
Joris-Karl Huysmans published the novel A Rebours (Against Nature) in 1884, at a stylistic turnin... more Joris-Karl Huysmans published the novel A Rebours (Against Nature) in 1884, at a stylistic turning point between naturalism and mysticism in his writing career. This interlude work comprises, in an unsurpassed way, the essence of decadence and symbolist aesthetisism. Against Nature has provided my work with a scope of ideas and examples of social and sensory conditions, artificial creations, hyperaesthetic configurations and synesthetic instruments, all aimed at supporting the inner world of imagination of the main character of the novel, Baron Des Esseintes. Physical space and architecture in Huysmans’ text are means to augment and redirect perception. The narrative space and time shift between three main narrative modus, identified as present space (the actual physical location of the body in the mansion), revived space (spaces restored from memory), and evoked space (spaces conjured up from stimuli, as art or smells, a dream state of mind). The Baron is striving for an alternativ...
The Dying Dreamer website is a visual presentation of research work in progress. The site feature... more The Dying Dreamer website is a visual presentation of research work in progress. The site features active illustrations that allow for interpretation in a spatial context. These illustrations, in making and as presentation, are analytical collages, some created from a model of the mansion as described in the novel then distorted as the narrative take leaps in space and time. Link to online work-in-progress: http://www.arch.kth.se/~zimm/
Joris-Karl Huysmans published the novel A Rebours (Against Nature) in 1884, at a stylistic turnin... more Joris-Karl Huysmans published the novel A Rebours (Against Nature) in 1884, at a stylistic turning point between naturalism and mysticism in his writing career. This interlude work comprises, in an unsurpassed way, the essence of decadence and symbolist aesthetisism. Against Nature has provided my work with a scope of ideas and examples of social and sensory conditions, artificial creations, hyperaesthetic configurations and synesthetic instruments, all aimed at supporting the inner world of imagination of the main character of the novel, Baron Des Esseintes. Physical space and architecture in Huysmans’ text are means to augment and redirect perception. The narrative space and time shift between three main narrative modus, identified as present space (the actual physical location of the body in the mansion), revived space (spaces restored from memory), and evoked space (spaces conjured up from stimuli, as art or smells, a dream state of mind). The Baron is striving for an alternativ...
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