Ambulatorium

Part of Sensory Orders Exhibition at the Centre of Contemporary Art, LAŹNIA, in Gdańsk, Poland, 2020-2021.

AMBULATORIUM (Latin: "walking place"), a word I've been familiar with since my early childhood. A place where, for years, my mother would walk to every morning to provide outpatient care to those who needed it. In architecture, AMBULATORIUM, relates to a (covered) passage that can be found in sacred spaces: temples and places of worship, where a procession or ritual circumambulation (the act of moving around a sacred object or idol) takes place; a space through which worshipers move. In this video I take you to my outpatient clinic where the treatment involves walking, here an hourlong ritual condensed in 9:41 minutes, accompanied by a local choir.

Sensory Orders is an exhibition of 29 international artistic and scientific responses to a central question of our time: how do we sense and make sense in times of extreme precariousness, tumult and uncertainty? Consisting solely of electronically delivered texts, still and moving images and sound, the exhibition as well as accompanying website and publication explores how three different “orders” – the symbolic realm of language and human culture, the technological realm of machines and the organic realm of human bodies and natural entities such as viruses, plants, animals and the physical-chemical matter of the earth itself – are fundamentally intertwined and sense, act on and affect each other.

https://www.laznia.pl/wystawy/sensory-orders-373/

http://www.sensoryorders.com/responses/