Tumultspace is an active interface linking to an archive of ideas investigating the understanding of space, a subjective, intuitive mapping of spatial representation concepts that serves as an archive of artistic projects. Ideas cluster into a dynamic skeleton that changes its structure according to new input and connect to the project’s archive whose visualisation is determined not by artistic genres or categories but by the ideas they contain. Tumult.space aims to become a non-exhaustive database that reflects typologies of thought and identifies tendencies in artistic approaches to spatial perception. We start from the premise that space is not a given fact but a sum of relations, thus we are looking at space in its manifold, often superposing aspects: public, intimate, mental, social, real, virtual, reflecting a multitude of perspectives on the understanding of lived space. The project involves an on-going research but it also has an open call communicated through an urban micro-interventions platform illustrating some of the key ideas of the archive. Thus, the online archive has an offline counterpoint in the Tumult.space urban micro-interventions series. As a launching theme, we chose the affective perception of public space, translated in projects that explore subjects such as the appropriation of public spaces as cohabitation space, green interstitial spaces transferring a kind of spatial justice to grey areas of the city, or perceptions of superposing spaces, intimate-public, real-virtual, physical-imaginary, natural-artificial.

SAINT MACHINE  is the pseudonym of a Romanian experimental artist, the author of body responsive installations that investigate biological processes and study the notion of space as living structure. Her works are organism-like sculptures that carry a digital core, use the human body to function and question the willingness to cede physicality and biological needs in exchange for digital content. In the interaction with these hybrid organisms emitting light, one’s success in controlling them is always equivalent to letting oneself assimilated by them. Her body responsive installations have been presented in prestigious media art festivals such as Ars Electronica (AT), Athens Digital Arts Festival (GR), MADATAC, Medialab-Prado (ES), Laval Virtual (FR). In 2020 SAINT MACHINE has been invited to participate in the South Korea Changwon Biennale.