[Leica] MEDIA CUT: A Collaboration Between Diller+Scofidio and Douglas Cooper at the 2002 Expo

[Douglas Cooper <douglas@dysmedia.com>]

MEDIA CUT:  A COLLABORATION BETWEEN DILLER+SCOFIDIO AND DOUGLAS COOPER



On May 15th, MEDIA CUT was launched at the 2002 Expo, the World's Fair in
Switzerland.  MEDIA CUT is a giant landscape installation, a hill into which
a large slot has been cut; viewers pass through the mound between a pair of
towering human lips, rear-projected from inside the hill on either side.
The lips, male and female, engage in a distressing conversation.

MEDIA CUT was conceived and designed by Diller+Scofidio, the first
architects in history to be awarded a MacArthur "genius" Award, and the
designers of BLUR, the signature building of the Expo.

The script for MEDIA CUT was written -- and the lips directed -- by novelist
Douglas Cooper (dysmedia.com), author of AMNESIA and DELIRIUM, and longtime
collaborator with the architects.

MEDIA CUT celebrates various strategies of deliberate miscommunication.  The
audience occupies the intimate space at the center of this infuriating
conversation:  a space informed by manipulation, hatred, loathing, and
saliva.

The installation will be exhibited for six months, the duration of the Expo,
at Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland.


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You want to be able to take things by the lapels, and shake them but good.
That's the difference between you and me.  People like you, and people like
me.  I'm the sort of person you can take by the lapels.  And you're the sort
of person who doesn't even *have* lapels."

                                        - from MEDIA CUT








(The conversation in MEDIA CUT was translated and is conducted in EUROPANTO,
a near-serious language created by Diego Marani, which is almost
comprehensible to speakers of Spanish, German, English, Dutch and Italian.)



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