Hybrids against Theodolite: The Sites

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  Hybrids against Theodolite | 2018

You enter a room, where two geodesists are trying to do measurements. They are however not very succesful, so at least they try to describe their failures in a book, by making copies of chairs out of a styrofoam and in a PC game. Some real world visitors sat on the styrofoam chairs and destroyed them, even though they were white and completely unrealistic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~ Excerpt from the book: In one of the rooms, you find an album. It’s filled with various photographs or visualisations documenting that particular room. The album is quite simply made, a paperback with each page containing just one or two photographs. You leaf through it, going forward and backwards, and once in a while, you stop at a detail that couldn’t be actually seen. You hear a voice that, at first, repeats a few times the following sentence: How do we measure the thickness of this cupboard if there’s nothing inside? You focus on the futile attempts of one of the geodesists trying to survey his impressions of the visit to the villa. The other one asks him what being a geodesist means to him. And what does he think is the meaning of surveying the buildings. And whether he thinks he can be even more precise one day. The geodesist doesn’t answer; instead, he comes up to the chair, turns it a bit and pushes it a few millimetres. Then he tells you acrimoniously not to touch anything.