Architecture is also invited but can it pass the test? An installation and performance, a commensality in Purgatory to lovingly, crudely and justly judge Architecture. Can it be purified or will it end up in hell?

White: pure, ethereal , eternal, light, death, birth, toothpaste, soap, eggs, bread, teeth, bones, walls, milk, linen, calm, mad, clean, marble, divine, limbo, hospital, ghost, purgatory.

White space: In 1975, American philosopher Raymond Moody published Life after Life, a collection of accounts of people who revived after having briefly experienced clinical death. Moody observed that these accounts share common features, such as ‘feelings of inner-peace, out-of-body experiences, travelling through a dark region or “void”(commonly associated with a tunnel), visions of a bright light, entering into an unearthly ‘other realm’ and communicating with sentient “beings”’[i], which he called ‘near-death experience’ (NDE). 

Commensality: We all need to eat and drink, but when we do so, sociologist Georg Simmel supports, it is the most self-centred, individualistic activity one can perform. ‘The exclusive selfishness of eating’[i] however turns into a collective, social experience when we gather together to share food. This is what commensality aims at, which literally means eating at the same table, or eating with other people. It is through commensality that we intend to get together and interact during this event.

Architecture: a rich and complex discipline, encompassing designing, thinking, conceptualizing, building, organizing, structures, cities, works of art, cultural heritage monuments, ideas, etc; currently held hostage by (mostly)Men, Managers and Capitalism.

Purgatory: in Latin purgatorium, a place of cleansing, from the verb purgo, "to clean, cleanse” is a third other-world domain, neither heaven nor hell, where the souls are given a second chance of salvation, by undergoing purification or by the deeds and pleads of the pious.

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