Extra · Realm
Kenia Peralta
Extra-Realm exists somewhere between fact and fiction. It embraces the idea that to truly understand a context, one must perpetually toggle between the detail and the global view. This means interrogating one’s frame of reference to explore what escapes its borders. In post-trauma environments the cacophony of competing systems, voices and actions has the effect of rendering all knowledge, partial. To explore this, Extra-Realm problematizes the aerial photograph as an incomplete instrument of knowledge. Through the creation of plausible trajectories involving multiple actors during the response, recovery and reconstruction phase of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, this project attempts to stitch together discrete bodies of evidence into a new whole. In turn, the exploration spatializes the abundant information drawn from non-uniform resources, which describe the design and construction practices implemented in the years following the event, until now. The discourse generated from this abstraction aims to shed light on what happened, to suggest what could happen.
Satellite imagery juxtaposed with a view into the Extra Realm of Canaan dated 08.24.2019
language.
film.
levels of artifice.
club indigo resort
canaan
terra·chronicle
vegetation cover recording change in canaan
record of existing conditions before the earthquake
record of noticeable increase in permanent construction
record of expansion of civic structures
record after declaration of eminent domain
record of the next wave of migration to canaan
record of the next wave of civic structures
exponential migration to the site
record of drastic reduction in vegetation
record of completion of first greater canaan school
comparative studies.
elemental isolation exposes the realm for clarity
canaan. record of existing conditions before the earthquake.
corail. record of existing conditions before the earthquake.
canaan. record after declaration of eminent domain.
corail. record after declaration of eminent domain.
canaan. today.
corail. today.
the assemblage machine.
The Machine
The post-natural-disaster environment is chaos. This abstract machine catalogs typologies of decision making, which collectively unfold in real-time and form larger assemblages
The Chips
Each unique chip represents a decision made, represented by the content at the center of the chip.
The Dialectics
The dialectical terms represent conceptual categories within which decisions are made.
The Depth
The top red corner of each chip represents the amount of time it would take to execute any given action.
Perspective photograph of the assemblage machine
Front perspective photograph of the assemblage machine