Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022

In 2016, 'The Architecture of Closed Worlds, Or, What Is the Power of Shit?' presents drawings of historical living systems that illustrated the cycling of resources and material provisions in a visual field of environmental conditions. Rather than idealizing encirclement, the drawings problematized the language of environmental representation by illustrating loss, derailment, and the production of new substances. In a new iteration for the Lisbon Triennale of 2022, the five drawings have exploded in time and in space. Together with Youngbin Shin, Kallipoliti has brought the living prototypes to the present. They are now not only informed by advanced technologies and infrastructure, but also by a nuanced understanding of the connection between bodies and their surrounding environments. Bodies and buildings are both seen as vessels of fluids fostering visceral and literal connections of kinship and care. Lastly, the figure of man is displaced by female bodies that are draining, leaking, lactating and menstruating; also by non-human bodies, constellations of bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms.