BRICOLAGE AS A METHOD
Collective ideas formed an uncanny garden
Bricolage is the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available. We looked at the aesthetics, mechanics, politics and spatiality of bricoleur’s practices through examples in Art and architecture.
As bricoleurs we went on derives through the city, identifying other bricoleurs and documenting their practices and
forms of inhabitation in our diaries. Building one’s own practice of bricolage we developed this idea of an exquisite corpse coming together in the form of a garden through 5 tropes. The trope I worked on was the uncanny Library.
The hanging library
Melange of bricoleurs
The process began with trying to identify practices that we followed in our daily lives or ones that had influenced us in the past.
Derives across the city almost compelled us to observe and focus on unsual sightings in our surrroundings. The definition of a bricoleur remained fluid to me throughout these observations across streets and markets and became much clearer to me when i began my own practice of collecting and finding objects to make the uncanny library.
Collage of an existing old wooden chair with parts from a broken stool
The two-way chair
Each piece of furniture that you see lying stray on the street has its own social life and evolution of being used and re-paired by multiple users. In shops, people have their own ways of making and re-making chairs, stools with whatever is available at hand.
We mended and repaired old, discarded chairs and a stool by adding on prosthetic pieces that completely changed the nature of the furniture thus giving them a new life.
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A stool repurposed with an armrest made from different parts gathered across the city.
Pages from the bricoleurs diary