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Notes on Stadiums / Untitled Giant Fanfiction




Notes on Stadiums, performance documentation

30 chairs arranged in a concentric manner, 5 readers
Room K18, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

2024


Notes on Stadiums is a performative collective reading of an in-depth research text on stadiums, their histories, their particularities and what they mean -

Astrodome, Houston, USA
The Ancient Theatre of Pergamon, Bergama, Turkey
Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany
Johan Cruyff ArenA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Olympic Stadium of Ebimpé, Ivory Coast
Guangzhou Evergrande Football Stadium, China
Singapore Indoor Stadium



The text read aloud is a chapter from the publication Untitled Giant Fanfiction



Self-published publication - Edition of 1
Print on paper, canvas, textiles and alabaster
2024

Designed and materialised in collaboration with Jomel



A series of chapters engaged with notions of Gigantism and financial gigantism, mediated through architecture, stadiums, and materials and crystallising in the form of poetry, prose and acronyms.






To be adapted and published with Something Fantastic, Berlin, in 2024, as part of Space Issues.

Produced as part of Master’s Thesis for Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam.





Special Thanks to
Enno Pötschke
Lina Mittendorff
Pam Virada
Vinzenz Leutenegger
Mark