Joonas Parviainen

441 people in a square. Photo: Alexandra Kononchenko

1:1 was a conceptual workshop about immaterial landscape art installations at the European Architecture Students’ Assembly in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland. Tutored by Liza Goncharenko and Joonas Parviainen and, the workshop was born on and of the location. Although the workshop was site-specific it was not tied to any one place. We used the landscape around Villars-sur-Ollon, Col de Bretaye and Alpage en Conche, subtly transforming locations momentarily into something else. Landscape art was created using light, smoke, sound, and scents. Temporary installations were experienced collectively, mostly during nightly walks in big groups. Our aim was to change perceptions of places through temporary interventions, creating site-specific collective memories. By using the scale of the landscape we made immaterial installations that were not meant just to be seen; they were events you had to take part in to experience them.

photo: Alexandra Kononchenko

photo: Anna Bunina

Installations included an artificial cloud produced indoors during the workshop presentations; an installation at the Info Pavilion, bringing the sounds and smells of the mountains to the village; two collective nightly walks with series of installations, one following a stream downhill, and another at a forest with the theme “Fear of Dark”; a sleeping concert in collaboration with the INTRO workshop, and a breakfast served afterwards in the forest; and a lunch served at an abandoned hut, inhabiting it once more for a short period of time. The workshop finished with a large-scale landscape art installation formed by 441 people standing in a square grid on a mountain slope, which was also the official group photo for EASA TOURIST 2019.

Tutors: Liza Goncharenko, Joonas Parviainen

Participants: Arina Butiu, Ríkarður Már Ellertsson, Romain Fassotte, Alexander Kyuchukov, Jonas Langbein, Krzysztof Michalik, Jēkabs Ozols, Xaver Wizany, Ana Zvonarek