Doll Face
A dollhouse with no interior. A dollhouse is a device for exploring and narrativizing the interior. As typically configured, a dollhouse presents a deep section model of a house with lavish decoration on its interior surfaces. Rooms are clearly delineated by function with the choice of décor and furniture appointments. Like Gordon Matta Clark’s cuts, this presentation of the interior requires the removal of a façade. This surface only obscures the internal social and physical structures of the home. On another level of interiority, the miniature scale of a dollhouse appeals to and celebrates the interior of our mind. According to Susan Stewart, they offer an “experience of interiority: while exemplifying the “process by which that interior is constructed.” Dollhouses offer a “diminutive and thereby manipulate, version of experience.” Dw/Co’s Doll’s House demonstrates what happens when we remove the interior of a dollhouse in order to celebrate and animate its façade. This surface is folded back and forth and composed of pitches, punches, porches, and patterns that are all associated with the exterior. Can the outside of a building be just as expressive and prompt narrativity like building’s interior? Let’s play with the Doll’s House!
Location: Siteless
Year: 2016
Team: Stewart Hicks, Allison Newmeyer, Andrew Jennings, Jana Yeboah
