This room is an interactive space. Everything here is meant to be touched, climbed on, danced through, hung from, sat upon. I have built an object that rejects the rectilinear and the singular interpretation. It does not have one purpose or one path but infinite options. By interacting with this space, you complete it.
We have domesticated ourselves by secluding ourselves indoors and constraining our range of movements to those dictated by our architecture and infrastructure. Children are drawn to climb trees, but taught to sit at desks. As they grow up they stop trying to climb, explore and play. As an artist, parkour coach and athlete, I see spaces as opportunities for movement, and I see the joy in my participants, viewers and students when they start to see it for themselves. When we choose not to follow the implicit norms of movement, we subvert the social rules and hierarchies that keep us docile and oppressed.
This ability to play and exercise is unequally distributed; those with more privilege have more access. Speaking as a female bodied person, there are still many stereotypes in place that keep women from moving freely. We are expected to wear shoes that hurt our feet and prevent us from moving fast. We are expected to be weak. Creative movement in defiance of the norm is a radical act, because it has the power to undo these harmful social expectations. I dream of a world where movement and play are acceptable and accessible for every person.