“You are embued with tolerance…” and “meeting, you in detail"

“You are embued with tolerance…” [journal article] and “meeting, you in detail” {performance video], Spaces of Tolerance: Architecture and Culture 7:1, 31-43, 2019.

This article tells the back story of a performance dedicatedto bearing witness to a corner of a room in a 1990s’ New Zealand kitsethome. The video meeting, you in detail performs a love poem that asksfor forgiveness before demolishing the wall. The video tracks an interludewhere the space of tolerance related to building constructionmeets open-mindedness, empathy and compassion. This performanceinquired how maintaining respect for others extends to material processesand interactions. Underpinned by Jane Bennett’s new materialismphilosophy, the article draws from poet Francis Ponge’s muse on themuteness of objects, architect Marco Frascari’s teachings and thescholarship of archaeologist Lucy Shoe Merritt.