City Surfer Office, Prague
Curated by Adéla Korbičková
2019
Cut-out maps in acrylic glass, rubber tubes, indian ink drawing on paper, video
Adéla: You use the term “topological imagination”. Do you mean percieving the world in different spatial dimensions? (space, time, capital, the internet…)?
Jozef: It is an awareness of topology as a mathematical field and the ability to apply it on our world-space while being aware that certain configurations might be different. Or to percieve the world as a tangle of intersecting flows, networks and layers which intersect with the physical space and distort it, thus manifesting themselves as other dimensions of space. Something like The Stack of which Benjamin Bratton speaks about – it’s a model of several layers of material and immaterial architectures built upon our world and operating in it and in between it. However, it is misleading to talk about it as immaterial – its infrastructures are built from precious materials, but it surpasses our world in speed of light inside optical cables and wi-fi connection speed.