(DIS)PLAYING (DIS)PLACED STORIES
ERIK TONNING JENSEN
Supervisors: Studio B3; Per Olaf Fjeld, Rolf Gerstlauer and Lisbeth Funck
Working on the plinth (foundation) of the Austrian language philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s former hut in
Skjolden as a starting point, the plinth and its surroundings are treated as an optic - a container of thoughts that
belong to other places; collected from the plinth but freed as ongoing autonomous architectural explorations.
As these thoughts occur, they inspire new tectonic acts (mainly) of mantling/dismantling, building/unbuilding
and sorting/resorting.
One of the main investigations is triggered by an architectural happening in 1956 when Arne Bolstad (a local
Skjoldener) dismantled and moved Wittgenstein’s hut to downtown Skjolden. This action was re-enacted by
exposing all the layers of a small house through the architectural act of downbuilding. The elements from the
house were then moved to AHO and translated into three new elemental conditions that are autonomous col-
lections within a new language.
