Performative Spaces: Interactions between body and image

Performative aspects of architecture seem to be constituted as a series of actions between place and non-place as well as between place and user. The performative action raises a dual spatiality that relates physical, extended spatiality to temporality. The paper argues that this is a topic that can be related to traditional architectural concepts in terms of dealing with space, body, time and movement. The paper considers this performativity and dual spatiality as being a processual architecture, constantly reconfiguring new hybrids between space, image and user. This dual spatiality raises discursive issues regarding the understanding of architectural permanence and 'whole'.