4000 m²
LIVE ARTS MUSEUM
The Piscina Mirabilis is a unique architectural landmark. Its impressively structured space creates a powerful architectonic effect on tourists and visitors alike. The proposed renovation project inevitably presents a dilemma: how to create a museum with sufficient open exhibition space without damaging the original structure? The specific form and typology of the building prompted us to reconsider the role of the contemporary museum as a whole. How do we envision the museum today, and what will it become tomorrow? What attracts the modern viewer now—and what will engage them in the future? We propose a participatory museum of the 21st century, where the focus shifts from objects and media to society, visitors, and interaction.
The Piscina Mirabilis — Museum of Live Arts is not merely a museum of contemporary art, but a platform for constructing new forms of physical and mental experience. The genre of live arts encompasses a wide range of practices: performance, contemporary dance, social theatre, immersive art, pedagogical experiments, site-specific art, retreat therapy, and artist residencies. Water—the source of life that once filled this reservoir—is reimagined here as Live Arts, whose subject is the fluid and ever-changing nature of human perception. We also envision an archive dedicated to the collection, preservation, and transmission of materials on the history and theory of Live Arts. Thus, the former water reservoir becomes a museum and archive of the art of the future.
Made in: Blank Architects office
Team: Alexandra Razina
