fig.1SPRING BOAT CURLING WORKOUT
by Lina Sundberg, Sweden.
SPRING BOAT CURLING INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Put on dusty workwear from the dark corner of your attic
2. Leave ground climbing ladder into cockpit
3. Embrace dizziness!
4. Apply plenty of boat shampoo + water
5. Grab brooms and brush stains stubbornly
6. Sweat!
7. Repeat numerous times until noticing there is NO improvement
TERRACE WORKOUT
by Mariia Pastukh, Uk.
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fig.2
Instructions for the Terrace workout:1. Pay attention to what’s around you.
2. Enjoy the movement as a pure act with no goals.
3. Think of your body as a whole (not only that left leg you’re lifting).
4. Don’t force it too much, take a break if you need it.
5. Breathe.
fig.1 Drawing by Lina Sundberg.
fig.2 Drawing by Maria Pastukh.
︎︎︎ SEE MORE HERE
by Lina Sundberg, Sweden.
SPRING BOAT CURLING INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Put on dusty workwear from the dark corner of your attic
2. Leave ground climbing ladder into cockpit
3. Embrace dizziness!
4. Apply plenty of boat shampoo + water
5. Grab brooms and brush stains stubbornly
6. Sweat!
7. Repeat numerous times until noticing there is NO improvement
TERRACE WORKOUT
by Mariia Pastukh, Uk.
fig.2Instructions for the Terrace workout:1. Pay attention to what’s around you.
2. Enjoy the movement as a pure act with no goals.
3. Think of your body as a whole (not only that left leg you’re lifting).
4. Don’t force it too much, take a break if you need it.
5. Breathe.
fig.1 Drawing by Lina Sundberg.
fig.2 Drawing by Maria Pastukh.
︎︎︎ SEE MORE HERE
GYM OLYMPIA
Kyra Lea Michel X Pablo Encinas Alonso
“GYM OLYMPIA is your dream and your nightmare. It is blood, sweat and tears/hormones, bodies and power. It is supra-normal, inside-out, rinsed and flushed, relentlessly insinuating itself in
the last corners of your thoughts.
And it already controls you.”
GYM OLYMPIA (est. 2020) is a two-headed process-based research and creative project. Our core concept and method is to build a fictional gym. By suggesting this experimental platform we seek to question and reinterpret spatial approaches through the athletic performance of socially conforming and non-conforming bodies, and the athletic performance itself. In practice, gym olympia is a long-term workshop project leaning towards breaking the boundaries of sports and architecture.
During the unfolding of the current global health crisis, Gym Olympia is providing a digital framework for people to share their home workout videos. The gym activity could be also understood as as a post-pandemic architectural typology. A space for self expression expanding beyond the limits of the screen from our private home isolation; aiming to become a new form of public community gathering while following daily international restrictions regarding sports, space privatization and body movement.
The operative structure of the fictional gym is pushed in all of its symbolic elements: a community, coach figures, discipline and commitment values, staging and self-recording. All of the widespread components within fitness culture are taken to another level, questioning the boundaries of athletic
capacity.
GYM OLYMPIA explores different formats such as a podcast, role games, performances, training routines, site-specific installations and architectural
drawings.
“GYM OLYMPIA is not one specific gym but all of them. It is an intermediate safe space amid the houses of your friends and yours. A projected imaginary architecture beyond you and your isolated home. It is a way to deconstruct your living room and your kitchen by rethinking it as something different.”
GYM OLYMPIA is a joint project by young architects Paul Van Blaster (pseudonym) and Kyra
Michel, who met during an assembly of EASA (European Assembly of Students of
Architecture). Their collaboration started during a trip from North Macedonia to Milan, after an event of this network. They got into a discussion about feminism and biopolitics so deeply that Paul Van Blaster (pseudonym) missed his train nearly 20 hours after they had started talking in a dark autocar, leaving the airport that rainy night. Before leaving,
he grabbed a pen and tore the useless train ticket in two - each of them wrote
down a reference and gave it to the other. They have since maintained their dialogue through their smartphones.
︎︎︎ Podcast:
Aural_radio - Gym Olympia
︎︎︎ Instagram:
@gym_olympia_health
︎︎︎ E-mail:
gymolympiahealth@gmail.com
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fig.3 Drawing by Enrique Cilleruelo
Madrid:
Starting C/ Calvo Asensio n13 -Plaza España -Callao -Sol -Atocha
During Madrid Phase 0.5 restrictions you are allowed to practice sport within your municipality.
With the serotonin euphoria released for several days, we proposed to make a snack within these dynamic limits within the framework of health measures_
Experiencing public space during de-climbing and cycling in your city with hardly any cars is a marvel.
With:
@albertograco
@tanittttt
@j___amor
@clarasreimers
@estivibiemi
@qyqyshhm
From: Espacios Públicos Informales.![]()
Kyra Lea Michel X Pablo Encinas Alonso
“GYM OLYMPIA is your dream and your nightmare. It is blood, sweat and tears/hormones, bodies and power. It is supra-normal, inside-out, rinsed and flushed, relentlessly insinuating itself in
the last corners of your thoughts.
And it already controls you.”
GYM OLYMPIA (est. 2020) is a two-headed process-based research and creative project. Our core concept and method is to build a fictional gym. By suggesting this experimental platform we seek to question and reinterpret spatial approaches through the athletic performance of socially conforming and non-conforming bodies, and the athletic performance itself. In practice, gym olympia is a long-term workshop project leaning towards breaking the boundaries of sports and architecture.
During the unfolding of the current global health crisis, Gym Olympia is providing a digital framework for people to share their home workout videos. The gym activity could be also understood as as a post-pandemic architectural typology. A space for self expression expanding beyond the limits of the screen from our private home isolation; aiming to become a new form of public community gathering while following daily international restrictions regarding sports, space privatization and body movement.
The operative structure of the fictional gym is pushed in all of its symbolic elements: a community, coach figures, discipline and commitment values, staging and self-recording. All of the widespread components within fitness culture are taken to another level, questioning the boundaries of athletic
capacity.
GYM OLYMPIA explores different formats such as a podcast, role games, performances, training routines, site-specific installations and architectural
drawings.
“GYM OLYMPIA is not one specific gym but all of them. It is an intermediate safe space amid the houses of your friends and yours. A projected imaginary architecture beyond you and your isolated home. It is a way to deconstruct your living room and your kitchen by rethinking it as something different.”
GYM OLYMPIA is a joint project by young architects Paul Van Blaster (pseudonym) and Kyra
Michel, who met during an assembly of EASA (European Assembly of Students of
Architecture). Their collaboration started during a trip from North Macedonia to Milan, after an event of this network. They got into a discussion about feminism and biopolitics so deeply that Paul Van Blaster (pseudonym) missed his train nearly 20 hours after they had started talking in a dark autocar, leaving the airport that rainy night. Before leaving,
he grabbed a pen and tore the useless train ticket in two - each of them wrote
down a reference and gave it to the other. They have since maintained their dialogue through their smartphones.
︎︎︎ Podcast:
Aural_radio - Gym Olympia
︎︎︎ Instagram:
@gym_olympia_health
︎︎︎ E-mail:
gymolympiahealth@gmail.com
fig.3 Drawing by Enrique Cilleruelo
Madrid:
Starting C/ Calvo Asensio n13 -Plaza España -Callao -Sol -Atocha
During Madrid Phase 0.5 restrictions you are allowed to practice sport within your municipality.
With the serotonin euphoria released for several days, we proposed to make a snack within these dynamic limits within the framework of health measures_
Experiencing public space during de-climbing and cycling in your city with hardly any cars is a marvel.
With:
@albertograco
@tanittttt
@j___amor
@clarasreimers
@estivibiemi
@qyqyshhm
From: Espacios Públicos Informales.
