Up & Down
Historically, lookouts were essential to mountain communities. Often improvised, they measured weather conditions by hand and monitored forests to prevent wildfires. Each lookout overlapped visually with another, creating full coverage through mutual visibility.
Such systems relied on distributed attention. Distance was not a separation but a condition for connection: visibility linked individuals into a continuous field of observation across the landscape. In this sense, the landscape becomes a space of orientation and relation. Bodies, viewpoints, and lines of sight form temporary alignments through which territory is sensed, measured, and held in common awareness.
Practices of looking, measuring, and remaining attentive create networks of perception that extend beyond any single observer. What emerges is a shared horizon maintained through collective presence.
Within this sub-theme, these ideas will be explored and tested through different formats, such as a walk, performance, and exhibition.