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One hundred and fifty students from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure of Versailles, a team of ten teaching staff, various technical services, all working together for several months on the same project led by Tadashi Kawamata, using unusual means: five thousand wooden fruit crates. Using ordinary methods for an extraordinary result: Gandamaison, a combination of fragile, transformable and transitory architectural constructions.
A human venture that is extended in Tadashi Kawamata’s exhibition at the Contemprary Art Centre, La Maréchalerie.
In “WORKSHOP”, Kawamata talks about the aims of the Versailles experiment in an interview describing seven similar international projects in Basel (Switzerland), Boston (US), Kemingawa (Japan), London (UK), Mataro (Spain), Toyota (Japan), Saint-Thélo (Brittany, France).
Long-term collaborator, Gilles Coudert’s DVD complements the interview by following the process of the Versailles project from its beginning and shows how Tadashi Kawamata’s personal installation ensues from the workshop.