FORGER, FAKER, FICTION MAKER
I. Introduction
The relationship of the forgery and the original
II. Recon
1.Excavation of the Carceri from the perspective of the two forgers:
1.1. the archeological process; aerial archeology; new methods of archeology
1.2 case study: excavating and preserving pockets of space under Basilica San Clemente, Rome
2. Relationship between the fake and the original:
2.1 the van meegern trial
2.2 Cesar’s Palace in Las Vegas (or other)
III. The Museum (originals)
1. British museum, condensed version of the ancient world (maps):
1.1. British Museum and the Acropolis (case study Elgin Marbles)
1.2. methods of preserving originals
1.3. methods of making fakes of originals – FACTUM ARTE case study
1.4. Erechteion (case study)
IV. The Anti-Museum (fakes)
1.Extending the museum into the city in order to house the artefact of today (including architecture) and replacing these artefacts with fakes (the Anti-Museum):
1.1. case study of the expansion of the British museum
2. Faking architecture (the Potempkin):
2.1. the role of light when faking space (Light from a point source travels in a spherical wave, decreasing in intensity (or illuminance) as the inverse square of the distance travelled. This means that a light source must be four times as bright to produce the same illuminance at an object twice as far away. Thus to create the illusion of a distant object being at the same distance as a near object and scaled accordingly, much more light is required.)
2.2 Andrea Pozzo’s etchings in Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum
3. Case studies:
3.1. the Casablanca film set (airport in a sound stage)
3.2. the Potempkin steps in Odessa
3.3. forced perspective in Santa Maria press San Satiro, Milan
3.4. forced perspective of a doorway in Pezenas, France
3.5. the dome of San’Ignazio, Rome
4. Site of the Anti-Museum:
4.1 case study of Las Vegas and the desert
4.2. find site/s
V. The Museum and the Anti Museum
Construction of the real space and fake space of the Museum and the Anti-Museum which function almost as imperfect mirrors:
1. expanding the British museum to the point that it engulfs chunks of London
2. find a site/s for the Anti-Museum and construct its fakes