ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the concept of self-ruining and situated vagrancy through spatial opportunities. The intention to embody situated vagrancy and self-ruining necessitated the ability to foreground each site's material conditions to define the aesthetical nature of the work. Situated vagrancy and self-ruining can be further highlighted through a current project exploring boundary, geography and national identity. In the Plaza of Nations, situated vagrancy becomes an indelible public act for self-ruining of one's own and other nation states by removing the boundaries of national identity. Plaza of Nations: Performing Geography writes the site as a performative ruining of geography, boundaries and national symbols. Teufelsberg: Performing Archaeology on the other hand, unearths land to extract ruins so as to build remembrance to the Trummerfraen of Berlin. Out-of-site, Patwrn, Plaza of Nations and Teufelsberg perform a turning over of site to unearth a scenography, geography and archaeology of ruins.
