Lengthening the roofs

How is the body affected?
What’s the link between this tree, this yard, this sky, this human being, this doctor, this machine, this giraffe?
How is everything working?
How is everything acting?
How does everything affect and affect itself?

Lengthening the Roofs is an invitation to the declension of sequences, links, discourses, and movements.
It is a proposal to move forward and pull strings.
Somewhere between Roof-stringing and Lengthening the brain, two afflictions that James Tilly Matthews experienced in his own flesh.
Another way of saying that it will be about fluxes, exchanges, transfers and machines that affect our bodies and minds.

Born in England in 1770, James Tilly Matthews was considered to be the first diagnosed and documented case of schizophrenia. He kept a diary during his internment. Subject of some precursory works, he is the object of a monograph written by Doctor Haslam, who looks back at the theories on influencing machines and the manner of working events Matthew believed he was a victim of.

From Matthew’s illustrated notes about conspiracies and the strange emissions of rays he believed in, Frédéric Ferrer and Simon Tanguy offer a new interpretation of the observed effects.

But when their words and bodies mingle with the questions asked, the conference overtakes them and they start to fully experience what they are talking about.