(Investigation) Gesamtkunstwerk Investigation

While destruction is widely seen as a negative concept in the art world, contemporary artist Cai Guoqiang's work successfully transforms elements that symbolize violence into aesthetic creations. This thesis, through the method of fiction-critical writing, intertwining narrative elements with critical analysis, views as a creative medium in response to the expression of Gesamtkunstwerk. The author proposes solutions to the damaged buildings as an architect through the media of time and memories and detached from the architect‘s identity, observing and recording as the investigator. This investigation itself has become part of the Gesamtkunstwerk expression process.

Images of architecture are the medium that architects carefully ‘manipulate’, and imagination is their accomplice. The unspoken thoughts are hidden beneath, weighing more than what had been presented.

A 'glitch' reveals unseen layers through architecture's silent dialogue, contrasting with the elegant amendment. This juxtaposition questions the relationship between chaos and order.

Reimagined as an archival file being reviewed in the future, the floor plan of (G15)The Old School Building being recoded explores the boundaries of time.

"Fire" in buildings is viewed as a form of fascist violence, disrupting the memories preserved within the archives.In the expression of Gesamtkunstwerk, does it signify rebirth?

Reaching where time ends, across scales or lenses —what is recorded or overlooked—this investigation has become integral part of the Gesamtkunstwerk expression process.