Luna Gui, Studies from the Paper Stage of Tape, 2026
Tape: An Open System is an ongoing research project examining the relationship between tape, paint, and support within a rule-based yet adaptive framework. It investigates how materially distinct behaviours construct and destabilise perceived space across a spatial field. Adopting the logic of an open system*, the project remains responsive to material behaviour, site conditions, and duration.
Tape: BACKSPACE is a site-responsive stage of this project, developed on location at NAS over the course of a month. Responding directly to the spatial dimensions, wall conditions, and circulation of BACKSPACE, it reorganises according to perceptual effects, generating new configurations on site as the system opens to new inputs. Presented weekly with visible progress, the work evolves over time, remaining open to three-dimensional extensions on the wall and to visual inputs from adjacent spaces.
*In this project, an open system refers to a rule-based structure that remains responsive to material behaviour, site conditions, duration, and perception. While informed by instruction-based systems associated with post-minimalist and conceptual practices, the work allows these conditions to actively reconfigure the system rather than bring it to resolution.
Open campus hours March 2026
