“Take Care”: A Sophie Calle’s masterpiece continued in the orchard landscape

Abstract

This communication summarizes the learning method of an architecture course in Alicante (2016-2017) focused on the design of lightweight scenographies for plots in Vega del Segura and Levante, in the hypothesis that their users could train some jobs from those included in Sophie Calle’s "Take Care of Yourself" (Calle, 2007), an installation with more than one hundred answers to a farewell letter addressed to Sophie, part of the French pavilion at the Biennial of Art of that year. As a demonstration of the learning methodology, the production of four students is shown, related to four specific jobs chosen from the answers to Sophie  (ballet dancer, magician, rifle shotter, protocol-living expert). The main visual strategy (something that could be considered rooms or satellite workshops), included scripts written by the students in which two characters talked format inspired by similar experiences (Monteys, 2012) and other non-representational methodologies (Vannini, 2015).