Yesterday Andreas put a book in my hands; Atelier Van Lieshout. 

As I flipped through the pages I was greeted with by an orgiastic combination of architectural based renderings and bodily process sculptures which culminated in the project, Slave City.

Slave City is a dystopian vision that recaptures  troubled futures from the 20th century that warned of social control, state socialism, and bodily control in the Orwellian and Huxleyan fashions. There are slave universities for males and females as well as anatomically styled brothels for each, where the architecture blatantly declares the structures purpose. 

In her article on Slave City for floater magazine, Rosa Lleo describes Slave City as the most perverse, successful model we could follow;

“What would be the ideal of a contemporary society? SlaveCity just shows the hybrid reality we live in a late-capitalism present, in the most pragmatic way. The project is a carefully designed inventory of objects, plans and models and considers the two main worries of our late-capitalism governments: economic crisis and sustainability. In this sense, SlaveCity would be the most perverse but successful model to follow. A town of 200.000 habitants will have a seven billion euro net profit per year, and the most important, completely sustainable and energy saving. That could only be done by clever and young people, strictly selected at the Welcoming Centre. The rest will be eliminated, and of course, re-used. Old, ugly, sick and bad tasting people will be recycled in the biogas digester. Healthy, not so clever people will be recycled in the meat-processing factory. Young and very healthy people will be able to take part in the organ transplant program.”