For many years, Julieta Aranda has been interested in design and architecture. She observes the ways through which planning of public space; architecture and design are often thought of and employed as a way to control the body. These city-planning devices establish physical frontiers that respond to the fences of information and knowledge in our age of hyper-connectivity.

The film “Stealing one’s own corpse (an alternative set of footholds for an ascent into the dark) Part 2: Swimming in rivers of glue” juxtaposes the themes of exploration of space and its colonization, with thoughts about language, obsolescence, and about the disciplinary boundaries effected by design and architecture; the intention of the film is to give a sense of life (of all kinds) in a one-to-one relation with space; not space as in “exterior space”, but the space that we occupy here, on earth.