The Reversible Destiny Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by artists Madeline Gins and Shusaku Arakawa in 2010.
[1] The Foundation was created to promote Gins and Arakawa's respective work and philosophy in art, architecture, and writing.
This project, known as the first large-scale art-science research endeavor, gained international recognition through exhibitions and subsequent influences on artistic developments.
(East Hampton, New York, 2000–2008) The Bioscleave House is the first architectural project that the Reversible Destiny Foundation completed in the United States.
[7] This is the same set of tendencies and skills to which Arakawa and Madeline Gins gave diagrammatic form in their decades-long research project The Mechanism of Meaning.
By guiding visitors through various unexpected experiences as they walk through its component areas, the site offers them opportunities to rethink their physical and spiritual orientation to the world.
The site consists of a main pavilion, the Critical Resemblance House, the Elliptical Field and the Reversible Destiny Office.
The Critical Resemblance House has a roof that is shaped as a map of Gifu Prefecture, offering visitors a range of perceptual and cognitive experiences.
The Elliptical Field, which is a large, bowl-shaped basin, consists of nine pavilions (each a reproduction of a segment of the Critical Resemblance House), an array of complementary mounds and hollows, five maps of varying sizes of the Japanese archipelago, and, weaving in between all of these, an intricate network of 148 paths.
The balance between self-consciousness and perception of one's body is broken down, the "axis" shifts, consciousness leans out, is "doubled," and "something" emerges.